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Assessment of Heavy Metal Pb2+ Adsorption and Migration in Sand with Varied Particle Gradations: Implications for Environmental Control and Remediation Strategies
The problem of heavy metal pollution in soil has become a global concern and an urgent environmental issue. Heavy metal Pb2+ is not biodegradable in the natural environment but can rapidly accumulate in the food ...
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Sources and factors influencing lacustrine carbon burial over the last century: case study of Yinjia Lake, central China
Lakes act as natural reservoirs for storing organic material, and comprehending how organic carbon (OC) and black carbon (BC) are deposited in lake sediments is crucial for understanding the global carbon cycl...
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Near-gapless and haplotype-resolved apple genomes provide insights into the genetic basis of rootstock-induced dwarfing
Dwarfing rootstocks have transformed the production of cultivated apples; however, the genetic basis of rootstock-induced dwarfing remains largely unclear. We have assembled chromosome-level, near-gapless and ...
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Biogas production prediction model of food waste anaerobic digestion for energy optimization using mixup data augmentation-based global attention mechanism
Achieving rapid, efficient, and cost-effective anaerobic digestion (AD) of food waste is a key means to improve the efficiency of food waste treatment. However, in view of the shortage of historical anaerobic ...
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Dual-Loop Control Based on Tube-Based MPC for UAVs with Disturbance
Due to the reduction of control accuracy when the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are disturbed in motion, a dual-loop control strategy is established based on the robust model predictive control (TMPC) and th...
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Characteristics and health risk assessment of indoor and outdoor PM2.5 in a rural village, in Northeast of China: impact of coal and biomass burning
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) has health effects that may depend on its sources and chemical composition. In this study, characteristics of PM2.5 chemical composition and health risk assessment from Songyuan, C...
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Open AccessNorthern hemisphere ice sheet expansion intensified Asian aridification and the winter monsoon across the mid-Pleistocene transition
The mid-Pleistocene transition 1.25 to 0.6 million years ago marked a major shift in global climate periodicity from 41,000 to around 100,000 years without a concomitant orbital forcing shift. Here, we investi...
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Assessment of the inhalation exposure and incremental lifetime cancer risk of PM2.5 bounded polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) by different toxic equivalent factors and occupancy probability, in the case of **’an
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are widespread toxic pollutants in the atmosphere and have attracted much attention for decades. In this study, we compared the health risks of PAHs based on different t...
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Surface Oxidation and Subsurface Microstructure Evolution of Alloy 690TT Induced by Partial Slip Fretting Corrosion in High-Temperature Pure Water
The surface oxidation and subsurface microstructure evolution of Alloy 690TT can occur during partial slip fretting corrosion in high-temperature pure water. Detailed characterization methods such as laser sca...
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Energy efficiency assessment and resource optimization using novel DEA model: evidence from complex chemical processes
Energy efficiency assessment and resource allocation optimization are conducive to improve the production and reduce carbon emissions in complex chemical processes. And the traditional energy efficiency assess...
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Effect of surface potential on corrosion behavior of the fusion boundary in the dissimilar welds between 316L stainless steels and Inconel 182 alloy
The microstructure, surface potential value and corrosion properties of fusion boundary in 316L stainless steel/Inconel 182 dissimilar welds were investigated. The results indicated that there were two differe...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Evolutionary Membrane Algorithm Based on Competition Mechanism for Multi-objective Optimization Problems
The increasing focuses on coordinated developments of society, economy and environment makes multi-objective optimization an important tool for solving real-world problems. Thus an evolutionary membrane algori...
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Characteristics of single atmospheric particles in a heavily polluted urban area of China: size distributions and mixing states
To investigate the chemical composition, size distribution, and mixing state of aerosol particles on heavy pollution days, single-particle aerosol mass spectrometry was conducted during 9–26 October 2015 in **...
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Vertical profile of organic and elemental carbon in sediments of Songkhla Lake, Thailand
In this study, a historical record of atmospheric deposition in the sediment cores from Songkhla Lake, the second largest lake in Southeast Asia, located in the southern part of Thailand is reported. It is wel...
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Seasonal Transport and Dry Deposition of Black Carbon Aerosol in the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau
To investigate the regional transport and dry deposition of black carbon (BC) aerosol in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau, continuous equivalent BC (eBC) mass concentrations were measured at a high-altitude re...
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High secondary aerosol contribution to particulate pollution during haze events in China
Investigation of the chemical nature and sources of particulate matter at urban locations in four Chinese cities during a severe haze pollution event finds that the event was driven to a large extent by second...
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Asian Dust, Eolian Iron and Black Carbon—Connections to Climate Changes
This chapter focuses on the aridification of the Asian interior during the Late Cenozoic, with an emphasis on modern dust and black carbon, and examines global iron connections which originate from dust derive...
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Past atmospheric Pb deposition in Lake Qinghai, northeastern Tibetan Plateau
Two short sediment cores were recovered from sub-basins of Lake Qinghai, China and were analyzed for concentrations of Pb and 16 other elements to determine historic, regional atmospheric Pb deposition on the ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Data Fusion-Based Extraction Method of Energy Consumption Index for the Ethylene Industry
The assessment target of energy consumption for ethylene equipment is based on Special Energy consumption (SEC) index currently without considering the differences among the raw materials, process technology a...
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Atmospheric Cu and Pb Deposition and Transport in Lake Sediments in a Remote Mountain Area, Northern China
A complete record derived from the core from the Daihai Lake in a remote area provides new insights into the changing atmospheric heavy metal deposition associated with historical industrial activities, the As...
