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Plastic Hotspot Mapping in Urban Water Systems [PDF]
Geosciences, 2020 Reducing plastic pollution in rivers, lakes, and oceans is beneficial to aquatic animals and human livelihood. To achieve this, reliable observations of the abundance, spatiotemporal variation, and composition of plastics in aquatic ecosystems are ...
Paolo Tasseron +5 more
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Erosion hotspot mapping using integrated morphometric parameters and Land use/land cover of Jigjiga Watershed, Ethiopia [PDF]
Heliyon, 2022 Integration of morphometric parameters (MPs) and Land use/land cover (LU/LC) is crucial to prioritise the sub-watershed for conservation management to control soil erosion.
Tesfu Abebe Tesema
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Crime Mapping in GIS By Using Hotspot
Sukkur IBA Journal of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, 2018 Police forces use hotspot mapping to provide a single out towards to resource allocation, ensuring police officers are post to areas of high crime where their existence will have the most smash.
Syeda Ambreen Zahra
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Fine-Scale Risk Mapping for Dengue Vector Using Spatial Downscaling in Intra-Urban Areas of Guangzhou, China [PDF]
InsectsGenerating fine-scale risk maps for mosquito-borne diseases vectors is an essential tool for guiding spatially targeted vector control interventions in urban settings, given the limited public health resources.
Yunpeng Shen +5 more
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023 Climate change poses a greater threat for more exposed and vulnerable countries, communities and social groups. People whose livelihood depends on the agriculture and food sector, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), face significant ...
Els Lecoutere +7 more
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Self-Organized Neural Network Method to Identify Crash Hotspots
Future Transportation, 2023 Crash hotspot identification (HSID) is an essential component of traffic management authorities’ efforts to improve safety and allocate limited resources. This paper presents a method for identifying hotspots using self-organizing maps (SOM).
Esmaiel Karimi +4 more
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Mesoscale mapping of sediment source hotspots for dam sediment management in data-sparse semi-arid catchments [PDF]
, 2020 Land degradation and water availability in semi-arid regions are interdependent challenges for management that are influenced by climatic and anthropogenic changes.
Gholami, Faraz Rabei +5 more
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Mapping Marginality Hotspots: Geographical Targeting for Poverty Reduction [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 This mapping approach aims to make the marginalized and poor visible by identifying areas with difficult biophysical and socio-economic conditions. Mapping using different data sources and data types gives deeper insight into possible causal interlinkages and offers the opportunity for comprehensive analysis.
Graw, Valerie +1 more
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Plants, 2022 Understanding of the genetic mechanism of heat tolerance (HT) can accelerate and improve wheat breeding in dealing with a warming climate. This study identified and validated quantitative trait loci (QTL) responsible for HT in common wheat.
Lu Lu, Hui Liu, Yu Wu, Guijun Yan
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Thermoplasmonic effect of surface enhanced infrared absorption in vertical nanoantenna arrays [PDF]
, 2018 Thermoplasmonics is a method for increasing temperature remotely using focused visible or infrared laser beams interacting with plasmonic nanoparticles.
Alabastri, Alessandro +6 more
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