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Incorporating citizen engagement in scaling up nature-based solutions (NbS) is a burgeoning and promising approach to foster localized, decentralized, and bottom-up project management strategies. While scholars have expressed heightened interest in citizen participation, there is a prominent lack of exploration into the dynamic and evolutionary nature of participatory behaviors. Reinforced by the theory of planned behavior and scale-free network, an agent-based simulation was constructed to simulate the citizens' behavioral changes and evolutions in engaging NbS projects under different conditions. The simulation results suggest that as information is disseminated and opinions are exchanged, the proportion of residents exhibiting silence and unwillingness to participate experiences a fluctuating increase, while the proportion of residents with willingness to participate undergoes a fluctuating decrease. Ultimately, the proportions of the three groups tend to stabilize. Relying predominantly on the formal government-led network has the potential to enhance neighborhood participation rates, whereas an overreliance on informal networks rooted in social ties and information dissemination can have notable detrimental effects on participation. This study offers insights into the evolutionary process of citizen participation in NbS projects, thereby contributing valuable recommendations for promoting the sustainable development of environmental projects. • A novel agent-based model is presented, reinforced by the extended theory of planned behavior. • Reliance on the formal network could increase the participation rate of a neighborhood. • Three scenarios are simulated to analyze the potential impacts of interventions on citizens' participatory behaviors. • Information dissemination has a significant role in decreasing citizen participation. • Dependency on the informal network based on social networks have significant negative impacts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Development of construction land will directly damage ecosystem services related to the F-W-E. • HQ and CS, SDR and CS, and SDR and HQ have synergies. • CS and WY, HQ and WY have trade-offs. • FP has a trade-off relationship with CS, SDR, and HQ respectively. This research centers on the necessity for synchronized management of natural resources in urban agglomerations. This study utilizes the ecosystem services theory to analyze the interplay between land use and the Food-Water-Energy (F-W-E) nexus in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (B-T-H) region from 2000 to 2030. Assessment of ecosystem services is conducted using InVEST models, which include Habitat Quality (HQ), Water Yield (WY), Carbon Sequestration (CS), Soil Retention (SDR), and Food Production (FP). The findings indicate an annual increase in construction land with a concurrent notable decrease in cultivated land. Furthermore, HQ, CS, and per capita FP show an annual decline until 2020, which is expected to continue until 2030. Conversely, WY and SDR have been growing annually, albeit projected to decline by 2030. Spearman coefficient analysis uncovers synergies between HQ and CS, SDR and CS, and SDR and HQ, alongside trade-offs between CS and WY and HQ and WY. Trade-offs are also observed between FP and SDR, CS, and HQ. Applying K-means clustering analysis facilitates county-based spatial planning for the F-W-E system, providing crucial insights and suggestions for sustainable resource management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• First Chinese tray-meal dataset collected (1185 images, 99 dish categories). • Method developed for dish recognition based on deep learning. • Automatic nutrition estimation method for Chinese tray meals. Tray meal is a popular way of eating in China, and tray-based automatic dietary assessment is important for public health. Relevant research is lacking because public tray meal datasets and suitable methods are unavailable. In this study, we established and published the first Chinese tray meal dataset, the ChinaLunchTray-99. We collected real-world 1185 tray meal images, covering 99 dish categories with corresponding manually annotated bounding box and category-level labels. We developed a new framework for automatic dietary assessment, which consists of dish image recognition, volume estimation and nutrition mapping. First, we demonstrated a tray meal detection model considering feature extraction, anchor scales, and loss function, resulting in a high mean Average Precision of 92.13%. Second, we proposed an automatic method to estimate volume via detection results and tray's information. Finally, nutrients were mapped from the estimated volume. Our research can promote applications of automatic dietary assessment for Chinese tray meals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the accelerating urbanization process, there is an increasing shortage of land resource. It leads to an increasingly serious conflicts between built-up areas and other types of land use. This will further hinder city sustainable development. To address the issue, this paper takes urban land management sustainability as the study object and puts forward an evaluation method on sustainable land management (SLM) in urban area. First, four aspects of sustainable land management are proposed, namely economic progress, social stability, urban improvement and ecological balance. Second, a system with fourteen indicators is built according to the aspects. Third, using the indicators, the sub-performance and the overall efficiency of SLM are evaluated with the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) based on entropy weight. After that, the proposed method is applied to a case study of Shanghai, China. The results show the time series changing of SLM performance from 2000 to 2011 and reveal an unbalanced development path among the four aspects of SLM. Accordingly, policy recommendations are proposed to improve the sustainable land management efficiency. Therefore, it demonstrates that the proposed evaluation method can be used to reveal to what extend the urban land use is reasonable and sustainable and provides guidance on government urban land planning and policy making. Consequently, it helps to improve the land use efficiency and ease the land use conflict. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Depicting the driving characteristics of heavy-duty trucks (HDTs) under segmented usage scenarios is essential for their optimization design. This work presents a novel HDT driving cycle construction framework based on big data under segmented usage scenarios. To validate it, sixty million driving data of three thousand HDTs were collected, based on which six segmented cycles of two typical classes of HDTs (i.e., dump trucks and truck-tractors) are constructed. Then, systematic analyses between six segmented cycles are conducted, and the constructed cycles are compared to the legislated driving cycles in China (CHTC). The results indicate that the constructed driving cycles can well represent real-world driving data, and the cycle-specific fuel consumption from simulations accord with the empirics. It is found that segmented usage scenarios significantly affect the driving behaviors of HDTs. Furthermore, the constructed segmented driving cycles are superior over CHTC in the prediction accuracy of driving characteristics and fuel consumption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract Extreme hydrologic events such as floods have caused catastrophic losses to modern human society, especially in highly developed coastal areas. However, high-resolution reconstructions of extreme flood events are scarce due to a paucity of suitable proxies in marginal seas. Here we present a high-resolution record of extreme flood events in the Changjiang River catchment during the last 110 years using samples from the subaqueous delta of Changjiang River estuary. We used a multi-proxy approach including Sr-Nd isotopes, Zr/Rb ratio and biomarkers (branched GDGTs, i.e. brGDGTs, and crenarchaeol, and the ratio of the two as calculated by the BIT index) as proxies for the evolution of extreme floods in the Changjiang River catchment. Rapid shifts in these proxies agreed with the timing of floods on the Changjiang River. We also tested the reliability of biomarker indices to reconstruct paleoflood events in this area. The results indicated that the abundances of GDGTs fluctuated in concert with historical floods. Cross-spectral analyses revealed that historical floods in the Changjiang River catchment were consistent with ENSO variance. Highlights • Sr-Nd isotopes and BIT were applied as Paleoflood multiproxy indices. • Zr/Rb ratio records of historical floods in core sediments had been compiled. • BIT and brGDGTs distributions co-varied with palaeoflood record in subaqueous delta. • Profiles of Sr-Nd isotopes responded to climate change coherently. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fabry disease (FD) is an important underlying condition in young cryptogenic stroke patients and has also been implicated in cerebral small vessel disease. However, the contributions of causative GLA mutations in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) remain unclear. In this study, GLA sequences were analyzed in a Chinese ICH cohort comprising 373 patients with computed tomography-confirmed ICH and 563 in-house controls and East Asians from public databases. Only one previously reported mutation, p. Ala15Val, responsible for Fabry disease was identified in a female patient with nonlobar ICH. Therefore, this definitive GLA mutation accounted for 0.27% (1/373) of Chinese patients with ICH. Another functional variant, rs2071225 (c.-10C>T), was present at minor allele frequency (MAF) of 9.1%, indicating no association with ICH, despite a trend of an association for male patients with lobar ICH. In conclusion, our results indicate that the GLA mutation is an uncommon genetic etiology of ICH in China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tectonism is one of the most important factors controlling the formation of sedimentary stratigraphy in lacustrine rift basins, but the controlling effects need to be further clarified. Based on 2D and 3D seismic data, well logs, logging data, and core data from the Saihantala Sag, our study aimed to analyse the fault system of the sag, determine its tectonic evolution process, establish the faulting pattern of the sag, recognise its depositional systems, and finally discuss the relationships between the tectonic factors and the basin evolution and sediment filling process. Four types of depositional systems including fan-delta, braided-delta, near-shore subaqueous fan and lacustrine deposits were recognized in the Saihantala Sag based on an integrated analysis of the well logs, cores and seismic data. The results indicated that 1) The Xilin fault is the eastern boundary fault of the Saihantala Sag, and its subsections and connections controlled the stratigraphic pattern of the sag. 2) tectonic evolution controlled the evolution of the lake basin and depositional systems in the Saihantala Sag, especially the deposition of near-shore subaqueous fan and the connection and retrogradation of braided-delta and fan-delta systems. 3) The tectonic evolution also controlled the filling pattern of the Saihantala Sag, which features two sets of braided-delta deposits in its gentle slope belt and one set of fan-delta deposits and two sets of near-shore sub-lacustrine fan deposits in its steep slope belt. 4) All three tectonic belts (Zhabu, Yihe and Saisi) mainly experienced a middle-late activated single-cycle faulting pattern, which controlled the distribution of braided-delta front deposits and lenticular sandy bodies. • Tectonic evolution process of three key tectonic belts in the Lower Cretaceous Saihantala sag were established. • Depositional systems including fan-delta, braided-delta, near-shore subaqueous fan and lacustrine deposits were recognised. • Fault system of the sag were divided, and its faulting patterns were determined. • The controlling effects of tectonic on basin evolution and sediments filling process in lacustrine rift basin were discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To further reveal plutonium transport and scavenging processes within the sediments of the East China Sea (ECS), this study analyzed spatial variations of plutonium in surface sediments and explored factors influencing the spatial pattern of Pu in the ECS. From the perspective of the whole ECS, the 239+240Pu concentrations and 240Pu/239Pu atom ratios increased with the distance from the river mouth but decreased toward the outer shelf. Additionally, high 240Pu/239Pu atom ratios could be seen along the flow direction of the Changjiang Diluted Water. The results indicated that under the influence of regional hydrodynamics, the spatial pattern of Pu in the ECS may be consistent with the dispersal of the Yangtze River-derived sediments. The source of Pu from PPG (Pacific Proving Ground) transported by the North Equatorial Current and the Kuroshio Current in the Yangtze River estuary was 41%. Image 1 • PPG input related to scavenging process dominated the Pu source in the ECS. • The regional hydrodynamic has an impact on the distribution of Pu in the ECS. • Pu is useful to trace the long-range transport in Chinese coastal areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]