Article
Development Studies
Lulu Huang, Qiannan Liu, Yugang Tang
Summary: This study examines the economic impacts of relatively small but frequent earthquakes in China in both the short-term and long-term. The findings suggest that moderate and strong earthquakes significantly decrease GDP per capita in the affected areas in the long run. The effects vary depending on fiscal autonomy, social capital intensity, and infrastructure development. Additionally, the study identifies three mechanisms contributing to the long-term negative effects.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Rajinder Peshin, Baljeet S. Hansra, Kuldeep Singh, Rakesh Nanda, Rakesh Sharma, Stanzin Yangsdon, Raj Kumar
Summary: The study found that the adoption of Bt cotton led to a shift in pest population from bollworms to sucking insects, with a significant decrease in insecticide applications to control bollworms but a significant increase in insecticide applications to control sucking pests. Additionally, the increase in pesticide use was primarily driven by the use of fungicides and herbicides.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2021)
Article
Plant Sciences
Jaclyn Guz, Nathan S. Gill, Dominik Kulakowski
Summary: This study examines the regeneration of lodgepole pine forests in high-elevation areas following high-severity fires, revealing the significant impact of pre-fire stand structure and post-fire climate conditions on regeneration. Factors such as stocking density and minimum temperature play crucial roles in the regeneration process and radial growth, while increasing patchiness in regeneration may have cascading effects on future ecological dynamics.
JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Yao Li, Haoyang Li, Jianqing Ruan
Summary: There is a statistically significant positive relationship between long-term natural disaster frequency and social trust, with social trust in neighbors and doctors stronger in areas with higher long-term natural disaster frequency. The effect of long-term natural disasters on social trust remains positively significant even after considering geographical differences, with the impact of long-term flood frequency significant in the South and the impact of long-term drought frequency significant in the North.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Vicent Alcantara, Miguel Angel Tarancon, Pablo del Rio
Summary: This study focuses on the relationship between electricity consumption and different sectors through input-output analysis, and identifies several key sectors that need to be targeted by energy policies to improve electricity consumption efficiency.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY GRIDS & NETWORKS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Pavla Vackova, Jan Valentin, Majda Belhaj
Summary: The study demonstrates that strength parameters of asphalt mixtures increase with aging, while fracture work provides more complex information about cracking behavior. For mixtures with modified binders and without reclaimed asphalt, higher values of aging indexes were observed.
Article
Plant Sciences
Haojie Su, Rong Wang, Yuhao Feng, Yanling Li, Yun Li, Jun Chen, Chi Xu, Shaopeng Wang, Jingyun Fang, Ping Xie
Summary: This study presents empirical evidence of critical regime shifts and hysteresis in a subtropical Chinese lake, showing the impacts of climate warming, eutrophication, and trophic cascade effects by fish stocking. Early warning signals were found detectable in both collapse and recovery trajectories, improving predictive ability. Management practices should focus on slowing down climate warming and weakening fish predation pressure to enhance nutrient reduction effectiveness in lake restoration efforts.
JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Seunghwan Wi, Yujin Kang, Sungwoong Yang, Young Uk Kim, Sumin Kim
Summary: This study quantitatively analyzed five types of insulation materials and pollutants generated from building materials, examining the effects of pollutants discharged from insulation materials on the indoor environment. The necessity of legal management of contaminants emitted from insulation materials was proposed based on empirical research results.
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
(2021)
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Zulfaqar Saadi, Zaher Mundher Yaseen, Aitazaz Ahsan Farooque, Nur Athirah Mohamad, Mohd Khairul Idlan Muhammad, Zafar Iqbal
Summary: This study aims to reveal the spatio-temporal trend in extreme rainfall and temperature in Sarawak peatland due to climate change. The Modified Mann-Kendall test was used to analyze trend and confirm the impact of large scale climate events. The study provides essential insights into the behavior of different extreme climate variables and their potential impact on the peatland area susceptible to flood and fire.
WEATHER AND CLIMATE EXTREMES
(2023)
Article
Oncology
Hans Gelderblom, Andrew J. Wagner, William D. Tap, Emanuela Palmerini, Zev A. Wainberg, Jayesh Desai, John H. Healey, Michiel A. J. van de Sande, Nicholas M. Bernthal, Eric L. Staals, Charles G. Peterfy, Anna Maria Frezza, Henry H. Hsu, Qiang Wang, Dale E. Shuster, Silvia Stacchiotti
Summary: The study reports the long-term effects of pexidartinib on tenosynovial giant cell tumor (TGCT) and demonstrates the prolonged efficacy and tolerability of long-term pexidartinib treatment, with a majority of patients experiencing a partial response within 6 months. Adverse events were mostly low-grade, with hair color changes being the most frequent.
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Yafen Huang, Hongyi Li, Yuhu Ma, Jianxin Ma
Summary: In this study, an effective workflow for microearthquake detection and location has been proposed, which includes GPU-based match and locate technology, deep neural network-based noise reduction technique, and U-net-based phase picking method. A high-resolution catalog has been constructed based on continuous seismic data recorded from 13 seismic stations in Yushu, Qinghai. The spatial-temporal evolution of the foreshock sequence of the Yushu earthquake suggests that a triggered cascade model is responsible for the nucleation of the mainshock.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Haden L. Scott, Dima Bolmatov, Peter T. Podar, Zening Liu, Jacob J. Kinnun, Benjamin Doughty, Ralph Lydic, Robert L. Sacci, C. Patrick Collier, John Katsaras
Summary: This study demonstrates that droplet interface bilayers (DIBs) composed of lipids can exhibit persistent synaptic plasticity, characterized by long-term potentiation (LTP) and capacitive energy storage. The time scales for the physical changes associated with LTP are longer than previous short-term synaptic plasticity studies.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
Article
Economics
Vincent Viguie, Charlotte Liotta, Basile Pfeiffer, Nicolas Coulombel
Summary: In cities, public transport investments targeting low income districts can help reduce transport greenhouse gas emissions. However, transit-induced gentrification and changes in neighborhoods may prevent the social objective from being met. Research on the impact of public transport on population displacement has mixed results. A study on job accessibility in Paris shows that while major public transport lines initially serve the needs of all income groups, changes in population and job movements result in gains for richer households and losses for poorer ones over time.
JOURNAL OF TRANSPORT GEOGRAPHY
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Tanweer Akram, Syed Al-Helal Uddin
Summary: This paper empirically models the dynamics of Brazilian government bond yields and finds that the current short-term interest rate has a decisive influence on the long-term interest rate, which has important policy implications for Brazil. The findings are related to ongoing debates in fiscal and monetary policies.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Tianyi Zheng
Summary: This study explores the influence of temporal focus on venture investment decisions and finds that venture capital firms with higher long-term orientation are more likely to invest in less popular industries and ventures in the expansion period. They also tend to reinvest in start-ups within their portfolio instead of investing in multiple single start-ups. However, the study did not find any preference of VCs for ventures with high human capital.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Irina Rafliana, Fatemeh Jalayer, Andrea Cerase, Lorenzo Cugliari, Marco Baiguera, Dimitra Salmanidou, Ocal Necmioglu, Ignacio Aguirre Ayerbe, Stefano Lorito, Stuart Fraser, Finn Lovholt, Andrey Babeyko, Mario A. Salgado-Galvez, Jacopo Selva, Raffaele De Risi, Mathilde B. Sorensen, Jorn Behrens, Inigo Aniel-Quiroga, Marta Del Zoppo, Stefano Belliazzi, Ignatius Ryan Pranantyo, Alessandro Amato, Ufuk Hancilar
Summary: Large tsunamis have a low probability of occurrence, leading to low risk perception and a lack of collective memories. However, with increasing population and risk exposure in coastal areas, there are immense challenges ahead. Past tsunamis have revealed the lack of preparedness and shaped the way tsunami risk is perceived and acted upon.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Steven J. Gibbons, Stefano Lorito, Marc de la Asuncion, Manuela Volpe, Jacopo Selva, Jorge Macias, Carlos Sanchez-Linares, Beatriz Brizuela, Malte Voege, Roberto Tonini, Piero Lanucara, Sylfest Glimsdal, Fabrizio Romano, Jan Christian Meyer, Finn Lovholt
Summary: In seismically active regions, the uncertainty of tsunami inundation height is considerable due to the variability of dominant focal mechanisms. This study investigates the sensitivity of inundation at Catania and Siracusa in Sicily to changes in earthquake source parameters and bottom friction using systematic parameter searches. The results show that the sensitivity of inundation varies with the location of earthquake sources and coastal morphology, and a finer discretization of local sources is needed for accurate modeling. The friction affects the velocities and momentum flux, and to some extent, the distance of inundation from the coastline.
FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Fabio Dioguardi, Silvia Massaro, Giovanni Chiodini, Antonio Costa, Arnau Folch, Giovanni Macedonio, Laura Sandri, Jacopo Selva, Giancarlo Tamburello
Summary: Probabilistic volcanic hazard assessment is a methodology for quantifying volcanic hazards by running a deterministic hazard quantification tool multiple times and considering the range of uncertainties. Volcanic gas emissions are particularly important in assessing the threat to human health. VIGIL is a new Python tool designed to manage the workflow of gas dispersion modeling for probabilistic hazard assessments.
ANNALS OF GEOPHYSICS
(2022)
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Andrey Babeyko, Stefano Lorito, Francisco Hernandez, Joern Lauterjungl, Finn Lovholt, Alexander Rudloff, Mathilde Sorensen, Alexey Androsov, Inigo Aniel-Quiroga, Alberto Armigliato, Maria Ana Baptista, Enrico Baglione, Roberto Basili, Joern Behrens, Beatriz Brizuela, Sergio Brunie, M. Didem Cambaz, Juan Cantavella-Nadal, Fernando Carrilho, Ian Chandler, Denis Chang-Seng, Marinos Charalampakis, Lorenzo Cugliari, Clea Denamiel, Gozde Guney Dogan, Gaetano Festa, David Fuhrman, Alice-Agnes Gabriel, Pauline Galea, Steven J. Gibbons, Mauricio Gonzalez, Laura Graziani, Marc-Andre Gutscher, Sven Harig, Helen Hebert, Constantin Ionescu, Fatemeh Jalayer, Nikos Kalligeris, Utku Kanoglu, Piero Lanucara, Jorge Macias Sanchez, Shane Murphy, Ocal Necmioglu, Rachid Omira, Gerassimos A. Papadopoulos, Raphael Paris, Fabrizio Romano, Tiziana Rossetto, Jacopo Selva, Antonio Scala, Roberto Tonini, Konstantinos Trevlopoulos, Ioanna Triantafyllou, Roger Urgeles, Roberto Vallone, Ivica Vilibic, Manuela Volpe, Ahmet C. Yalciner
Summary: The European tsunami community has attained the status of Candidate Thematic Core Service (cTCS) within the European Plate Observing System (EPOS), providing support and a platform for tsunami research and risk management. The cTCS will address the needs in tsunami science and risk mitigation through four thematic pillars.
ANNALS OF GEOPHYSICS
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Silvia Massaro, Eduardo Rossi, Laura Sandri, Costanza Bonadonna, Jacopo Selva, Roberto Moretti, Jean-Christophe Komorowski
Summary: The study proposes a probabilistic hazard quantification strategy to assess the impact of volcanic ballistic projectiles (VBPs) based on the variability of eruptive vent locations and wind effects. It shows that topography plays a crucial role in considering the spatial uncertainty of vent locations. The research highlights the importance of a probabilistic approach in estimating the likelihood of VBPs impacts.
JOURNAL OF VOLCANOLOGY AND GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Marcus Herrmann, Ester Piegari, Warner Marzocchi
Summary: The study reveals significant variability in the Magnitude-Frequency-Distribution (MFD) during the 2016/17 central Italy earthquake sequence, showing differences in MFD and spatiotemporal changes in b-values within seismically active volumes.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Asim M. Khawaja, Sebastian Hainzl, Danijel Schorlemmer, Pablo Iturrieta, Jose A. Bayona, William H. Savran, Maximilian Werner, Warner Marzocchi
Summary: This study aims to evaluate earthquake forecast models by using a grid-based format to express earthquake forecasts and assessing the spatial distribution of seismicity through the S-test. The study found that the high resolution grid and sparse earthquake distribution affect the statistical power, and recommends the use of Quadtree-based multi-resolution grids to improve the statistical power in future experiments.
GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
(2023)
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Marcus Herrmann, Warner Marzocchi
Summary: An ensemble model combines forecasts from different models or different versions of the same model into a single forecast. Previous methods usually weighted forecasts equally or based on individual skill. This study presents a more meaningful strategy by obtaining weights that maximize the skill of the ensemble. The approach uses multivariate logistic regression and allows flexibility to address different aspects of seismicity and end user needs.
GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
(2023)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Ester Manganiello, Marcus Herrmann, Warner Marzocchi
Summary: Research finds that anomalous foreshock sequences in southern California, mostly occurring for mainshock magnitudes below 5.5, are driven by heat flow in zones of high heat flow, which are known to host swarm-like seismicity. These anomalous sequences do not indicate a pre-slip nucleation process.
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Civil
Francesco Di Maio, Nicola Gallo, Daniele Arcangeli, Matteo Taroni, Jacopo Selva, Enrico Zio
Summary: Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment (PSHA) evaluates the probability of exceedance of a given earthquake intensity threshold at a target site. The uncertainty in PSHA is quantified by defining alternative model settings and/or model parameterizations. This study proposes a Bootstrapped Modularised Global Sensitivity Analysis (BMGSA) method that identifies the most important model parameters for the uncertainty in PSHA by generating alternative artificial datasets and aggregating rankings.
Article
Computer Science, Theory & Methods
Arnau Folch, Claudia Abril, Michael Afanasiev, Giorgio Amati, Michael Bader, Rosa M. Badia, Hafize B. Bayraktar, Sara Barsotti, Roberto Basili, Fabrizio Bernardi, Christian Boehm, Beatriz Brizuela, Federico Brogi, Eduardo Cabrera, Emanuele Casarotti, Manuel J. Castro, Matteo Cerminara, Antonella Cirella, Alexey Cheptsov, Javier Conejero, Antonio Costa, Marc de la Asuncion, Josep de la Puente, Marco Djuric, Ravil Dorozhinskii, Gabriela Espinosa, Tomaso Esposti-Ongaro, Joan Farnos, Nathalie Favretto-Cristini, Andreas Fichtner, Alexandre Fournier, Alice-Agnes Gabriel, Jean-Matthieu Gallard, Steven J. Gibbons, Sylfest Glimsdal, Jose Manuel Gonzalez-Vida, Jose Gracia, Rose Gregorio, Natalia Gutierrez, Benedikt Halldorsson, Okba Hamitou, Guillaume Houzeaux, Stephan Jaure, Mouloud Kessar, Lukas Krenz, Lion Krischer, Soline Laforet, Piero Lanucara, Bo Li, Maria Concetta Lorenzino, Stefano Lorito, Finn Lovholt, Giovanni Macedonio, Jorge Macias, Guillermo Marin, Beatriz Martinez Montesinos, Leonardo Mingari, Genevieve Moguilny, Vadim Montellier, Marisol Monterrubio-Velasco, Georges Emmanuel Moulard, Masaru Nagaso, Massimo Nazaria, Christoph Niethammer, Federica Pardini, Marta Pienkowska, Luca Pizzimenti, Natalia Poiata, Leonhard Rannabauer, Otilio Rojas, Juna Esteban Rodriguez, Fabrizio Romano, Oleksandr Rudyy, Vittorio Ruggiero, Philipp Samfass, Carlos Sanchez-Linares, Sabrina Sanchez, Laura Sandri, Antonio Scala, Nathanael Schaeffer, Joseph Schuchart, Jacopo Selva, Amadine Sergeant, Angela Stallone, Matteo Taroni, Solvi Thrastarson, Manuel Titos, Nadia Tonelllo, Roberto Tonini, Thomas Ulrich, Jean-Pierre Vilotte, Malte Voge, Manuela Volpe, Sara Aniko Wirp, Uwe Woessner
Summary: The EU Center of Excellence for Exascale in Solid Earth (ChEESE) focuses on developing high-level transition capabilities in the geophysics domain to address computational challenges related to earth sciences. The project has successfully optimized community codes and implemented pilot demonstrators to tackle capability and capacity challenges in areas such as seismology, tsunami science, volcanology, and magnetohydrodynamics. The partnership with the Industry and User Board (IUB) has facilitated the dissemination of results across various sectors and institutions.
FUTURE GENERATION COMPUTER SYSTEMS-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ESCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
I Spassiani, G. Falcone, M. Murru, W. Marzocchi
Summary: In this paper, the authors gather and analyze the results of the OEF system in Italy during its first 10 years of operation. The system provides real-time earthquake forecasts for the entire Italian territory based on an ensemble model. The authors evaluate the performance of the forecasts using standard tests and performance measures borrowed from other fields. The study aims to identify weaknesses in the OEF-Italy modeling, provide helpful measures for stakeholders, and uncover features of seismic activity in Italy.
GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
(2023)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Domenico Giaquinto, Warner Marzocchi, Juergen Kurths
Summary: In this study, we use concepts and methods derived from complex network theory to investigate the spatial patterns and features of meteorological droughts in Europe. By analyzing the co-occurrence of drought events at different locations within a season from 1981 to 2020, we uncover robust drought continental networks and identify regional clusters characterized by the geographical propagation and source-sink systems of droughts. Our approach introduces new methodologies for climate network reconstruction and provides valuable insights into the spatial dynamics of droughts, potentially improving drought forecasting.
NONLINEAR PROCESSES IN GEOPHYSICS
(2023)
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Ocal Necmioglu, Mohammad Heidarzadeh, Georgios E. Vougioukalakis, Jacopo Selva
Summary: The destructive tsunami in December 2018 highlighted the risks of large tsunamis and the limitations of existing warning systems for non-seismic and complex sources. Previous tsunamis in the Mediterranean caused by volcanic landslides have emphasized the need to assess tsunami hazard and risk associated with volcanic instability. This study examined possible landslide scenarios in Santorini Island, showing that they have the potential to generate significant local tsunamis with varying amplitudes and arrival times. The extreme amplitudes and short arrival times pose a major challenge for tsunami warning and mitigation in Santorini Island.
PURE AND APPLIED GEOPHYSICS
(2023)
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
S. Massaro, M. Stocchi, G. Tamburello, A. Costa, L. Sandri, S. Caliro, G. Chiodin, J. Selva, F. Dioguardi, A. Folch, G. Macedonio
Summary: This article introduces a workflow for validating gas dispersion models through automated simulation strategies, and provides an illustrative validation at La Solfatara. This is a crucial first step towards quantifying gas hazards in volcanic areas.
NUOVO CIMENTO C-COLLOQUIA AND COMMUNICATIONS IN PHYSICS
(2022)