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energy; energy conservation; energy policy; resource allocation; China
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... Per capita energy consumption is related to the equity of energy resource allocation, and its wide regional variations probably aggravate the unbalanced regional development. However, whether the gaps in China's provincial per capita energy consumption are reduced over the past decades has not yet been thoroughly investigated, and the convergence of provincial per capita energy consumption is cruc ...
... We propose new tests for assessing whether covariates in a treatment group and matched control group are balanced in observational studies. The tests exhibit high power under a wide range of multivariate alternatives, some of which existing tests have little power for. The asymptotic permutation null distributions of the proposed tests are studied and the P‐values calculated through the asymptotic ...
... In this work, chitosan modified aramid fiber (MAF) and carbon fiber (MCF) were prepared by simple self-assembly of chitosan on the fibers. The interface adhesion strength between fiber and epoxy resin was greatly improved, due to the active groups on the surface of chitosan. Compared with pristine composites, MAF/EP and MCF/EP showed impressive improvements of 15.61% and 18.06% in interfacial stre ...
carbon; climate; economic structure; employment; energy; evolution; models; social welfare; China
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... With the increasing climate warming, reducing carbon emissions has gradually become a consensus around the world. However, the process of carbon emission reduction will inevitably lead to the transformation of economic structure, industrial structure and energy structure, which will bring huge changes in economic output, employment and other aspects, thus affecting the overall social welfare and e ...
... Plastic pollution has been a legacy environment problems and more recently, the plastic particles, especially those ultrafine or small plastics particles, are widely recognized with increasing environmental and ecological impacts. Among small plastics, microplastics are intensively studied, whereas the physicochemical properties, environmental abundance, chemical states, bioavailability and toxici ...
... The water quality in the sewer systems can be significantly influenced by the interaction between sediment and overlying water, which are still many doubts about the impact of pollutants transformation, degradation sequence, and reaction time. In this study, the exchanging processes between sewer sediment and four different overlying waters were evaluated in simulated urban sewer systems (dark and ...
air pollution; air quality; consumer demand; energy; humidity; industrialization; lifestyle; models; population size; public transportation; temperature; urbanization; wind speed; China
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... Reducing PM₂.₅ is an important way to ameliorate air quality. Research on driving factors of PM₂.₅ can provide empirical support for controlling cross-regional linkage air pollution. In this paper, we first propose a new spatial autoregressive threshold panel model and its estimation method, and then apply this methodology to study influencing elements of PM₂.₅ using the panel data of China during ...
aeration; biotransformation; chemical species; dissociation; ionization; mass spectrometry; municipal wastewater; perfluorohexanoic acid; perfluoropentanoic acid; quantitative analysis; research; sulfonates; sulfonic acids; water; zwitterions
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... A rapid analytical method for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) combining nano-electrospray ionization and high-resolution mass spectrometry (Nano-ESI-HRMS) was developed and applied to aqueous film-forming foams (AFFFs) and wastewater samples collected from three local wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). This method exhibited high sensitivity with lower limits of detection (LODs) of 3. ...
... Surface coating of lithium layered oxide cathode (e.g., LiNi₀.₅Co₀.₃Mn₀.₂O₂, NCM532) has become an important modified method in lithium-ion batteries for pursuing higher capacity and rate performance and safety. However, the design and synthesis of polymetallic oxide (PMO) coatings on lithium layered oxide is still a challenge. Herein, polymetallic alloys (PMA) such as NiCoMn alloys (NCM), LaZrHfM ...
... A novel strategy combining aerobic starvation and free ammonia (FA) was proposed to achieve partial nitrification (PN). The impact of the combined strategy on nitrifying bacteria was explored in a 200-day experiment. The effluent concentration of ammonia was below the detection limits (0.1 mg/L), and the effluent concentration of nitrite and nitrate was 68.12 mg/L and 3.46 mg/L without adding carb ...
bioreactors; chemistry; energy; fermentation industry; hydrodynamics; models; process design
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... The stirred bioreactor is the core equipment in the biological fermentation industry. This work studied the influence of blade structure and operating conditions on the bioreactor performance by the population balance model (PBM) coupled computational fluid dynamic (CFD) method. The results indicate that increasing the stirring rate can improve the gas hold-up in the pilot-scale reactor but falls ...
density functional theory; light; oxidation; photocatalysis; photocatalysts
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... The effects of Be/Mg/Ca doping on the physical properties of GaN have been widely investigated experimentally and theoretically. However, the effects of Be/Mg/Ca and interstitial H coexistence with different valence states of VGₐ/VN on the photocatalytic performance of GaN are rarely reported. This study examines the structure and stability of Ga₃₄MHᵢN₃₆(VGₐ³⁻/VGₐ²⁻/VGₐ¹⁻/VGₐ⁰) (M = Be/Mg/Ga) and ...
... The presence of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB) when treating low-strength ammonia wastewater was a challenge in the application of the PN/A process. The partial nitrification/ANAMMOX/partial nitrification/ANAMMOX (PN/A/PN/A) process based on multiple oxidations of ammonia was proposed to solve this problem. The influence of independent variables such as nitrite concentration was analyzed based o ...
... Subgroup K avian leukosis virus (ALV-K) is a new subgroup of avian leukosis virus (ALV) first identified in Chinese indigenous chickens in recent years. In this study, an ALV-K strain was isolated from Luhua chicken in Shandong province, China, and designated SD20LH01. The full-length genomic sequence of SD20LH01 was 7491 bp, which had the highest homology with ALV-K reference strains GDFX0601, GD ...
... Maps can help governments in infrastructure development and emergency rescue operations around the world. Using adversarial learning to generate maps from remote sensing images is an emerging field. As we now know, the urban construction styles of different cities are diverse. The current translation methods for remote sensing image-to-map tasks only work on the specific regions with similar style ...
flavor; food composition; food industry; income; odors; sensory evaluation; China
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... Baijiu is widely regarded as the national liquor of China and occupies a vital position in China’s food industry. In 2020, the total sales revenue of baijiu industry reached 583.639 billion yuan. Strong-aroma baijiu is one of the four basic aroma baijiu types, and is popular among consumers because of its pleasant flavor. Thus, the researches on the trace components in strong-aroma baijiu and thei ...
activation energy; adsorption; aluminum silicates; carbon dioxide; comparative study; desorption; energy efficiency; greenhouse effect; sorbents; surface area
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... Excessive emission of CO₂ is the main reason for the greenhouse effect. Amine-functionalized solid sorbents are promising candidates for reducing CO₂ emissions, while sorbent quality depends greatly on the support. Herein, a new type of aluminosilicate solid acid support with a high specifical surface area of 412 m²/g and an acid amount of 7.88 mmol/g was fabricated using a low-energy hydrothermal ...
... Extrinsic estradiol-17β (E2) is an environmental hormone. Female fish exposure to waterborne E2 might affect the development of craniofacial cartilage of its offspring. The present study investigates the effects of maternal E2 on larval craniofacial cartilage development by administering oral feed containing E2 (F-E2) to female zebrafish, and examines whether the swimming behavior and their stress ...
... Orientated-type flow channels of proton exchange membrane fuel cells having baffles increase the cell performance, however, the higher power loss accounted by baffles, is a non-ignorable disadvantage. Previous literature proves that the baffles in channels cause the increase in power losses, while how the baffles affect the power losses, including the frictional losses and local losses, are still ...
... Greenhouse cover pollution with green shading composed of dust, microalgae and bacteria is a severe problem in tropical areas. The shading results in lower greenhouse indoor light intensity reducing the yield and quality of protected horticulture crops. However, few studies have focused on environmentally efficient ways to remove green shading to increase greenhouse production. In this study, five ...