Tropical high-altitude lakes are vital freshwater reservoirs in the Andean regions. They are heavily threatened by human activities that may alter their functioning and hamper the provisioning of key ecosystem services such as water supply. Despite t...
Selecting appropriate milling equipment is an important means to reduce carbon emissions and improve the efficiency of part-machining processes, as the process of machining the same part on different milling machines varies greatly. Traditional milli...
The CO2-assisted polymer compression method is used herein to prepare porous polymer materials by bonding laminated polymer fiber sheets using a piston in the presence of CO2. In this work, the CO2 flow line connections were moved from the pressure v...
Different from the developmental mode of western developed countries, China’s economy has changed from a stage of high-speed growth to a stage of high-quality development, where the people’s growing needs for better lives can be met, embodying this n...
The dynamic relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and sustainable development has become a central topic of inquiry for academics and policymakers with rapid global economic growth. This study aims to clarify the impact mechanism and r...
Total factor productivity (TFP) serves as a crucial indicator of high-quality development, showcasing a region’s utilization of technological advancements and innovative strategies to enhance production efficiency. With China’s regions ex...
Creative productivity has not been studied much as an outcome of specialized science high schools. Rather, STEM career choices, acquisition of a STEM degree, and taking advanced STEM courses were taken as outcomes. This study examined whether the inq...
The automotive industry demands high quality at very low prices. To this end, it is necessary to constantly innovate, making processes increasingly competitive, while continuing to ensure high levels of quality. Model diversification has forced the a...
The high water cut period represents a critical phase in the development of tight oil wells, and accurately forecasting productivity during this stage is essential for effective oilfield development planning. However, traditional reservoir engineerin...
Canola is a cash crop produced for its highly-valued seed, and as a protein source for animal feed. While winter canola is produced mainly in the high plains, it is expanding to new environments, and is greatly incorporated into crop systems with adv...
Nowadays, titanium alloys are achieving a significant interest in the field of aerospace, biomedical, automobile industries especially due to their extremely high strength to weight ratio, corrosive resistance, and ability to withstand higher tempera...
Studies on limnology are essential to reservoir management; nevertheless, few are known about the limnological features of the Andean reservoirs in Ecuador. To overcome this limitation in the information, from December 2018 to December 2019, the limn...
Under the pressure of limited arable land and increasing demand for food, improving the quality of existing arable land has become a priority to ensure food security. The Chinese government gives great importance to improving cropland productivity by...
Amid escalating concerns over air pollution and demographic shifts, industrial robots have emerged as a key solution to enhancing energy efficiency, reducing emissions, and fostering economic growth. However, existing research often overlooks their r...
Tight sandstone gas reservoirs generally contain water. Studying the impact of water content on the permeability mechanism of tight gas reservoirs is of positive significance for the rational development of gas reservoirs. Selected cores from a tight...
China faces the dual challenges of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and ensuring food security. Given that crop cultivation constitutes a major source of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, analyzing the emission reduction impact of China&rsquo...
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This paper focuses on the total factor productivity (TFP) and high-quality economic development in China by examining 11 Chinese provinces and cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt from 2007 to 2018. We use the Solow residual method to calculate...
This article presents the results of an experimental investigation into the machinability of Ti6Al4V alloy during hard turning, including both conventional and high-speed machining, using polycrystalline diamond (PCD) inserts. A central composite des...
Farmland improvement has become an overwhelmingly favorable policy in developing countries, being expected to leverage a sustainable agricultural total factor productivity (ATFP) to increase their agricultural competitiveness. Worldwide farmland impr...
Improving industrial green total factor productivity (GTFP) is essential for achieving high-quality industrial development in China. To explore this perspective, we examined 30 provinces as case samples and applied a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative...
In recent years, China has faced the dual challenge of achieving high-quality economic development (HQED) alongside carbon emission reduction (CER), with new-quality productivity (NQP) emerging as a key driver integrating both agendas. Research on th...
Exploring the development laws of new quality productivity and leveraging its role in empowering marine economy high-quality development (MEHQ) is of great significance for promoting the construction of a maritime power in China, achieving the goals...
Solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOECs) have great application prospects because of their excellent performance, but the long-term applications of the stacks are restricted by the structural degradation under the high-temperature conditions. Therefore...
Promoting water conservation is crucial for building a modern ecological civilization. The water resource tax helps enforce water-saving policies and strict usage controls. The difference-in-differences (DID) method avoids endogeneity and omitted var...
Based on the survey data of five large grain-producing provinces in China, we have studied the promotion effect of the agricultural production trusteeship on the high-quality production of grain by using a propensity score matching method. The empiri...
With the increasing demand for oil and gas, the depth of some vertical gas wells can reach 6000 m. At this time, the downhole fluid is in a state of high temperature and pressure, and interpretation of the production logging output profile faces the...
Since the 1960s, the world has witnessed the rise of several East Asian nations as economic powerhouses. One of the main contributing factors of their success is their decision to create policies that allowed them to enter high-tech global production...
Spent brewer’s yeast (SBY) is a byproduct of the brewing industry traditionally used as a feed additive, although it could have much broader applications. In this paper, a comprehensive review of valorization of SBY for the production of high-v...
Brewer’s spent grains are one of the principal by-products of the brewing industry. For protein and fibre content, this by-product represents an interesting raw material to be reused for manufacturing many other products. To maximize the nutrit...
High-altitude coffee has an international reputation due to its high quality, especially in countries with a long production history, such as Costa Rica. Specific geographical characteristics determine the regions where high-altitude coffee can be cu...
Over the last century, substantial advances have been made, based on improved understanding of the requirements of grinding processes, machines, control systems, materials, abrasives, wheel preparation, coolants, lubricants, and coolant delivery. Thi...
Aiming at the problem that silicon-controlled rectifiers (SCR) and pulse width modulation (PWM) rectifiers cannot balance high power levels, high hydrogen production efficiency, and high grid connected quality in the current research on rectifier pow...
Accurately estimating vegetation productivity is important in the research of terrestrial ecosystems, carbon cycles and climate change. Although several gross primary production (GPP) and net primary production (NPP) products have been generated and...
This article deals with the potential use of by-products from Třinecké železárny company—namely steelworks slag and spent foundry sand (SFS)—as an alternative to natural aggregate in the production of high-strength...
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections pose a major public health burden due to high chronicity rates and associated morbidity and mortality. A vaccine protecting against chronic infection is not available but would be important for global control of HCV...
The high-quality development of foreign trade is both an inherent need for China’s economic transformation and upgrading and a vital driver for global economic recovery and sustainable development. Analyzing how new quality productive forces em...
Milk and dairy products have a major role in human nutrition, as they contribute essential nutrients for child development. The nutritional properties of dairy products are maintained despite applying traditional processing techniques. Nowadays, so-c...
This study establishes and validates a novel ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) method for the determination of urolithin A content in health products, a bioactive compound with potential anti-aging properties. Given the lack of sta...
The current trend in the food industry is towards “clean label” products with high sensory and nutritional quality. However, the inclusion of nutrient-rich ingredients in recipes often leads to sensory deficiencies in baked goods. To meet...
Advancing the construction and application of new quality productive forces is an essential prerequisite for achieving high-quality agricultural development and expediting the establishment of agricultural powerhouses. This study aims to elucidate th...
Diets with an elevated content of fat, sucrose, or fructose are recognized models of diet-induced metabolic alterations, since they induce metabolic derangements, oxidative stress, and chronic low-grade inflammation associated with local and systemic...
Machine-learning accelerators rely on floating-point matrix and vector multiplication kernels. To reduce their cost, customized many-term fused architectures are preferred, which improve the latency, power, and area of the designs. In this work, we d...
The Small Trees High productivity Initiative aims to address low productivity in avocado, [...]
In order to impart the properties of cementitious material to the Tibetan Agar soil, two high-temperature activation mechanisms (HTMA, HTMB) were designed in this study, and the products and hydration-hardening properties of Tibetan Agar soil high-te...
In vitro rumen fermentation systems are often adapted to forage feeding conditions, with pH values ranging in a range close to neutrality (between 6.5 and 7.0). Several attempts using different buffers have been made to control incubation pH in order...
From the perspective of production structure sustainability, this study investigates the source of innovation power of high-tech enterprises. It proposes that the roundaboutness of production structure is the sustainable driving force for improving i...
This study proposes a component-based model for assessing risks in the design of high-tech products. The model took into account the novelty of components, which affected the risk level in the development process. The risk assessment was based on fuz...
Compared with the traditional vaccine produced in embryonated chicken eggs, cell-based manufacturing represented by the Madin–Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cell line has a larger production scale and reduces the risk of egg shortage in a pandemic....
The outbreak of the COVID-19 has had a huge impact on the manufacturing supply chain, especially the supply chain of high-demand products, and is mainly reflected in the double interruption of production capacity and transportation. The research aims...
The current production method of nanobiochar (NBC), an emerging, environmentally friendly nanocarbon material, is tedious and lengthy. Therefore, in this study we aimed to improve the productivity of NBC via high-energy ball milling by manipulating t...
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