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As a key focus of the Western Development Strategy and a core area of the Belt and Road Initiative, Xinjiang's urbanization exhibits distinct regional characteristics and geopolitical attributes. Scientifically diagnosing and identifying the driving factors of green urbanization development can prov…
The restructuring of grain production space concentrates the principal contradictions in land system change; exploring the trade-off dynamics of ecosystem services during this process helps clarify the conflicts among food security, ecological restoration, and economic development, thereby promoting…
To reveal the effects of Mongolian pine plantations of different stand ages on soil particle size composition in Nur-Sultan, this study analyzed the soil particle size and fractal dimension characteristics of Mongolian pine plantations of different stand ages in the vicinity of Nur-Sultan through a …
This study investigated uncultivated saline-alkali soils in the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, measuring soil salt content, pH, electrical conductivity, eight major ions, and other indicators. Multivariate statistics and principal component analysis (PCA) were employed to examine the distribution characte…
The relationship between plant functional traits and the environment constitutes a focal point of functional trait research; environmental factors drive changes in plant functional traits, thereby promoting community succession. This study investigated Nitraria tangutorum shrub sand dunes at differe…
Using FY2E satellite data, Doppler weather radar products, conventional upper-air and surface observational data, and NCEP (0.25°×0.25°) reanalysis data from the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction, a comprehensive analysis was conducted on an extreme snowstorm event in western Southern…
This study employs meta-analytic techniques to investigate the longitudinal relationship between peer victimization and internalizing problems in children and adolescents, testing the applicability of the interpersonal risk model, symptom-driven model, and transactional model to this relationship. A…
‘The spectral leakage (SL) from windowing and the picket fence effect (PEF) from discretization’ have been among the standard contents in textbooks for many decades. The SL and PEF would cause the distortions in amplitude, frequency, and phase of signals, which have always been of concern, and attem…
Algorithmic discrimination is a frequent occurrence, and understanding people's reactions to it warrants attention. Six sequential experiments compared people's desire for moral punishment of algorithmic discrimination versus human discrimination across different discriminatory contexts, and explore…
Social inequality may either weaken or strengthen system-justifying beliefs among low-status individuals, with these two relationships being driven by self-interest motivation and system justification motivation, respectively. Furthermore, both relationships depend on low-status individuals' percept…
Moral courage, standing up for others and intervening when a norm is violated, is viewed as a virtue in modern societies. However, it remains unclear how moral courage varies in interpersonal relationships and across moral contexts. Two studies were designed to test the effect of relationship type (…
Eye gaze plays an important role in human social interaction and in capturing and maintaining attention. However, how eye gaze interacts with objects to guide attention allocation remains unclear to date. Therefore, this study adopted a two-rectangle cueing paradigm, using faces or objects with two …
This paper investigates the psychological structure of interaction naturalness and its effects through three studies. Study 1 developed an initial scale containing 9 items through dictionary search, literature review, and expert interviews. Study 2 surveyed 353 intelligent connected vehicle users, a…
As an important natural resource, forest land plays a key role in the maintenance of ecological security. However, variations of forest land in the agropastoral ecotone of northern China (AENC) have attracted little attention. Taking the AENC as an example and based on remote-sensing images from 200…
Boundaries refer to obstacles that occupy a large proportion of the visual field and possess three-dimensional extended planes, which play a crucial facilitative role in spatial navigation behaviors of humans and animals. Cognitive developmental research has found that in early childhood (1.5–2 year…
Perceptual-motor simulation in concrete concept processing is a core processing mechanism of concept representation. This study systematically investigated the influence of linguistic factors (language type: first language and second language) and contextual factors (perceptual context: spatial perc…
Understanding the developmental cascades among prosocial behavior tendencies, internalizing problems, and externalizing problems holds important value for promoting adolescent mental health. Using within-person analysis methods, we analyzed three-year longitudinal data from 894 junior high school st…
Shared consumption is a common consumption activity in which multiple consumers jointly participate and share expenses. Based on risk transfer theory, this study investigates the mechanism and boundary conditions through which consumption context (individual consumption vs. shared consumption) influ…
The microbiota-gut-brain axis hypothesis in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia has attracted increasing attention. Previous studies have preliminarily examined the association between gut microbial composition and brain imaging and clinical manifestations in patients with schizophrenia, but the speci…
In recent years, how emotional agents influence learning has received considerable attention from researchers. An emotional agent is a pedagogical agent that can evoke learners' emotional experiences through various modalities such as speech, facial expressions, and body movements. Most existing stu…
Frequent droughts inflict serious damage upon the economy and agricultural production of Gansu Province; therefore, establishing accurate and reliable agricultural drought monitoring models through advanced methodologies is of paramount importance for drought prevention and mitigation efforts in the…
To investigate the effects of conservation tillage on water storage and moisture conservation as well as yield formation in rainfed wheat fields on the Longzhong Loess Plateau. Based on a continuous 5-year field experiment, the effects of different tillage practices (conventional tillage T, straw mu…
Rural drinking water safety projects constitute a critical livelihood initiative for achieving comprehensive moderate prosperity. This study, based on statistical data, field investigations, and survey questionnaires, employs the entropy weight method and fuzzy mathematics approach to evaluate the c…
The land use patterns in mining areas of semi-arid regions are undergoing tremendous changes under mining disturbances. Taking the Datong mining area in Shanxi Province, one of the eight major coal production bases in China, as the research object, this study analyzes the spatiotemporal changes of l…
Grassland is an important type of terrestrial ecosystem, and grassland ecosystem health assessment constitutes a crucial component of grassland health research in arid regions. Xinjiang is located in the Central Asian arid region, where the natural grasslands nurtured by the typical "mountain-basin"…
Ecological vulnerability assessment is an important approach to understanding regional ecological conditions. Scientific evaluation of ecological vulnerability levels and their changes is of great significance for regional ecological protection and construction, as well as for achieving sustainable …
To address the forestry technical challenges of Ammopiptanthus mongolicus, characterized by long taproots, few fibrous roots, difficult seedling rooting, and low transplant survival rates, this study investigated different root pruning intensities combined with varying concentrations of hormone (IBA…
Investigations were conducted on the modular characteristics, population age structure, dynamic features, and spatial distribution patterns of ramet populations of Phragmites australis naturally distributed in two sandy habitats (saline sandy land and ordinary sandy land) on the southern margin of t…
Desert annual plants exhibit rapid growth rates and strong reproductive capacity, possessing significant forage, medicinal, and ecological value. Through literature review, verification of specimen collection records, and field surveys, this study clarifies the species richness, distribution pattern…
Plastic mulching is an effective approach for improving crop yields in arid region farmlands and is widely applied in agricultural production. Investigating the response of soil greenhouse gas emissions to mulching under different cropping systems is of great significance for greenhouse gas mitigati…
Moisture is the primary controlling factor of the nitrogen mineralization process in wetland soils and plays an important role in nitrogen cycling processes in wetland soils. Taking the Gannan Gahai Wetland as the study area, four degradation levels (Undegraded UD, Lightly Degraded LD, Moderately De…
The Hotan region is located in the southwestern part of Xinjiang, characterized by an arid climate and scarce precipitation. Groundwater serves as an important drinking water source in the Hotan region, making the investigation of fluoride distribution and genesis in groundwater of great significanc…
Employing a combination of the water balance method, field investigation, and remote sensing imagery data, this study expounds upon the evolution of riverbed permeability performance and the water environment response characteristics under varying river channel water delivery methods following ecolo…
Changes in unfrozen water content directly influence the thermodynamic and deformation characteristics of frozen soil, and constitute a critical condition for hydro-thermal numerical computations. To investigate the variation law of unfrozen water content, the particle size distribution of soil is f…
Vadose zone soil water infiltration plays a crucial role in the hydrological cycle. An in-depth understanding of the interrelationships among rainfall, ponding, and infiltration processes is of great significance for assessing soil water replenishment and precipitation redistribution in desert envir…
Climate change has significantly impacted the water cycle in the high mountain regions of Central Asia, exacerbating regional water supply-demand conflicts. Understanding the characteristics of runoff components in inland rivers is crucial for water resource management. Based on meteorological and r…
Based on daily precipitation data from 13 meteorological stations in the Guanzhong Plain from 1957 to 2019, various extreme precipitation indices were calculated using methods such as simple linear regression, Pearson correlation analysis, and wavelet coherence analysis, and their spatiotemporal var…
In data-scarce regions, the lack of observational data for precipitation, temperature, and other variables affects the accuracy of flood forecasting, thereby impacting flood control, drought resistance, water resources planning, and related efforts. Therefore, conducting applicability analysis of ex…
The standard errors (Standard Error, SE; or variance-covariance matrix) and confidence intervals (Confidence Interval, CI) of cognitive diagnosis models have important theoretical and practical value in measuring uncertainty in model parameter estimation, differential item functioning detection, mod…
Using hourly reanalysis data at 5 km × 5 km resolution from the China Meteorological Administration Land Data Assimilation System (CLDAS) from May to July 2020, combined with crop development period data for the wheat planting areas in southern Xinjiang in 2020, we refined the definition of dry-hot …
Using daily meteorological data from 99 meteorological stations in Xinjiang from 1961–2020, the daily Meteorological Drought Composite Index (MCI) sequences for each station were calculated according to the latest revised national standard "Grades of Meteorological Drought". The spatiotemporal varia…
Utilizing 24-hour precipitation forecasts at 36-hour lead time from the ECMWF (European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecast) and GRAPES-GFS (China Meteorological Administration's GRAPES Global Numerical Prediction Operational System, Global/Regional Assimilation and Prediction System-Global For…
Using parallel observation and comparative observation data of precipitation phenomena from 2363 meteorological stations nationwide during 2017-08 to 2018-08, a comparative analysis was conducted on automatic observation data of five precipitation phenomena—rain, snow, drizzle, hail, and sleet—from …
Symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) manifest during early infancy and toddlerhood, wherein earlier detection facilitates earlier intervention and yields superior treatment outcomes. Traditional approaches to early autism screening and diagnosis exhibit limitations in assessment methodologies …
Evaporation constitutes a critical process in the hydrological cycle, and investigating pan evaporation in the Loess Plateau region is of paramount significance for regional water resource utilization and protection. By compiling data on pan evaporation, air temperature, wind speed, precipitation, r…
In recent years, alongside the continuous improvement in computer performance, artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence, AI) technology has experienced rapid development. AI technology, represented by deep neural networks, has achieved tremendous breakthroughs in numerous domains including a…
Yardang strata constitute the material manifestation of the entire depositional system that existed prior to Yardang landform development, recording substantial information about depositional processes, while sediment analysis serves as the foundation for interpreting this critical information. This…
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) behavior constitutes a critical risk factor for future suicidal intent, suicidal behavior, and chronic psychological disorders. Understanding the factors that predict the continuation or cessation of NSSI behavior among adolescents can provide novel perspectives for e…
As traditional shopping centers have reached maturity, and with consumers' consumption radius contracting under pandemic conditions, community commerce is increasingly favored by capital and valued by government. However, research on community commerce, particularly regarding community consumers, ha…
Numerous studies have shown that power is represented in the brain along vertical space, specifically through verbal and visual-spatial encoding. Previous research has found that these two encodings are context-dependent, meaning that the current task determines which encoding is activated. General …
