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When Elbridge Gerry, a native son of Marblehead, Massachusetts, affixed a signature to the declaration of Independence, Boston had only about 16,000 inhabitants. Not only has Boston grown to over 40 times that size, but there are more peole in Metropolitan Boston now than there were in all thirteen colonies in 1776. Not only has our nation grown almost
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The global water resources and use model WaterGAP v2.2d: model description and evaluation
. WaterGAP is a global hydrological model that quantifies human use of groundwater and surface water as well as water flows and water storage and thus water resources on all land areas of the Earth. Since 1996, it has served to assess water resources and
Hannes Müller Schmied +14 more
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Drought is considered the most severe water-related disaster in the Cauto river basin, which is the longest river and the main agricultural producer in Cuba. Better understanding of drought characteristics is crucial to drought management.
Anh Phuong Tran +7 more
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Research on the homeostatic regulation of ecological fish tanks in human environment [PDF]
Indoor fish tanks have become an important device for enriching the home environment and improving indoor ecology. In order to investigate the ecological homeostatic regulation of fish tanks under the combination of traditional fish culture and modern ...
Li Leijing +6 more
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Accurate runoff prediction is essential for effective water resource management, yet the complex characteristics of runoff sequences—such as nonlinearity, non-stationarity, and intricate temporal dependencies—pose significant challenges.
Dong-mei Xu +6 more
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During urbanisation, extensive production and construction activities encroach on ecological spaces, leading to changes in environmental structures and soil erosion.
Xichun Jia +5 more
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An efficient parallel runoff forecasting model for capturing global and local feature information
Artificial intelligence has significantly accelerated the development of hydrological forecasting. However, research on how to efficiently identify the physical characteristics of runoff sequences and develop forecasting models that simultaneously ...
Yang-hao Hong +5 more
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A new experimental method to measure and calculate the tensile strength of concrete
IntroductionA new method is introduced to test the tensile strength of concrete: the cylinder transverse splitting test. Compared with the cylinder splitting (or Brazilian) test, the cylinder transverse splitting test involves different load positions ...
Qihui Chai +5 more
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Climate change vulnerability, water resources and social implications in North Africa
North Africa is considered a climate change hot spot. Existing studies either focus on the physical aspects of climate change or discuss the social ones.
J. Schilling +3 more
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Random forests (RF) is a supervised machine learning algorithm, which has recently started to gain prominence in water resources applications. However, existing applications are generally restricted to the implementation of Breiman’s original algorithm ...
Hristos Tyralis +2 more
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