Methane coupling at low temperatures on Ru(0001) and Ru(11¯20) catalysts

The conversion of methane to higher hydrocarbons on single crystal Ru catalysts has been investigated using combined elevated-pressure kinetic measurements/surface science studies. The reaction consists of activation of methane on Ru(0001) and Ru(11¯20) surfaces to produce carbonaceous intermediates at temperatures between 350 and 700 K and rehydrogenation of these species to ethane and propane at 370 K. It is found that under the reaction conditions employed, the maximum yield in ethane/propane production occurs at 500 K on both surfaces. Influence of the hydrogenation temperature on the production of ethane and propane is also examined. On Ru(0001), the yields of ethane and propane maximize at = 400 K, whereas no maximum yield was observed on Ru(11 0) in the 300–500 K temperature range. Under optimum reaction conditions, hydrocarbon products consist of 16% ethane and 2% propane. High-resolution electron energy-loss spectroscopy (HREELS) has been used to identify various forms of hydrocarbonaceous intermediates following methane decomposition. An effort is made to relate the hydrocarbon intermediates identified by HREELS to the gas phase products observed in the elevated pressure experiments.     

Hownot to demarcate cognitive science and folk psychology: A response to Pickering and Chater

Pickering and Chater (P&C) maintain that folk psychology and cognitive science should neither compete nor cooperate. Each is an independent enterprise, with a distinct subject matter and characteristic modes of explanation. P&C's case depends upon their characterizations of cognitive science and folk psychology. We question the basis for their characterizations, challenge both the coherence and the individual adequacy of their contrasts between the two, and show that they waver in their views about the scope of each. We conclude that P&C do not so muchdiscover ascreate the gap they find between folk psychology and cognitive science. It is an artifact of their implausible and unmotivated attempt to demarcate the two areas, and of the excessively narrow accounts they give of each.     

A survey of the European Open Science Cloud services for expanding the capacity and capabilities of multidisciplinary scientific applications

Open Science is a paradigm in which scientific data, procedures, tools and results are shared transparently and reused by society. The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) initiative is an effort in Europe to provide an open, trusted, virtual and federated computing environment to execute scientific applications and store, share and reuse research data across borders and scientific disciplines. Additionally, scientific services are becoming increasingly data-intensive, not only in terms of computationally intensive tasks but also in terms of storage resources. To meet those resource demands, computing paradigms such as High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud Computing are applied to e-science applications. However, adapting applications and services to these paradigms is a challenging task, commonly requiring a deep knowledge of the underlying technologies, which often constitutes a general barrier to its uptake by scientists. In this context, EOSC-Synergy, a collaborative project involving more than 20 institutions from eight European countries pooling their knowledge and experience to enhance EOSC’s capabilities and capacities, aims to bring EOSC closer to the scientific communities. This article provides a summary analysis of the adaptations made in the ten thematic services of EOSC-Synergy to embrace this paradigm. These services are grouped into four categories: Earth Observation, Environment, Biomedicine, and Astrophysics. The analysis will lead to the identification of commonalities, best practices and common requirements, regardless of the thematic area of the service. Experience gained from the thematic services can be transferred to new services for the adoption of the EOSC ecosystem framework. The article made several recommendations for the integration of thematic services in the EOSC ecosystem regarding Authentication and Authorization (federated regional or thematic solutions based on EduGAIN mainly), FAIR data and metadata preservation solutions (both at cataloguing and data preservation—such as EUDAT’s B2SHARE), cloud platform-agnostic resource management services (such as Infrastructure Manager) and workload management solutions.     

DAO to HANOI via DeSci: AI Paradigm Shifts from AlphaGo to ChatGPT

From AlphaGo to ChatGPT, the field of AI has launched a series of remarkable achievements in recent years. Analyzing, comparing, and summarizing these achievements at the paradigm level is important for future AI innovation, but has not received sufficient attention. In this paper, we give an overview and perspective on machine learning paradigms. First, we propose a paradigm taxonomy with three levels and seven dimensions from a knowledge perspective. Accordingly, we give an overview on three basic and twelve extended learning paradigms, such as Ensemble Learning, Transfer Learning, etc., with figures in unified style. We further analyze three advanced paradigms, i.e., AlphaGo, AlphaFold and ChatGPT. Second, to enable more efficient and effective scientific discovery, we propose to build a new ecosystem that drives AI paradigm shifts through the decentralized science (DeSci) movement based on decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). To this end, we design the Hanoi framework, which integrates human factors, parallel intelligence based on a combination of artificial systems and the natural world, and the DAO to inspire AI innovations.      

世界主要国家工程科技重大计划与前沿问题综述

本文梳理了近年来世界各主要国家工程科技领域的重大战略计划和措施,简要分析了当前工程科技主要领域发展状况、水平,对主要国家工程科技领域计划的目标、路径与内容进行了比较分析,描绘了工程科技计划关系图、聚焦点和前沿问题。     

中国环境工程科技2035技术预见研究

技术预见是制定科技发展战略和科技政策的重要基础,德尔菲调查是技术预见中最常用的方法。本研究通过文献分析、专家建议、会议讨论等方法,从大气污染防治、水污染防治、固体废弃物污染防治与资源化、土壤污染防治、生态保护与恢复、环境监测预警与风险控制、资源利用与清洁生产7个子领域提出我国环境工程领域的45项备选技术。根据德尔菲法的调查结果,初步筛选出2035年我国环境工程科技发展的关键技术、共性技术以及颠覆性技术,分析了技术实现时间、发展水平与制约因素,为未来20年我国环境工程科技发展战略和目标的制定提供参考。     

中国海洋工程科技2035发展战略研究

提高海洋资源开发能力,发展海洋经济,保护海洋生态环境,坚决维护国家海洋权益,建设海洋强国是我国重要的长期发展战略目标。从全球视野和经略海洋能力来看,我国尚处于探索和开发海洋的初步阶段,需要将海洋资源探查、工程开发利用、环境保护和国家权益维护作为有机整体,开展海洋强国建设的顶层设计。本研究通过一系列海洋跨学科交叉和集成的技术预见分析,研判我国海洋领域的重要技术方向。从海洋环境立体观测技术与装备、海底资源勘查与开发、海洋生物资源勘查与开发、海水和海洋能资源综合利用、海洋环境安全保障及海洋开发装备6个关键领域,提出了面向2035的我国海洋工程科技的愿景、发展重点、发展战略及发展途径。     

推进绿色制造 建设生态文明——中国绿色制造战略研究

我国正处于制造大国迈向制造强国的重要历史阶段,在绿色发展理念的指导下,如何推进制造业与生态环境的协调发展,促进工业文明与生态文明和谐共生,是当前亟待解决的现实问题。绿色制造是制造强国建设的必有之意,是生产方式转变的重要着力点,更是绿色发展的重要组成部分,涵盖了低碳发展和循环发展的全部内容。本文在明晰绿色制造与生态文明建设关系的基础上,深入阐述了绿色制造的科学内涵、目标和评价体系,基于我国绿色制造已取得的成绩和现实发展困境,提出了推进我国绿色制造的战略方向,最后从顶层设计、队伍建设、创新体系、服务平台、体制机制及国际合作等方面给出了政策建议。     

中国工程科技能源领域2035发展趋势与战略对策研究

未来20年,能源科技创新将引发我国能源产业形态与特征的深刻变革。本文在分析我国能源发展背景与需求的基础上,针对我国能源工程科技发展现状与存在的问题,提出了我国能源工程科技发展的中长期战略对策,包括总体思路、重点战略任务以及主要的技术发展方向,并对能源工程科技发展的可能影响与2035年图景进行了展望。研究结果将为建立符合中国发展需求和资源特色的能源工程科技创新体系,明确面向2035年关系全局和长远发展的能源工程科技发展战略提供参考依据。     

1-D transient numerical model of a regenerator in a novel sub Kelvin Active Magnetic Regenerative Refrigerator

A sub Kelvin Active Magnetic Regenerative Refrigerator (AMRR) is being developed at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. This AMRR consists of two circulators, two regenerators, one superleak, one cold heat exchanger, and two warm heat exchangers. The circulators are novel non-moving part pumps that reciprocate a superfluid mixture of ⁴He–³He in the system. Heat from the mixture is removed within the two regenerators of this tandem system. An accurate model of the regenerators in this AMRR is necessary in order to predict the performance of these components, which in turn helps predicting the overall performance of the AMRR system. This work presents modeling methodology along with results from a 1-D transient numerical model of the regenerators of an AMRR capable of removing 2.5 mW at 850 mK at cyclic steady state.