Jing Zhao

Zhiming Han

Mou Leong Tan

Xiaoping Wang 

Song Feng

Covering over 40 percent of the Earth's land area and inhabited by more than 38 percent of the world's population, drylands are very sensitive to climate change and human activities. These areas, characterized by low soil fertility, possess a heightened vulnerability to both climate warming and land degradation, due mostly to human activities. Numerous studies have highlighted the expansion of drylands in the context of global warming. Therefore, maintaining the ecological balance and ensuring sustainable economic development of the drylands are critical for the overall global environment and economy. The escalating drought, exacerbated warming, and rapid population growth are intensifying dryland expansion, resulting in a multitude of potential risks such as reduced carbon sequestration, regional warming, land degradation, and desertification. As environmentally sensitive and economically vulnerable areas, the ecosystems and society in drylands will confront even more formidable challenges in a future warmer world with a rapidly growing population. Hence, there is an urgent need for in-depth exploration and understanding of the change in dryland regions and their underlying mechanisms. The objective of this Research Topic is to explore the change in drylands and the underlying mechanisms in the context of climate change and human activities. This endeavor will play a pivotal role in enhancing our comprehension and formulation of appropriate mitigation and adaptive strategies, contributing to global stability and sustainable development. Contributions must improve our knowledge and understanding of dryland change processes and may include topics such as, but not limited to, the following: • Climate change and dryland expansion • Hydroclimatic variability in drylands and their underlying physical mechanisms • Land-air system interactions in drylands • Past and future changes of weather and climate extremes in drylands • Changes in water and energy balance and the driving forces • Modeling the water carbon cycle in dryland ecosystems • Response of dryland vegetation to climate change and human activities • Change in ecosystem patterns and enhancement of services in drylands • Biogeochemical cycles and fluxes, e.g., carbon, geochemistry, and isotopes

Drylands under the Influence of Climate Change and Human Activities

John Daugman

Victor Wickerhauser

Jian Ping Li

Yuan Y. Tang

Lizhong Peng

This book captures the essence of the current state of research in wavelet analysis and its applications, and identifies the changes and opportunities -- both current and future -- in the field. Distinguished researchers such as Prof John Daugman from Cambridge University and Prof Victor Wickerhauser from Washington University present their research papers. Readership: Graduate students, academics and researchers in computer science and engineering.

Proceedings of the Third International Conference

Wavelet Analysis and Its Applications

SP Li

Manuel A. Coimbra

Action and Mechanism of Herbal Glycans

Xiangqian Guo

Longxiang Xie

Liuyang Wang

Wan Zhu

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.

Bioinformatics Tools (and Web Server) for Cancer Biomarker Development

Bioinformatics Tools (and Web Server) for Cancer Biomarker Development, Volume II

Jonas Parello-Plesner

European Council on Foreign Relations

François Godement

"China's once-a-decade leadership change is currently underway in Beijing. The new leaders will take power at a crucial time for China, as it enters the third stage of its development since the revolution. How they deal with the challenges ahead will not just shape China, but Europe and the entire world. Mark Leonard has drawn together a unique collection of essays from leading Chinese intellectuals and thinkers, examining the choices that it faces with its economy, its political system and its global role. After Mao's political revolution ('China 1.0') and Deng Xiaoping's economic revolution ('China 2.0'), Mark calls this 'China 3.0': Now that it is becoming more affluent, how does China deal with growing inequalities, rebalancing its economy and its increasing exposure to the global economy? How does the Communist Party retain stability, with increasing friction within Chinese society and half a billion 'netizens' active on the web? China can no longer keep a low profile on the world stage so also needs to decide how to use its power and deal with grievances with neighbours like Japan and South Korea.

China 3.0

Classic Greek Translation and Study in Chinese

Jewish History Translation & Commentaries

Changqi Liu

Proteins are an important nutrient and ingredient in food as well as in nutritional supplements. The application and take up of food proteins, especially plant proteins, has been limited due to their undesirable sensory properties, e.g. taste, odour, and chalky mouth feel. This will need to change if the availability of meat protein becomes scarcer. Documenting the latest research, this book is the first overview of the recent advances in flavour research of food proteins, with an emphasis on the major plant proteins, e.g. soy and pulse proteins. The topics to be covered include sensory and instrumental characterization of flavour compounds in food proteins, how flavour profiles in food proteins can be formed or altered, research advances of individual food proteins, the use of food protein products as flavouring ingredients, and future trends of flavouring food proteins. There is a growing interest in using plant proteins in food formulation and industrial applications, but no book has yet covered this systematically until now. Summarizing research advances in consumer studies and flavour chemistry that focus on food proteins, the book will discuss the flavour properties and problems in each major and novel food protein source for the academic and industry market.

Flavour and Consumer Perception of Food Proteins

L. Quentin Dixon

This edited book is about the rationale, practice and classroom implementation of English-medium instruction courses in Chinese universities. It specifically focuses on classroom discourse analysis across different disciplines and settings. The main themes of this book are: describing the state educational policies toward English-medium instruction at the tertiary level; distinguishing English-medium instruction from mainstream foreign language learning; analyzing curricula and discourse at the classroom level and evaluating the learning effectiveness of these courses. This book covers the widespread implementation of English-medium courses in China across different disciplines, and it provides a window for researchers and practitioners from other parts of the world to see the curriculum design, lesson planning, discourse features and teacher-student interaction in English-medium classrooms in China. Contributors to this volume consists of a panel of highly respected researchers in the fields of bilingual education, English-medium instruction, classroom discourse analysis and language program evaluation. Chapters include, Balance of Content and Language in English-Medium Instruction Classrooms English-Medium Instruction in a Math Classroom: An Observation Study of Classroom Discourse Asking and answering questions in EMI classrooms: What is the Cognitive and Syntactic Complexity Level?

Perspectives, discourse and evaluation

English-Medium Instruction in Chinese Universities

Xin Guan

Haiqiao Liu

This paper combines the Neutrosophic Probability theory with DSmT theory, and proposes a new fusion algorithm NP-PCR5 based on the Neutrosophic Probability (NP) and Proportional Conflict Redistribution Rules (PCR). Through theoretical analysis, formula derivation and comparative experiments, the feasibility and effectiveness of the NP-PCR5 fusion algorithm in multi-sensor target recognition are proved.

NP-PCR5 Fusion Algorithm and Application

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