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Yuan Yao, Chenwei Tu, Gaojia Hu, Yuhan Zhang, Hanyuan Cao, Wanrui Wang and Weihua Wang
Intense anthropogenic activities in arid regions remarkably affect groundwater by causing phreatic decline and water environmental deterioration. A systematic understanding of groundwater hydrochemical evolution and recharge is critical to regional water...
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Dan Wang, Jialing Che, Haifeng Liu and Siew Choo Chin
Economical desert sand engineered cementitious composites (DS-ECCs) using a mixture of cement, fly ash, local desert sand, water, low-cost PVA fibers, and chemical additives were developed, aiming for a further enhancement in ductility and toughness. The...
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Jue Yang, Lan Mu and Janani Rajbhandari-Thapa
Physical activity (PA) plays a vital role in children?s physical and mental health. The built, natural, and socio-demographic environmental variables affect children?s PA behaviors in various ways. However, few studies focus on systematically measuring t...
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Aliasghar Montazar and Daniel Putnam
Drought and climate change have decreased water availability for agriculture, especially in the desert of southwestern USA. Efficiency enhancements in irrigation management aimed at conserving water are key to adjust to limits in water supply, improve pr...
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Xiaoping Liu, Shengdong Cheng, Ziyao Miao, Zhanbin Li, Peng Li, Tong Liu, Hegang Zhi, Shen Zhang, Yifan Wang and Xing Zheng
Hongjiannao is the largest inland lake in China?s deserts. In recent years, the water quality and area of the Hongjiannao Lake have continued to decline, which is closely associated with the economic development in the Hongjiannao basin. To explore the c...
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Mohammed Fareed Sherzad and Dirk Goossens
One of the key repercussions of the desertification process in the Sahara and the Arabian desert is increased aeolian sand drift and sand deposition. Despite its isolated location and severe desert climate?particularly in terms of solar radiation, sand d...
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Barry J. Hibbs
Environmental problems may develop in groundwater basins when water levels change due to long-term wetter or drier climate or land development. A term related to water-level elevation is flow capacity, which develops in aquifers when the water table is a...
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Sidong Zhao, Xingping Wang and Zhishan Ma
Population migration is a major event of optimizing the allocation of production factors and a key way to construct regional relations and promote spatial reconstruction. However, there are few papers published on population migration that have a direct ...
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Mohammed El Bastawesy, Omnia El Saadawy, Abotalib Z. Abotalib, Abdullah Othman, Maysa Taha and Ahmed Gaber
Digital elevation models (DEMs) are the cornerstone for hydrological and geomorphological modeling. Herein, two Nile-tributary catchments (Wadi Al Rishrash and Wadi Atfeh) in Egypt are selected to examine the contribution of different DEMs to the accurac...
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Abrar Almalki, Balakrishna Gokaraju, Nikhil Mehta and Daniel Adrian Doss
Food access is a major key component in food security, as it is every individual?s right to proper access to a nutritious and affordable food supply. Low access to healthy food sources influences people?s diet and activity habits. Guilford County in Nort...
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