As an environmental institutional arrangement related to the information factor of the diversified participation of the government, enterprises, the media and the public, the environmental information disclosure pilot policy, can and how to affect the carbon emission efficiency through multiple collaborative governance? This study uses the Environmental Information Disclosure Pilot Policy implemented in China in 2007 as a quasi-natural experiment. It examines 284 prefecture-level cities from 2004 to 2021 and A-share listed companies from 2004 to 2021, constructing an evolutionary game dynamic model involving government, public, enterprises, and media. Through mathematical derivation and assignment analysis, it explores how environmental information impacts carbon emission efficiency under multifaceted collaborative governance, assessing the strategic choices and evolutionary paths of stakeholders before and after policy implementation, using methods like double machine learning for empirical testing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe ketogenic diet (KD) and regular exercise (EX) are both capable of orchestrating circadian metabolism homeostasis during losing weight. However, the combined effects of these two factors on circadian metabolism remain poorly understood. To determine if the combined treatment yields a superimposed physiological phenotype, we measured weight loss, white adipose, the respiratory exchange ratio (RER), heat production, and activity parameters in individual and combined treatment groups.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRatoon rice, the cultivation of a second crop from the stubble after the main harvest, is recognized as an eco-friendly and resource-saving method for rice production. Here, a field experiment was carried out in the Yangtze River region to investigate the impact of varying stubble heights on the grain quality of ratoon rice, as well as to compare the grain quality between the main and ratoon season. This study, which focused on 12 commonly cultivated rice varieties, conducted a comprehensive analysis assessing milling characteristics, appearance, and cooking quality.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPlants and bacteria have distinct pathways to synthesize the bioactive vitamin B1 thiamin diphosphate (TDP). In plants, thiamin monophosphate (TMP) synthesized in the TDP biosynthetic pathway is first converted to thiamin by a phosphatase, which is then pyrophosphorylated to TDP. In contrast, bacteria use a TMP kinase encoded by ThiL to phosphorylate TMP to TDP directly.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF(1) Background: Patients who are critically ill or undergo major surgery are admitted to intensive care units (ICUs). Prolonged immobilization is the most likely cause of pressure injuries (PrIs) in the ICU. Previous studies of Western populations found that effective protocols could reduce the incidence of PrIs, and the efficacy of systemic targeted intervention protocols in preventing PrIs in the Chinese population needs to be surveyed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDepression, as a global mental health problem, is lacking effective screening methods that can help with early detection and treatment. This paper aims to facilitate the large-scale screening of depression by focusing on the speech depression detection (SDD) task. Currently, direct modeling on the raw signal yields a large number of parameters, and the existing deep learning-based SDD models mainly use the fixed Mel-scale spectral features as input.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Mg-Zn-Y alloy containing the LPSO phase has excellent mechanical properties and functional application prospects. In an effort to clarify the electrically assisted deformation behavior of the Mg-Zn-Y alloy, electrically assisted tensile tests of MgZnY alloy sheets were carried out at different temperatures, current densities, duty ratios, and frequencies. The experimental results showed that, after the pulse current was applied (26.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe greatest challenge of electrostatic levitation for containerless material processing is the stable control of charged material during heating. Recently, high-precision self-adaptive control of electrostatic levitation has been achieved in China's Space Station. Based on the 1D and 3D co-simulation analysis, an optimal scheduling of control strategies of sample release and retrieval in space is developed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn the present work, the microstructure and mechanical properties of Ti-6Al-4V alloy during multidirectional isothermal forging (MDIF) were systematically investigated. The evolution of the microstructure and texture of Ti-6Al-4V alloy during MDIF was studied using TEM and electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD). The experiment results showed that the grain size decreased with the increase in cumulative strain, especially in the easy deformation zone.
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Purpose: Accurate diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) plays a key role in improving the condition and quality of life for patients. In this study, we mainly focus on ASD diagnosis with functional brain networks (FBNs). The major challenge for brain networks modeling is the high dimensional connectivity in brain networks and limited number of subjects, which hinders the classification capability of graph convolutional networks (GCNs).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Recently, functional brain networks (FBN) have been used for the classification of neurological disorders, such as Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Neurological disorder diagnosis with FBN is a challenging task due to the high heterogeneity in subjects and the noise correlations in brain networks. Meanwhile, it is challenging for the existing deep learning models to provide interpretable insights into the brain network.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGiven the large amount of food waste coming from households, reducing household food waste is essential to the mitigation of overall food waste and the provision of multi-faceted benefits for both people and the planet. This study identifies factors and management strategies for the reduction of household food waste in the Taiwanese household setting. Using snowball sampling, semi-structured interviews are conducted to collect data from 27 household food providers in Taipei.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: This study was conducted to explore the predictive value of inflammatory factors and red blood cell (RBC) immune indices in perinatal infection of women with pregnancy-induced hypertension after cesarean section.
Methods: Eighty women with pregnancy-induced hypertension and perinatal infection after cesarean section were enrolled as the study group. Another 80 pregnant women with hypertension but without perinatal infection during cesarean section were included as the control group.
is one of the most important potted plants in the ornamental market of the world. Previous reports implied that crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) orchids at their young seedling stages might perform C or weak CAM photosynthetic pathways, but the detailed molecular evidence is still lacking. In this study, we used a key species in white breeding line, subsp.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Low-level laser therapy (LLLT) is a conservative treatment for lateral epicondylitis (LE), but it is also an alternative intervention between the very different approaches of Chinese and Western medicine.
Objective: The purpose of this study was to systematically review and meta-analyze the therapeutic effects of LLLT on LE.
Methods: We searched several electronic databases, including Medline, PubMed, and CINAHL, and explored studies that were randomized controlled trials on the therapeutic effects of LLLT on LE from 1990 to February 2009.
Objective: To establish a GC-MS fingerprint profile of the volatile oil in mulberry leaves (dried leaves of Morus abla) in order to provide the referent basis of quality evaluation.
Method: The volatile oil was extracted from mulberry leaves by water stream distillation method, 10 bathes of samples collected from different regions were analyzed by GC-MS, and their GC-MS fingerprint were subsequently established. Hierarchical clustering analysis was performed by SPSS software.