Supported by the rapid economic development in the last few decades, China has become the largest energy consumer in the world. Alongside this, the effect of the anthropogenic heat released from energy consumption is increasingly apparent. We quantified the daytime and nighttime surface urban heat island intensity (SUHII) for the 32 major cities in mainland China, using MODIS land surface tempe...

The Emotion Context Insensitivity (ECI) hypothesis predicts that individuals experiencing a sad mood will show diminished reactivity to emotionally evocative stimuli and will not differentiate emotional responses across contexts. Previous work has primarily been limited to studying depressed individuals' emotional responses to film clips, images, and autobiographical memories. The current study...

BACKGROUND It has reached a consensus that patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) could display cognitive impairment characterized by executive dysfunction or even dementia, but cognitive spectrum of Chinese patients with ALS still waits to be documented. METHODS A total of 106 incident patients with sporadic ALS were enrolled and comprehensive neuropsychological tests covering mem...

The electron cloud (EC) can be formed in the beam pipe of a circular accelerator if the secondary emission yield (SEY) of the inner surface is larger than 1, and it can detrimentally affect the circulating beam. Understanding the underlying physics and defining the scaling laws of this effect is indispensable to steer the upgrade plans of the existing machines and the design of new ones. The si...

Este trabalho tem como objetivo apresentar o desenvolvimento e as contribuições de uma oficina temática durante a formação continuada para professores. A foi baseada em fenômenos físicos Óptica Geométrica que estão presentes no museu Espaço Ciência InterAtiva (ECI). metodologia utilizada coleta dados se deu por meio questionários entrevista semiestruturada. pesquisa dividida três etapas: visita...

Abstract Comparative law and politics literature widely recognizes the role of election management bodies (EMBs) in securing well-being constitutional democracies. Scholars have noted political desirability both independence accountability these institutions. But striking balance between two values is easier said than done. This Article highlights dilemma by focusing on India's Election Commiss...

Improving resource efficiency (RE) is an important objective of the Sustainable Development Goals . In this study we find a strong exponential relationship between economic complexity index (ECI) and RE countries. ECI measures level accumulated knowledge society enabling products it makes. The stronger for primary material importers countries with stable institutions. Assessing country's also a...