Ulva prolifera, a common green seaweed, is one of the causative species of green tides that occurred frequently along the shores of Qingdao in 2008 and had detrimental effects on the preparations for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games sailing competition, since more than 30 percent of the area of the games was invaded. In view of the rapid accumulation of the vast biomass of floating U. prolifera i...

Abstract Background We conducted a distributed lag non-linear time series analysis to quantify the association between air pollution and scarlet fever in Qingdao city during 2014–2018. Methods A model (DLNM) combined with generalized additive mixed (GAMM) was applied effects of pollutions on fever, daily incidence as dependent variable independent adjusted for potential confounders. Results tot...

Qingdao is a city located along the eastern province of Shandong, specifically east cost Republic China, establishing reasons why it considered as one largest metropolitan cities within province. Urbanization widely inevitable tendencies driven towards accompanying process modernization and industrialization human society. This research study sought to examine Impact urban sprawl on carbon emis...

A photovoltaic shading device (PVSD) is a promising technology that can both generate electricity and provide to reduce indoor energy consumption. This paper aims evaluate the performance of three PVSD design strategies in five Chinese cities by using proposed all-in-one simulation program, according parametric method. The program be used predict consumption, power generation, economic feasibil...

This paper analyzes price tradeoffs between residential quality and location factors in the Beijing housing market. Unlike most housing markets, location factors completely dominate housing prices in this market. The main reason for this appears to be the physical size of central Beijing, where travel times between different urban activity centers are comparable to typical suburban-urban commut...

Li-Bo Chen,1,2 L. J. Sham,2,* and Edo Waks3 1Department of Physics, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, People’s Republic of China 2Center for Advanced Nanoscience, Department of Physics, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0319, USA 3Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland and National Institute of Standards and Technology, College Park, Maryland 20742...

Xiaoli Hu, Huihui Guo, Yan He, Shan Wang, Lingling Zhang, Shi Wang, Xiaoting Huang, Scott William Roy, Wei Lu, Jingjie Hu* and Zhenmin Bao Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and Breeding (Ocean University of China), Ministry of Education, Qingdao 266003, China Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C0930, Austin, TX 78712, USA Depa...