The Datong yak (Bos grunniens) is the first artificial breed of yaks in the world and has played an important role in the improvement of domestic yak quality on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The Datong yak breeding farm in the Qinghai province of China...
Datong Basin is a Cenozoic fault basin located in the central part of the North China Block with strong tectonic activity. The unique geological environment of Datong Basin is believed to have good conditions for the formation of geothermal resources...
A Confucian scholar, Kang Youwei, living in the late Qing period imagined a future utopian society called datong which eliminated all social distinctions. To illustrate it, he borrowed and developed the theory of the Three Ages, which first appeared...
Livestock and poultry genetic resources form the cornerstone of elite population breeding, new breed development, and global food security. The yak (Bos mutus), endemic to the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, is indispensable for maintaining regional bio...
The IZUMO1 gene has promising benefits for the national development of novel non-hormonal contraceptives and in the treatments of fertility. Understanding the function of IZUMO1, its mRNA, and protein expression is critical to gain insight into sperm...
Intensive and large-scale underground coal mining has caused geological disasters such as local ground subsidence, cracks and collapse in the Datong coalfield, China, inducing serious threats to local residents. Interferometric synthetic aperture rad...
China’s resource-based cities have made tremendous contributions to national and local economic growth and urban development over the last seven decades. Recently, such cities have been in transition from resource-centered development towards human-o...
This paper provides new geochemical data focusing on valuable elements in the coal, parting, and floor samples in the No. 5 coal seam of the Taiyuan Formation from the Wujiawan mine, Datong coalfield, northern China. The minerals mainly consist of ka...
Fifteen samples of No. 4 coal from the Yongdingzhuang Mine in Datong Coalfield were tested for their elemental compositions, modes of occurrence, and mineralogical compositions, using X-ray powder diffraction, X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, inducti...
With global warming and increasingly frequent human activities in permafrost regions, it is of great significance to accurately and scientifically evaluate the probability and scope of thermal hazards in permafrost regions. Based on remote sensing im...
There is limited information available on the minerals and elements present in the Jurassic coals from Datong Coalfield. This paper investigates the geochemical and mineralogical characteristics of the Middle Jurassic coals from the Tongjialiang Mine...
Land degradation is one of the significant ecological and environmental issues threatening regional sustainable development. Datong Coalfield is located in an arid and semi-arid ecologically fragile area and is also an important energy base, the mini...
Heavy metal pollution of lake sediments is one of the prominent ecological and environmental problems worldwide, and it is of great significance to conduct research on heavy metal pollution in lake sediments to protect the ecological environment, saf...
19 January 2023
The exposure of inhabitants to high fluoride and saline groundwater is the main health issue in Datong Basin, Northern China. This study aims to elucidate the spatial distribution and the mechanisms of high fluoride and salinity occurrence in the sha...
Copy number variation (CNV) is a significant marker of the genetic and phenotypic diversity among individuals that accounts for complex quantitative traits of phenotype and diseases via modulating gene dosage and disrupting coding regions in the geno...
Histological examination of testes is essential for understanding infertility, sex development, and growth. Therefore, to understand the histomorphology of testes at different developmental stages, we performed hematoxylin and eosin staining of Yak t...
Hemerocallis citrina Borani (H. citrina) has garnered significant attention due to its abundant nutritional quality. Datong, located in Shanxi Province, is recognized as one of the four major production regions for high-quality H. citrina. While Dato...
In the Chinese-speaking academic community, the topic of Confucian cosmopolitanism is intricately linked to the concepts of “Tianxia” and “Datong”, carrying significant political implications. This context arises from the tens...
Qinghai is rich in mineral resources, but frequent and large-scale mineral mining has caused secondary damage to the fragile primary surface and produced a large number of landslide disasters. In complex geological environments such as glacier ablati...
Many studies have shown that macrophytes play a significant role in controlling eutrophication; however, only a few of these are based on macrophyte biomass. Based on the growth characteristic of macrophytes, we propose an approach for the assessment...
The rise in shallow groundwater levels is typically triggered by precipitation recharge, exhibiting a certain lag relative to precipitation changes. Therefore, identifying the response mechanism of shallow groundwater levels to precipitation is cruci...
In order to ascertain the kaolinite crystallinity of Carboniferous Permian coal-measure kaolinite rocks, seven groups of fresh samples were collected from below the ground in the Xiaoyu mine, Datong coalfield. Microscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), dif...
Shallow lakes are highly sensitive to hydrological changes and human activities; however, the effect of hydrological extremes on water quality dynamics remains unclear. In this study, we investigated hydroclimatic and water quality changes in Datong...
In recent years, the water–sand composition of the Yangtze River channel has changed due to the influence of human factors, especially the construction of water reservoirs such as the Three Gorges Project. Changing water–sand conditions h...
Growing ozone (O3) pollution in industrial cities urgently requires in-depth mechanistic research. This study utilized multi-year observational data from Datong City, China, from 2020 to 2024, integrating time trend diagnostics, correlation dynamics...
A suite of coal samples near a diabase dike were collected to investigate the petrographic, mineralogical, and geochemical characteristics of thermally altered coal in Datong Coalfield, China. Proximate analysis, vitrinite reflectance measurement, an...
Heritage tourism-led urban renewal and regeneration has recently become a critical way of creating a city brand, designing tourism destinations, and attracting property developers and investors to cities. However, current practice points to a lack of...
Understanding hydrochemical evolution and apportioning pollution sources are prerequisites for effective groundwater protection at the regional scale; nevertheless, the governing processes and anthropogenic drivers in arid regions remain poorly const...
Human beings have had beautiful dreams for a harmonious world since centuries ago; this can be termed cosmopolitanism, shijie datong, or global community. Based on theories expounded by Confucius, Tönnies, Anderson, Bauman, Derrida, and Appiah,...
In seeking an appropriate approach to the ideal society in Chinese thought, the present study comprises two main parts. The first part deals with a debate in Chinese philosophy concerning the possibility of an inner or immanent transcendence as a way...
Longwall chock support failures seriously restrain the safety and high-efficiency of mining of extra thick coal seams, as well as causing a great waste of coal resources. During longwall top-coal caving (LTCC), the influential effect of the propertie...
7 February 2023
Active fault detection has an important significance for seismic disaster prevention and mitigation in urban areas. The high-density station arrays have the potential to provide a microtremor survey solution for shallow seismic investigations. Howeve...
As an important economic aquatic product in China, the farming method of Eriocheir sinensis significantly impacts its quality and physiological metabolism. In this study, the effects of lake (LK) farm and pond (PD) farm on the gene expression profile...
Sustainable development has become a global consensus, and cities are important spatial carriers to achieve sustainable development. There are more than 200 resource-based cities in China. These cities have a single industrial and energy structure. W...
Wavelet transformation has been widely used in geophysical and geochemical exploration, and the fractal feature of wavelet coefficients has recently stood out from many wavelet threshold methods. We introduced the wavelet–fractal method to anal...
This work aimed to address the severe deformation and uncontrollable instability of surrounding rocks in gob-side roadways of ultra-thick coal seams under intense mining disturbances. Theoretical analysis, numerical simulation, and field practice wer...
Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a pancreatic inflammatory disease that varies greatly in course and severity. To further the understanding of the pathology of AP, we carried out data-independent acquisition-based proteomic analyses using proteins extracte...
The unsuitably designed powertrain mount may cause jittering and shrugging during the starting and shifting processes of the vehicle, which seriously affects the comfort of using the vehicle. However, the influence of mounts on vehicles has been negl...
Compared with polymers and nanoparticles, fatty alcohols can not only increase the stability of foam, but also maintain better foamability at pH < 2, which is beneficial to reduce waste liquid and increase decontamination efficiency for radioactiv...
Nitrated aromatic compounds (NACs) are critical toxic components of PM2.5, and accurately identifying their sources is vital for effective urban air quality improvement. However, the lack of real-world emission data for construction machinery has int...
Rotating machinery plays an important role in various kinds of industrial engineering. How to assess their conditions is a key problem for operating safety and condition-based maintenance. The potential anomaly, fault and failure information can be o...
This research mainly focuses on the successful fabrication of nano-hydroxyapatite (nHA) reinforced WE43 alloy by two-pass friction stir processing (FSP). Microstructure evolution, mechanical properties, and in vitro corrosion behavior of FSPed WE43/n...
In this work, a novel 7-hydroxybenzoxazinone-based fluorescent probe (PBD) for the selective sensing of biothiols is reported. Upon treatment with biothiols, PBD shows a strong fluorescence enhancement (up to 70-fold) and a large Stokes shift (155 nm...
Late embryogenesis-abundant (LEA) genes play important roles in plant growth and development, especially the cellular dehydration tolerance during seed maturation. In order to comprehensively understand the roles of LEA family members in wheat, we ca...
Friction stir processing (FSP) has been considered as a novel technique to refine the grain size and homogenize the microstructure of metallic materials. In this study, two-pass FSP was conducted under water to enhance the cooling rate during process...
In a complex system, condition monitoring (CM) can collect the system working status. The condition is mainly sensed by the pre-deployed sensors in/on the system. Most existing works study how to utilize the condition information to predict the upcom...
This paper investigates the performance changes of nickel–metal hydride (Ni-MH) battery modules for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) using different storage and maintenance methods. The effects of charge–discharge mode, maintenance period,...
Neural networks are widely used in the learning of offline global optimization rules to reduce the fuel consumption and real-time performance of hybrid electric vehicles. Considering that the torque and transmission ratio are direct control variables...
The stretch formability behavior of an AZ61 magnesium alloy plate produced by multi-pass friction stir processing (M-FSP) was investigated, with the applied load vs. displacement curves recorded during Erichsen cupping tests at different punching spe...
Time-domain spectroscopy (TDS) in the terahertz (THz) frequency range is gaining in importance in nondestructive testing of dielectric materials. One application is the layer thickness measurement of a coating layer. To determine the thickness from t...
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