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March 5, 2021 Update: The authors have updated their funding statement to read: The authors acknowledge funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Guangdong Province Science and Technology Planning Project of China and Shenzhen Science and Technology Program.
Fireworks are used in celebrations around the world, including Independence Day in the U.S., the Lantern Festival in China and the Diwali Festival in India. However, the popular pyrotechnic displays emit large amounts of pollutants into the atmosphere, sometimes causing severe air pollution. Now, researchers reporting in ACS
Environmental Science & Technology have estimated that, although so-called environmentally friendly fireworks emit 15-65% less particulate matter than traditional fireworks, they still significantly deteriorate air quality.
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On Jan. 14, with less than a week to go in the Trump administration, federal agents arrested a prominent mechanical engineering professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Gang Chen.
Chen, prosecutors alleged, failed to disclose on a federal grant application various financial ties and affiliations with Chinese entities, including his participation in Chinese government talent programs and his service as an expert scientific consultant to the Chinese government omissions, or in federal prosecutors’ view, deliberate concealments that amounted to a scheme to defraud the federal government out of competitive grant funding that might not have been awarded to Chen had his ties to China been fully disclosed.
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IMAGE: A schematic overview of the study design. AD = Alzheimer s disease; ADNI = Alzheimer s disease Neuroimaging Initiative; ADSP = Alzheimer s disease Sequencing Project; cis-GReX = cis-genetically regulated expression; FOCUS =. view more
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A research team led by Chunshui Yu and Mulin Jun Li of Tianjin Medical University has discovered two new genes potentially involved in Alzheimer s disease. They identified them by exploring which genes were turned on and off in the hippocampus of people who suffered from the disease. The team s new findings are published February 25th in
PLOS Genetics.
Alzheimer s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that involves worsening dementia and the formation of protein plaques and tangles in the brain. The hippocampus, part of the brain involved in memory, is one of the first regions to sustain damage. To better understand which genes contribute to the progression of this heritabl
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2021 FEB 25 (NewsRx) By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Information Technology Daily Data detailed on Information Technology - Industrial Informatics have been presented. According to news reporting originating from Jilin, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “With the development of demand-side management in the smart grid, load-serving entity (LSE) plays a more important role for consumers, which purchases energy from the electricity market and sells it to consumers. Moreover, aggregated thermostatically controlled loads (TCLs) in smart buildings can provide additional demand response capacities and require efficient energy management methods.”
Funders for this research include National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), National Key Research and Development Program of China.
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