China’s southeast coastal areas have witnessed rapid growth in the last two decades, owing mostly to their economic and social attractions. In this paper, we chose Jimei, a coastal peri-urban district of Xiamen city on the southeast coast of China, as a study area to explore the district’s growth dynamics, to predict future sprawl during the next decade and to provide a basis for urban planning...

Historical photos are valuable for their cultural and economic significance, but can be difficult to identify accurately due various challenges such as low-quality images, lack of corroborating evidence, limited research resources. Misidentified have significant negative consequences, including lost value, incorrect historical records, the spread misinformation that lead perpetuating conspiracy...

China’s logging ban policy has profoundly transformed the forestry industry, creating substantial impacts for forestry-worker households. Empirical evidence is needed to examine whether and how severe transition produces vulnerability relative poverty affected This paper samples households from Greater Khingan Mountains state-owned forest region as study subjects evaluate their household vulner...

Over the past decade, autonomous agents have become an increasingly mature technology to collect data over the internet. Intended originally for commercial purposes, e.g. comparing prices on internet auction sides on behalf of their owners, submitting offers or forming strategic alliances to benefit from bulk discounts, the same attributes that make them suitable in the commercial sector have r...

In Urban Planning (UP), it is necessary to take under serious consideration the inhibitors of spread a settlement in specific direction. This means that all those parameters for which problems may arise future should be considered. Among these are geo-hazards, such as floods, landslides, mud movement, etc. study deals with UP taking into account possibility widespread flooding expansion areas. ...

When skin is stretched, stimuli experienced by a cutaneous mechanoreceptor neuron are transmitted to the nerve ending through the skin. In these experiments, we tested the hypothesis that the viscoelastic response of the skin influences the dynamic response of cutaneous rapidly adapting (RA) neurons. Cutaneous RA afferent neurons were recorded in 3 species of mice (Tsk, Pallid, and C57BL6) whos...

The current study aimed to examine the influence of body fat percentage on thermal responses to water immersion at the two temperature extremes used in athletic recovery, by comparing the thermal responses of lowand high-fat individuals to immersion in hot water (HWI) or cold water (CWI). Thirty-nine subjects completed a body composition assessment (to determine low-fat and high-fat groups), an...