Chinaʼs Economic Growth, Energy Efficiency, and Industrial Development: Nonlinear Effects on Carbon Dioxide Emissions by Donghai Zhou, Binxia Chen, Jiahui Li, Yuanying Jiang

“…Chinaʼs economic growth plays a major role in long-term CO2 emission reduction. The impact of industrial development on CO2 emissions reached a peak of 0.34 in 1977, and the intensity of the impact has basically stabilized at 0.26.…”
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An Analysis of the Physical Characteristics of the Summer Low Atmosphere in the Gobi Desert Adjacent to Bosten Lake, Xinjiang, China by Yan Li, Xuejin Sun, Hui Ning, Hongcai Qin, Jiuquan Zhao

“…A month-long field observation campaign was conducted, which covered approximately 100 km2 of the Gobi Desert area on the southeast bank of Bosten Lake during the summer of 2016. …”
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Numerical Analysis of Occupant Head Injuries in Impacts with Dump Truck Panel by Shence Wang, Deshun Liu, Zhihua Cai

“…The findings also indicate that the head peak acceleration and maximum skull stress are more sensitive to the fixing distance and elastic modulus of frame than elastic modulus of the filling of the panel. …”
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Ship Velocity Estimation in Airborne Along-Track Interferometric SAR Imagery Based on the Fractional Fourier Transform by Chao Chen, Yan Li, Kuihua Huang, Yonghong Long, Linlin Zhang, Kewei Ouyang

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Intelligent health monitoring system based on smart clothing by Chung-Chih Lin, Chih-Yu Yang, Zhuhuang Zhou, Shuicai Wu

“…The proposed system may be used for long-term health monitoring.…”
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Clinical Course and Nutritional Management of Propionic and Methylmalonic Acidemias by Amira Mobarak, Heba Dawoud, Hanaa Nofal, Amr Zoair

“…Knowledge regarding factors that correlate to poor prognosis and long-term outcomes is still limited. In this study, we aim to provide insight concerning clinical course and long-term complications by identifying possible correlating factors to complications. …”
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Ultrasensitive Detection of Ferulic Acid Using Poly(diallyldimethylammonium chloride) Functionalized Graphene-Based Electrochemical Sensor by Lin-jie Liu, Xia Gao, Pei Zhang, Shi-lan Feng, Fang-di Hu, Ying-dong Li, Chun-ming Wang

“…This fabricated sensor also displayed acceptable reproducibility, long-term stability, and high selectivity with negligible interferences from common interfering species. …”
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Hemodynamic Effect of Unequal Anterior Cerebral Artery Flow Rates on the Anterior Communicating Artery Bifurcation: A Computational... by Thomas Rau, Xing He, Prem Venugopal, Fernando Viñuela, Gary Duckwiler, Daniel J. Valentino

“…Cross-flow through the ACOM is generally unstable and results in increased WSS at the impingement region from the higher flow parent artery and a double amplitude peak in the WSS at the contralateral bifurcation region from local recirculation effects. …”
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Experimental Research on Damping Effect of Double-Layer Tuned Mass Damper for High-Rise Structure by Botan Shen, Jin Wang, Weibing Xu, Yanjiang Chen, Weiming Yan, Jianhui Huang, Zhenyun Tang

“…In this study, a DTMD parameter optimisation method was proposed, with the objective of minimising the peak displacement response of a first N-order vibration modal with a vibration mass participation factor of 85%. …”
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XTNSR: Xception-based transformer network for single image super resolution by Jagrati Talreja, Supavadee Aramvith, Takao Onoye

“…The experimental results show better performance in Peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), structural similarity index measure (SSIM), and visual quality than the state-of-the-art techniques. …”
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Transformation of Space Discourse: from Traditional Society to Postmodern Era by V. A. Shchipkov

“…The paper states that this process continued for some centuries emptying the space of myth and reached its highest peak by the end of the 19th century. The author provides a special insight on the reasons of the increased need for myth and cites as an example the emergence of geopolitics as a new discipline. …”
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Incremental Load Respiratory Muscle Training Improves Respiratory Muscle Strength and Pulmonary Function in Children with Bronchiectasis by Xiaolong Chen, Shidong Hu, Xiaohui Jia, Bingbing Zeng

“…The main results were changes in respiratory muscle strength and pulmonary function indices (forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1), forced vital capacity (FVC), FEV1/FVC, peak expiratory flow rate (PEF), forced expiratory flow 25–75% (FEF25–75%), and maximal midexpiratory flow 75/25 (MMEF75/25)) before, 12 weeks after, and 24 weeks after the intervention. …”
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Analysis of Strong Ground Motion Characteristics for the Jishishan MS6.2 Earthquake December 18, 2023 by Duan Xueliang, Liu Yanqiong, Zhou Zhenghua, Bian Zhu, Han Yi, He Jiacong, Peng Chen, Zhang Long

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Lithium inventory estimation of battery using incremental capacity analysis, support vector machine, particle swarm optimisation by Xingbo Zhang, Kui Chen, Zhou Long, Yang Luo, Yang Li, Jiamin Zhu, Kai Liu, Guoqiang Gao, Guangning Wu

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Runoff Prediction and Uncertainty Analysis for Xijiang River Basin Based on CMIP6 Climate Scenarios by WU Huiming, YAN Meng, ZHOU Shuai

“…The built XAJ model can be more effectively applied to the Xijiang River Basin, and its ability to capture peak flow is superior. In the near, medium, and long term, the runoff during the non-flood season will increase significantly, while that in flood seasons will decrease. …”
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Durable Effect of Radioactive Iodine in a Patient with Metastatic Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma by Aubrey A. Carhill, Rena Vassilopoulou-Sellin

“…RAI is believed to reach peak efficacy within 6–12 months; however, little has been reported regarding the long-term duration of benefit. …”
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Performance of Hybrid Steel Fibers Reinforced Concrete Subjected to Air Blast Loading by Mohammed Alias Yusof, Norazman Mohamad Nor, Ariffin Ismail, Ng Choy Peng, Risby Mohd Sohaimi, Muhammad Azani Yahya

“…The parameters measured are mode of failure under static and blast loading and also peak overpressure that resulted from detonation using high speed data acquisition system. …”
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Preparation of SiO2-Capped Sr2MgSi2O7:Eu,Dy Nanoparticles with Laser Ablation in Liquid by Mika Ishizaki, Takao Katagiri, Takao Sasagawa, Yoshitaka Kitamoto, Osamu Odawara, Hiroyuki Wada

“…The TEM images indicated that the Sr2MgSi2O7:Eu,Dy nanocrystal was capped with amorphous SiO2, and the shape of the completely capped nanoparticle was an elliptical nanorod, which aggregated after a long SiO2 capping reaction time. The peak wavelength and the shape of the PL spectra were not changed by the pelletization and the laser ablation in liquid. …”
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Experimental Study on Damage Breakage Properties of Shaft Lining Concrete under Hydromechanical Coupling by Weipei Xue, Zhishu Yao, Wei Jing, Bin Tang, Gan Kong, Dezhu Xie

“…Shaft lining concrete is exposed to a long-term coupled effect of a complex stress environment and high underground water pressure. …”
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Flexibility matters: Impact assessment of small and medium enterprises flexibility on the German energy transition by Anas Abuzayed, Mario Liebensteiner, Niklas Hartmann

“…Despite representing a small fraction of peak load, SME flexibility contributes to a significant reduction in carbon emissions and transition costs, as well as a decreased reliance on other flexibility measures. …”
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