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Open AccessNatural factors influencing blown sand hazards in Bei**g
In this article, natural factors in the farming-pastoral ecotone that might have influenced the blown sand hazards in Bei**g in 2000 are analyzed. In the farming-pastoral ecotone, blown sand activities took p...
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Open AccessDrought risk assessment of China’s mid-season paddy
China has the world’s largest population and a large and critically important agricultural sector. Sixty-five percent of the Chinese population lives on paddy rice. However, drought disasters frequently afflic...
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Open AccessAgriculture insurance in China: History, experience, and lessons learned
The development of agriculture and the rural economy play a crucial role in China’s socioeconomic system. Agriculture insurance has become key in ensuring the growth of agriculture and stabilizing farmers’ inc...
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Open AccessNumerical study of hydrogen production by the sorption-enhanced steam methane reforming process with online CO2 capture as operated in fluidized bed reactors
A three-dimensional (3D) Eulerian two-fluid model with an in-house code was developed to simulate the gas-particle two-phase flow in the fluidized bed reactors. The CO2 capture with Ca-based sorbents in the steam...
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Open AccessThe MIKE model application to overtop** risk assessment of seawalls and levees in Shanghai
This article used MIKE 21 models to evaluate the overtop** risk of seawalls and levees from the combined effect of land subsidence, storm tide, and sea level rise in Shanghai. Typhoon storm tides are the pri...
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Open AccessChina’s drought disaster risk management: Perspective of severe droughts in 2009–2010
China has been frequently and heavily affected by drought disasters. During 2009–2010, three large-scale severe droughts struck China, caused considerable social, economic, and ecological losses. These drought...
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Open AccessLiving with global climate diversity—suggestions on international governance for co** with climate change risk
Climatic conditions have important influences on human life and the sustainable development of economies and societies. Climate varies in space and time. People have always lived with climate diversity, and th...
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Local Assessment of Shanghai: Effects of Urbanization on the Diversity of Macrobenthic Invertebrates
Shanghai is the largest industrial and commercial city in China. It is a coastal metropolitan city located on- and surrounded by several types of natural and constructed wetlands. The rapid growth of the city ...
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Open AccessAnalysis of recoverable waste heat of circulating cooling water in hot-stam** power system
This article studies the possibility of using heat pump instead of cooling tower to decrease temperature and recover waste heat of circulating cooling water of power system. Making use of heat transfer theory ...
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Open AccessRemanufacturing process for used automotive electronic control components in China
China's recycling roadmap and technology scheme for used automotive electronic control components are investigated. The mathematical analysis model of the remanufacturing process is established on the basis of...
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Open AccessThe trend of natural illuminance levels in 14 Chinese cities in the past 50 years
Maximizing natural illuminance, seeking sustainable ecological development, and saving electricity are very important. The annual total natural light illuminance values of 14 typical Chinese cities in differen...
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Open AccessFluorescent cellulose aerogels containing covalently immobilized (ZnS)x(CuInS2)1−x/ZnS (core/shell) quantum dots
Photoluminiscent (PL) cellulose aerogels of variable shape containing homogeneously dispersed and surface-immobilized alloyed (ZnS)x(CuInS2)1−x/ZnS (core/shell) quantum dots (QD) have been obtained by (1) dissolu...
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Cross-shaped twisting structure using SMA-based smart soft composite
This paper introduces a novel geometry for a pure-twisting soft morphing actuator that improves the stability of the actuator and allows it to obtain a larger twisting angle. The smart soft composite (SSC) act...
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Product low-carbon design using dynamic programming algorithm
Greenhouse gas emission has become a recent global concern for green manufacturing. As product low-carbon design is an essential approach to achieve low-carbon manufacturing, which has a profound effect on the...
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Contamination and remediation of phthalic acid esters in agricultural soils in China: a review
Phthalic acid esters have been used as plasticizers in numerous products and classified as endocrine-disrupting compounds. As China is one of the largest consumers of phthalic acid esters, some human activitie...
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Open AccessNanotechnology in agriculture, livestock, and aquaculture in China. A review
Nanoscience emerged in the late 1980s and is developed and applied in China since the middle of the 1990s. Although nanotechnologies have been less developed in agronomy than other disciplines, due to less inv...
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Reaction Mechanism and Kinetics of Boron Removal from Molten Silicon by CaO–SiO2–CaCl2 Slag Treatment
The mechanism by which B is removed from Si to a molten CaO–SiO2–CaCl2 slag, and its subsequent evaporation to a gas phase at 1723 K, has been evaluated with a view to optimize the production of solar-grade Si. B...
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Improving grain yield and reducing N loss using polymer-coated urea in southeast China
The efficiency of classical mineral NPK fertilizers is usually low because a major part of these fertilizers does not reach plant roots and ends up polluting groundwaters with nitrates and phosphates. Recently...
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Factors controlling regional grain yield in China over the last 20 years
Food production is highly dependent on regional yields of crops. Regional differences in grain yields could be due to fertilizer management and climate variability. Here, we analyze trends of grain yields in N...
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Open AccessCrop Insurance Premium Ratemaking Based on Survey Data: A Case Study from Dingxing County, China
Premium ratemaking is an important issue to guarantee insurance balance of payments. Most ratemaking methods require large samples of long-term loss data or farm-level yield data, which are often unavailable ...
