This paper examines the causal relationships between carbon dioxide emissions, energy consumption and real economic output using panel cointegration and panel vector error correction modeling ...techniques based on the panel data for 28 provinces in China over the period 1995–2007. Our empirical results show that CO2 emissions, energy consumption and economic growth have appeared to be cointegrated. Moreover, there exists bidirectional causality between CO2 emissions and energy consumption, and also between energy consumption and economic growth. It has also been found that energy consumption and economic growth are the long-run causes for CO2 emissions and CO2 emissions and economic growth are the long-run causes for energy consumption. The results indicate that China's CO2 emissions will not decrease in a long period of time and reducing CO2 emissions may handicap China's economic growth to some degree. Some policy implications of the empirical results have finally been proposed.
► We conduct a panel data analysis of the energy–CO2–economy nexus in China. ► CO2 emissions, energy use and economic growth appear to be cointegrated. ► There exists bidirectional causality between energy consumption and economic growth. ► Energy consumption and economic growth are the long-run causes for CO2 emissions.
In this work, A four-dimensional (4D) discrete chaotic map model based on quantum-Cournot duopoly game is proposed, and the dynamics of this map using bounded rationality are studied. It is observed ...that the stable region of mapping equilibrium increases with the increase of quantum entanglement γ. and the occurrence time of bifurcation and chaos delays with the increase of mapped Nash equilibrium. In addition, A novel synchronization control approach which adopts both linear and nonlinear feedback strategies is proposed by constructing a dynamic controller. The simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.
•A four-dimensional discrete chaotic map model based on quantum game is proposed.•The stable region of mapping equilibrium increases with the increase of quantum entanglement γ and the occurrence time of bifurcation and chaos delays with the increase of mapped Nash equilibrium.•A novel synchronization control approach which adopts both linear and nonlinear feedback strategies is proposed by constructing a dynamic controller. The simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Cellular senescence is an irreversible growth arrest that occurs as a result of different damaging stimuli, including DNA damage, telomere shortening and dysfunction or oncogenic stress. Senescent ...cells exert a pleotropic effect on development, tissue aging and regeneration, inflammation, wound healing and tumor suppression. Strategies to remove senescent cells from aging tissues or preneoplastic lesions can delay tissue dysfunction and lead to increased healthspan. However, a significant hurdle in the aging field has been the identification of a universal biomarker that facilitates the unequivocal detection and quantification of senescent cell types
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. Mammalian skin is the largest organ of the human body and consists of different cell types and compartments. Skin provides a physical barrier against harmful microbes, toxins, and protects us from ultraviolet radiation. Increasing evidence suggests that senescent cells accumulate in chronologically aged and photoaged skin; and may contribute to age-related skin changes and pathologies. Here, we highlight current biomarkers to detect senescent cells and review their utility in the context of skin aging. In particular, we discuss the efficacy of biomarkers to detect senescence within different skin compartments and cell types, and how they may contribute to myriad manifestations of skin aging and age-related skin pathologies.
A (2+1)-dimensional variable coefficient nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) is described under strongly nonlocal nonlinear media. The soliton cluster solutions are obtained by using the improved ...self-similar reduction and F-expansion method. The regulation of nonlinear coefficients on the dynamics of spatial optical solitons and the self-similar propagation characteristics of the optical soliton clusters are investigated. It is observed that dark solitons transmitted in nonlinear media show two different spatial distributions. It is also found that the peak intensity of the soliton cluster only fluctuates in a small range during the propagation process, but the soliton cluster after harmonic potential modulation has some loss during the propagation process. But the loss is not as dramatic as when bright solitons are modulated. A new kind of soliton cluster is formed after the modulation of dark solitons, which has great practical significance such as application in logic gates, all-optical devices.
•A (2 + 1)-dimensional variable coefficient nonlinear Schrödinger equation is studied.•The soliton cluster solutions are derived by using the self-similar method.•The proposed method has a certain significance for relevant nonlinear physics.
By combining angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and quantum oscillation measurements, we performed a comprehensive investigation on the electronic structure of LaSb, which exhibits ...near-quadratic extremely large magnetoresistance (XMR) without any sign of saturation at magnetic fields as high as 40 T. We clearly resolve one spherical and one intersecting-ellipsoidal hole Fermi surfaces (FSs) at the Brillouin zone (BZ) center Γ and one ellipsoidal electron FS at the BZ boundary X. The hole and electron carriers calculated from the enclosed FS volumes are perfectly compensated, and the carrier compensation is unaffected by temperature. We further reveal that LaSb is topologically trivial but shares many similarities with the Weyl semimetal TaAs family in the bulk electronic structure. Based on these results, we have examined the mechanisms that have been proposed so far to explain the near-quadratic XMR in semimetals.
Light can exert radiation pressure on any object it encounters and that resulting optical force can be used to manipulate particles. It is commonly assumed that light should move a particle forward ...and indeed an incident plane wave with a photon momentum ħk can only push any particle, independent of its properties, in the direction of k. Here we demonstrate, using full-wave simulations, that an anomalous lateral force can be induced in a direction perpendicular to that of the incident photon momentum if a chiral particle is placed above a substrate that does not break any left-right symmetry. Analytical theory shows that the lateral force emerges from the coupling between structural chirality (the handedness of the chiral particle) and the light reflected from the substrate surface. Such coupling induces a sideway force that pushes chiral particles with opposite handedness in opposite directions.
The nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) under nonlocal nonlinear media (NNM) is described and the approximate analytical solutions of the vector multipole solitons and vortex optical soliton ...clusters are obtained via the variational method. The results show that the structure of the optical solitons is determined by modulation depth and topological charge. In the propagation process, the spatial soliton has an observable rotation property. Under certain conditions, the rotating space modulated vortex optical solitons degenerate into circular symmetric vortex optical solitons. The results can be extended to other physical systems.
By using homotopic mapping method, a functional is first introduced to construct the iterative relation of the equation, and the approximate expansion on the soliton solution of the corresponding ...equation is presented. The perturbation solution of the perturbed Burgers equation (PBE) is derived. In addition, the nested breather and bright–dark solitons are constructed by using auxiliary functions and the local excitation structure of the solution are considered This proposed method overcomes the limitation of classical variational iterative methods to find Lagrange factors for PDEs and can quickly approximate the exact solution of the perturbed equation. This method is simple and effective, and it has a wide range of application prospects.
•A functional is first introduced to construct the iterative relation.•The approximate expansion of the perturbed Burgers equation (PBE) is derived.•The nested breather and bright–dark solitons are constructed by auxiliary functions.•This method is simple and effective, and has a wide range of application prospects.
HUBS: Hot Universe Baryon Surveyor Cui, W.; Chen, L.-B.; Gao, B. ...
Journal of low temperature physics,
04/2020, Letnik:
199, Številka:
1-2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Hot Universe Baryon Surveyor (HUBS) is proposed in China as a major X-ray mission for the next decade. It is designed to be highly focused scientifically, with two primary objectives: (1) detecting ...X-ray emission from hot baryons in intergalactic medium and circumgalactic medium (CGM), and characterizing their physical and chemical properties; (2) studying, based on the observations, the accretion and feedback processes that are thought to be highly relevant to the heating and chemical enrichment of the baryons in the CGM. Because of very low densities, the signal is expected to be very weak and thus technically difficult to detect. On the other hand, the spectrum of the emission is expected to be line rich, so it would be effective for detecting the hot baryons in bright emission lines. For that, an instrument with high spectral resolution, large effective area and large field of view (FoV) would be required. HUBS will couple a TES-based X-ray imaging spectrometer to a large FoV X-ray telescope to satisfy these requirements. A preliminary design of HUBS is presented.
The need for automated and efficient systems for tracking full animal pose has increased with the complexity of behavioral data and analyses. Here we introduce LEAP (LEAP estimates animal pose), a ...deep-learning-based method for predicting the positions of animal body parts. This framework consists of a graphical interface for labeling of body parts and training the network. LEAP offers fast prediction on new data, and training with as few as 100 frames results in 95% of peak performance. We validated LEAP using videos of freely behaving fruit flies and tracked 32 distinct points to describe the pose of the head, body, wings and legs, with an error rate of <3% of body length. We recapitulated reported findings on insect gait dynamics and demonstrated LEAP's applicability for unsupervised behavioral classification. Finally, we extended the method to more challenging imaging situations and videos of freely moving mice.
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