The penetrated mortise–tenon joint (PMT) connecting column and beam in traditional timber structures often has neighbouring gaps between connected structural members due to initial manufacture errors and damage accumulated over years. Influence...
As precipitation is a fundamental component of the global hydrological cycle that governs water resource distribution, the understanding of its temporal and spatial behavior is of great interest, and exact estimates of it are crucial in multiple line...
The Lagrangian and Eulerian structure and dynamics of a strong wind event in the Tokar Gap region are described using a Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model hindcast for 2008. Winds in the Tokar Gap reach 25 m s−1 and remain coherent as...
The absence of a band gap in graphene is a hindrance to its application in electronic devices. Alternately, the complete replacement of carbon atoms with B and N atoms in graphene structures led to the formation of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and...
Based on the panel data of 31 provinces in China from 2005 to 2020, this paper analyzes the mechanism and spatial spillover effect of agricultural insurance on the urban–rural income gap using a fixed effect model, an intermediary effect model,...
This work presents an active thermal management system (TMS) for building a safer module of lithium-ion capacitor (LiC) technology, in which 10 LiCs are connected in series. The proposed TMS is a forced air-cooled TMS (ACTMS) that uses four axial DC...
The objective of this article is to bridge the gap between two important research directions: (1) nearest neighbor search, which is a fundamental computational tool for large data analysis; and (2) complex network analysis, which deals with large rea...
Colloidal lithography is an efficient and low-cost method to prepare an ordered nanostructure array with new shapes and properties. In this study, square-shaped and cone-shaped Au nanostructures were obtained by 70° angle deposition onto polystyrene...
To produce physiological functions, many tissues require their cells to be connected by gap junctions. Such diffusive coupling is important in establishing a cytoplasmic syncytium through which cells can exchange signals, substrates and metabolites....
The impact of industrial co-agglomeration (ICA) on green total factor productivity (GTFP) has garnered considerable academic attention. However, there remains a gap in research systematically investigating how ICA affects China’s GTFP within th...
Cascaded stimulated polariton scattering (SPS) under powerful picosecond pumping of 532 nm wavelength was investigated in a single pass of a KTP (KTiOPO4) crystal. Under ordinary polarization of the pump wave (relatively XOZ-plane) parametric scatter...
Rapid urbanization has widely induced fragmented landscapes and further negatively affected ecological functions. The edge effect is an approach commonly used to investigate these negative impacts. However, edge effect research tends to focus on the...
This paper studies holey graphene with various neck widths (the smallest distance between two neighbor holes). For the considered structures, the energy gap, the Fermi level, the density of electronic states, and the distribution of the local density...
Gap junctions are channels linking the interiors of neighboring cells. A reduction in gap junctional intercellular communication (GJIC) correlates with high cell proliferation, while oncogene products such as Src suppress GJIC, through the Ras/Raf/Er...
We present first-principles results on the electronic and magnetic properties of the cubic bulk β-phase of Fe2O3. Given that all Fe–Fe magnetic couplings are expected to be antiferromagnetic within this high-symmetry crystal structure, the...
The Hu line is a geo-demographic demarcation line in China. The eastern side of the line supports more than 96% of the population, despite constituting less than 44% of the national territory. The domestic household consumption level gradually exhibi...
Echinoderms are marine invertebrates that play important roles in structuring marine benthic ecosystems. DNA barcoding has become a valuable tool for species identification; however, reference DNA barcode libraries for echinoderms remain incomplete....
The impact of spatial structure on the Urban-Rural income gap varies across regions and scales. Much of the current literature focuses on urban agglomerations, highlighting the need for more in-depth exploration of specific regions. Using LandScan po...
Motivated by recent developments in the experimental study of ultracold atoms in graphene-like honeycomb optical lattices, we investigate superconductivity of the attractive Kane-Mele-Habbard (KMH) model with the next-nearest-neighbor (NNN) hoping at...
Accurate cancer subtype prediction is crucial for personalized medicine. Integrating multi-omics data represents a viable approach to comprehending the intricate pathophysiology of complex diseases like cancer. Conventional machine learning technique...
This research aims to identify effective strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural waste. It employs a quantitative research approach using an advanced model, the Path Analysis—Generalized Method of Moments Based on a N...
Topologically associating domains (TADs) are the structural and functional units of the genome. However, the functions of protein-coding genes existing in the same or different TADs have not been fully investigated. We compared the functional similar...
Economic financialization refers to misappropriating workers’ earnings and enriching wealthy individuals through financial cycles. This process leads to an unequal distribution of wealth and income, particularly pronounced between urban and rur...
The study utilizes China Household Panel Survey (CFPS) data from 2010 to 2020 to create a spatial panel Durbin model and examines the spatial spillover effect of the income gap on consumer demand using spatial econometric techniques. Studies have sho...
The acoustic properties of a three-dimensional sonic crystal made of square-rod rigid scatterers incorporating a periodic arrangement of quarter wavelength resonators are theoretically and experimentally reported in this work. The periodicity of the...
Greece is known to be a biodiversity hotspot. Though the plant diversity of Peloponnisos, the southernmost part of the Greek mainland, has been well-studied during the past 200 years, there are still gaps in our knowledge. To this end, the flora of t...
Against the historical background of the burgeoning platform economy and the promotion of common prosperity, this paper focuses on the impact of the development of the platform economy on the urban–rural income gap. Theoretical mechanism analys...
Addressing the persistent urban-rural income gap is critical for sustainable and inclusive development. Leveraging panel data from 286 Chinese prefecture-level cities (2005–2022) and a multi-period difference-in-differences design, this study e...
Equilibrium geometries and properties of self-assembled (InN)12n (n = 1–9) nanoclusters (nanowires and nanosheets) are studied using the GGA-PBE (general gradient approximation with Perdew–Burke–Ernzerh) method. The relative stabili...
Crayfish axons contain a system of parallel membranous cisternae spaced by ~2 μm and oriented perpendicularly to the axon’s long axis. Each cisterna is composed of two roughly parallel membranes, separated by a 150–400 Å wide spa...
A Kene–Mele-type nearest-neighbor tight-binding model on a pyrochlore lattice is known to be a topological insulator in some parameter region. It is an important task to realize a topological insulator in a real compound, especially in an oxide...
Filled pauses (i.e., gaps in speech production filled with non-lexical vocalizations) have been studied for more than sixty years in different languages. These studies utilize many different approaches to explore the origins, specific patterns, forms...
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Continuous resource misallocation not only results in total factor productivity loss but also leads to ecological degradation. Therefore, in the process of changing from extensive growth to intensive growth, Chinese agriculture should pay attention t...
The future emotion prediction of users on social media has been attracting increasing attention from academics. Previous studies on predicting future emotion have focused on the characteristics of individuals’ emotion changes; however, the role...
In a real-world application, the images taken by different cameras with different conditions often incur illumination variation, low-resolution, different poses, blur, etc., which leads to a large distribution difference or gap between training (sour...
Earth Observation (EO) data, such as Landsat 7 (L7) and Sentinel 2 (S2) imagery, are often used to monitor the state of natural resources all over the world. However, this type of data tends to suffer from high cloud cover percentages during rainfall...
The Nineteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward the implementation of a rural revitalization strategy, which is an important way to achieve common prosperity for all the people, as promoting farmers’ income increase...
Employing first-principles calculations based on density functional theory (DFT), we designed a novel two-dimensional (2D) elemental monolayer allotrope of carbon called hexatetra-carbon. In the hexatetra-carbon structure, each carbon atom bonds with...
Gaps are openings within tropical forest canopies created by natural or anthropogenic disturbances. Important aspects of gap dynamics that are not well understood include how gaps close over time and their potential for contagiousness, indicating whe...
One significant challenge to understanding the mechanisms of urban retail areas’ transition is limited data to trace a dynamic perspective of influential actors’ experience in an extended urban area. We overcome this gap by employing text mining to c...
The proteolytic active sites of the 26S proteasome are sequestered within the catalytic chamber of its 20S core particle (CP). Access to this chamber is through a narrow channel defined by the seven outer α subunits. In the resting state, the N...
The cross-modal retrieval task can return different modal nearest neighbors, such as image or text. However, inconsistent distribution and diverse representation make it hard to directly measure the similarity relationship between different modal sam...
Efficient and accurate identification of canopy gaps is the basis of forest ecosystem research, which is of great significance to further forest monitoring and management. Among the existing studies that incorporate remote sensing to map canopy gaps,...
The locally adjusted cubic-spline capping (LACC) algorithm is well recognized for its effectiveness in the global time series reconstruction of vegetation biophysical and biochemical parameters. However, in its application, we often encounter issues,...
Information on the molecular epidemiology and carbapenem resistance mechanisms in Gram-negative bacterial isolates in Moldova is scarce. To close this knowledge gap, carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative bacteria were collected over an 11-month period i...
The vortex-induced vibrations of two side-by-side flexible cylinders in a uniform flow were studied using a three-dimensional direct numerical simulation at Reynolds number Re = 350 with an aspect ratio of 100, and a center-to-center spacing ratio of...
Indoor wireless positioning has long been a dynamic field of research due to its broad application range. While many commercial products have been developed, they often are not open source or require substantial and costly infrastructure. Academicall...
Element doping is a universal way to improve the electronic and optical properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials. Here, we investigate the influence of group−ⅣA element (C, Si, Ge, Sn, and Pb) doping on the electronic and optical prop...
A spiral spin arrangement with a magnetic unit cell 28 times the size of the nuclear one has been reported for Fe spins below TN = 80 K in bilayered van der Waals gapped FeOCl. In this work, we employ neutron magnetic diffraction and ac magnetic susc...
Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) classification is vital for environmental and ecological applications. Sentinel-2 is a new generation land monitoring satellite with the advantages of novel spectral capabilities, wide coverage and fine spatial and temp...
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