Author(s): Su Y; Wang Z; Fu H; Yang A; Chen X; An C;

The 2023 wildfires caused serious riks to air quality and public health across various provinces in Canada, particularly during the period from May to June. This study aims to systematically evaluate the impact of the May-June wildfire events on air pollution in Canada using satellite Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) data, along with the Hybrid Single-Particle ...

Article GUID: 41520990

Author(s): Su Y; Chen X; Guo J; Yang A;

Aerosols serve as crucial indicators of air pollution assessment, and exert significant effects on climate change, ecological environment, and human health. However, the relationship between energy consumption, a significant contributor to air pollution, and aerosols in different economic development zones in China remains understudied. This paper employs ...

Article GUID: 41308902

Author(s): Pereira M; Chen X; Paltarzhytskaya A; Pache?o Y; Muller N; Bovy L; Lei X; Chen W; Ren H; Song C; Lewis LD; Dang-Vu TT; Czisch M; Picchioni D; Duyn J; Peigneux P; Tagliazucchi E; Dresler M;

Sleep research has evolved considerably since the first sleep electroencephalography recordings in the 1930s and the discovery of well-distinguishable sleep stages in the 1950s. While electrophysiological recordings have been used to describe the sleeping brain in much detail, since the 1990s neu ...

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Author(s): Gao Z; Chen X; Xu J; Yu R; Zhang H; Yang J;

Drowsy driving is a leading cause of commercial vehicle traffic crashes. The trend is to train fatigue detection models using deep neural networks on driver video data, but challenges remain in coarse and incomplete high-level feature extraction and network architecture optimization. This paper pioneers the use of the CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre- ...

Article GUID: 39771685

Author(s): Chen B; Chen X; Cheng X; Da Y; Liu X; Gao S; Kishk AA;

A dual-band (K-/Ka-band) antenna array is presented. An ultra-wideband antenna element in the shape of a double-ridged waveguide is used as a radiation slot, and a novel dual-periodic ridge gap waveguide (RGW) with an interdigital-pin bed of nails (serving as a filter) is used to realize dual-band operation. By periodically arranging the pins of two diffe ...

Article GUID: 39204813

Author(s): Cai M; Qi Z; Guy C; An C; Chen X; Wang Z; Feng Q;

Biodegradable mulches (BMs) can be tilled into soils to mitigate disposal and environmental problems. However, the content of biodegradable microplastics (BMPs) would increase with the addition of biodegradable macroplastics (BMaPs). The fragmented particles have a strong affinity to soil pollutants, having the potential to transfer via the terrestrial fo ...

Article GUID: 37104954

Author(s): Yue R; An C; Ye Z; Chen X; Lee K; Zhang K; Wan S; Qu Z;

In the present study, an innovative, environmentally benign recyclable, and magnetically mediated surface washing fluid based on water-dispersible magnetite nanoparticles has been designed and investigated for the cleanup of oiled beach sand. The characterization results showed that the as-prepared magnetite nanoparticles had a spherical morphology with a ...

Article GUID: 35780732

Author(s): Wang Z; An C; Lee K; Chen X; Zhang B; Yin J; Feng Q;

The explosive growth of disposable gloves usage in cities around the world has posed a considerable risk to municipal solid management and disposal during the COVID-19 pandemic. The lack of the environmental awareness leads to glove waste being discarded randomly and ending up in the soil and/or the ocean ecosystem. To explore the physicochemical changes ...

Article GUID: 35395312

Author(s): Wang Z; An C; Chen X; Lee K; Zhang B; Feng Q;

The COVID-19 pandemic has driven explosive growth in the use of masks has resulted in many issues related to the disposal and management of waste masks. As improperly disposed masks enter the ocean, the risk to the marine ecological system is further aggravated, especially in the shoreline environment. The objective of this study is to explore the changin ...

Article GUID: 34015713

Author(s): Song P, Huang G, An C, Xin X, Zhang P, Chen X, Ren S, Xu Z, Yang X

Sulfamethoxazole (SMX) is the most widely distributed sulfonamide antibiotics detected in decentralized poultry wastewater in rural communities. As an economically-feasible and eco-friendly technology for decentralized wastewater treatment in rural areas, vertical-flow multi-soil-layering (MSL) system was promising to mitigate the ecological and human hea ...

Article GUID: 33065414

Author(s): Yang X; Huang G; An C; Chen X; Shen J; Yin J; Song P; Xu Z; Li Y;

The groundwater with high arsenic concentration is widespread, especially in many remote areas of developing countries. Arsenic existing in drinking water sources has a high risk to human health. In this study, an innovative effort to remove As(V) from water using ceramic filters functionalized with CeO2 nanocomposites (CF-CeO2) was investigated. Consider ...

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