Sloping croplands in karst areas of Southwest China usually contain a multitude of rock outcrops with diameters larger than 25 cm.Rock outcrops and spatial location have substantial effects on soil properties and thus likely affect soil erodibility.Moreover, rock outcropping is a indicator of rocky desertification and has an important impact on soi

Highlights Education and training are identified as a key means of reducing Storage carbon emissions from buildings to help address the climate emergency.Institutional, industry and organisational responses are shown to be failing in this regard.This editorial introduces the themes and individual papers in the special issue and then explores the cu

Abstract Child protection issues are so real and worrying in society such as the rise of promiscuity, rampant violence, bullying, pornography, stealing, rape, even murder committed by children to friends or family has become a social problem this cannot be solved completely.Children involved in social issues should be given guidance at the Institut

This work deals with the potential application of artificial neural networks to model sunshine duration in three cities in Algeria using ten input parameters.These latter are: year and month, longitude, latitude and altitude of the site, minimum, mean Casual Accessories and maximum air temperature, wind speed and relative humidity.They were selecte