Developing sustainable island tourism must be thoroughly evaluated in consideration of ecological, economic, and social factors on account of the fragility of island ecosystems. This study evaluated the ecological footprint (EF) and ecological capacity of Liuqiu Island from 2010 to 2015 using the EF model, establishing an indicator to estimate the value of ecosystem service and eco-security. Th...

plane-wave pseudopotential density functional theory (oft) periodic slab calculations were performed usingthe giteralized gradient approximation (gha) to investigate the adsorption of nitric oxide(no) on the (i ii)surface of cu. copper rface was stimulated using th p 'odic slab method consisting of five atomic layers.four different adsorption saes (atop. bridge, rcp hollow, and fcc hollow) were...

This paper presents a novel hardware architecture based on generalized Hebbian algorithm (GHA) for texture classification. In the architecture, the weight vector updating process is separated into a number of stages for lowering area costs and increasing computational speed. Both the weight vector updating process and principle component computation process can also operate concurrently to furt...

The replication of foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) is dependent on the virus-encoded 3C protease (3C(pro)). As in other picornaviruses, 3C(pro) performs most of the proteolytic processing of the polyprotein expressed from the large open reading frame in the RNA genome of the virus. Previous work revealed that the 3C(pro) from serotype A-one of the seven serotypes of FMDV-adopts a trypsin-li...

Human activity greatly influences nitrogen (N) pollution in urbanized and adjacent areas. We comprehensively studied the N cycling in an urban–rural complex system, the Greater Hangzhou Area (GHA) in southeastern China. Our results indicated that subsurface N accumulation doubled, riverine N export tripled and atmospheric N pollutants increased 2.5 times within the GHA from 1980–2004. Agricultu...

Purpose. We hypothesize that growth hormone (GH) plays a significant role in the regulation of the meibomian gland. To test our hypothesis, we examined the influence of GH on mouse meibomian gland structure. Methods. We studied four groups of mice, including (1) bovine (b) GH transgenic mice with excess GH; (2) GH receptor (R) antagonist (A) transgenic mice with decreased GH; (3) GHR knockout (...