The impact of the river chief system on transboundary water pollution.

The River Chief System (RCS) in China plays a crucial role in addressing transboundary water pollution (TWP), which is vital for achieving the Sustainable Development Goal of "clean water." This study examines the static and dynamic effects of the RCS on TWP using a difference-in-difference-in-differences (DDD) model and manually collected RCS data from 104 counties between 2007 and 2020. The results show that the RCS significantly reduces chemical oxygen demand (COD) by 15.

Secure control for remote networked stochastic systems via integral sliding mode.

This paper deals with the secure control problem for a class of networked stochastic systems with false data injection attacks via an integral sliding mode control technique. The networked control system is with a hierarchical structure, and the main controller and a remote controller are considered to realize the secure control against false data injection attacks on the network between a main controller and the plant. A mode-shared event-triggering controller is designed as the main controller, by utilizing a time delay approach.

Microplastics affect C, N, and P cycling in natural environments: Highlighting the driver of soil hydraulic properties.

As microplastics (MPs) are organic polymers with a carbon-based framework, they may affect nutrient cycling. Information regarding how MPs influence N, P, and C cycling and the underlying driving force remains lacking. N, P, and C cycling induced by soil hydraulic properties under MPs exposure (including polyethylene (PE), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polystyrene (PS), polypropylene (PP)) in the natural environment were investigated in this study.

A Variant of Gene Decreases the Risk of Gastric Cancer in Chinese Individuals: Evidence from a Case-Control Study.

Background: A host of studies have explored the potential connection between () G19A polymorphism and the risk of cancers, but the relationship between gastric cancer (GC) susceptibility and G19A polymorphism was not revealed before. The aim of this study was to investigate this relationship in Chinese Han population.

Methods: Thus, this case-control study with 380 GC cases and 465 controls was designed to unearth the link between G19A polymorphism and GC susceptibility.

Dissipativity-Based Sliding-Mode Control of Cyber-Physical Systems Under Denial-of-Service Attacks.

In this article, we investigate the problem of the dissipativity-based resilient sliding-mode control design of cyber-physical systems with the occurrence of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. First, we analyze the physical layer operating without DoS attacks to ensure the input-to-state practical stability (ISpS). The upper bound of the sample-data rate in this situation can be identified synchronously.