Ensuring independent mobility for older adults has become a public health and social concern in China owing to its rapidly aging population.To explore independent mobility trends among older adults and the impact of s...Ensuring independent mobility for older adults has become a public health and social concern in China owing to its rapidly aging population.To explore independent mobility trends among older adults and the impact of sociodemo-graphic characteristics in recent years,this study used data from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey from 2012 to 2018,combined with binomial logit regression and CatBoost-Shapley additive explanation(SHAP)method to analyze the relationship between independent mobility and sociodemographic characteristics under bus and walking-oriented environments.Study findings indicated that age and gender significantly affected the independent mobility of older adults.Policymaking should prioritize the needs of older adults,focusing on age and gender differ-ences.Additionally,living expense adequacy significantly influenced independent mobility.Policies should substan-tially support economically disadvantaged older adults,en-suring their basic needs are met through subsidies and other measures.Moreover,the study found a notable impact of widowhood on independent mobility,suggesting enhanced social care and mental health support for widowed older adults,especially those who are long-lived.The outcomes of this study provided evidence for policymakers,which are beneficial for developing elderly-friendly travel policies to ensure and enhance the quality of life and independent mo-bility of older adults.展开更多
Soil moisture is a key parameter in the exchange of energy and water between the land surface and the atmosphere.This parameter plays an important role in the dynamics of permafrost on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau,China...Soil moisture is a key parameter in the exchange of energy and water between the land surface and the atmosphere.This parameter plays an important role in the dynamics of permafrost on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau,China,as well as in the related ecological and hydrological processes.However,the region's complex terrain and extreme climatic conditions result in low-accuracy soil moisture estimations using traditional remote sensing techniques.Thus,this study considered parameters of the backscatter coefficient of Sentinel-1A ground range detected(GRD)data,the polarization decomposition parameters of Sentinel-1A single-look complex(SLC)data,the normalized difference vegetation index(NDVI)based on Sentinel-2B data,and the topographic factors based on digital elevation model(DEM)data.By combining these parameters with a machine learning model,we established a feature selection rule.A cumulative importance threshold was derived for feature variables,and those variables that failed to meet the threshold were eliminated based on variations in the coefficient of determination(R^(2))and the unbiased root mean square error(ubRMSE).The eight most influential variables were selected and combined with the CatBoost model for soil moisture inversion,and the SHapley Additive exPlanations(SHAP)method was used to analyze the importance of these variables.The results demonstrated that the optimized model significantly improved the accuracy of soil moisture inversion.Compared to the unfiltered model,the optimal feature combination led to a 0.09 increase in R^(2)and a 0.7%reduction in ubRMSE.Ultimately,the optimized model achieved a R²of 0.87 and an ubRMSE of 5.6%.Analysis revealed that soil particle size had significant impact on soil water retention capacity.The impact of vegetation on the estimated soil moisture on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau was considerable,demonstrating a significant positive correlation.Moreover,the microtopographical features of hummocks interfered with soil moisture estimation,indicating that such terrain effects warrant increased attention in future studies within the permafrost regions.The developed method not only enhances the accuracy of soil moisture retrieval in the complex terrain of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau,but also exhibits high computational efficiency(with a relative time reduction of 18.5%),striking an excellent balance between accuracy and efficiency.This approach provides a robust framework for efficient soil moisture monitoring in remote areas with limited ground data,offering critical insights for ecological conservation,water resource management,and climate change adaptation on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau.展开更多
Objectives:Food quality assessment is critical for indicating the shelf-life and ensuring food safety or value.Due to high environmental sensitivity,the post-harvest quality of fresh fruit will undergo complex changes...Objectives:Food quality assessment is critical for indicating the shelf-life and ensuring food safety or value.Due to high environmental sensitivity,the post-harvest quality of fresh fruit will undergo complex changes in the supply chain,with various dynamic quality-related features.It is diffcult to effciently and accurately extract comprehensive quality feature of post-harvest fruits from high-dimensional monitoring data with heterogeneous characteristics(numerical and categorical).Therefore,we proposed a dynamic comprehensive quality assessment method based on self-adaptive analytic hierarchy process(SAHP)integrated with the CatBoost model.Materials and Methods:By adaptive weight optimization,the SAHP was utilized to analyze the multi-source quality information and obtain the quantized fusion value,as an output sample of CatBoost machine learning.Then,using heterogeneous monitoring data as input,the CatBoost model was directly trained through unbiased boosting with categorical features for dynamic assessment of overall quality status.Results:Three quality index monitoring data sets for‘Jufeng’grape in different transportation chains(normal temperature,cold insulation,and cold chain)were individually constructed as the research samples.Furthermore,compared to other machine learning methods,the SAHP-CatBoost had more accurate results in comprehensive quality feature extraction.In actual transportation chains,the mean absolute error,mean absolute percentage error,and root mean squared error of dynamic comprehensive assessment were limited to 0.0044,1.012%,and 0.0078,respectively.Conclusions:The proposed method is effcient in handling heterogeneous monitoring data and extracting comprehensive quality information of post-harvest grape as a robust shelf-life indicator.It can reasonably guide post-harvest quality management to reduce food loss and improve economic benefts.展开更多
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52272367)the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No. BK20231324)。
文摘Ensuring independent mobility for older adults has become a public health and social concern in China owing to its rapidly aging population.To explore independent mobility trends among older adults and the impact of sociodemo-graphic characteristics in recent years,this study used data from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey from 2012 to 2018,combined with binomial logit regression and CatBoost-Shapley additive explanation(SHAP)method to analyze the relationship between independent mobility and sociodemographic characteristics under bus and walking-oriented environments.Study findings indicated that age and gender significantly affected the independent mobility of older adults.Policymaking should prioritize the needs of older adults,focusing on age and gender differ-ences.Additionally,living expense adequacy significantly influenced independent mobility.Policies should substan-tially support economically disadvantaged older adults,en-suring their basic needs are met through subsidies and other measures.Moreover,the study found a notable impact of widowhood on independent mobility,suggesting enhanced social care and mental health support for widowed older adults,especially those who are long-lived.The outcomes of this study provided evidence for policymakers,which are beneficial for developing elderly-friendly travel policies to ensure and enhance the quality of life and independent mo-bility of older adults.
基金supported by the Scientific Research Foundation for High-level Talents of Anhui University of Science and Technology(13230550)the Coal Industry Engineering Research Center of Mining Area Environmental and Disaster Cooperative Monitoring,Anhui University of Science and Technology(KSXTJC202305)+1 种基金the State Key Laboratory of Geodesy and Earth's Dynamics,Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology(SKLGED2023-5-1)the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2023M733604).
文摘Soil moisture is a key parameter in the exchange of energy and water between the land surface and the atmosphere.This parameter plays an important role in the dynamics of permafrost on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau,China,as well as in the related ecological and hydrological processes.However,the region's complex terrain and extreme climatic conditions result in low-accuracy soil moisture estimations using traditional remote sensing techniques.Thus,this study considered parameters of the backscatter coefficient of Sentinel-1A ground range detected(GRD)data,the polarization decomposition parameters of Sentinel-1A single-look complex(SLC)data,the normalized difference vegetation index(NDVI)based on Sentinel-2B data,and the topographic factors based on digital elevation model(DEM)data.By combining these parameters with a machine learning model,we established a feature selection rule.A cumulative importance threshold was derived for feature variables,and those variables that failed to meet the threshold were eliminated based on variations in the coefficient of determination(R^(2))and the unbiased root mean square error(ubRMSE).The eight most influential variables were selected and combined with the CatBoost model for soil moisture inversion,and the SHapley Additive exPlanations(SHAP)method was used to analyze the importance of these variables.The results demonstrated that the optimized model significantly improved the accuracy of soil moisture inversion.Compared to the unfiltered model,the optimal feature combination led to a 0.09 increase in R^(2)and a 0.7%reduction in ubRMSE.Ultimately,the optimized model achieved a R²of 0.87 and an ubRMSE of 5.6%.Analysis revealed that soil particle size had significant impact on soil water retention capacity.The impact of vegetation on the estimated soil moisture on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau was considerable,demonstrating a significant positive correlation.Moreover,the microtopographical features of hummocks interfered with soil moisture estimation,indicating that such terrain effects warrant increased attention in future studies within the permafrost regions.The developed method not only enhances the accuracy of soil moisture retrieval in the complex terrain of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau,but also exhibits high computational efficiency(with a relative time reduction of 18.5%),striking an excellent balance between accuracy and efficiency.This approach provides a robust framework for efficient soil moisture monitoring in remote areas with limited ground data,offering critical insights for ecological conservation,water resource management,and climate change adaptation on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau.
基金funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31971808)the Central Publicinterest Scientifc Institution Basal Research Fund(No.CAASZDRW202107),China.
文摘Objectives:Food quality assessment is critical for indicating the shelf-life and ensuring food safety or value.Due to high environmental sensitivity,the post-harvest quality of fresh fruit will undergo complex changes in the supply chain,with various dynamic quality-related features.It is diffcult to effciently and accurately extract comprehensive quality feature of post-harvest fruits from high-dimensional monitoring data with heterogeneous characteristics(numerical and categorical).Therefore,we proposed a dynamic comprehensive quality assessment method based on self-adaptive analytic hierarchy process(SAHP)integrated with the CatBoost model.Materials and Methods:By adaptive weight optimization,the SAHP was utilized to analyze the multi-source quality information and obtain the quantized fusion value,as an output sample of CatBoost machine learning.Then,using heterogeneous monitoring data as input,the CatBoost model was directly trained through unbiased boosting with categorical features for dynamic assessment of overall quality status.Results:Three quality index monitoring data sets for‘Jufeng’grape in different transportation chains(normal temperature,cold insulation,and cold chain)were individually constructed as the research samples.Furthermore,compared to other machine learning methods,the SAHP-CatBoost had more accurate results in comprehensive quality feature extraction.In actual transportation chains,the mean absolute error,mean absolute percentage error,and root mean squared error of dynamic comprehensive assessment were limited to 0.0044,1.012%,and 0.0078,respectively.Conclusions:The proposed method is effcient in handling heterogeneous monitoring data and extracting comprehensive quality information of post-harvest grape as a robust shelf-life indicator.It can reasonably guide post-harvest quality management to reduce food loss and improve economic benefts.
