Haze is the greatest challenge facing China’s sustainable development, and it seriously affects China’s economy, society, ecology and human health. Based on the uncertainty and suddenness of haze, this paper proposes a novel linear time-v...
Green technology innovation (GTI) is pivotal for driving energy transition and low-carbon development in manufacturing. This study evaluates the spatiotemporal efficiency and predicts trends of GTI in China’s Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB,...
Grey theory is applied to forecasting, decision-making, and control as this theory is appropriate for predictive analysis. Incomplete information is a primary characteristic of the grey system, necessitating the supplementation of information to tran...
This paper presents GM (1, N) models with linear cross effect and nonlinear cross effect, and discusses the difference of driving factors between these two types of models to solve the cross effects of GM (1, N) model. The model with a linear cross e...
Forecasting China’s clean energy consumption has great significance for China in making sustainably economic development strategies. Because the main factors affecting China’s clean energy consumption are economic scale and population siz...
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The relationship between pollutant discharge and economic growth has been a major research focus in environmental economics. To accurately estimate the nonlinear change law of China’s pollutant discharge with economic growth, this study establishes a...
Based on GM (0,N) grey model and grey structure model in grey system theory, this study takes Chinese restaurant in tourist hotel as a case to analyze service role behavior. A total of 241 questionnaires were collected to calculate index weighted coe...
Analysis of power converter performance has tended to be engineering-oriented, focusing mainly on voltage stability, output power and efficiency improvement. However, there has been little discussion about the weight relations between these factors....
(1) Background: In the current competitive market environment, accurately forecasting user needs is crucial for business success. By analyzing user-generated content (UGC) on social network platforms, enterprises can mine potential user needs and dis...
A novel hydrocyclone including a cylindrical screen embedded in a conventional hydrocyclone (CH), named three products hydrocyclone screen (TPHS), has been successfully designed. In TPHS, the combination of centrifugal classification and screening wa...
In this study, activator, metakaolin, and silica fume were used as a compound activator to improve the activity of steel slag powder. The influence of activator, steel slag powder, metakaolin, and silica fume on the resulting strength of steel slag c...
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The winter planting of green manure (GM) is widely used in South China to reduce chemical nitrogen (N) fertilizer use, improve soil fertility, and maintain rice yields, but its effect on N runoff loss in paddy fields remains unclear. This study combi...
In this paper, an improved grey model and scenario analysis, GA-GM(1,N) is proposed to forecast the carbon intensity in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region, one of the most developed regions in China. Moreover, to show the advantage and feasibility of...
Leaf photosynthesis is highly correlated with CO2-diffusion capacities, which are determined by both leaf anatomical traits and environmental stimuli. In the present study, leaf photosynthetic rate (A), stomatal conductance (gs), mesophyll conductanc...
Guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba) is an annual legume tolerant to drought. Guar meal (GM) is a protein- and carbohydrate-rich co-product generated after the mechanical separation of the endosperm from the germ and hull of guar seed. GM has received cons...
The GM(1,N) model, as a classical multivariate grey prediction model, can make a holistic and dynamic analysis of multiple factors and reflect the dynamic change relationship between the variable series and the related factor series. However, numerou...
Gangliosides are essential for membrane functions, cell recognition, and maintenance of the nervous system. GM2 gangliosidosis is a group of rare genetic lysosomal storage diseases that includes Tay-Sachs disease (TSD), Sandhoff disease (SD), and AB...
This paper presents a new small-signal model for double-channel (DC)–high-electron-mobility transistors, developed through an analysis of the unique coupling effects between channels in devices. Unlike conventional single-channel HEMTs, where e...
In order to study the effect of green manure return for stabilized spring maize (Zea mays L.) grain yield (GY) we reduced nitrogen fertilizer input by regulation and examined effects on soil nutrients, enzyme activity, and fungal communities. This tw...
Multidrug and toxic compound extrusion (MATE) transporters in eukaryotes have been characterized to be antiporters that mediate the transport of substrates in exchange for protons. In plants, alkaloids, phytohormones, ion chelators, and flavonoids ha...
The gangliosidoses GM2 are a group of pathologies mainly affecting the central nervous system due to the impaired GM2 ganglioside degradation inside the lysosome. Under physiological conditions, GM2 ganglioside is catabolized by the β-hexosamini...
For time series forecasting, multivariate grey models are excellent at handling incomplete or vague information. The GM(1, N) model represents this group of models and has been widely used in various fields. However, constructing a meaningful GM(1, N...
A long-term field experiment was carried out (since 2008) for evaluating the effects of different substitution rates of inorganic nitrogen (N) fertilizer by green manure (GM) on yield stability and N balance under double rice cropping system. Treatme...
Background: Tay–Sachs disease (TSD) is an autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorder characterized by the accumulation of GM2 ganglioside due to mutations in the HEXA gene, which encodes the α-subunit of β-Hexosaminidase A. This...
For the power systems, for which few data are available for mid-term electricity market clearing price (MCP) forecasting at the early stage of market reform, a novel grey prediction model (defined as interval GM(0, N) model) is proposed in this paper...
Plant nitrogen (N) information has widely been estimated through empirical techniques using hyperspectral data. However, the physical model inversion approach on N spectral response has seldom developed and remains a challenge. In this study, an N-PR...
Emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from the building industry in China are increasing. Predicting future trends in China’s building industry VOCs will help the implementation of China’s construction VOCs emission reduction pol...
Juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (JNCL) is caused by mutations in the CLN3 gene. Most JNCL patients exhibit a 1.02 kb genomic deletion removing exons 7 and 8 of this gene, which results in a truncated CLN3 protein carrying an aberrant C-termin...
This study focuses on the phenol biodegradation kinetics by Stenotrophomonas maltophilia KB2 in a nickel-contaminated medium. Initial tests proved that a nickel concentration of 33.3 mg·L−1 caused a cessation of bacterial growth. The experiments were...
To improve productivity, reduce production costs, and minimize the environmental impacts of agriculture, the advancement of nitrogen (N) fertilizer management methods is needed. The objective of this study is to compare the use of Unmanned Aerial Veh...
This study explores the causal relationship between Internet users’ ideologies and their corresponding attitudes to genetically modified (GM) food safety. Using the 2015 Chinese Internet User Survey data (N = 3780) as a representative sample of...
This study introduces the BIM (building information modeling)-GIS (geographic information system) conceptual mapping (B2GM) standard ISO N19166 and proposes a mapping mechanism. In addition, the major issues concerning BIM-GIS integration, and the co...
Circadian rhythm disruption is increasingly considered an environmental risk factor for the development and exacerbation of inflammatory bowel disease. We have reported in a previous study that nychthemeral dysregulation is associated with an increas...
Porous carbon derived from grape marc (GM) was synthesized via carbonization and chemical activation processes. Extrinsic nitrogen (N)-dopant in GM, activated by KOH, could render its potential use in supercapacitors effective. The effects of chemica...
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a progressively prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder with substantial clinical heterogeneity. Despite the considerable interest in dietary interventions, no consensus has been reached regarding the optimal nutrition...
The optimization of crop nitrogen fertilization to accurately predict and match the nitrogen (N) supply to the crop N demand is the subject of intense research due to the environmental and economic impact of N fertilization. Excess N could seep into...
Management of nitrogen (N) fertilizers is an important agricultural practice and field of research to minimize environmental impacts and the cost of production. To apply N fertilizer at the right rate, time, and place depends on the crop type, desire...
Generally, windows in greenhouses are automatically opened and closed to regulate the internal temperature. However, because the air outside during the winter in Japan is dry, opening windows to reduce the temperature causes the humidity deficit to i...
Since the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative, China’s total amount of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) has increased each year and this has caused its relationship with carbon emissions (CO2e) to receive great attention rece...
The present work investigated the interaction between soy lecithin (SL), glyceryl monostearate (GMS), and water in structuring palm olein (PO) to create an organogel having similar mechanical properties to commercial spread. Extreme vertices mixture...
Accurate oil debris analysis and wear monitoring of a gearbox are essential to ensure its stable and reliable operation. Element types of wear debris and their changes in the lubrication oil of the gearbox can be monitored by spectral analysis. Howev...
Organic manure and grass mulching are widely recognized as modifiers of soil microbial communities and nutrient dynamics; however, the combined effects of these practices on nitrogen fractionation and microbial functionality in orchard ecosystems rem...
Biomarkers currently available for the diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutic monitoring of GM1 gangliosidosis type 2 (GM1T2) disease are mainly limited to those discovered in targeted proteomic-based studies. In order to identify and establish new, p...
A novel time delay Lotka–Volterra (TDLV) model was developed by extending the concept of time delay from integer order to fractional order. The TDLV model was constructed to simulate the dynamics of aboveground biomass per individual of three d...
Hydrogels are widely studied for chemical sensors. However, they are known to adsorb organic compound and metal ions. The adsorption abilities of hydrogels against organic compounds and metal ions will negatively affect the performance of a hydrogel...
The main distresses of asphalt pavements in seasonally frozen regions are due to the effects of water action, freeze-thaw cycles, and so on. Basalt fiber, as an eco-friendly mineral fiber with high mechanical performance, has been adopted to reinforc...
The optimal cut-off value of the optical density index of the galactomannan antigen assays (GM) for diagnosing invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in hematological patients is a disputed topic. This article conducts a systematic review with a meta-analy...
The prediction of cyber security situation plays an important role in early warning against cyber security attacks. The first-order accumulative grey model has achieved remarkable results in many prediction scenarios. Since recent events have a great...
Objectives: The current study focused on the kidney protection and antioxidant properties along with the potential anti-ferroptotic activity of Geranium macrorrhizum L. (G. macrorrhizum) oil to ameliorate the acute renal oxidative tissue damage and t...
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