Since existing studies primarily explore green development measures from the static perspective of a single airport stakeholder, this paper constructs an evolutionary game model to analyze the strategic choices of three key stakeholders: airport auth...
Experimentalist forms of governance have burgeoned across policy areas and institutional contexts in recent years. Recognizing that experimentalist forms of governance can evolve along a plethora of distinct pathways, this paper inquires how the evol...
Farmers’ low-carbon transition has become a critical issue for achieving sustainable agricultural development. Fundamentally, this transition is driven by multi-actor collaboration and is subject to stochastic disturbances. However, the collabo...
The carbon quota trading mechanism is considered one of the most effective incentives for carbon reduction to address global climate change. Currently, the EU has adopted this mechanism to intervene in the zero-carbon transition of shipping companies...
Industrial legacy cities are trapped in carbon lock-in—a self-reinforcing condition where fossil-fuel infrastructure, industrial structures, and institutional inertia collectively resist urban energy transition. Yet whether and how industrial u...
The actual situation of carbon-emission reduction in China’s power sector has not yet achieved the expected benefits. The rent-seeking behavior of participants in power construction projects (PCPs) hinders the realization of low-carbon benefits...
This paper delves into the evolutionary dynamics of dynamic games among governments, traditional automotive enterprises, and scientific research institutions during the new energy transition process by establishing a stochastic evolutionary game mode...
Improving regional economic resilience is a point addressed in the sustainable development goals (SDGs; i.e., SDG 8 and SDG 11). The Yangtze River Delta (YRD) has demonstrated excellent economic resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic, largely due to...
This integrative review examines the persistent analytical divide in economics by advancing the macro–meso–micro framework as a comprehensive approach for understanding complex socioeconomic ecosystems and sustainability transitions. Draw...
Most of the urban rail transit enterprises in China have high construction and operation costs, while the government imposes price control on their fares, making their revenues unable to cover their costs and thus causing certain losses. In order to...
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic offers an opportunity for dealing with persistent problems, through a transformative recovery process. It is a crisis that offers opportunities for dealing with three interrelated crises: the ecologica...
The evolution of complex multicellularity in land plants represents a pivotal event in the history of life on Earth, characterized by significant increases in biological complexity. This transition, classified as a Major Evolutionary Transition (MET)...
Among the most intriguing mysteries in the evolutionary biology of photosynthetic organisms are the genesis and consequences of the dramatic increase in the mitochondrial and nuclear genome sizes, together with the concomitant evolution of the three...
The major transitions in evolution include events and processes that result in the emergence of new levels of biological individuality. For collectives to undergo Darwinian evolution, their traits must be heritable, but the emergence of higher-level...
Achieving the “Dual Carbon” goals requires accelerating the near-zero energy transition of office buildings. Existing research focuses on isolated economic or technical dimensions, neglecting the dynamic evolution of tripartite collaborat...
Assessment of landscape attractiveness often struggles with the challenge of differences in human tastes. In the present study, the relationship between preferences shaped by the biological and cultural evolution of mankind and the qualities of lands...
The latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) is a fundamental pattern in ecology, yet its understanding in marine systems remains largely constrained by the ‘tyranny’ of the shallow shelf, often ignoring the bathymetric dimension of the conti...
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To avoid the energy supply risk caused by the large-scale integration of renewable power with the grid, coal power plants with carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) have the potential to play an important role in the transition to a low-carbo...
(1) Unravelling the molecular basis underlying major evolutionary transitions can shed light on how complex phenotypes arise. The evolution of eusociality, a major evolutionary transition, has been demonstrated to be accompanied by enhanced gene regu...
For achieving carbon neutralization and promoting the coordinated development of solar and coal-fired power generations in the context of energy transition, this paper develops a public–private partnership project including the government, carb...
In order to reveal the characteristics of the competition and cooperation of multi-modal public transportation in the cities of cold areas and to study the competitive relationship of multi-modal public transportation in cold areas, the urban public...
In the context of Kolmogorov complexity, the complexity of an object can be characterized by the length of the shortest algorithm required to describe or compute it. In condensed matter systems under equilibrium and nonequilibrium conditions, macrosc...
As a purposive sustainability transition requires environmental innovation and innovation policy, we discuss potentials and limitations of three dominant strands of literature in this field, namely the multi-level perspective on socio-technical trans...
Multiple pathways and outcomes are common in evolutionary sequences for biological and other environmental systems due to nonlinear complexity, historical contingency, and disturbances. From any starting point, multiple evolutionary pathways are poss...
The past quarter-century may justly be referred to as a period analogous to the “Cambrian explosion” in the history of proteins. This period is marked by the appearance of the intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) on the scene since th...
Linear induction motors (LIMs) have been widely used in rail transit. However, Due to the breaking of the primary core and the large air gap, the efficiency and power factor of LIMs are seriously damaged, causing a large amount of energy waste. To im...
The effect of entropy at low noises is investigated in five-strategy logit-rule-driven spatial evolutionary potential games exhibiting two-fold or three-fold degenerate ground states. The non-zero elements of the payoff matrix define two subsystems w...
In the search for life beyond Earth, distinguishing the living from the non-living is paramount. However, this distinction is often elusive, as the origin of life is likely a stepwise evolutionary process, not a singular event. Regardless of the favo...
Global, industrialization-driven environmental bottlenecks push manufacturing enterprises toward green transitions; yet, the information asymmetry between central and local governments, and between enterprises and banks, hinders this process. Adoptin...
Today, the digital economy has pursued the required social and economic development, and enterprises can achieve green transition and long-term sustainability by relying on the digital platform ecosystem. However, the development of the digital econo...
With the increasing global concern for environmental protection and sustainable development, the low-carbon transformation of the manufacturing industries has become a top priority. The rapid development of green digital technology (GDT) provides new...
Decarbonizing supply chains is a complex systemic challenge where institutional constraints such as carbon policies intersect with behavioral responses including social dynamics within intricate network structures. Existing studies often examine thes...
Iron plays an essential role in all organisms and is involved in the structure of many biomolecules. It also regulates the Fenton reaction where highly reactive hydroxyl radicals occur. Iron is also important for microbial biodiversity, health and nu...
Cold-chain supply systems depend on a sequence of linked production and logistics decisions. In prepared-food cold chains, quality may deteriorate not because one visible failure occurs, but because testing, traceability records, temperature monitori...
In contemporary online social environments, the dynamics of the attention economy drive moral outrage and payoff-seeking diffusion, resulting in sudden collective ostracism and cancel culture. Extending recent adaptive network models of incomplete in...
Bayesian model updating has received considerable attention and has been extensively used in structural damage detection. It provides a rigorous statistical framework for realizing structural system identification and characterizing uncertainties ass...
The anterior-posterior (AP) axis in chordates is regulated by a conserved set of genes and signaling pathways, including Hox genes and retinoic acid (RA), which play well-characterized roles in the organization of the chordate body plan. The intermed...
The genomic basis underlying the remarkable ecological flexibility of endophytic fungi (EF), particularly their potential to transition between symbiotic, saprophytic, and pathogenic lifestyles, remains poorly understood. Through comparative genomics...
Saltwater intrusion is one of the most significant groundwater challenges in the southern Laizhou Bay. Previous studies have predominantly focused on regional scales, leaving the vertical saltwater intrusion pattern relatively underexplored. This kno...
Under the constraints of China’s “Dual Carbon” targets, promoting green consumption has emerged as a critical market-based strategy to drive industrial decarbonization and achieve sustainable development. However, the existing liter...
Lower-grade gliomas (LGGs) often follow a relatively protracted clinical course; however, a substantial proportion eventually undergo malignant transformation to high-grade, treatment-refractory disease. This process has traditionally been interprete...
Energy thriftiness and metabolic adaptations have had a crucial role in the emergence and spreading of the Homo lineage in the world. A higher-energy demand was required not only for the growing body mass, encephalization and human proliferation, but...
The interplay of various enzymes and compounds gives rise to the intricate secondary metabolic networks observed today. However, the current understanding of their formation and expansion remains limited. BAHD acyltransferases play important roles in...
Over the past half a century many countries have witnessed a rapid fall in total fertility rates, particularly in the world’s most advanced economies including the industrial powerhouses of Eastern Asia and Europe. Such nations have now passed...
The transformation of paired fins into tetrapod limbs is one of the most intensively scrutinized events in animal evolution. Early anatomical and embryological datasets identified distinctive morphological regions within the appendage and posed hypot...
The rapid growth of Central European economies has been related to inward FDI, so these countries are often regarded as dependent market economies. What is interesting in this context is the international expansion of some domestic-owned manufacturin...
Rapid urbanization has had an important impact on the pattern and function of rural land use. To better understand the key drivers of the landscape pattern evolution in southern Henan in China from 1980 to 2020, we used techniques of GIS(Geographic I...
Countries have started to aggressively undertake energy structure transformation strategies in order to reach the objective of carbon neutrality. Both clean and efficient coal energy use and clean energy use will be crucial to the process of changing...
Ancient lakes are among the most interesting models for evolution studies because their biodiversity is the result of a complex combination of migration and speciation. Here, we investigate the origin of single celled planktonic eukaryotes from the o...
Life is defined by self-governing networks of molecules that change conformation cyclically, converting thermodynamic motion into directional work and structure. A spectrum of scale, from nanoscopic to macroscopic, involves a shift from intracellular...
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