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Global projections of future urban land expansion under shared socioeconomic pathways

Nature Communications, 2020
Shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) is a crucial scenario describing the potential of future socio-economic development. The authors here investigate long-term effects of various government policies suggested by different SSPs on urban land and reveal ...
Guangzhao Chen, Xia Li, Xiaoping Liu, Yimin Chen, Xun Liang, Jiye Leng, Xiaocong Xu, Weilin Liao, Yue’an Qiu, Qianlian Wu, Kangning Huang   +10 more
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Agricultural Diversification at the Margin. Strategies and Determinants in Italian Mountain and Remote Areas

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli, Francesco Pagliacci, Paola Gatto   +2 more
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Hydro-ecological controls on riverine organic carbon dynamics in the tropical monsoon region

Scientific Reports, 2019
Transport fluxes and properties of riverine organic carbon in the tropical monsoon region were the vital parameters in the global riverine organic carbon fluxes budget.
Qianzhu Zhang, Zhen Tao, Zanwen Ma, Quanzhou Gao, Haojun Deng, Peng Xu, Jian Ding, Zhengang Wang, Youwen Lin   +8 more
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SENSING URBAN LAND-USE PATTERNS BY INTEGRATING GOOGLE TENSORFLOW AND SCENE-CLASSIFICATION MODELS [PDF]

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2017
With the rapid progress of China’s urbanization, research on the automatic detection of land-use patterns in Chinese cities is of substantial importance. Deep learning is an effective method to extract image features.
Y. Yao, H. Liang, X. Li, J. Zhang, J. He
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Efficiency and Technology Gap in European Apple Production—A Metafrontier Model for Germany, Italy, and Poland

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT EU member states have exhibited varying rates of apple production growth. Technical efficiency (TE) estimation is suitable for identifying best‐practice farm performance. This study examined whether the development of the apple sector in Germany, Italy, and Poland was influenced by production efficiency, access to technology, as well as ...
Anika Muder, Jakub Staniszewski
wiley   +1 more source

Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
wiley   +1 more source

Entrepreneurship and market size. The case of young college graduates in Italy [PDF]

We analyse empirically the effects of urbanization on Italian college graduates' work possibilities as entrepreneurs three years after graduation. We find that doubling the population density of the province of work reduces the chances of being an ...
Daniela Vuri, Sabrina Di Addario
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Multidimensional Datasets Supporting Vulnerability Assessments of Riverine Bridges in Peru

Scientific Data
Riverine bridges are critical yet vulnerable infrastructure, constantly exposed to hydrological hazards substantially increased by climate change. Consequently, they require designs that ensure resilience and an adequate useful life cycle.
Alain Jorge Espinoza Vigil, Joel Ccanccapa Puma, Alan Huarca Pulcha, Alejandra Ticona-Quispe, Diego Huarcaya-Perez, Alberth Gonzales-Turpo, Roly Cusihuaman-Casquina, Flor Lucana-Hancco, Julian Booker   +8 more
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Mixed reality drills of indoor earthquake safety considering seismic damage of nonstructural components

Scientific Reports, 2023
The damaged indoor nonstructural components in the earthquake often cause casualties. To improve the indoor earthquake safety capacity of occupants, a mixed reality (MR) drill method for indoor earthquake safety considering seismic damage of ...
Zhen Xu, Yajun Yang, Yian Zhu, Jingjing Fan   +3 more
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A Deep Learning-Based Framework for Automated Extraction of Building Footprint Polygons from Very High-Resolution Aerial Imagery

Remote Sensing, 2021
Accurate building footprint polygons provide essential data for a wide range of urban applications. While deep learning models have been proposed to extract pixel-based building areas from remote sensing imagery, the direct vectorization of pixel-based ...
Ziming Li, Qinchuan Xin, Ying Sun, Mengying Cao   +3 more
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