House price prediction has traditionally been approached using linear or spatial linear hedonic models and focused on big cities. In this study, we developed a flexible spatiotemporal model (FSTM) to explore the spatiotemporal characteristics of the residential house price and the impact factors...

Creativity has long been a popular research question among psychologists. Studies in the past few decades have explored the effect of both internal individual factors and external environmental factors on creativity. The findings help shed light on how we can cultivate and further tap...

Environment plays an important role in the interaction between host and pathogen and in the expression of diseases. Climatic differences among East Asia, Eastern USA, the Mediterranean and Northern Europe were compared against differences in the prevalence of pine wilt disease. This disease was...

This paper provides a method for choosing alternative industries for resource-based cities that are confronted with resource depletion and have to restructure their industries for future development. The method integrates intra- and inter-regional comparative advantages in a two-dimensional...

Despite its unprecedented growth in output per capita in the last two decades, China has essentially followed the life satisfaction trajectory of the central and eastern European transition countries – a U-shaped swing and a nil or declining trend. There is no evidence of an increase in life...

Although an extensive literature emphasizes the disadvantages of intermittent water supply, it remains prevalent in rural areas of developing countries. Understanding the effects of water supply time restrictions on domestic water use activities and patterns, especially for hygienic purposes, is...

Change and variability in the timing and magnitude of sea ice geophysical and thermodynamic state have consequences on many aspects of the arctic marine system. The changes in both the geophysical and thermodynamic state, and in particular the timing of the development of these states, have...