Mapping China’s Forest Fire Risks with Machine Learning by Yakui Shao, Zhongke Feng, Linhao Sun, Xuanhan Yang, Yudong Li, Bo Xu, Yuan Chen

“…The results show evident seasonal and regional differences in the Chinese forest-fire risks; forest-fire risks are relativity high in the spring and winter, but low in fall and summer, and the areas with high regional fire risk are mainly in the provinces of Yunnan (including the cities of Qujing, Lijiang, and Yuxi), Guangdong (including the cities of Shaoguan, Huizhou, and Qingyuan), and Fujian (including the cities of Nanping and Sanming). The major contributions of this study are to (i) provide a framework for large-scale forest-fire risk prediction having a low cost, high precision, and ease of operation, and (ii) improve the understanding of forest-fire risks in China.…”
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Applications of Carbon Dots for the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease by Guo F, Li Q, Zhang X, Liu Y, Jiang J, Cheng S, Yu S, Zhang X, Liu F, Li Y, Rose G, Zhang H

“…Feng Guo,1,* Qingman Li,1,* Xiaolin Zhang,2,* Yiheng Liu,3 Jie Jiang,4 Shuanghuai Cheng,1 Si Yu,1 Xingfang Zhang,1,5 Fangfang Liu,6 Yiying Li,1 Gregory Rose,7 Haiying Zhang1 1Public Research Laboratory of Hainan Medical University, Haikou, 571199, People’s Republic of China; 2Key Laboratory of Child Cognition & Behavior Development of Hainan Province, Qiongtai Normal University, Haikou, 571127, People’s Republic of China; 3Haikou Hospital Affiliated to Central South University Xiangya School of Medicine, Haikou, 570208, People’s Republic of China; 4Scientific Experiment Center of Hainan Medical University, Haikou, 571199, People’s Republic of China; 5The First Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical College, Haikou, 570102, People’s Republic of China; 6Laboratory Department, Nanping First Hospital Affiliated to Fujian Medical University, Fujian, 353006, People’s Republic of China; 7Departments of Anatomy and Physiology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Carbondale, IL, 62901, USA*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Gregory Rose, Departments of Anatomy and Physiology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Carbondale, IL, 62901, USA, Tel +1 618-303-6503, Email grose@siumed.edu Haiying Zhang, Public Research Laboratory of Hainan Medical University, Haikou, 571199, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86 13907533247, Email hyzhang_xjtu2013@aliyun.comAbstract: There are currently approximately 50 million victims of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) worldwide. …”
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Satellite Remote Sensing Identification of Discolored Standing Trees for Pine Wilt Disease Based on Semi-Supervised Deep Learning by Jiahao Wang, Junhao Zhao, Hong Sun, Xiao Lu, Jixia Huang, Shaohua Wang, Guofei Fang

“…Aimed at the characteristics of Gaofen-2 images and discolored standing trees with PWD, this paper adopts three strategies—swelling prediction, raster vectorization, and forest floor mask extraction—to optimize the image identification process and results and conducts an application demonstration study in Nanping city, Fujian Province. The results show that among the three semantic segmentation models, HRNet was the optimal conventional semantic segmentation model for identifying discolored standing trees of PWD based on Gaofen-2 images and that its MIoU value was 68.36%. …”
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Forest Resource Assets Departure Audit Considering Ecological Sustainable Development: A Case Study by Wei Zhao, Xing Wang, Mingzheng Chen, Xuejun Liu, Lai Zhao, Xinlan Zhang

“…Regarding administrative areas under the jurisdictions of Nanping Township, Jiannan Town and Fobaoshan Development Zone were particularly disturbed, and required special attention. …”
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Insights into the functional role of tea microbes on tea growth, quality and resistance against pests and diseases by Xiaoyang ZHANG, Haozhi LONG, Da HUO, Masood I. AWAN, Jinhua SHAO, Athar MAHMOOD, Shuang LIU, Jigang HUANG, Alia PARVEEN, Muhammad AAMER, Muhammad U. HASSAN

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The firing temperatures of burnt clay from the Chinese neolithic cultural relics and its paleoenvironmental imprints by Guishan Chen, Guanhua Li, Miaomiao Liu, Wei Ge, Guibin Wu, Changfa Zhan

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Comprehensive Evaluation of Quality Traits of <i>Hovenia acerba</i> Germplasm Resources in Fujian Province by Zhijian Yang, Hui Chen, Chaimei Lin, Jindian Sun, Wenling Wen, Xiangjin Zhu, Yousry A. El-Kassaby, Jinling Feng

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Continuous Tracking of Forest Disturbance and Recovery in the Greater Khingan Mountains from Annual Landsat Imagery by Huixin Ren, Chunying Ren, Zongming Wang, Mingming Jia, Wensen Yu, Pan Liu, Chenzhen Xia

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Assessment on the Spatial Distribution Suitability of Ethnic Minority Villages in Fujian Province Based on GeoDetector and AHP Method by Xiang Xu, Paolo Vincenzo Genovese

“…The unsuitable areas are mostly in Fujian’s north and west. (3) The most suitable cities for the number of ethnic minority villages are Ningde City and Quanzhou City because ethnic minority villages in these two cities are mostly distributed in areas relatively close to the central urban area, with good economic conditions, flat terrain, and easy transportation. The cities of Nanping and Sanming are the least suitable for many ethnic minority villages, which are primarily limited by topographic conditions, have a backward economy, a sparse road network, and have experienced significant population loss. …”
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Validation of the sleep disturbance scale for children (SDSC) in infants and toddlers from mainland China by Xianrui Chen, Ping Xu, Yanhui Chen, Shan Chen, Yonghua Yao, Xiaoxia Lin

“…However, valid assessment tools for sleep problems in the population of infants and young children from mainland China are relatively scarce, and rates of screening and management for pediatric sleep problems are low.ObjectiveThis study is to evaluate the reliability and validity of SDSC among infants (aged 6–36 months), and to provide a reference for expanding the application of the SDSC for Chinese infants (SDSC-I).Materials and methodsFrom April to November 2021, parents of infants from Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Longyan, Sanming, and Nanping cities in Fujian Province, China completed the SDSC-I. …”
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Revealing the mechanisms of the bioactive ingredients accumulation in Polygonatum cyrtonema by multiomics analyses by Ting Xue, Ting Xue, Miaohua Zhao, Jing Chen, Youqiang Chen, Chuanhai Zhang, Baoyin Li

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Comparison of immune checkpoint inhibitors related to pulmonary adverse events: a retrospective analysis of clinical studies and network meta-analysis by Baohui Hong, Bin Du, Rong Chen, Caiyun Zheng, Ruping Ni, Maobai Liu, Jing Yang

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Evaluating the Potential of Sentinel-2 Time Series Imagery and Machine Learning for Tree Species Classification in a Mountainous Forest by Pan Liu, Chunying Ren, Zongming Wang, Mingming Jia, Wensen Yu, Huixin Ren, Chenzhen Xia

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Full-Length Transcriptome Sequencing and Identification of <i>Hsf</i> Genes in <i>Cunninghamia lanceolata</i> (Lamb.) Hook by Yuan Ji, Hua Wu, Xueyan Zheng, Liming Zhu, Zeli Zhu, Ya Chen, Jisen Shi, Renhua Zheng, Jinhui Chen

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Lockdown effects of the COVID-19 on the spatio-temporal distribution of air pollution in Beijing, China by Min Wu, Xisheng Hu, Zhanyong Wang, Xiaoying Zeng

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Conservation outcome assessment of Wuyishan protected areas based on InVEST and propensity score matching by Xue Zhang, Lingyun Liao, Yiyang Huang, Qinhua Fang, Siren Lan, Mengwei Chi

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The forensic pathological analysis of sport-related sudden cardiac death in Southern China by Yeda Wu, Mei Ai, Adham Sameer A. Bardeesi, Liyong Zhang, Qiuping Wu, Kun Yin, Jingjing Zheng, Da Zheng, Lei Huang, Lunwu Xu, Jianding Cheng

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Flavonoids Accumulation in Fruit Peel and Expression Profiling of Related Genes in Purple (<i>Passiflora edulis</i> f. <i>edulis</i>) and Yellow (<i>Passiflora edulis</i> f. <i>fla... by Meng Shi, Muhammad Moaaz Ali, Yinying He, Songfeng Ma, Hafiz Muhammad Rizwan, Qiang Yang, Binqi Li, Zhimin Lin, Faxing Chen

“…<i>flavicarpa</i>) passion fruit were collected at five developmental stages (i.e., fruitlet, green, veraison, maturation, and ripening stage) from an orchard located at Nanping, Fujian, China. The contents of flavonoid, anthocyanin, proanthocyanin, and their metabolites were determined using ultra-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS), activities of key enzymes involved in flavonoid metabolism were measured, and expression profiling of related genes was done using quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR). …”
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Development of an Advanced-Generation Multi-Objective Breeding Population for the 4th Cycle of Chinese Fir (<i>Cunninghamia lanceolata</i> (Lamb.) Hook.) by Benwen Zhao, Liming Bian, Qihang Feng, Jinzhang Wu, Xuefeng Zhang, Renhua Zheng, Xueyan Zheng, Zhiyuan Yang, Zhiqiang Chen, Harry X. Wu, Jisen Shi

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Upper crustal velocity and seismogenic environment of the M7.0 Jiuzhaigou earthquake region in Sichuan, China by DaHu Li, ZhiFeng Ding, Yan Zhan, PingPing Wu, LiJun Chang, XiangYu Sun

“…The 3D P-wave velocity structure also suggests that the crustal low-velocity layer of northeastern SGB (Songpan–Garzê Block) stretches into MSM (Minshan Mountain), and migrates to the northeast, but the tendency to emerge as a shallow layer is impeded by the high-velocity zone of Nanping Nappe tectonics and the Bikou Block. Our results reveal an uneven distribution of high- and low-velocity structures around the Tazang segment of the East Kunlun fault zone. …”
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