The pathway to the natural gas industry: Financial development, coal consumption, and carbon dioxide emissions in P.R. China.

This paper revisits the causal links between financial development, coal consumption, and CO emissions in P.R. China over the 1977-2017 period to validate the development of its natural gas industry.

DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND TEST OF GAMMA IONIZATION CHAMBERS.

Ionization chamber is considered as the golden standard for the dosemeter. This work fabricated one graphite-walled and two polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA)-walled ionization chambers, tested respectively and compared their characteristic parameters. The performance of graphite-walled chamber was similar to that of the PMMA-walled chamber.

Revisit causal nexus between financial development and environmental quality in China: a structural shift panel data analysis.

Climate change is a challenge for all of humanity. Should financial be environmentally responsible? This paper uses the Toda-Yamamoto test and the extended Fourier Toda-Yamamoto test re-examine the relationship between financial development and environmental quality in 31 provinces and municipalities in China during the period 2000-2018. We find that financial development in certain regions has effectively reduced the concentration of PM2.

Prediction of the Interface Shear Strength between Ultra-High-Performance Concrete and Normal Concrete Using Artificial Neural Networks.

The bond strength between ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) and normal-strength concrete (NC) plays an important role in governing the composite specimens' overall behaviors. Unfortunately, there are still no widely accepted formulas targeting UHPC-NC interfacial strength, either in their specifications or in research papers. To this end, this study constructs an experimental database, consisting of 563 and 338 specimens for splitting and slant shear tests, respectively.

CRIP1 expression in monocytes related to hypertension.

Hypertension is a complex and multifactorial disorder caused by lifestyle and environmental factors, inflammation and disease-related genetic factors and is a risk factor for stroke, ischemic heart disease and renal failure. Although circulating monocytes and tissue macrophages contribute to the pathogenesis of hypertension, the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. Cysteine rich protein 1 (CRIP1) is highly expressed in immune cells, and CRIP1 mRNA expression in monocytes associates with blood pressure (BP) and is up-regulated by proinflammatory modulation suggesting a link between CRIP1 and BP regulation through the immune system.