The spatial distribution of population and economic activities has tmportant tmpacts onboth economic growth and the environment. This paper uses a slack-based measure toestimate the total factor environmental efficien...The spatial distribution of population and economic activities has tmportant tmpacts onboth economic growth and the environment. This paper uses a slack-based measure toestimate the total factor environmental efficiency （TFEE） of 286 Chinese prefectural-and-above cities for the period 2002-2013. In particular, the relationship between citysize and TFEE is investigated. The findings also show an inverted U-shaped relationshipbetween TFEE and city size, which implies an optimal city size of 16.68 million residentsin China. According to this estimate, most Chinese cities may be undersized due to themigration restrictions of the hukou registration system and, hence, suffer from greatenvironmental efficiency losses. The estimated low average TFEE value of Chinese citiesalso suggests the large potential for efficiency improvement. Thus, government policiesshould focus on relaxing migration restrictions and encouraging the development oflarge cities.展开更多
Herein,a one-step co-pyrolysis protocol was adopted for the first time to prepare a novel pyrogenic carbon-Cu^(0)/Fe_(3)O_(4)heteroatoms (FCBC) in CO_(2)ambiance to discern the roles of each component in PDS activatio...Herein,a one-step co-pyrolysis protocol was adopted for the first time to prepare a novel pyrogenic carbon-Cu^(0)/Fe_(3)O_(4)heteroatoms (FCBC) in CO_(2)ambiance to discern the roles of each component in PDS activation.During co-pyrolysis,CO_(2)catalyzed formation of reducing gases by biomass which facilitated reductive transformation of Fe^(3+)and Cu^(2+)to Cu^(0)and Fe_(3)O_(4),respectively.According to the analysis,the resulting metal (oxide) catalyzed graphitization of biocharand decomposition of volatile substances resulting in an unprecedented surface area (1240 m^(2)/g).The resulting FCBC showed greater structural defects and less electrical impedance.Batch experiments indicated that Rhodamine B (RhB) degradation by FCBC (100%) was superior to Fe_(3)O_(4)(50%) and Cu^(0)/Fe_(3)O_(4)(76.4%) in persulfate (PDS) system,which maintained reasonable efficiency (75.6%-63.6%) within three cycles.The reactive oxygen species (ROS) associated with RhB degradation was identified by an electron paramagnetic resonance and confirmed by scavenging experiments.RhB degradation invoked both(sulfate and dominantly hydroxyl) radical and non-radical (singlet oxygen,^(1)O_(2)) pathways.Regarding FCBC,Cu^(0)can continuously react with Fe^(3+)in Fe_(3)O_(4)to generate larger quantities of Fe^(2+),and both Cu^(0)and Fe^(2+)activated PDS to yield sulfate radicals which was quickly converted to hydroxyl radical.Besides,Cu^(0)/Cu^(2+)could complex with PDS to form a metastable complex,which particularly contributed to1O_(2)generation.These cascade reactions by FCBC were reinforced by carbonyl group of biochar and favorable electron transfer ability.This work highlighted a new approach to prepare a magnetic and environment-benign heterogonous catalyst to remove organic pollutants in water.展开更多
The delimitation of urban development boundaries plays an important role in optimizing the nation land space.“Double evaluation”is one of the important means to study and predict the scale of new construction land i...The delimitation of urban development boundaries plays an important role in optimizing the nation land space.“Double evaluation”is one of the important means to study and predict the scale of new construction land in the future and to determine the spatial distribution of urban construction land.This study combines the“double evaluation”with the FLUS(Future Land-Use Simulation)model to study the delimitation of the urban development boundary of Yichang.The results show that:(1)the“double evaluation”method comprehensively considers the carrying capacity of the resource environmental bear and the suitability of urban development;(2)the FLUS model can better couple the“double evaluation”method for Land Use/Land Cover(LULC)suitability evaluation,Land Use/land Cover Change(LUCC)simulation and urban development boundary delineation,and the overall accuracy of the simulation reaches 96%;(3)according to the requirements of relevant national policies,this study divides the urban development boundary of the study area into concentrated construction areas,elastic development areas and special purpose areas.This function-based division can meet the requirements of urban flexible development,ecological protection and urban safety.This research combines the FLUS model,which is widely used in the simulation of LUCC,with the double evaluation method used in China’s new round of land and space planning to obtain the result of the urban development boundary.This result is consistent with the existing plan of the study area.展开更多
Novelty detection is to retrieve new information and filter redundancy fromgiven sentences that are relevant to a specific topic. In TREC2003, the authors tried an approach tonovelty detection with semantic distance c...Novelty detection is to retrieve new information and filter redundancy fromgiven sentences that are relevant to a specific topic. In TREC2003, the authors tried an approach tonovelty detection with semantic distance computation. The motivation is to expand a sentence byintroducing semantic information. Computation on semantic distance between sentences incorporatesWordNet with statistical information. The novelty detection is treated as a binary classificationproblem: new sentence or not. The feature vector, used in the vector space model for classification,consists of various factors, including the semantic distance from the sentence to the topic and thedistance from the sentence to the previous relevant context occurring before it. New sentences arethen detected with Winnow and support vector machine classifiers, respectively. Several experimentsare conducted to survey the relationship between different factors and performance. It is provedthat semantic computation is promising in novelty detection. The ratio of new sentence size torelevant size is further studied given different relevant document sizes. It is found that the ratioreduced with a certain speed (about 0.86). Then another group of experiments is performedsupervised with the ratio. It is demonstrated that the ratio is helpful to improve the noveltydetection performance.展开更多
Dear Editor,Plant viruses cause great economic losses to tobacco production(Dai et al.,2012).Many types of viruses have been reported to infect tobacco plants,including Tobacco mosaic virus(TMV)(Chen et al.,2014),Cucu...Dear Editor,Plant viruses cause great economic losses to tobacco production(Dai et al.,2012).Many types of viruses have been reported to infect tobacco plants,including Tobacco mosaic virus(TMV)(Chen et al.,2014),Cucumber mosaic virus(CMV)(Dai et al.,2012),Tobacco展开更多
A total of 587 individuals from 12 indigenous chicken breeds from South China and two commercial breeds were genotyped for 26 microsatellites to investigate the genetic diversity and population structure.All microsate...A total of 587 individuals from 12 indigenous chicken breeds from South China and two commercial breeds were genotyped for 26 microsatellites to investigate the genetic diversity and population structure.All microsatellites were found to be polymorphic.The number of alleles per locus ranged from 5 to 36,with an average of12.10±7.00(SE).All breeds,except White Recessive Rock,had high allelic polymorphism(>0.5).Higher genetic diversity was revealed in the indigenous chicken breeds rather than in the commercial breeds.Potential introgression from the commercial breeds into the indigenous chickens was also detected.The population structure of these indigenous chicken breeds could be explained by their geographical distribution,which suggested the presence of independent history of breed formation.Data generated in this study will provide valuable information to the conservation for indigenous chicken breeds in future.展开更多
The synthesis of antimonene, which is a promising group-V 2D material for both fundamental studies and technological applications, remains highly challenging. Thus far, it has been synthesized only by exfoliation or g...The synthesis of antimonene, which is a promising group-V 2D material for both fundamental studies and technological applications, remains highly challenging. Thus far, it has been synthesized only by exfoliation or growth on a few substrates. In this study, we show that thin layers of antimonene can be grown on Ag（111） by molecular beam epitaxy. High-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy combined with theoretical calculations revealed that the submonolayer Sb deposited on a Ag（111） surface forms a layer of AgSb2 surface alloy upon annealing. Further deposition of Sb on the AgSb2 surface alloy causes an epitaxial layer of Sb to form, which is identified as antimonene with a buckled honeycomb structure. More interestingly, the lattice constant of the epitaxial antimonene （5 /-） is much larger than that of freestanding antimonene, indicating a high tensile strain of more than 20%. This kind of large strain is expected to make the antimonene a highly promising candidate for room- temperature quantum spin Hall material.展开更多
In order to study the meat development value of princess chicken,the body size traits and slaughter performance of 12-week-old F1 hybrid offspring of princess chicken(♂) and kirin chicken(♀) were measured and the co...In order to study the meat development value of princess chicken,the body size traits and slaughter performance of 12-week-old F1 hybrid offspring of princess chicken(♂) and kirin chicken(♀) were measured and the correlations between different traits were analyzed. The results showed that body length,keel length and shank length of male F1 hybrid offspring were significantly higher than those of female chickens(P 【 0. 05). The live weight,carcass weight,semi-eviscerated weight,semi-eviscerated ratio,eviscerated weight,chest muscle weight,the leg muscle weight and heart weight of male chickens were extremely significantly higher than that of female chickens(P 【 0. 01),and the leg muscle ratio and wings weight were significantly higher than that of female chickens(P 【 0. 05),but sebum thickness of male chickens was extremely significantly lower than that of female chickens(P 【 0. 01). Other indicators failed to reach the significant difference level. There were extremely significant or significant correlations between the slaughter performance and body size in F1 hybrid offspring. The regression equations between different indicators were identified and developed. The results provided a certain theoretical reference to predict slaughter performance indicators through a living body size measurement,and revealed an improved production performance of F1 hybrid offspring.展开更多
A convergent asymmetric synthesis of (2S, 3R, 4S, 12'R)-3-hydroxy-2-hydroxymethyl- 4-(12' -methyloctadecyl)-N-(p-tolylsulfonyl)-azetidine, a key precursor of penazetidine A, has been achieved by starting from ...A convergent asymmetric synthesis of (2S, 3R, 4S, 12'R)-3-hydroxy-2-hydroxymethyl- 4-(12' -methyloctadecyl)-N-(p-tolylsulfonyl)-azetidine, a key precursor of penazetidine A, has been achieved by starting from divinylcarbinol.展开更多
The literary anthology is one of the key categories in ancient Chinese literary theory and criticism. Theoretically, anthology criticism focuses on three main areas： the preface and postscript, the annotation of the ...The literary anthology is one of the key categories in ancient Chinese literary theory and criticism. Theoretically, anthology criticism focuses on three main areas： the preface and postscript, the annotation of the anthology, and the works selected for inclusion in the anthology. Anthology criticism is unique in its methodological synergy, including the direct and indirect communication of literary judgments and the amalgamation of critical theory and practice. This paper argues that the anthology as a form of literary criticism possesses great theoretical value; it sheds light on the development of literary concepts and forms, as well as suggesting the nature of literary transmission. Therefore, the literary anthology plays a key role in the canonization of Chinese literature.展开更多
AIM: To study the effects of carbon dioxide on the metastatic capability of cancer cells, and to compare them with that of nitrogen.METHODS: The colon cancer cell CCL-228 was treated with 100 % carbon dioxide or nitro...AIM: To study the effects of carbon dioxide on the metastatic capability of cancer cells, and to compare them with that of nitrogen.METHODS: The colon cancer cell CCL-228 was treated with 100 % carbon dioxide or nitrogen at different time points and then cultured under normal condition. Twelve hours after the treatment, the survival rates of suspension cells and the expressions of e-cadherin and VEGF were examined.RESULTS: After 60 min of carbon dioxide and longer time of nitrogen treatment, the suspended cells increased and the expression of e-cadherin decreased while the expression of VEGF was enhanced significantly. And the effects of nitrogen were similar to, but weaker than, those of carbon dioxide.CONCLUSION: Carbon dioxide may improve the metastatic capability of cancer cells and its effects are significantly stronger than that of nitrogen. A sequential use of carbon dioxide and nitrogen in pneumoperitoneum may take the advantage of both gases.展开更多
For urban wastewater treatment,we conducted a novel four-stage step-feed wastewater treatment system combined with a fluidized bed laboratory experiment to investigate chemical oxygen demand（COD）,NH4＋-N,and total n...For urban wastewater treatment,we conducted a novel four-stage step-feed wastewater treatment system combined with a fluidized bed laboratory experiment to investigate chemical oxygen demand（COD）,NH4＋-N,and total nitrogen（TN） removal performance.The removal rates of COD,NH4＋-N and TN were 88.2%,95.7%,and 86.4% with e？uent concentrations of COD,NH4＋-N and TN less than 50,8,and 10 mg/L,respectively.Biomass and bacterial activities were also measured,with results showing more nitrobacteria in the activated sludge than in the biofilm;however,bacterial activity of the biofilm biomass and the activated sludge were similar.Nitrogen concentrations during the process were also detected,with simultaneous nitrification and denitrification found to be obvious.展开更多
文摘The spatial distribution of population and economic activities has tmportant tmpacts onboth economic growth and the environment. This paper uses a slack-based measure toestimate the total factor environmental efficiency （TFEE） of 286 Chinese prefectural-and-above cities for the period 2002-2013. In particular, the relationship between citysize and TFEE is investigated. The findings also show an inverted U-shaped relationshipbetween TFEE and city size, which implies an optimal city size of 16.68 million residentsin China. According to this estimate, most Chinese cities may be undersized due to themigration restrictions of the hukou registration system and, hence, suffer from greatenvironmental efficiency losses. The estimated low average TFEE value of Chinese citiesalso suggests the large potential for efficiency improvement. Thus, government policiesshould focus on relaxing migration restrictions and encouraging the development oflarge cities.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 41771349, 41977117, 41977085)Qing-Lan Project of Yangzhou University (2020)+2 种基金High-level Talent Support Plan of Yangzhou University (2019)the Key Research and Development Program of Zhejiang Province (No. 2019C02053)Foreign Expert Recruitment Program of Jiangsu Province (No. BX2020050)。
文摘Herein,a one-step co-pyrolysis protocol was adopted for the first time to prepare a novel pyrogenic carbon-Cu^(0)/Fe_(3)O_(4)heteroatoms (FCBC) in CO_(2)ambiance to discern the roles of each component in PDS activation.During co-pyrolysis,CO_(2)catalyzed formation of reducing gases by biomass which facilitated reductive transformation of Fe^(3+)and Cu^(2+)to Cu^(0)and Fe_(3)O_(4),respectively.According to the analysis,the resulting metal (oxide) catalyzed graphitization of biocharand decomposition of volatile substances resulting in an unprecedented surface area (1240 m^(2)/g).The resulting FCBC showed greater structural defects and less electrical impedance.Batch experiments indicated that Rhodamine B (RhB) degradation by FCBC (100%) was superior to Fe_(3)O_(4)(50%) and Cu^(0)/Fe_(3)O_(4)(76.4%) in persulfate (PDS) system,which maintained reasonable efficiency (75.6%-63.6%) within three cycles.The reactive oxygen species (ROS) associated with RhB degradation was identified by an electron paramagnetic resonance and confirmed by scavenging experiments.RhB degradation invoked both(sulfate and dominantly hydroxyl) radical and non-radical (singlet oxygen,^(1)O_(2)) pathways.Regarding FCBC,Cu^(0)can continuously react with Fe^(3+)in Fe_(3)O_(4)to generate larger quantities of Fe^(2+),and both Cu^(0)and Fe^(2+)activated PDS to yield sulfate radicals which was quickly converted to hydroxyl radical.Besides,Cu^(0)/Cu^(2+)could complex with PDS to form a metastable complex,which particularly contributed to1O_(2)generation.These cascade reactions by FCBC were reinforced by carbonyl group of biochar and favorable electron transfer ability.This work highlighted a new approach to prepare a magnetic and environment-benign heterogonous catalyst to remove organic pollutants in water.
基金Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province(No.2021CFB402)Key Laboratory of National Geographic Census and Monitoring,Ministry of Natural Resources(No.2020NGCMZD03)。
文摘The delimitation of urban development boundaries plays an important role in optimizing the nation land space.“Double evaluation”is one of the important means to study and predict the scale of new construction land in the future and to determine the spatial distribution of urban construction land.This study combines the“double evaluation”with the FLUS(Future Land-Use Simulation)model to study the delimitation of the urban development boundary of Yichang.The results show that:(1)the“double evaluation”method comprehensively considers the carrying capacity of the resource environmental bear and the suitability of urban development;(2)the FLUS model can better couple the“double evaluation”method for Land Use/Land Cover(LULC)suitability evaluation,Land Use/land Cover Change(LUCC)simulation and urban development boundary delineation,and the overall accuracy of the simulation reaches 96%;(3)according to the requirements of relevant national policies,this study divides the urban development boundary of the study area into concentrated construction areas,elastic development areas and special purpose areas.This function-based division can meet the requirements of urban flexible development,ecological protection and urban safety.This research combines the FLUS model,which is widely used in the simulation of LUCC,with the double evaluation method used in China’s new round of land and space planning to obtain the result of the urban development boundary.This result is consistent with the existing plan of the study area.
文摘Novelty detection is to retrieve new information and filter redundancy fromgiven sentences that are relevant to a specific topic. In TREC2003, the authors tried an approach tonovelty detection with semantic distance computation. The motivation is to expand a sentence byintroducing semantic information. Computation on semantic distance between sentences incorporatesWordNet with statistical information. The novelty detection is treated as a binary classificationproblem: new sentence or not. The feature vector, used in the vector space model for classification,consists of various factors, including the semantic distance from the sentence to the topic and thedistance from the sentence to the previous relevant context occurring before it. New sentences arethen detected with Winnow and support vector machine classifiers, respectively. Several experimentsare conducted to survey the relationship between different factors and performance. It is provedthat semantic computation is promising in novelty detection. The ratio of new sentence size torelevant size is further studied given different relevant document sizes. It is found that the ratioreduced with a certain speed (about 0.86). Then another group of experiments is performedsupervised with the ratio. It is demonstrated that the ratio is helpful to improve the noveltydetection performance.
基金supported by the 111 Project of the Education Ministry of China (No. B07049)the National High-tech R&D Program of China (No. 2012AA101504)
文摘Dear Editor,Plant viruses cause great economic losses to tobacco production(Dai et al.,2012).Many types of viruses have been reported to infect tobacco plants,including Tobacco mosaic virus(TMV)(Chen et al.,2014),Cucumber mosaic virus(CMV)(Dai et al.,2012),Tobacco
基金supported by Guangdong Natural Science Foundation(2014A030307018)Innovation and strong school project of Jiaying University(CQX019)+1 种基金Outstanding Young Teacher Training Program of Colleges and Universities in Guangdong Province(Yq2013152)Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province(2015A020208020,2016A030303068)
文摘A total of 587 individuals from 12 indigenous chicken breeds from South China and two commercial breeds were genotyped for 26 microsatellites to investigate the genetic diversity and population structure.All microsatellites were found to be polymorphic.The number of alleles per locus ranged from 5 to 36,with an average of12.10±7.00(SE).All breeds,except White Recessive Rock,had high allelic polymorphism(>0.5).Higher genetic diversity was revealed in the indigenous chicken breeds rather than in the commercial breeds.Potential introgression from the commercial breeds into the indigenous chickens was also detected.The population structure of these indigenous chicken breeds could be explained by their geographical distribution,which suggested the presence of independent history of breed formation.Data generated in this study will provide valuable information to the conservation for indigenous chicken breeds in future.
文摘The synthesis of antimonene, which is a promising group-V 2D material for both fundamental studies and technological applications, remains highly challenging. Thus far, it has been synthesized only by exfoliation or growth on a few substrates. In this study, we show that thin layers of antimonene can be grown on Ag（111） by molecular beam epitaxy. High-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy combined with theoretical calculations revealed that the submonolayer Sb deposited on a Ag（111） surface forms a layer of AgSb2 surface alloy upon annealing. Further deposition of Sb on the AgSb2 surface alloy causes an epitaxial layer of Sb to form, which is identified as antimonene with a buckled honeycomb structure. More interestingly, the lattice constant of the epitaxial antimonene （5 /-） is much larger than that of freestanding antimonene, indicating a high tensile strain of more than 20%. This kind of large strain is expected to make the antimonene a highly promising candidate for room- temperature quantum spin Hall material.
基金Supported by Fund Project for Transformation of Scientific and Technological Achievements(2012GB2E000341)Science and Technology Program of Guangdong Province(2012B020305008)
文摘In order to study the meat development value of princess chicken,the body size traits and slaughter performance of 12-week-old F1 hybrid offspring of princess chicken(♂) and kirin chicken(♀) were measured and the correlations between different traits were analyzed. The results showed that body length,keel length and shank length of male F1 hybrid offspring were significantly higher than those of female chickens(P 【 0. 05). The live weight,carcass weight,semi-eviscerated weight,semi-eviscerated ratio,eviscerated weight,chest muscle weight,the leg muscle weight and heart weight of male chickens were extremely significantly higher than that of female chickens(P 【 0. 01),and the leg muscle ratio and wings weight were significantly higher than that of female chickens(P 【 0. 05),but sebum thickness of male chickens was extremely significantly lower than that of female chickens(P 【 0. 01). Other indicators failed to reach the significant difference level. There were extremely significant or significant correlations between the slaughter performance and body size in F1 hybrid offspring. The regression equations between different indicators were identified and developed. The results provided a certain theoretical reference to predict slaughter performance indicators through a living body size measurement,and revealed an improved production performance of F1 hybrid offspring.
文摘A convergent asymmetric synthesis of (2S, 3R, 4S, 12'R)-3-hydroxy-2-hydroxymethyl- 4-(12' -methyloctadecyl)-N-(p-tolylsulfonyl)-azetidine, a key precursor of penazetidine A, has been achieved by starting from divinylcarbinol.
文摘The literary anthology is one of the key categories in ancient Chinese literary theory and criticism. Theoretically, anthology criticism focuses on three main areas： the preface and postscript, the annotation of the anthology, and the works selected for inclusion in the anthology. Anthology criticism is unique in its methodological synergy, including the direct and indirect communication of literary judgments and the amalgamation of critical theory and practice. This paper argues that the anthology as a form of literary criticism possesses great theoretical value; it sheds light on the development of literary concepts and forms, as well as suggesting the nature of literary transmission. Therefore, the literary anthology plays a key role in the canonization of Chinese literature.
基金the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province,No.2000J062
文摘AIM: To study the effects of carbon dioxide on the metastatic capability of cancer cells, and to compare them with that of nitrogen.METHODS: The colon cancer cell CCL-228 was treated with 100 % carbon dioxide or nitrogen at different time points and then cultured under normal condition. Twelve hours after the treatment, the survival rates of suspension cells and the expressions of e-cadherin and VEGF were examined.RESULTS: After 60 min of carbon dioxide and longer time of nitrogen treatment, the suspended cells increased and the expression of e-cadherin decreased while the expression of VEGF was enhanced significantly. And the effects of nitrogen were similar to, but weaker than, those of carbon dioxide.CONCLUSION: Carbon dioxide may improve the metastatic capability of cancer cells and its effects are significantly stronger than that of nitrogen. A sequential use of carbon dioxide and nitrogen in pneumoperitoneum may take the advantage of both gases.
基金supported by the National High Technology Research Development Program (863) of China(No. 2007AA06A411)the Science and Technology Research Projects of Heilongjiang Education Committee(No. 11551130)
文摘For urban wastewater treatment,we conducted a novel four-stage step-feed wastewater treatment system combined with a fluidized bed laboratory experiment to investigate chemical oxygen demand（COD）,NH4＋-N,and total nitrogen（TN） removal performance.The removal rates of COD,NH4＋-N and TN were 88.2%,95.7%,and 86.4% with e？uent concentrations of COD,NH4＋-N and TN less than 50,8,and 10 mg/L,respectively.Biomass and bacterial activities were also measured,with results showing more nitrobacteria in the activated sludge than in the biofilm;however,bacterial activity of the biofilm biomass and the activated sludge were similar.Nitrogen concentrations during the process were also detected,with simultaneous nitrification and denitrification found to be obvious.
