Surprise labels increase indulgent food portion size choice

Food package labels can significantly influence food portion size choice. In this research we investigate whether package labels featuring the word ‘surprise’ influence food portion size choice of hedonic snacks. Surprise appeals are used frequently by the food industry to encourage product choice (e.g., surprise menus at restaurants), but their effect on portion size choice is not yet well understood. In four experimental studies, we investigate the effect of surprise labels—without changing the level of information about the product—on food portion size choice. We consistently find that surprise labels (e.g., surprise chocolates box)—compared to conventional labels (e.g., chocolates box)—increase food portion size choice. We furthermore show that this effect is driven by an increase in anticipated enjoyment associated with the surprise-labeled snack. Theoretically, our findings contribute to literature on the implications of the halo effect in food portion size choice by showing that a surprise label triggers a positive halo effect and thereby increases portion size choice.     

胡尖山地区长4+5层油气富集控制因素研究

胡尖山地区长4+5油层组储层非均质性强、物性差异较大,开展该区储层地质特征研究,尤其是针对胡尖山地区长4+5油层组的构造形态、储层特征、孔隙类型、油藏类型的研究,分析原油的分布特征,总结原油富集区的聚集特征、重点分析分布特征及控制因素,得到胡尖山地区长4+5层油气富集的规律,可加深对优质储层形成机理和分布规律的认识,为油藏勘探开发提供有利的方向。     

Microemulsion synthesis of ms/tz-BiVO4 composites: The effect of pH on crystal structure and photocatalytic performance

In this work, BiVO₄ composites, containing the tetragonal zircon phase (tz-BiVO₄), and monoclinic scheelite phase (ms-BiVO₄), were synthesized using the microemulsion method. The effect of pH on phase composition and photocatalytic activity were investigated. Based on X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM), a ms/tz-BiVO₄ composite forms at pH = 1.0 and pure ms-BiVO₄ is obtained in the pH range 4.0–10.0. The three primary steps in preparing BiVO₄ were monitored by optical microscopy and the role played by the microemulsion on the phase composition of BiVO₄ is explained. Photoluminescence spectroscopy (PL), UV–visible diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (UV-DRS), Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET), linear sweep voltammetry (LSV) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) were employed to characterize the physical and chemical properties of BiVO₄ composites. The composite formed at pH = 1 exhibited the lowest hole-electron (h⁺-e^-) recombination rate, resulting in the highest photocatalytic activity towards microcystin-LR (MC-LR), with near 100% removal of MC-LR in 5 h. ESR and trapping experiments indicated that MC-LR degradation was mediated primarily by hydroxyl radicals (•OH), superoxide radicals (O₂^•−) and photogenerated holes (h⁺).     

Reassessing the Draft Articles on the Law of Transboundary Aquifers through the lens of reciprocity

ABSTRACT

In spite of groundwater’s growing importance, the 2008 Draft Articles on the Law of Transboundary Aquifers have yet to be fully adopted by the international community. As states contemplate the future of the draft articles, this article aims to reassess them through the lens of the legal principle of reciprocity. To do so, this article provides a framework for the analysis of law via reciprocity, followed by its application to the draft articles. Although this article primarily finds that they follow a reciprocal structure, it also identifies areas to be revisited, including sovereignty and recharge zone states.     

Retracted: State estimation of Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy system in networked control system with stochastic time delays under unknown attacks

This article concerns the event-triggered fuzzy filter design for Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy systems subject to deception attacks under the stochastic multiple time-varying delays. A sequence of random variables, which are mutually independent but obey the Bernoulli distribution, is introduced to account for the randomly occurring communication delays. In order to efficiently utilize limited network communication bandwidth resources, the event-triggering scheme is adopted. A fuzzy filter with the attacked input signal is presented. Moreover, due to communication delays caused by event-triggering schemes and transmission, the filter adopts non-synchronous premise variables with the system. Then, by utilizing a model transformation technique, the fuzzy systems are developed. Furthermore, using the piecewise Lyapunov functional method technique, the resulting criterion provides sufficient conditions to ensure that fuzzy systems under deception attacks are stochastically stable with an H_∞ performance. Accordingly, the conditions for the co-design of the fuzzy filter and event-triggering schemes are given. Finally, numerical simulation with the industrial process provided to verify the proposed event-triggered design.     

Memory-based dynamic event-triggered control for networked interval type-2 fuzzy systems subject to DoS attacks

In this article, the memory-based dynamic event-triggered controller design issue is investigated for networked interval type-2 (IT2) fuzzy systems under non-periodic denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. For saving limited network bandwidth, a novel memory-based dynamic event-triggered mechanism (DETM) is proposed to schedule data communication. Unlike existing event-triggered generators, the developed memory-based DETM can utilize a series of newly released signals and further save network resources by introducing interval dynamic variables. Moreover, to improve design flexibility, an IT2 fuzzy controller with freely selectable fuzzy rule number and premise membership functions (MFs) is synthesized. Then, a new switched time-delay system with imperfectly matched MFs is established under the consideration of memory-based DETM and DoS attacks simultaneously. Besides, based on the property of MFs, the boundary information of membership grades and slack matrices are introduced in the stability analysis. Furthermore, by using a piecewise Lyapunov–Krasovskii method, membership-functions-dependent criteria are deduced to ensure the asymptotic stability of built fuzzy switched systems. Finally, the effectiveness of proposed control strategies is demonstrated by simulation examples.     

爆破地震作用下地基的动力响应分析

通过简化爆破荷载的形式,对爆破振动作用下地基位移方程进行了推导,在此基础上给出了爆破作用下影响地基位移的诸要素,并提出了地基位移幅值在爆破作用下的变化规律,这对结构抗震工作的开展有着重要意义。     

On‐surface polymerization – a versatile synthetic route to two‐dimensional polymers

Two‐dimensional (2D) polymers are novel covalent sheet materials with promising properties, but also great synthetic challenges. The inadequacy of traditional wet chemical synthesis calls for new synthetic paradigms. In this respect, employing surfaces as inherently 2D reaction venues appears an adequate choice and has recently already yielded encouraging results. Polymerization at air ? liquid and liquid ? liquid interfaces has been reported from time to time over the last decades, whereas recent efforts on solid surfaces are less traditional. In either case, both movement and coupling of monomers are already confined in two dimensions at interfaces or on surfaces. Accordingly, this approach naturally affords low‐dimensional reaction products. To achieve 2D reticulation, monomers are functionalized with multiple reactive groups of the same or a different kind, whereby their number and stereochemical arrangement predefines the ideal structure of the resulting 2D polymer. This perspective article exemplifies different approaches, i.e. types of surfaces, coupling chemistry and activation schemes, to employ surfaces for novel synthetic routes for the bottom‐up synthesis of 2D polymers. © 2015 Society of Chemical Industry     

U.S. regulatory perspectives on the back end of the fuel cycle: EUROSAFE 2013 proceeding

For the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the reactor licensees it regulates, there are a number of contemporary issues associated with the back end of the fuel cycle including, the agency's revision to its “Waste Confidence” decision and the path-forward for high-level waste disposal. Additionally, the 2012 Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future recommendations, the future of reprocessing, consolidated interim spent fuel storage, and maintaining technical competence within the NRC in challenging budgetary conditions are addressed. I conclude that there is confidence in the feasibility of safe storage of spent nuclear fuel following the licensed operational life of a reactor and any change in high-level waste policy will require Congressional action to amend the Nuclear Waste Policy Act.