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Open AccessInvestigating the impact of a large river and its surrounding contextual conditions on pedestrians’ summer thermal perceptions in a Cfa-climate city
Thermal comfort studies are usually employed to find subjective thermal responses [indicated by neutral temperature (NT), i.e. the temperature with no thermal stress] of residents from a region towards thermal...
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Working memory predicts receptive vocabulary: a two-year longitudinal study of children with intellectual disabilities
Existing studies have suggested concurrent correlations between working memory and linguistic skills for children with intellectual disabilities; however, evidence for the longitudinal relationship is sparse. ...
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Research on damage identification of large-span spatial structures based on deep learning
Large-span spatial structure damage identification is a challenging element of structural health monitoring. Compared with other buildings such as bridges and frames, space structures are characterized by larg...
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Labor Contract Law and inventor mobility: evidence from China
This paper investigates the causal effect of employment protection on inventor mobility. Taking the enactment of China’s Labor Contract Law in 2008 as a quasi-natural experiment, our difference-in-difference e...
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Maternal behavioral control and prosocial behavior in mainland Chinese adolescents: a moderated mediation model of empathy and self-esteem
Parenting practices are assumed to have an important influence on predicting adolescents’ prosocial behavior. However, the underlying mechanisms of the link between the critical parenting practice of parental ...
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Does CSR Engagement Deter Corporate Misconduct? Quasi-natural Experimental Evidence from Firms Joining a Government-Initiated Social Program in China
We examine the impact of a government-initiated CSR project on corporate misconduct using the unique setting of China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation (TPA) program. The difference-in-differences estimates show ...
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Experimental study on ionic soil stabilizer combined with vacuum preloading to solidify sludge
Combined reinforcement methods have increasingly become the trend for ultra-soft soil foundation treatment with super high-water content and a large amount of floating mud. Based on the vacuum-aided grouting t...
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Face gear generating grinding residual model based on the normal cutting depth iterative method
The generating grinding method has the characteristics of high machining accuracy and high efficiency. Therefore, it is widely used in the finishing process of the face gear tooth surface. The physical perform...
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Five-axis flank milling error model of a face gear considering the tool tip dynamics
The five-axis flank milling process of sculptured surfaces is an intricate process involving time-varying and nonlinear characteristics under the multiphysics coupling effect. The milling force during the proc...
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Why are we unwilling to help sometimes? Reconsideration and integration of the attribution-affect model and the arousal: cost-reward model
Hel** is a virtue, but people are unwilling to help sometimes. The present study reconsidered and integrated the attribution-affect model and the arousal: cost-reward model to reveal decisive factors in the ...
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First record of Ulva californica in the mainland of China: a single alien parthenogenetic population in discontinuous distribution
Molecular investigations have raised concerns about the ecological risks of green tides caused by alien Ulva species in new habitats. The green tide-forming species U. californica Wille was generally considered t...
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Comparative chloroplast genomes of Ulva prolifera and U. linza (Ulvophyceae) provide genetic resources for the development of interspecific markers
The green seaweeds Ulva linza and U. prolifera are closely related species. They usually co-occur widely and have important ecological significance as primary producers thriving in the intertidal zone. In the Yel...
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Tempo-spatial distribution of Ulva spp. micro-propagules in the Yellow Sea during and after green tide in 2019
Large-scale green tides occur frequently in summer in the Yellow Sea in recent decade. Micro-propagules, providing “seeds” for the seaweeds, play an important role in the formation of green tide. We studied th...
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Calculation of Thermal Fields of Cracked Concrete at Elevated Temperatures
This paper analyzes the effects of cracking on the thermal field of concrete at elevated temperatures. In four concrete specimens with pre-made cracks, fire tests were performed. Then finite element analysis a...
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Exploring robustness management for dynamic technology fusion
The concepts of technology fusion describe the phenomenon of technology overlap. Despite its importance, the evolutionary trajectories of technology fusion are not explored well. The main contributions of this...
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Growth path heterogeneity across provincial economies in China: the role of geography versus institutions
This paper investigates whether China’s provincial economies follow the same growth path by adopting a finite mixture model in which provinces are sorted into groups according to the similarity in the conditio...
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Open AccessStudy on the relationship between hyperthyroidism and vascular endothelial cell damage
The aim of the research is to explore the relationship between hyperthyroidism, iodine, antithyroid drugs (propylthiouracil) and vascular endothelial injury. In total, 136 SD rats were randomly allocated into ...
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Selective removal of CO from hydrocarbon-rich industrial off-gases over CeO2-supported metal oxides
For the selective removal of CO in the off-gas streams from real-life chemical processes, the interfacial interaction between the support and the active metal oxides and the role of active oxygen species are t...
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Evolution of diffusion and structure of six n-alkanes in carbon dioxide at infinite dilution over wide temperature and pressure ranges: a molecular dynamics study
Over wide temperature and pressure ranges, the molecular dynamics simulation is performed to study the mass transfer of six n-alkanes from n-C5H12 to n-C10H22 in CO2 at infinite dilution by calculating the diffus...
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A meta-analysis of 1,119 manipulative experiments on terrestrial carbon-cycling responses to global change
Direct quantification of terrestrial biosphere responses to global change is crucial for projections of future climate change in Earth system models. Here, we synthesized ecosystem carbon-cycling data from 1,1...
