Electric consumption prediction methods are investigated for many reasons such as decision-making related to energy efficiency as well as for anticipating demand in the energy market dynamics. The objective of the pre...
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In this study, we aimed to investigate the prevalence of poor mental health and its association with loneliness and social support among 3531 undergraduate students in nine Asian countries. Mental health was assessed ...
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Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) is growing at an alarming rate, estimated to have risen between 3% and 5% in the last five years. Bogota, Colombia, generates approximately 5452 tons of WEEE annually, ...
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Surface ozone (O 3 ) pollution showed a continuous increasing trend during the recent decades in China, posing an increasing threat to food security. A wide range of yield reductions have been reported and thus more s...
Surface ozone (O 3 ) pollution showed a continuous increasing trend during the recent decades in China, posing an increasing threat to food security. A wide range of yield reductions have been reported and thus more studies are needed to narrow down the uncertainty resulting from spatiotemporal accuracy of O 3 metrics and extrapolation methods. Based on a high spatial resolution (0.1°) hourly surface O 3 data, here we analyzed the spatiotemporal O 3 pollution patterns and impacts on yield, production and economic losses for wheat, rice, and maize in China during 2005–2020. The accumulated O 3 exposure over a threshold of 40 ppb (AOT40) increased by 10 % during 2005–2019, and a decrease of 5.56 % was observed in 2020 due to the COVID-19 lockdowns. Rising O 3 pollution reduced national level wheat, rice and maize yields by 14.51 % ± 0.43 %, 11.10 % ± 0.6 %, and 3.99 % ± 0.11 %, respectively. A Business-As-Usual projection suggested that the relative yield loss (RYL) would potentially reach 8 %–18 % at the national scale by 2050 if no emission control is implemented. COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020 led to significantly reduced RYL for maize (0.52 %) and rice (2.17 %) but not for wheat (0.11 %), with the largest reduction (1.88 %–9.4 %) in North China Plain, highlighting the potential benefits of emission control. Our findings provided robust evidence that rising O 3 pollution has significantly affected China's crop yields, production and economic losses, underscoring the urgent need to curb O 3 pollution to safeguard food security, particularly in densely populated and industrialized regions.
Tropospheric ozone (O3) pollution can significantly affect crop yield. O3 concentrations are continuously rising in China. However, the long-term impacts of O3 pollution on crop yield over a long-term period have not ...
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Tropospheric ozone (O3) pollution can significantly affect crop yield. O3 concentrations are continuously rising in China. However, the long-term impacts of O3 pollution on crop yield over a long-term period have not yet well quantified due to the limitation of accurate spatiotemporal data and extrapolation methods. Based on a high resolution O3 dataset (HrSOD), here we analyzed the spatiotemporal O3 pollution patterns and their impacts on yield and resultant economic losses for wheat, rice, and maize in China during 2005-2020. Our results showed that daytime O3 concentrations (M7) increased by 2%, and AOT40 increased by 10% during 2005-2019. O3 trends diverged before and after China's 2013 Clean Air Action Plan between the southern and northern regions. Based on the observational data collected from literature and O3 gradient experiments in Asia, we fitted the O3 exposure-yield response curves, and then the relative yield loss (RYL) was assessed. Rising O3 pollution reduced national level wheat, rice and maize yields by 12.94-15.52%, 8.91-14.67%, and 4.13-4.9%, respectively, during 2005-2020. The O3-induced yield losses showed large spatiotemporal variations with higher losses in the northern China. Mean annual crop production losses reached 16.48 million tonnes (Mt) for wheat, 22.84 Mt for rice and 9.42 Mt for maize. The corresponding economic losses were USD 5.53 billion for wheat, 10.52 billion for rice and 1.70 billion for maize. While O3 declined across the southern China and the Tibetan Plateau, the northern China has witnessed an increased pollution and crop damage, highlighting the need for targeted mitigation policies in the northern China. Reduced O3 during 2020 COVID-19 lockdown period alleviated crop yield losses, demonstrating that curbing emissions could lessen damage. This long-term and high-resolution analysis provides robust evidence that rising O3 pollution has substantially affected China's staple cereal yields, causing considerable production an
Nanocellulose is an emerging biomaterial with diverse applications, including its potential use in food systems. Granular nanocellulose (GNC), a unique form of nanocellulose, has limited studies in terms of its produc...
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Kaiser, David I.Program in Science
Technology and Society Department of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology CambridgeMA02139 United States
Bell’s inequality sets a strict threshold for how strongly correlated the outcomes of measurements on two or more particles can be, if the outcomes of each measurement are independent of actions undertaken at arbitra...
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Ethical considerations are the fabric of society, and they foster cooperation, help, and sacrifice for the greater good. Advances in AI create a greater need to examine ethical considerations involving the development...
Ethical considerations are the fabric of society, and they foster cooperation, help, and sacrifice for the greater good. Advances in AI create a greater need to examine ethical considerations involving the development and implementation of such systems. Integrating ethics into artificial intelligence-based programs is crucial for preventing negative outcomes, such as privacy breaches and biased decision making. Human–AI teaming (HAIT) presents additional challenges, as the ethical principles and moral theories that provide justification for them are not yet computable by machines. To that effect, models of human judgments and decision making, such as the agent-deed-consequence (ADC) model, will be crucial to inform the ethical guidance functions in AI team mates and to clarify how and why humans (dis)trust machines. The current paper will examine the ADC model as it is applied to the context of HAIT, and the challenges associated with the use of human-centric ethical considerations when applied to an AI context.
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