Nowadays, plastic pollution attracts attention, while data on microplastic (MP) emissions to atmosphere from urban mining bases are rarely quantified. The emission characteristics of MPs in road fugitive dust from two urban mining bases were investigated in this study. The emission factors of...

Rice straw (RS) is treated by straw biogas anaerobic digestion (AD) technology to reduce pollution, but RS anaerobic gas production technology has some problems such as low gas production rate, slow digestion speed, and long digestion period. Domesticated paddy soil microbes (DPSM) is an...

Groundwater dynamics in lake-floodplain systems are complex; in particular, the role of groundwater flux in regulating lake water storage subject to strong seasonal variation is not well understood. This study investigated groundwater-lake interactions at multiple time scales using the Poyang...

Until present, the investigations on Shanghai ground mainly focused on upper clays, namely Layers 2~6, generally within 30~40 m depth. The knowledges on deep clays of Layer 8 and Layer 10, approximately 50 m and 100 m depth respectively, are very limited. In this paper, detailed geotechnical...

To design a set of suitable drip irrigation strategies for tomato production, an experiment was laid out in a randomized complete-block design, with combinations of three drip irrigation frequencies (once/day, 3 times/day, and 5 times/day) and two drip irrigation times. Six treatments were...

Aflatoxin is a group of highly toxic and carcinogenic mycotoxins, produced by aflatoxingenetic fungi which widely exists in our living environment and food, thus threatening human health. Based on the previous discovery of a biomarker and the development of its nanobody and polyclonal antibody,...

This study introduces a model that estimates the common and market-specific information flows when an asset is traded simultaneously in multiple markets. Cross-market return correlations are determined by a latent common information factor. The common and market-specific information flows are...

This paper proposed a framework of blockchain peer to peer (P2P) energy sharing and several business models based on smart contracts to accelerate the market diffusion of distributed photovoltaics (DPV). To analyze the effects of business models, an evolutionary game theory based multi-agent...

This study examines whether and how politicians’ hometown favoritism shapes local environmental governance at the firm-level. We introduce the shock that politicians return to their hometowns as leaders to show the following findings: First, only when the environmental quality becomes the...