Yi Fan

TL;DR: The essential components and variants of structural equation modeling (SEM) are introduced, the common issues in SEM applications are synthesized, and the views on SEM’s future in ecological research are shared.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared spatiotemporal changes in livestock (LSK), land cover, and ecosystem production to understand the relative roles that natural and social driving forces have on CNH dynamics on the Mongolia plateau.

TL;DR: A general concept to integrate ABM into current building life cycle assessment standards is proposed and simulation results from the agent†based model confirm that there are temporal and spatial variations caused by behavioral dynamics.

TL;DR: Neonatal mortality was significantly associated with home births, mothers without an education and mothers whose husbands decided on contraceptive practices in East Africa and West Africa, and future SDG-interventions may target these dimensions of need in priority high-risk districts and countries, to further reduce the burden of neonatal mortality in Africa.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used structural equation modeling (SEM) to identify the impact pathways for type II characterization models, therefore resolving the issues of unobservability and unvalidatibility in type II models.