We are not on track to meet the SDGs by 2030 despite considerable efforts. Sino-US trade war and the COVID-19 pandemic raise the tide of trade protection that may also go against SDGs. To explore how ...international trade affects SDGs, this study quantifies the impacts of international trade on global energy and water inequality by constructing resource-Gini-coefficients in terms of reserve, production, and consumption. We find that international trade alleviates global inequality in energy use, in which direct energy trade reduces the inequality significantly while nonenergy commodity trade aggravates it slightly. However, international trade has a pretty minor impact on improving global water inequality. The developing economies suffer a large amount of embodied energy and water outflows. For example, BRICS exported 712.3 Mtoe of embodied energy and 130.5 billion m3 of virtual water to the rest of the world, exceeding the sum of energy/water use in Germany and France. The developed economies, especially the USA and EU, outsource energy- and water-intensive commodities to reduce domestic energy shortage and water stress, roughly corresponding to India's energy use and two times of water use of South Africa.
•Resource use Lorenz curves from economy-wide perspective are developed.•Energy and water flows embodied in international trade are quantified.•International trade alleviates global inequality in energy use.•International trade has a minor impact on the improvement of water inequality.•BRICS exported 712.3 Mtoe of embodied energy to the rest of world in 2015.
China's iron and steel (IS) industry contributes approximately 16 % of the nation's total CO2 emissions. This study evaluates the environmental impact of each step in the production process based on ...the life cycle assessment method. It then explores potential deep decarbonisation pathways, developing an integrated dynamic model to meet the carbon neutrality target. The results reveal three primary findings. (1) In 2020, the blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace contributed significantly to the global warming potential −1.77 E−8 kg CO2 equivalents per year (eq/yr) higher than the electric arc furnace—and the blast furnace process makes the largest contribution in ironmaking (8.9E−9 kg CO2 eq/yr). (2) Converter negative energy steelmaking technology has the highest energy savings at 39.07 million tons of coal equivalent (Mtce) and an emissions-reduction potential of 72.01 Mt. Its mitigation cost is 69 CNY/t CO2, followed by thick-layer sintering (30.21 Mtce, 61.21 Mt. and 70 CNY/t CO2) and the application of dry vacuum system for molten steel degassing circulation (26.17 Mtce, 56.03 Mt. and 102 CNY/t CO2). (3) Technological improvement could significantly impact the IS industry, reducing CO2 emissions through production structure improvement, technological development and ultra-low emissions technology, from 789 Mt. in a business-as-usual scenario to 516 Mt., 261 Mt. and 157 Mt. in 2060, respectively.
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•An integrated LCA and dynamic model framework is developed.•The low-carbon pathways for iron and steel industry towards carbon neutrality are analyzed.•The technological roadmap is crucial in achieving carbon neutrality.•The CCS technology helps long-term CO2 emissions reduction in the iron and steel industry.
Identifying CO
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emission from different perspectives is necessary for developing the effective mitigation policies for China. Previous studies mainly focus on exploring important sectors from ...production and consumption sides, while the perspective of betweenness has been neglected. For narrowing the gap, a new perspective for accounting the critical transmission sectors is discussed. In this study, we calculated and compared the CO
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emissions of production-based, consumption-based, and betweenness-based from 2012 to 2017 based on the multi-regional input–output (MRIO) model. A structural decomposition analysis (SDA) is conducted to uncover the driving forces of CO
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emissions change from three accounting principles. The Findings are as follows: (1) the heavy industry sector (559.26 Mt) in Shandong and Jiangsu (471.97 Mt), Power in Guangdong (83.77 Mt) and Beijing (199.24 Mt), Equipment in Jiangsu (213.88 Mt) are identified as the key transmission sectors; (2) the emission intensity effect and the final demand product structure effect contribute to CO
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emission decrease in China, which are largely offset by the structure effect of final demand source and the final demand scale effect. Based on this, we propose some typical policy implications, such as paying close attention to the production efficiency of the key transmission sectors, optimizing the intermediate product input structure and increasing investment in the technology level, and then reducing the intensity of carbon emission.
Energy and water support the three pillars of sustainable development—the economic, the social, and the environmental—in that they enable poverty reduction, job creation, and human well-being in ...general. A multiregional input–output model (MRIO) is established to estimate the flows of embodied energy and virtual water in China–US trade in 2015. Then, a structure decomposition analysis (SDA) model is used to analyze the factors affecting the differences in embodied energy and virtual water in China–US trade. There are three notable findings: (1) The net exported embodied energy in China is 94.41 Mtoe (million tons of oil equivalent), and the net exported virtual water is 4.48 Bm3 (billion cubic meters), among which Guangdong province exports the most embodied energy (17.01 Mtoe) and Jiangsu province exports the most virtual water (2.58 Bm3); these exports are mainly concentrated in the metal and nonmetal product sector (embodied energy) and the agriculture sector (virtual water). (2) From the embodied energy perspective, the input–output structure effect (63.93 Mtoe) plays the most important role in increasing the embodied energy differences. However, the final demand per capita (−20.93 Mtoe) is the largest negative factor decreasing the differences in the export of embodied energy. (3) From the virtual water perspective, the input–output structure effect (2.41 Bm3) plays the most important positive role in increasing the differences between China and the US; in contrast, the final per-capita demand (−1.78 Bm3) is the most important negative factor for decreasing the differences in virtual water.
•Embodied energy and virtual water flow in China-US trade are calculated.•Identifying driving factors of net flow of embodied energy and water in China-US trade.•Over 94.41 Mtoe embodied energy in China's final consumption originates from USA.•Over 4.48 Bm3 virtual water in China's final consumption originates from USA.•Input-output structure dominates the net export of embodied energy and virtual water.
OpenGL is a strong there-the graph develop tools,3DS format is a common format for saving there d model Based on OpenGL, the paper researches on the method of 3DS model file read, render and control. ...First it analyzes the file structure of 3DS, and abstracts the data structure of face, material, object and model by chunk structure used to read in data. The file data is read in with the method of recursion, the read data renders in screen after data disposal. The interactive control of model is accomplished by three kinds of geometric transformation, translate, rotate and scale and OpenGL select mechanism. Finally, those methods are applied into the system of the borehole operation operate simulation and drilling, and achieve better results.
BACKGROUND Selenium and peroxynitrite are known to support the growth and activity of immune cells, including T cells, B cells and macrophages. However, the role of these factors in the immune ...function of human immature dendritic cells (imDCs) is not clear. MATERIAL AND METHODS Monocytes from a mixture of blood samples were isolated using Ficoll density gradient centrifugation and purified with immunomagnetic beads before being induced into imDCs. Cells then either received no treatment (control group), or treatment with sodium selenite (Na₂SeO₃, Se), 3-morpholinosydnonimine (SIN1, which decomposes into peroxynitrite), or Se+SIN1. Cell viability, migration, and antiphagocytic abilities, oxidative stress, and protein expression of extracellular signal-regulated kinases (ERK) and MMP2 were assessed using a CCK8 assay, cell counter and flow cytometry, microplate spectrophotometer, and Western blot analysis, respectively. RESULTS Viability of imDCs was unaffected by 0.1 μmol/L of Na₂SeO₃, although 1 mmol/L of SIN1 decreased it significantly (P<0.05). Chemotactic migration and antiphagocytic abilities were inhibited and enhanced, respectively, by treatment with Na₂SeO₃ and SIN1 (P<0.05). Activities of superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase were increased by Na2SeO3 and Se+SIN1 (P<0.001). Glutathione content decreased with exposure to Na₂SeO₃ and SIN1 (P<0.05), but increased after treatment with Se+SIN1 (P<0.05). Levels of reactive oxygen species only increased with SIN1 treatment (P<0.05). Treatment with Na₂SeO₃, SIN1 and Se+SIN1 increased ERK phosphorylation and decreased MMP2 protein expression (P<0.05). CONCLUSIONS Selenium and peroxynitrite can influence immune function in imDCs by regulating levels of reactive oxygen species or glutathione to activate ERK and promote antigen phagocytosis, as well as by decreasing MMP2 expression to inhibit chemotactic migration.
Organizing and retrieving multimedia data heavily rely on the relevant textual descriptions. Multimedia automatic annotation, which assigns text labels to multimedia samples, has been widely studied. ...Among others, search-based annotation methods are well suited for annotation tasks on large-scale datasets and are studied in depth because of their simplicity and scalability. However, classical search based annotation methods address this problem by treating each label independently, which ignores the correlation between different labels in the assigned label set. This paper aims to integrate the relevant information of the label set with respect to the multimedia content and the inner correlated information of the label set into a joint learning framework. We evaluate the performance of the proposed method on MIRFLICKR-25000 and NUS-WIDE datasets. Experimental results show that the proposed annotation method achieves excellent performance.
Dendritic cells (DCs) can mediate immune responses or immune tolerance depending on their immunophenotype and functional status. Remodeling of DCs’ immune functions can develop proper therapeutic ...regimens for different immune-mediated diseases. In the immunopathology of autoimmune diseases (ADs), activated DCs notably promote effector T-cell polarization and exacerbate the disease. Recent evidence indicates that metformin can attenuate the clinical symptoms of ADs due to its anti-inflammatory properties. Whether and how the therapeutic effects of metformin on ADs are associated with DCs remain unknown. In this study, metformin was added to a culture system of LPS-induced DC maturation. The results revealed that metformin shifted DC into a tolerant phenotype, resulting in reduced surface expression of MHC-II, costimulatory molecules and CCR7, decreased levels of proinflammatory cytokines (TNF-α and IFN-γ), increased level of IL-10, upregulated immunomodulatory molecules (ICOSL and PD-L) and an enhanced capacity to promote regulatory T-cell (T
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) differentiation. Further results demonstrated that the anti-inflammatory effects of metformin in vivo were closely related to remodeling the immunophenotype of DCs. Mechanistically, metformin could mediate the metabolic reprogramming of DCs through FoxO3a signaling pathways, including disturbing the balance of fatty acid synthesis (FAS) and fatty acid oxidation (FAO), increasing glycolysis but inhibiting the tricarboxylic acid cycle (TAC) and pentose phosphate pathway (PPP), which resulted in the accumulation of fatty acids (FAs) and lactic acid, as well as low anabolism in DCs. Our findings indicated that metformin could induce tolerance in DCs by reprogramming their metabolic patterns and play anti-inflammatory roles in vitro and in vivo.
Investigating the sources, migration and proportional contribution of nitrate is essential to effectively protect water quality. δ
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Identifying CO
emission from different perspectives is necessary for developing the effective mitigation policies for China. Previous studies mainly focus on exploring important sectors from ...production and consumption sides, while the perspective of betweenness has been neglected. For narrowing the gap, a new perspective for accounting the critical transmission sectors is discussed. In this study, we calculated and compared the CO
emissions of production-based, consumption-based, and betweenness-based from 2012 to 2017 based on the multi-regional input-output (MRIO) model. A structural decomposition analysis (SDA) is conducted to uncover the driving forces of CO
emissions change from three accounting principles. The Findings are as follows: (1) the heavy industry sector (559.26 Mt) in Shandong and Jiangsu (471.97 Mt), Power in Guangdong (83.77 Mt) and Beijing (199.24 Mt), Equipment in Jiangsu (213.88 Mt) are identified as the key transmission sectors; (2) the emission intensity effect and the final demand product structure effect contribute to CO
emission decrease in China, which are largely offset by the structure effect of final demand source and the final demand scale effect. Based on this, we propose some typical policy implications, such as paying close attention to the production efficiency of the key transmission sectors, optimizing the intermediate product input structure and increasing investment in the technology level, and then reducing the intensity of carbon emission.
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