Academic Articles & Research Papers

Promoting green development through improving fairness: urban-rural income gap and the synergistic reduction of pollution and carbon emission

Intervallic urban-rural income gap (URIG) poses a threat to the synergistic reduction of pollution and carbon emission (SRPC) in pursuit of sustainable development. However, prior studies mainly focused on URIG’s impact on single environmen...

Correction : Low carbon futures: assessing the status of decarbonisation efforts at universities within a 2050 perspective

Implications of climate change on freshwater ecosystems and their biodiversity

Global warming is a phenomenon whereby the planet's exposure to the sun's radiation worsens from the high emission of gasses believed to trap heat within the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the leading greenhouse gas majorly responsible...

Short‐term effects of grass–legume mixtures on greenhouse gas fluxes in southeastern US cool‐season annual forage systems

Abstract The agricultural sector contributes to the greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes in the United States. In livestock systems, grass–legume mixtures provide agronomic benefits, but their role in GHG mitigation remains understudied. This study ...

CCR4, a RNA decay factor, is hijacked by a plant cytorhabdovirus phosphoprotein to facilitate virus replication

Carbon catabolite repression 4 (CCR4) is a conserved mRNA deadenylase regulating posttranscriptional gene expression. However, regulation of CCR4 in virus infections is less understood. Here, we characterized a pro-viral role of CCR4 in rep...

Efficient electrochemical determination of dopamine in the presence of uric acid in real samples using tungsten disulfide nanostructure modified electrode

Background and purpose: Research on the detection of uric acid (URA) and dopamine (DPA) is ongoing because of the difficulties posed by their closely overlapping oxidation potentials. Tungsten disulfide nanostructures have become attractive...

Palladium-Catalyzed Stereoselective Construction of 1,3-Stereocenters Displaying Axial and Central Chirality via Asymmetric Alkylations

The concurrent construction of 1,3-stereocenters remains a challenge. Herein, we report the development of stereoselective union of a point chiral center with allenyl axial chirality in 1,3-position by Pd-catalyzed asymmetric allenylic alky...

Blockchain-Enabled Maritime-Agricultural Integration: Professional Perspectives on Sustainable Supply Chain Transformation

This investigation explores maritime professionals' perspectives on blockchain-enabled agricultural supply chain integration for island community sustainability. Through qualitative analysis of ten experienced maritime graduates with decade...

Role of Reference Frames for a Safe Human–Robot Interaction

Safety plays a key role in human–robot interactions in collaborative robot (cobot) applications. This paper provides a general procedure to guarantee safe workstations allowing human operations, robot contributions, the dynamical environmen...

The Threefold Role of the University in Fostering the Energy Transition: The Case of Bologna and Its Cesena Campus

As acceleration toward the transition to a carbon-neutral energy production becomes an urgent imperative, universities are called to play a multifaceted role: to produce knowledge and cutting-edge research for the pursuit of energy transiti...

Experimental and Modelling Research on the Effect of Prior Ferrite on Bainitic Transformation in Medium-Carbon Bainitic Steel

In this study, we investigate the impact of prior ferrite on the bainite transformation kinetics and microstructure of medium-carbon steel interrupted by an intercritical annealing (IAA) process. It was found that the incubation time and co...

Mixed Systems of Quaternary Ammonium Foam Drainage Agent with Carbon Quantum Dots and Silica Nanoparticles for Improved Gas Field Performance

Foam drainage agents enhance gas production by removing wellbore liquids. However, due to the ultra-high salinity environments of the Hechuan gas field (salinity up to 32.5 × 104 mg/L), no foam drainage agent is suitable for this gas field....

Reduced Antarctic Bottom Water overturning rate during the early last deglaciation inferred from radiocarbon records

Abstract The rapid CO2 rise during the early deglaciation is often linked to enhanced ventilation by intensified Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) overturning. The recorded radiocarbon ventilation seesaw during the early deglaciation, which des...

Methane emission offsets carbon dioxide uptake in a small productive lake

Abstract Here, we investigate the importance of net CH4 production and emissions in the carbon (C) budget of a small productive lake by monitoring CH4, CO2, and O2 for two consecutive years. During the study period, the lake was mostly a ne...

Utilization of spent substrates and waste products of mushroom cultivation to produce new crops of Pleurotus ostreatus, Pleurotus eryngii and Agaricus bisporus

Five agro-industrial residues, their corresponding spent mushroom substrates (SMS), commercial fresh and spent mushroom compost of Agaricus (SMC) and Pleurotus ostreatus (SMS GZ) cultivation, Pleurotus and Agaricus waste (stipes/mishappen m...

Diversification in nuclear engineering

Optimal planning of integrated energy system considering swapping station and carbon capture power system

An optimal planning method for an integrated energy system (IES) considering electric vehicles (EVs) swapping station (SS) and carbon capture power system (CCPS) is studied in this paper. Firstly, based on the analysis of swapping EV load, ...

Nanomaterials in nuclear engineering and radioecology

Key results concerning large-scale application of nanomaterials in nuclear engineering are reviewed. The data on redox reactions of uranium and actinides in solutions and solid-phase transformations for the development of modern technologie...

Research report on green and low-carbon development of superhard material industry

Under the background of the comprehensive implementation of the National Carbon Peak Carbon Neutralization Action, the superhard material industry energy consumption research was carried out. It aims to promote the superhard material indust...

A comparative investigation on strain induced crystallization for graphene and carbon nanotubes filled natural rubber composites

Natural rubber containing graphene and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) composites were prepared by ultrasonicallyassisted latex mixing. Natural rubber filled by both graphene and CNTs show significant enhanced tensile strength, while graphene exhib...