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Fisheries
Peiwen Wang, Isabel Mendes
Summary: China's vast land surface leads to regional variations in its environment, which in turn affect the country's industries, markets, and trade, ultimately impacting the economy and the people who depend on aquaculture resources. Inequalities resulting from regional differentiation severely affect social fairness and equity, serving as a key factor limiting sustainable development. Analyzing and assessing the changes in environmental factors affecting aquaculture production and fisherfolk's income in 31 regions of China between 2010 and 2020 aims to provide guidance for regional differentiation in the economic development of aquaculture, representing an important step towards coordinated development in rural regions.
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Environmental Sciences
Tiantian Wang, Yu Du, Deli Yao
Summary: This study established a comprehensive evaluation system for low-carbon cities and used Anhui Province as a case study. It found that the economic and low-carbon development levels have improved, while the social development level remains stable, and sustainable development level is declining.
FRESENIUS ENVIRONMENTAL BULLETIN
(2021)
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Food Science & Technology
Yanbo Liu, Zhangning Qiao, Zhijun Zhao, Xian Wang, Xiyu Sun, Suna Han, Chunmei Pan
Summary: This study establishes a scientifically reliable evaluation system for the sensory quality of Luzhou-flavor liquor using fuzzy mathematical methods and principal component analysis.
FOOD SCIENCE & NUTRITION
(2022)
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Energy & Fuels
Zhang Zhongyu, Zhang Zhongxiang
Summary: This article evaluates the development of low-carbon economies in the world's top 20 highest carbon emitting countries and establishes a corresponding index system. The study results show that South Korea, France, China, Canada, and Germany are the world's top five low-carbon economies, with China's low-carbon economy having a relatively favorable overall competitiveness.
FRONTIERS IN ENERGY RESEARCH
(2021)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Ye Wu, Jiawei Wan, Wen Yu
Summary: This paper explores the influence mechanism of environmental education on environmental quality under the background of a low-carbon economy through a theoretical model and empirical analysis. The results show that environmental education promotes green consumption and pollution control, thus improving environmental quality.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
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Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Yunlong Gao, Tingting Lin, Jinyan Pan, Feiping Nie, Youwei Xie
Summary: This paper proposes a new technique called Fuzzy Sparse Deviation Regularized Robust Principal Component Analysis (FSD-PCA) to improve the robustness of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to noise samples. By introducing sparse deviation and fuzzy weighting, FSD-PCA is able to process noise and principal components separately, thus enhancing its ability to retain principal component information.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING
(2022)
Article
Physics, Applied
Kaixin Liu, Qing Yu, Weiyao Lou, Stefano Sfarra, Yi Liu, Jianguo Yang, Yuan Yao
Summary: Non-destructive ultrasonic testing is important for monitoring the structural health of polymer composites. However, ultrasonic data often appear as noisy signals or images containing artifacts. To reduce human factors, this study proposes an unsupervised method, using nonlinear dimensionality reduction and semantic segmentation, to effectively detect subsurface defects in composite materials.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
(2022)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Franz X. Bogner, Bosque Rafael Suarez
Summary: As Cuba has achieved a low per capita ecological footprint, studying the environmental preferences of the younger generation in Cuba can provide insights into their behaviors and education. Standardized measures such as 2-Major Environmental Values (2-MEV) and the General Ecological Behavior (GEB) have been used to monitor individual preferences and behaviors. However, further refinement is needed to fully measure the environmental preferences of Cuban adolescents.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Xuefeng Liu, Li Ma
Summary: After the proposal of the low-carbon economy, countries worldwide have recognized the necessity of developing a low-carbon economy by examining their national economic structures. It is crucial to actively develop low-carbon technologies and enhance innovation capabilities. This research conducted a thorough analysis on the coordinated development of the low-carbon economic system and regional environmental issues, utilizing theories of sustainable development, low-carbon economics, and environmental economics. By constructing an index system and establishing coupling degree models, it was concluded that the coupling coordination degree of the low-carbon economy and its sustainable system development would continuously approach 1 and exhibit steady growth in the next five years.
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Environmental Studies
Boqiang Lin, Aoxiang Zhang
Summary: To combat environmental pollution, China implemented the New China Environmental Protection Law in 2015. This study analyzes the impact of government environmental regulation on the carbon emissions intensity of heavy polluting industries using a quasi-natural experiment and a DID model. The results show that the implementation of the law significantly reduces industrial carbon emissions intensity.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REVIEW
(2023)
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Business
Xiaoxi Liu, Xiaoling Yuan, Nan Ye, Rui Zhang
Summary: Enhancing energy efficiency, employing renewable energy sources, improving greenhouse gas mitigation, creating innovative technologies to absorb greenhouse gases, and eliminating incentives for environmentally damaging operations are tasks that support low-carbon advancement. A low-carbon economy (LCE) minimizes greenhouse gas emissions by replacing nonrenewable energy sources with renewable and natural energy resources. This article introduces a genetic algorithm-enabled replacement recommendation model (GA-RRM) for managing LCEs in open environments. The GA-RRM model identifies the links among energy exhaustion, requirements, and generation for emission management and uses current and previous climatic change factors to identify LCE management trends. The performance of GA-RRM is evaluated based on emission control and energy usage scenarios, and high precision is observed.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2023)
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Engineering, Chemical
Jingxiang Liu, Deshun Sun, Yeliang Xiao, Junghui Chen
Summary: A novel tensor-based common and special feature extraction method and a comprehensive monitoring framework are proposed in this paper to overcome the limitation of unfolding-based methods and handle the multiple data set and limited data problems in complex processes.
INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH
(2022)
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Automation & Control Systems
Haishan Ye, Tong Zhang
Summary: This paper explores the problem of decentralized principal components analysis (PCA) and proposes an algorithm called DeEPCA, which has a convergence rate similar to centralized PCA but with the best communication complexity among existing decentralized PCA algorithms. DeEPCA is the first decentralized PCA algorithm where the number of communication rounds for each power iteration is independent of target precision.
JOURNAL OF MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Kamila Zdybal, Elizabeth Armstrong, James C. Sutherland, Alessandro Parente
Summary: Reduced-order modeling is a method to describe complex systems with high state-space dimensionality using a small number of parameters. This paper presents a quantitative metric for characterizing the quality of manifold topologies. The metric considers non-uniqueness and spatial gradients in physical quantities of interest, and can be used in optimization algorithms to find optimized low-dimensional projections.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Aser Alaa Ahmed, Mohammad A. Nazzal, Basil M. Darras, I. M. Deiab
Summary: This study aims to develop a comprehensive circular economy assessment framework for evaluating the circularity of products and processes across various industries and sectors. The framework can handle both quantitative and qualitative indicators, achieving comprehensive assessment and ranking through the use of fuzzy logic and multiple-criteria decision-making methods.
SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
(2022)