Unraveling the Complexities of Groundwater Salinization in Coastal Environments: Insights from Laizhou Bay’s Eastern Coast, China by Peng Huang, Chuanming Ma, Aiguo Zhou

“…With substantial groundwater extraction and severe groundwater salinization issues, it exacerbates the disparity between water-resource supply and demand. Currently, our understanding of the processes and influencing factors related to groundwater salinization in this region remains limited. …”
Get full text

Changing water availability during the African maize-growing season, 1979–2010 by Lyndon D Estes, Nathaniel W Chaney, Julio Herrera-Estrada, Justin Sheffield, Kelly K Caylor, Eric F Wood

“…Understanding how global change is impacting African agriculture requires a full physical accounting of water supply and demand, but accurate, gridded data on key drivers (e.g., humidity) are generally unavailable. …”
Get full text

Factors of education-job mismatch among youth in Kyrgyz Republic by B. B. Sulaimanova, K. T. Karymshakov

“…A Probit model with multiple alternatives was used to assess the factors of misalignment between education and employment.Results: the article is devoted to the analysis of the problem of imbalance of supply and demand in the labor market, namely the misalignment between the socio-professional skills of a young specialist and the company needs. …”
Get full text

Hybrid Wood Composites with Improved Mechanical Strength and Fire Retardance Due to a Delignification–Mineralization–Densification Strategy by Xiaorong Liu, Xinyu Fang, Chen Sun, Tao Zhang, Kaili Wang, Youming Dong

“…The development of fast-growing wood can effectively solve the problem of wood shortages and the discrepancy between supply and demand; however, the softness and poor strength of fast-growing wood make it difficult to use directly and restrict its applications. …”
Get full text

Penilaian Ekonomi Wisata Pesisir Kawasan Carocok Painan, Kabupaten Pesisir Selatan, Sumatera Barat by Khairunnisa Khairunnisa, Tridoyo Kusumastanto, Achmad Fahrudin

“…This study aims to estimate the supply and demand for coastal tourism in Carocok Painan. …”
Get full text

Lithium Harvesting from the Most Abundant Primary and Secondary Sources: A Comparative Study on Conventional and Membrane Technologies by Fraz Saeed Butt, Allana Lewis, Ting Chen, Nurul A. Mazlan, Xiuming Wei, Jasmeen Hayer, Siyu Chen, Jilong Han, Yaohao Yang, Shuiqing Yang, Yi Huang

“…The exponential rise in lithium demand over the last decade, as one of the largest sources for energy storage in terms of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), has posed a great threat to the existing lithium supply and demand balance. The current methodologies available for lithium extraction, separation and recovery, both from primary (brines/seawater) and secondary (LIBs) sources, suffer not only at the hands of excessive use of chemicals but complicated, time-consuming and environmentally detrimental design procedures. …”
Get full text

SP-8356 (A Verbenone Derivative) Inhibits Proliferation, Suppresses Cell Migration and Invasion and Decreases Tumor Growth of Osteosarcoma: Role of PGC-1α/TFAM and AMPK-Activation by Wenning Cui, Dengfeng Yang, Xiaoyan Chen, Hong Yu

“…The metabolic pathways are coordinated by AMPactivatedprotein kinase (AMPK), which maintains a balance between the supply and demand of nutrients and energy.This study aimed to investigate effect of SP-8356 on proliferation and apoptosis of OS cells and tumor growth in mice.Furthermore, involvement of PGC-1α/TFAM and AMPK-activation was studied.Materials and Methods: In the experimental study, Saos-2 and MG63 cells were cultured with SP-8356 for 24hours and analysed for cellular proliferation using MTT assay. …”
Get full text

Reinvigorating Health Systems and Community-Based Services to Improve Maternal Health Outcomes by Sally E. Findley, Henry V. Doctor, Garba M. Ashir, Musa A. Kana, Abu S. Mani, Cathy Green, Godwin Y. Afenyadu

“…The significant improvements in communities with the complete intervention show the importance of an integrated approach blending supply- and demand-side interventions.…”
Get full text

Spatial equity of urban health resources for the elderly from an active-passive health perspective: A case study of central Wuhan City by CHEN Quan, XING Lijun, SUN Guiying, MU Lei

“…That is, in addition to hospital health resources, the imbalance between supply and demand of other single types of elderly health resources is more serious. …”
Get full text

Machine Learning for Surrogate Groundwater Modelling of a Small Carbonate Island by Karl Payne, Peter Chami, Ivanna Odle, David Oscar Yawson, Jaime Paul, Anuradha Maharaj-Jagdip, Adrian Cashman

“…Scientifically sound approaches are becoming increasingly important to understand projected changes in supply and demand while concurrently minimizing deleterious impacts on the island’s aquifers. …”
Get full text

The role of the big geographic sort in online news circulation among U.S. Reddit users by Lia Bozarth, Daniele Quercia, Licia Capra, Sanja Šćepanović

“…Rather, news circulation in Reddit worked as a supply-and-demand system: news items scaled linearly with the number of users in each state (with a scaling exponent $$\beta$$ β   $$\approx 1$$ ≈ 1 , and a goodness of fit $$R^2\approx 0.95$$ R 2 ≈ 0.95 ). …”
Get full text

Applications of Energy Storage Systems in Enhancing Energy Management and Access in Microgrids: A Review by Ziad M. Ali, Martin Calasan, Shady H. E. Abdel Aleem, Francisco Jurado, Foad H. Gandoman

“…Energy storage technologies have a wide range of applications in microgrids, including providing backup power and balancing the supply and demand of energy. Different energy storage techniques have been discussed, including batteries, flywheels, supercapacitors, pumped hydro energy storage, and others. …”
Get full text

Multi-objective optimal dispatching of demand response-enabled microgrid considering uncertainty of renewable energy generations based on two-level iterative strategy by Ying Meng, Yu Wang, Sizhou Sun, Shengpeng Wang, Hong Zhang

“…Eventually, experimental results of several operation scenarios illustrate the proposed optimal dispatching method can deal with the uncertainty of renewable energy generations and the randomness of load, thus, achieving a well supply and demand balance between microgrid and users.…”
Get full text

Response of flood regulation service to land use changes and dam construction—A case study in the Yangtze River Basin by Ju Shen, Jingwei Li, Qun Ma, Dan Wang, Shiqiang Du

“…To fill the research gap, this paper aims to evaluate the response of basin-scale FRS supply and demand to land use changes and dam construction. …”
Get full text

Effect of incorporation of Spirulina platensis into fish diets, on growth performance and biochemical composition of Nile Tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus by Norah M. AlMulhim, Promy Virk, Abdelwahab A Abdelwarith, Fadwa M. AlKhulaifi

“…The aquaculture industry is facing a growing need for a cost-effective, sustainable, and highly nutritious alternative to fish meal (FM) due to the increasing gap between supply and demand. This study investigated the effect of substituting (FM) with probiotics (Spirulina platensis) in fish feed on the survival, growth, and biochemical parameters of Oreochromis niloticus. …”
Get full text

An Impact Study of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge on Regional Tourism Integration Development in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area by Zhang Yue, Du Jieli

“…From the spatial perspective of tourism supply and demand, this study examines the pattern of tourism competitiveness and residents' travel potential of cities in the Bay Area before and after the opening of the bridge, using the Geographic Information System and an improved gravity model of the tourism system. …”
Get full text

Distributed energy storage participating in power trading mechanism for power system flexibility by Dongjun Cui, Dongjun Cui, Jinghan He, Xiaochun Cheng, Zhao Liu

“…Second, this study proposed a method for determining DAF-IDO energy storage action deviations to allow regional distribution networks based on distribution network operators to quantitatively calculate their energy storage supply and demand, providing crucial methodological support for their participation in market trading in the future. …”
Get full text

Waiting times for elective surgery in an African paediatric surgery department by Mahamoud Omid Ali Ada, Hellé Moustapha, Oumarou Habou, Inès Arlette Siewe Emaleu, Salahoudine Idrissa, Habibou Abarchi

“…It can be reduced by addressing the supply and demand aspects of surgical care, as well as by prioritising patients who need more urgent care.…”
Get full text

Accessibility of Healthcare Resources to Public Housing in Shenzhen, China: Indirect Map Service and Optimized Two-Step Floating Catchment Area Method by Hu Lirong, He Shenjing, Su Shiliang

“…This study proposes an optimized 2SFCA by introducing a Gaussian distance decay function, establishing a multilevel search radius, considering supply and demand-side competition effects, and using real-time traffic big data. …”
Get full text

Oxygen Demand Forecasting and Optimal Scheduling of the Oxygen Gas Systems in Iron- and Steel-Making Enterprises by Zhen Cheng, Peikun Zhang, Li Wang

“…Due to the imbalance between the supply and demand of oxygen, the oxygen systems of iron- and steel-making enterprises in China have problems with high oxygen emissions and high pressure in the pipelines, resulting in the energy consumption of oxygen production being high. …”
Get full text