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International Security [PDF]

, 2009
Security is a natural place to start with this third and final part of the book as it is a unifying component in each of the global issues we face, and for that reason a central theme in International Relations. It is also a contested concept that has occupied minds for thousands\ud of years.
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Attribution and Risk Projections of Hydrological Drought Over Water‐Scarce Central Asia

Earth's Future
Central Asia (CA), a typical arid and semiarid region, has experienced worsening droughts, adversely impacting agricultural production and socioeconomic development. However, the evolution of hydrological droughts in CA remains unclear.
Xinfeng Wu, Wenhui Tang, Feng Chen, Shijie Wang, Zulfiyor Bakhtiyorov, Yuxin Liu, Yansong Guan   +6 more
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A Geodetic-Data-Calibrated Ice Flow Model to Simulate Historical and Future Response of Glaciers in Southeastern Tibetan Plateau

Remote Sensing
Glaciers play a vital role in the Asian mountain water towers and have significant downstream impacts on domestic, agricultural, and industrial water usage.
Letian Xiao, Shijie Li, Kunpeng Wu, Shiyin Liu, Yu Zhu, Muhammad Mannan Afzal, Jun Zhou, Ying Yi, Jinyue Wei, Yunpeng Duan, Yiyuan Shen   +10 more
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Widespread and strong impacts of river fragmentation by anthropogenic barriers on fishes in the Mekong River Basin

Communications Earth & Environment
The Mekong River, a global freshwater biodiversity hotspot, has suffered from intensive barrier construction, resulting in major challenges in safeguarding its fauna.
Jingrui Sun, Damiano Baldan, Martyn C. Lucas, Jie Wang, Amaia A. Rodeles, Shams M. Galib, Juan Tao, Mingbo Li, Daming He, Chengzhi Ding   +9 more
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Vegetation resistance to compound drought and heatwave events buffers the spatial shift velocities of vegetation vulnerability

Communications Earth & Environment
Global warming is increasing compound drought and heatwave events. This elevates vegetation loss probability. Despite spatial shifts in vegetation loss probability being crucial for predicting spatial redistribution patterns of vegetation vulnerability ...
Wenbo Yan, Jian Zhou, Xiaopeng Wang, Jinyi Luo, Feiling Yang, Ruidong Wu   +5 more
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Spatiotemporal patterns of vegetation conversion under the Grain for Green Program in southwest China

Conservation Science and Practice, 2022
China's Grain for Green Program (GGP) is the largest reforestation program in the world. Previous studies lacked targeted assessments regarding its effectiveness in vegetation conversion. Using the time series of Vegetation Continuous Fields in southwest
Haiwei Zhao, Ruidong Wu, Feiling Yang, Jinming Hu, Junjun Wang, Yang Guo, Zhixue Feng, Chen Zhang, Yiting Wang, Jian Zhou   +9 more
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Estimation of glacier ice storage in western China constrained by field ground-penetrating Radar surveys

Advances in Climate Change Research, 2022
Recent decades have witnessed the accelerated retreat of alpine glaciers, which likely portends a decline in the glacial ice melt on which large downstream populations rely for freshwater. Thus, estimating water storage in alpine glaciers is critical for
Peng-Bin Liang, Li-De Tian
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Cryptocurrency forensics automation: a deep learning and NLP-based approach for mobile platforms

Discover Computing
As cryptocurrencies have become increasingly used as an alternative to regular cash and credit card payments, the wallet solutions/apps that facilitate their use have also become increasingly popular.
Abhishek Bhattarai, Abdulhadi Sahin, Maryna Veksler, Ahmet Kurt, Devrim Aras, Carlos Imery, Kemal Akkaya   +6 more
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Upward Expansion of Supra-Glacial Debris Cover in the Hunza Valley, Karakoram, During 1990 ∼ 2019

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2020
Supra-glacial debris cover is key to glacier ablation through increasing (thin debris layer) or decreasing (thick debris layer) melt rates, thereby regulating the mass balance of a glacier and its meltwater runoff.
Fuming Xie, Fuming Xie, Shiyin Liu, Shiyin Liu, Shiyin Liu, Kunpeng Wu, Kunpeng Wu, Yu Zhu, Yu Zhu, Yongpeng Gao, Yongpeng Gao, Miaomiao Qi, Miaomiao Qi, Shimei Duan, Shimei Duan, Muhammad Saifullah, Muhammad Saifullah, Adnan A. Tahir   +17 more
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Unprecedented recent summer warming and cross-sphere hydrological coupling in Asian Water Towers

npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
The Asian Water Towers play a crucial role by storing and releasing vast amounts of freshwater, thereby sustaining the base flow of major Asian rivers and water security for billions of people at sub-continent to hemispheric scales. Instrumental records,
Youping Chen, Feng Chen, Mao Hu, Xiaoen Zhao, Honghua Cao, Shijie Wang, Jan Esper, Ulf Büntgen, Max C. A. Torbenson, Tiyuan Hou, Hongfan Xu, Yufeng Lin   +11 more
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