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Nature Cities
2025
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2026
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Urban-induced microclimate variations, such as urban heat islands and air pollution, scale with city size, producing distinctive relations between average climate variables and city-scale quantities (for example, total population). However, these relations are sensitive to city boundary definitions ...
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10.1038/S44284-026-00441-Z
ISSN:2731-9997
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Nature Computational Science
2023
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Effective spatial planning of urban communities plays a critical role in the sustainable development of cities. Despite the convenience brought by geographic information systems and computer-aided design, determining the layout of land use and roads still heavily relies on human experts. Here we pro...
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10.1038/S43588-023-00503-5
ISSN:2662-8457
The major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neanderthals
Hugo Zeberg•Svante Pääbo
Nature
2020
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A recent genetic association study1 identified a gene cluster on chromosome 3 as a risk locus for respiratory failure after infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). A separate study (COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative)2 comprising 3,199 hospitalized patients with c...
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10.1038/S41586-020-2818-3
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Increasing risk of glacial lake outburst floods from future Third Pole deglaciation
Guoxiong Zheng•Simon Keith Allen•Anming Bao•Juan Antonio Ballesteros-Cánovas•Matthias Huss等 12 人
Nature Climate Change
2021
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Warming on Earth’s Third Pole is leading to rapid loss of ice and the formation and expansion of glacial lakes, posing a severe threat to downstream communities. Here we provide a holistic assessment of past evolution, present state and modelled future change of glacial lakes and related glacial lak...
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10.1038/S41558-021-01028-3
ISSN:1758-678X
Causal spatially heterogeneous Bayesian networks with GPs and normalizing flows for seismic multi-hazard estimation
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Npj Natural Hazards
2025
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Post-earthquake hazard and impact estimation are critical for effective disaster response, yet current approaches face significant limitations. Traditional models employ fixed parameters regardless of geographical context, misrepresenting how seismic effects vary across diverse landscapes, while rem...
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ISSN:2948-2100
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Shanshan Wang•Henrik M. Bette•Michael Schreckenberg•Thomas Guhr
Npj Complexity
2024
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When travelling by car from one location to another, our route is constrained by the road network. The network distance between the two locations is generally longer than the geodetic distance as the crow flies. We report a systematic relation between the statistical properties of these two distance...
Complex networksInterdisciplinary studiesNonlinear phenomenaStatistical physics
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Nature Communications
2025
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While a geo-hazard risk assessment of bridges is crucial for achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, state-of-the-art methods for evaluation of risk neglect the temporal dimension of structural vulnerability, overlooking how monitoring systems like Structural Health Monitoring s...
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ISSN:2041-1723
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Nature Water
2023
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The benefits of developing the world’s hydropower potential are intensely debated when considering the need to avoid or minimize environmental impacts. However, estimates of global unused profitable hydropower potential with strict environmental constraints have rarely been reported. In this study w...
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Mapping health facility catchment areas is important for estimating the population that uses the health facility, as a denominator for capturing spatial patterns of disease burden across space. Mapping activities to generate catchment areas are expensive exercises and are often not repeated on a reg...
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10.1038/S43856-025-00845-3
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Npj Climate And Atmospheric Science
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Existing methods for fine-scale air quality assessment have significant gaps in their reliability. Purely data-driven methods lack any physically-based mechanisms to simulate the interactive process of air pollution, potentially leading to physically inconsistent or implausible results. Here, we rep...
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10.1038/S41612-023-00475-3
ISSN:2397-3722