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With accelerated urbanization, urban nighttime crimes—especially robbery, snatching, and theft—have received increasing attention from scholars as the highest incidence of local criminal crimes.
Wang Canxiang +5 more
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p38 Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase Regulates Oscillation of Chick Pineal Circadian Clock [PDF]
Extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) and p38 are members of the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) family, and in some cases these kinases serve for closely related cellular functions within a cell. In a wide range of animal clock structures,
Fukada, Yoshitaka +4 more
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Light Pollution Reduction in Nighttime Photography
Nighttime photographers are often troubled by light pollution of unwanted artificial lights. Artificial lights, after scattered by aerosols in the atmosphere, can inundate the starlight and degrade the quality of nighttime images, by reducing contrast and dynamic range and causing hazes.
Liu, Chang, Wu, Xiaolin
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The nighttime lights accurately and coherently depict how humans live. This study uses nighttime light measurements to quantify changes in nighttime lighting and refugee population in Ukraine before and after the war.
Chaoqing Huang +6 more
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Analyzing the Sources and Variations of Nighttime Lights in Hong Kong from VIIRS Monthly Data
The long-term monitoring of nighttime lights is essential for understanding sources of light pollution. Nighttime lights observed in space are affected by atmospheric conditions as they transmit from the Earth surface through clouds and aerosols to the ...
Shengjie Liu +2 more
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Everynight Accounting: Nighttime Lights as a Proxy for Economic Performance of Regions
Artificial nighttime lights, emitted from residential, industrial, commercial and entertainment areas, and captured by satellites, have proven to be a reliable proxy for on-ground human activities [...]
Nataliya Rybnikova
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Transfer Learning from Deep Features for Remote Sensing and Poverty Mapping
The lack of reliable data in developing countries is a major obstacle to sustainable development, food security, and disaster relief. Poverty data, for example, is typically scarce, sparse in coverage, and labor-intensive to obtain.
Burke, Marshall +4 more
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We address the problem of semantic nighttime image segmentation and improve the state-of-the-art, by adapting daytime models to nighttime without using nighttime annotations.
Dai, Dengxin +2 more
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Which Nighttime Lights Data Better Represent India’s Economic Activities and Regional Inequality?
This paper demonstrates how the estimation of economic activities and inequality for the Indian economy based on nighttime lights data from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) satellite outperforms those obtained using traditional ...
CHRISTOPHER KURUVILLA MATHEN +3 more
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A global record of annual terrestrial Human Footprint dataset from 2000 to 2018
Measurement(s) human footprint Technology Type(s) remote sensing Factor Type(s) Built Environment • Population Density • Nighttime lights • Croplands • Pastures • Roads • Railways • Navigable ...
Haowei Mu +7 more
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