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Soil moisture-constrained East Asian Monsoon meridional patterns over China from observations

npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2023
As an internal forcing of the earth climate system, soil moisture (SM) significantly influences the water and energy cycle by controlling evapotranspiration and terrestrial solar energy.
Waheed Ullah, Chenxia Zhu, Guojie Wang, Daniel Fiifi Tawia Hagan, Dan Lou, Jiangfeng Wei, Aisha Karim, Shijie Li, Buda Su, Tong Jiang   +9 more
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Characterization and Source Apportionment of Fine Particles during a Heavy Pollution Episode over the Yangtze River Delta, China

Atmosphere, 2020
Regional-scale field observations of fine particles (PM2.5) were carried out at urban, suburban and regional background sites across the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) from 15–30 January 2015.
Li Xia, Bin Zhu, Honglei Wang, Hanqing Kang, Junlin An   +4 more
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Reconstructing long-term global satellite-based soil moisture data using deep learning method

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023
Soil moisture is an essential component for the planetary balance between land surface water and energy. Obtaining long-term global soil moisture data is important for understanding the water cycle changes in the warming climate.
Yifan Hu, Guojie Wang, Xikun Wei, Feihong Zhou, Giri Kattel, Giri Kattel, Giri Kattel, Solomon Obiri Yeboah Amankwah, Daniel Fiifi Tawia Hagan, Zheng Duan   +9 more
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Evaluation of Unsupervised Information Extraction

Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2012
Unsupervised methods gain more and more attention nowadays in information extraction area, which allows to design more open extraction systems. In the domain of unsupervised information extraction, clustering methods are of particular importance. However, evaluating the results of clustering remains difficult at a large scale, especially in the absence
Wang, W, Besançon, Romaric, Ferret, Olivier, Grau, Brigitte   +3 more
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Uptake of and intention to use oral pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV among pregnant and post-natal women in Eswatini: a cross-sectional survey

Frontiers in Reproductive Health, 2023
IntroductionIn Eswatini, HIV incidence among women of childbearing age is 1.45%. Eswatini introduced oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention in 2016 and requires that all HIV-negative pregnant and post-natal women (PPW) visiting health ...
Philisiwe Ntombenhle Khumalo, Siphiwesihle Sibonisiwe Mkhonta, Kikanda Kindandi, Sindy Matse, Phinda Brian Dlamini, Vincent Tukei, Rhoderick Machekano, Godfrey Woelk   +7 more
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The Ongoing Greening in Southwest China despite Severe Droughts and Drying Trends

Remote Sensing, 2021
Vegetation greening, which refers to the interannual increasing trends of vegetation greenness, has been widely found on the regional to global scale. Meanwhile, climate extremes, especially several drought, significantly damage vegetation. The Southwest
Xin Chen, Tiexi Chen, Qingyun Yan, Jiangtao Cai, Renjie Guo, Miaoni Gao, Xueqiong Wei, Shengjie Zhou, Chaofan Li, Yong Xie   +9 more
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The Information Literacy Model of Faculty Members: A Case of Amin University

International Journal of Information Science and Management, 2020
Information literacy is a set of capabilities that requires individuals to know when they need information and the ability to locate, evaluate and effectively use the information they need.
Ashab Habibzadeh, Reza Abdolrahmani
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The effect of source reliability and information credibility on judgments of information quality in intelligence analysis

Judgment and Decision Making
The quality of information that informs decisions in expert domains such as law enforcement and national security often requires assessment based on meta-informational attributes such as source reliability and information credibility.
Megan O. Kelly, David V. Budescu, Mandeep Dhami, David R. Mandel   +3 more
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Probation clients’ barriers to access and use of opioid use disorder medications

Health & Justice, 2019
Background There is a gap between evidence-based treatment with medications for opioid use disorders (OUDs) and current practices of probation departments who supervise individuals with OUDs.
Jessica Reichert, Lily Gleicher
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Can the Aerosol Absorption Ångström Exponent Represent Aerosol Color in the Atmosphere: A Numerical Study

Atmosphere, 2020
The aerosol absorption Ångström exponent (AAE) is widely used to indicate aerosol absorption spectrum variations and is an important parameter for characterizing aerosol optical absorption properties.
Dapeng Zhao, Yan Yin, Chao Liu, Chunsong Lu, Xiaofeng Xu   +4 more
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