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Sociology
Yi Li, Guang Guo
Summary: The study found that for women with a weight-prone gene variation, living with frequently-exercising roommates resulted in a lighter weight, but had little impact on women without the gene variation or men. Individuals with the weight-prone gene variation exercised more frequently when living with roommates who exercised regularly, suggesting a potential mechanism through which the effect of frequently-exercising roommates worked.
SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Chengming Li, Feiyan Liang, Yinhe Liang, Zeyu Wang
Summary: China's low-carbon city pilot (LCCP) policy, aimed at energy conservation and reducing emissions, has made significant contributions to global emission reduction efforts. However, this policy has generally inhibited entrepreneurial activity, although the level of green innovation can mitigate this effect. The impact is more pronounced in central and western regions, resource-based cities, and non-central cities. Additionally, the LCCP policy has resulted in changes and upgrades in the industrial structure.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2023)
Article
Energy & Fuels
A. Abd El-Sabor Mohamed, Rory F. D. Monaghan, Gilles Bourque, Henry Curran
Summary: This study presents new ignition delay time data for two multi-component natural gas (NG) blends composed of C1-C7 n-alkanes with methane as the major component. Experimental data shows that higher concentrations of larger molecular weight n-alkanes in the NG blends result in significantly increased fuel reactivity, especially at temperatures below 1000 K. The proposed correlation equation, based on regression analyses using NUIGMech1.2, successfully predicts ignition delay times for a wide range of C1-C7 NG mixtures, showing good agreement with the experimental data.
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Environmental Sciences
Bin Jiang, Ke Shen, William C. Sullivan, Yiyang Yang, Xueming Liu, Yi Lu
Summary: The study found a significant association between characteristics of the built environment and suicide rates, with distance to the urban center and nearest Mass Transit Railway station, as well as gross flat area per person, identified as important factors. Possible interventions to reduce suicide through design or redesign of the built environment were proposed based on the findings.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Food Science & Technology
Leilei Qiu, Qinqin Wu, Xiaoying Wang, Jiupan Han, Gui Zhuang, Hao Wang, Zhiyun Shang, Wei Tian, Zhuo Chen, Zechuan Lin, Hang He, Jie Hu, Qiming Lv, Juansheng Ren, Jun Xu, Chen Li, Xiangfeng Wang, Yang Li, Shaohua Li, Rongyu Huang, Xu Chen, Cheng Zhang, Ming Lu, Chengzhi Liang, Peng Qin, Xi Huang, Shigui Li, Xinhao Ouyang
Summary: Global climate change requires crop varieties with good environmental adaptability. By combining molecular technologies and streamlined screening methods, breeders can select for adaptability to different latitudes efficiently. The daylength-sensing-based environment adaptation simulator (DEAS) accurately assesses rice latitude adaptation and shows potential for application in other crops. Forecasting the adaptability of crop cultivars to different latitudes using DEAS could aid in developing cultivars for climate adaptation and supporting crop yield stability.
Article
Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Yohan Cosquer, Patrice Longere, Olivier Pantale, Claude Gailhac
Summary: A methodology is developed for the design of land vehicle armouring using a finite element code and an optimization module. The methodology considers lightweight aluminium alloy and high strength steel plate. The numerical model is calibrated and verified using monolithic plates and a bi-metal protection. A method is also proposed to obtain the full bullet performance curve from the core performance curve.
DEFENCE TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Meenakshi Tanwar, Rajinder K. Gupta, Archna Rani
Summary: Hydrogels based on natural gums and their chemical derivatives have attracted great interest in various fields including pharmaceutical, food, cosmetics, and environmental remediation due to their economic viability, sustainability, nontoxicity, biodegradability, and biocompatibility. This review summarizes the past work on chemically derivatizing natural gums from plants, microorganisms, and seaweeds into novel biomaterials for tissue engineering and drug delivery. The review also discusses the applications of these hydrogels in various fields such as biomedical, food and agriculture, textile, cosmetics, water purification, remediation, and separation.
CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Zhuang Miao, Yuechi Zhang, Sicen Liu, Xiaodong Chen, Tomas Balezentis
Summary: Properly addressing the environmental issue requires suitable treatment for energy use and capital investment. This study measures the environmentally-adjusted technical inefficiency of 30 province-level regions in China using the BAM model. The main sources of inefficiency in China are different pollutants emissions from different perspectives (natural disposability and managerial disposability).
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Forestry
Sixian Li, Tianyu Chen, Feiying Chen, Feng Mi
Summary: This research evaluated the impact of the urban forest environment on residents' visual, auditory, and olfactory senses and tested the psychological restoration effects in urban forest environments through a natural experiment conducted in Beijing. The findings demonstrated that the urban forest environment significantly influenced residents' psychological restoration and natural environment perception.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Aixa Ines Rodriguez, Raul Emmanuel Ocana, Daniel Flores, Patricia Martinez, Alberto Casas
Summary: The research emphasizes the relationship between physical environment elements and tectonic structures, supporting the use of the latter to define Environment Units (EUs) for land-use planning. While the method has limitations such as fragmented environmental information and lack of tectonic studies, it can help decision-makers understand and manage socio-natural risks effectively.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Genetics & Heredity
Marie Rescan, Daphne Grulois, Enrique Ortega Aboud, Pierre de Villemereuil, Luis-Miguel Chevin
Summary: The study shows that the magnitude and predictability of environmental fluctuations have significant impacts on the average selection coefficient. Randomness in population genetics is substantially higher in a fluctuating environment, and the selection reaction norm for predicting mean selection coefficients is related to environmental tolerance curves, but both underestimate the selection variance caused by random environmental fluctuations.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Aisha Ellaf, Syed Ali Ammar Taqvi, Durreshehwar Zaeem, Faizan Ul Haque Siddiqui, Bilal Kazmi, Alamin Idris, Razan A. Alshgari, Mohammed Sheikh Saleh Mushab
Summary: This study explores the use of hybrid solvents in the natural gas sweetening process to overcome the drawbacks of conventional solvents. Through screening and optimization, a blend of Sulfolane and MDEA was found to significantly reduce energy consumption, environmental impact, and operating costs while improving process efficiency. The findings suggest that this hybrid solvent can be a viable alternative to the traditional MEA solvent.
Article
Ecology
Xiulin Qi, Zhifang Wu, Jinqing Xu, Biaoan Shan
Summary: Environmental justice is a more effective constraint on polluting behavior compared to administrative instruments. This study investigates the impact of environmental justice on green innovation by examining the establishment of environmental courts in China. The results show that the establishment of environmental courts significantly contributes to green innovation, primarily through pollution control mechanisms.
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
(2023)
Article
Urban Studies
Louise Poppe, Delfien Van Dyck, Emma De Keyser, Amber Van Puyvelde, Jenny Veitch, Benedicte Deforche
Summary: This study investigates the impact of park renewal on park use, park-based physical activity, and social interaction in an urban public park in Belgium. The renewal increased the number of park visitors across age categories, but did not have an effect on visitors' mean level of physical activity or level of social interaction.
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Fengsheng Li, Jia Song, Yingkun Zhang, Shuaikang Wang, Jinhui Wang, Li Lin, Chaoyong Yang, Peng Li, He Huang
Summary: Lipidomics aims to describe lipidome alterations in biological systems, but there are limited bioinformatic tools for processing lipidomic data and pathway analysis. The use of public databases for lipid pathway analysis can be biased and misleading due to inadequate understanding of lipid signaling and metabolism. Researchers introduced an intra-omic integrative correlation strategy for lipidomic data mining and designed LINT-web as an interactive tool for lipidomic data processing.
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Louis Donnelly, Sara McLanahan, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Irwin Garfinkel, Brandon G. Wagner, Wade C. Jacobsen, Sarah Gold, Lauren Gaydosh
Article
Pediatrics
Sarah James, Sara McLanahan, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Colter Mitchell, Lisa Schneper, Brandon Wagner, Daniel A. Notterman
JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS
(2017)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Louis Donnelly, Irwin Garfinkel, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Brandon G. Wagner, Sarah James, Sara McLanahan
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2017)
Article
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Kelly Cleland, Brandon Wagner, Pelin Batur, Megan McNamara, Justine Wu, Michael B. Rothberg
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Brandon G. Wagner, Kelly Cleland, Pelin Batur, Justine Wu, Michael B. Rothberg
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
(2019)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Jerome R. Koch, Brandon G. Wagner, Alden E. Roberts
Summary: The study found that studying at a Christian school has the strongest negative association with deviant behavior, while religiosity is relatively less important, and Christian fundamentalist beliefs have a weak correlation with deviant behavior. The results support the concept of Moral Communities that strongly discourage deviant behavior among respondents in an explicitly religious academic environment.
SOCIAL SCIENCE JOURNAL
(2021)
Article
Family Studies
Kate H. Choi, Brandon G. Wagner
Summary: The study suggests that GED degree is not socially equivalent to a traditional high school diploma, and the marital sorting patterns of GED recipients support this finding, particularly among racial/ethnic minorities.
JOURNAL OF FAMILY ISSUES
(2023)
Article
Family Studies
Sarah Gold, Brandon Wagner
Summary: Acute healthcare utilization, such as emergency room visits or hospitalizations, is associated with an increased risk of housing hardships for families, particularly when children utilize acute care services. However, perceived social support may help mitigate this impact.
CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Gerontology
Ashton M. Verdery, Lauren Newmyer, Brandon Wagner, Rachel Margolis
Summary: This study investigated the impact of individual age and preexisting health conditions on COVID-19 mortality rates, and found that national age structure and health condition distributions can capture different dimensions of risk. Both types of national risk profiles were correlated with COVID-19 mortality rates, emphasizing the need for cross-national comparative data on older adult population health.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Kelly Cleland, Brandon Wagner, Nicole K. Smith, James Trussell
Article
Family Studies
Brandon Wagner
JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
(2019)
Article
Sociology
Brandon G. Wagner
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Douglas S. Massey, Brandon Wagner, Louis Donnelly, Sara McLanahan, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Irwin Garfinkel, Colter Mitchell, Daniel A. Notterman
RSF-THE RUSSELL SAGE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
(2018)
Article
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Nicole K. Smith, Kelly Cleland, Brandon Wagner, James Trussell
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Nicole K. Smith, Scott Butler, Brandon Wagner, Erika Collazo, Lucia Caltabiano, Debby Herbenick
JOURNAL OF SEX & MARITAL THERAPY
(2017)