Landscape, Human Disturbance, and Climate Factors Drive the Species Richness of Alien Invasive Plants on Subtropical Islands.

Invasive alien plants (IAPs) pose a significant threat to island biodiversity and severely impact ecosystems. Understanding the species-area relationship and environmental determinants of growth forms for IAP species on subtropical islands is crucial for establishing an IAP's early warning mechanism, enhancing island ecological management, and protecting the ecosystems of Fujian and other subtropical islands. The study identified significant species-area relationships for IAPs and different life-form plants (trees, shrubs, and herbs), with slopes of 0.

Fluorinated Fullerenes as Electrolyte Additives for High Ionic Conductivity Lithium-Ion Batteries.

Currently, lithium-ion batteries have an increasingly urgent need for high-performance electrolytes, and additives are highly valued for their convenience and cost-effectiveness features. In this work, the feasibilities of fullerenes and fluorinated fullerenes as typical bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide/1,2-dimethoxymethane (LiFSI/DME) electrolyte additives are rationally evaluated based on density functional theory calculations and molecular dynamic simulations. Interestingly, electronic structures of C, CF, CF, CF, 1-CF, and 2-CF are found to be compatible with the properties required as additives.

Enhanced Electrochemical Performance of a Ti-Cr-Doped LiMnNiO Cathode Material for Lithium-Ion Batteries.

Ti, Cr dual-element-doped LiMnNiO (LNMO) cathode materials (LTNMCO) were synthesized by a simple high-temperature solid-phase method. The obtained LTNMCO shows the standard structure of the 3 space group, and the Ti and Cr doped ions may replace the Ni and Mn sites in LNMO, respectively. The effect of Ti-Cr doping and single-element doping on the structure of LNMO was studied by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) characteristics.

Boredom Proneness and Online Deviant Behaviors: The Mediating Role of Rumination and the Moderating Role of Gender.

Online deviant behaviors have received increasing attention. This study examined the association between boredom proneness and online deviant behaviors as well as the mediating role of rumination and the moderating role of gender in the relationship. A sample of 1001 college students (Mage = 20.

Computational mining of endohedral C electrides: tri-metal alkali and alkaline-earth encapsulation.

C is the second most abundant fullerene next to C. In this work, the exploration of C based electrides is proposed by theoretical encapsulation of group I/II trimetallic clusters into the C cage. Herein, we provide computational evidence that endohedral metallofullerenes M@C (M = Li, Na, K, Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba) can exist stably by calculating encapsulation energies and analyzing atom centered density matrix propagation molecular dynamics simulations.

How do MNEs shape their international strategic alliances to facilitate higher alliance performance? Absorptive capacity as an antecedent.

The international strategic alliance in international marketing is international social network to realize superior performance. This requires firms to increasingly consolidate international relationship with foreign partners. Knowledge acquisition and integration by absorptive capacity (AC) as an antecedent for international strategic alliance is understudied.

Psychological Contract, Self-Efficacy, Job Stress, and Turnover Intention: A View of Job Demand-Control-Support Model.

The outbreak of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused enterprises to face more challenges, such as operational management, production and sales management, and human resource management, among other issues. In the context of the global knowledge economy, employees with high knowledge and skills have become an important source of corporate growth and breakthroughs. However, employees may intend to transfer to other companies due to the pressure of the external and internal environments, so the main topic explored by this paper will be the change of employees' turnover intention.

How Do Determiners of Job Performance Matter During COVID-19? The Conservation of Resource Theory.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, business managers are facing many challenges from a severe challenge. Many organizations have changed their original management mode and organizational behavior to improve employees' organizational citizenship behavior, thus reducing their sense of anxiety and incapability. Thereinto, job performance of the employees also affects the growth and development of the organization.

Chemical Vapor Deposition of N-Doped Graphene through Pre-Implantation of Nitrogen Ions for Long-Term Protection of Copper.

Nitrogen-doped graphene (NG) was synthesized through the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of graphene on Cu substrates, which were pre-implanted with N ions by the ion implantation method. The pre-implanted N ions in the Cu substrate could dope graphene by the substitution of C atoms during the CVD growth of graphene, forming NG. Based on this, NG's long-term protection properties for Cu were evaluated by ambient exposure for a corrosion test.

Structural, Electronic, and Nonlinear Optical Properties of CH and CCl Encapsulating Li and F Atoms.

Recently, nonclassical fullerene derivatives CH and CCl, which both contain two negatively curved moieties of heptagons, have been successfully synthesized. Inspired by these experimental achievements, the structural and electronic properties of CH, CCl, Li@CH, F@CH, Li@CCl, and F@CCl were systematical studied through density functional theory calculations in this work. Our results show that the reduction of the front molecular orbital gap of fullerene derivatives occurs with the introduction of Li and F atoms.

The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Roxb. (Malpighiales; Salicaceae) from Fujian, China.

Roxb. is classified in Salicaceae and has a high economic value. Herein, we report the complete chloroplast (cp) genome of .

The complete chloroplast genome of Metcalf (Lamiaceae) from Fujian Province, China: genome structure and phylogenetic analysis.

Metcalf is a drought resistance shrub with ornamental potential. In this study, Illumina sequencing data were used to assemble the complete chloroplast genome of . The length of the circular genome is 154,144 bp.

Detection of rice plant diseases based on deep transfer learning.

Background: As the primary food for nearly half of the world's population, rice is cultivated almost all over the world, especially in Asian countries. However, the farmers and planting experts have been facing many persistent agricultural challenges for centuries, such as different diseases of rice. The severe rice diseases may lead to no harvest of grains; therefore, a fast, automatic, less expensive and accurate method to detect rice diseases is highly desired in the field of agricultural information.