This paper presents a comprehensive study on clustering: exiting methods and
developments made at various times. Clustering is defined as an unsupervised learning …

Air pollution over China has attracted wide interest from public and academic community.
PM 2.5 is the primary air pollutant across China. Quantifying interactions between …

Exposure to outdoor fine particulate matter (PM2. 5) is a leading risk factor for mortality. We
develop global estimates of annual PM2. 5 concentrations and trends for 1998–2018 using …

This paper analyzes land use change, urbanization and their impact on the change in
landscape pattern in Tabriz metropolitan area (TMA) during the time period from 1996 to …

A recent paper expands the well‐known geographically weighted regression (GWR)
framework significantly by allowing the bandwidth or smoothing factor in GWR to be derived …

Understanding the complex relationships of tradeoffs and synergies among ecosystem
services (ESs) is essential to achieve a comprehensive, coordinated, and sustainable …

The current COVID-19 pandemic is evolving rapidly into one of the most devastating public
health crises in recent history. By mid-July 2020, reported cases exceeded 13 million …

Understanding the influence of the built environment on transit ridership can provide transit
authorities with insightful information for operation management and policy making, and …

Understanding urban vibrancy aids policy-making to foster urban space and therefore has
long been a goal of urban studies. Recently, the emerging urban big data and urban analytic …

Ecosystem vulnerability is the degree to which an ecosystem is susceptible to adverse
effects of external disturbances. Exploring the pattern of ecosystem vulnerability and its …