The social profitability of rural roads in a small open economy: Do urban agglomeration economies matter?

The effects of a rural roads programme depend on labour mobility, how the programme is financed, and agglomeration economies. If financed by a rural poll tax and cross-price effects and agglomeration economies are sufficiently small, the wage will rise, with some return migration. Taxes on trade act as countervailing distortions, yielding urban households some relief. Rural-urban commuting promotes the exploitation of agglomeration economies; taxes on international trade are then inferior to a poll tax. The change in the value, at producer prices, of the rural sector's net supply vector can be a poor measure of the programme's social profitability.     

Surface structure and quenching effects in BiFeO3-BaTiO3 ceramics

The structure and properties of Mn-doped 0.67BiFeO₃-0.33BaTiO₃ ceramics are systematically investigated with respect to the effects of annealing prior to rapid cooling by quenching in air. Air-quenching induces a change in crystal structure from pseudo-cubic to rhombohedral, with higher quenching temperatures leading to an increased rhombohedral distortion. These structural changes are correlated with the appearance of more well-defined ferroelectric domain configurations. It is shown that the surface preparation procedures for XRD measurements can induce significant changes in the peak profiles, indicating differences in crystal structure between the surface and bulk regions. Frequency dispersion in the temperature-dependent relative permittivity for the as-sintered sample is significantly reduced after quenching, accompanied by enhancement of the Curie point and improved temperature-stability of piezoelectric properties. It is proposed that the formation of defect clusters by A-site cation diffusion during cooling is circumvented by quenching, leading to the observed modification of structural distortion and ferroelectric properties.     

3D MHD cross flow over an exponential stretching porous surface

The present study aims to investigate the effects of thermal‐diffusion and diffusion‐thermo onan magnetohydrodynamic convective flow of viscous fluids over an exponentially stretching sheet. Thermal radiation effects are also considered in the study. This analysis is carried out in three dimensions and a similarity transformation is adopted to get a set of ordinary differential equations from a set of partial differential equations. And the Fourth‐order Runge‐Kutta method and shooting technique along with the secant method are employed to find out an iterative solution. We also analyze here the influence of the variable magnetic field, nonuniform permeability and variable chemical reaction on the fluid flow. The impact of various pertinent parameters of interest has extensively been explored through graphs and tables. The major findings of the present study are that resistive Lorentz force diminishes the fluid velocity and uplifts the thermal as well as concentration fields. Inclusion of porous matrix improves the viscous drag force which in turn augments wall shear stresses and peters out the heat and mass transfer rates from the sheet. In addition, the thermal expansion coefficient has an inverse relation with temperature.     

基于LBSN动态异构网络的时间感知兴趣点推荐

随着基于位置社交网络(Location-Based Social Network,LBSN)的快速发展,兴趣点(Point-Of-Interest,POI)推荐可以帮助人们发现有趣的并吸引人的位置。针对签到数据的稀疏性和用户兴趣的动态性等挑战性问题,提出了基于LBSN动态异构网络的时间感知兴趣点推荐算法。在LBSN异构网络模式中增加会话节点类型。通过动态元路径,在用户和兴趣点语义关系之间有效地融入时间信息、位置信息和社交信息等。设置了用户-兴趣点之间的动态元路径集,并提出了动态路径实例的偏好度计算方法。采用矩阵分解模型对不同动态偏好矩阵进行矩阵分解。根据不同动态元路径的用户特征矩阵和兴趣点特征矩阵,获取用户在目标时间访问兴趣点的推荐列表。实验结果表明,与其他兴趣点推荐方法相比,所提方法在兴趣点推荐精确度上取得了较好的推荐结果,具有良好的应用前景。     

基于乘数模型的山西省煤炭产业结构调整研究

本文通过编制山西省细化社会核算矩阵,利用乘数模型对山西省煤炭产业结构、煤炭产业和其他各个行业间的相互关系进行研究。通过乘数模型计算分解后发现煤炭产业的转移净效应和闭环净效应呈下降趋势,说明对山西省经济和对其他产业的拉动作用在下降,并且各个年度煤炭产业受到冲击后影响的产业是有差别的,经过结构化分析得出这些产业间影响的结构化路径,包括4条直接路径和3条间接路径。在此基础上,本文对山西省产业结构调整情况进行评价并提出政策建议。     

煤层气压裂井裂缝参数优化及效果评价

因煤层复杂渗流机理及低孔低渗特征，煤层气均需采取压裂改造措施进行开采。为了正确认识压裂参数对煤层气井产能、采出程度及井网部署的影响规律，从储层应力形变及煤层气解吸、扩散、渗流流固耦合分析出发，建立压裂井气水两相非线性渗流模型，研究裂缝参数、储层非均质性对井距及井网类型优化的影响，并且采用注入压降试井解释对压裂工艺参数进行评价。研究结果表明：煤层流体以非线性渗流为主，物性呈现先下降后上升的特征，存在启动压力梯度的影响；井距优化应考虑裂缝方向、裂缝穿透比、裂缝导流能力等因素的影响；矩形与菱形井网选择要参考储层各向异性系数的临界值；避免注入压降测试中井筒液面的变化及测试段的选择对试井解释结果的影响，提高压裂效果解释评价准确性。研究对煤层气压裂井裂缝、井网参数优化及提高压裂效果评价准确性具有较好的指导意义。     

山苍子精油与食品添加剂对水产品腐败菌的联合抑制作用研究

目的研究山苍子精油与食品添加剂对水产品腐败菌的联合抑制作用。方法采用气相色谱-质谱联用法对山苍子精油的化学组分进行分析;然后以腐败希瓦氏菌SM-R2、莓实假单胞菌SM-R1、摩拉维亚假单胞菌SM-T1为研究对象,采用微量肉汤稀释法研究5种食品添加剂的抑菌活性;通过棋盘稀释法研究山苍子精油与聚赖氨酸及柠檬酸的联合抑菌效应。结果从山苍子精油中检测出16种单体化合物,且主要成分为柠檬醛,相对含量为62.7%;天然防腐剂聚赖氨酸和柠檬酸对3株受试腐败菌株具有显著抑制作用,最小抑菌浓度分别为0.25、2 mg/mL;山苍子精油与聚赖氨酸联合抑菌时具有相加效应。结论将山苍子精油与聚赖氨酸联合使用具有相加效应,能有效扩大精油抑菌范围并减少其使用量,有望应用于冷藏水产品的绿色保鲜。     

Modeling Alcohol Dehydrogenase Catalysis in Deep Eutectic Solvent/Water Mixtures

The use of oxidoreductases (EC1) in non-conventional reaction media has been increasingly explored. In particular, deep eutectic solvents (DESs) have emerged as a novel class of solvents. Herein, an in-depth study of bioreduction with an alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) in the DES glyceline is presented. The activity and stability of ADH in mixtures of glyceline/water with varying water contents were measured. Furthermore, the thermodynamic water activity and viscosity of mixtures of glyceline/water have been determined. For a better understanding of the observations, molecular dynamics simulations were performed to quantify the molecular flexibility, hydration layer, and intraprotein hydrogen bonds of ADH. The behavior of the enzyme in DESs follows the classic dependence of water activity (a_W) in non-conventional media. At low a_W values (<0.2), ADH does not show any activity; at higher a_W values, the activity was still lower than that in pure water due to the high viscosities of the DES. These findings could be further explained by increased enzyme flexibility with increasing water content.     

Sustainable supply chain management in Indian organisations: an empirical investigation

The present work is an attempt to investigate the adoption of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) practices amongst manufacturing and process based organisations in India and its impact on organisational performance encompassing all three dimensions of sustainability. SSCM practices conceived in the present study include environmental management practices (EMP), socially inclusive practices for employees (SPE), socially inclusive practices for community (SPC), operations practices (OP) and supply chain integration (SCI) which were treated as exogenous variables. Organisational performance considered in this study includes five dimensions, namely environmental performance (EPR), employee-centred social performance (ESP), community-centred social performance (CSP), operations performance (OPR) and competitiveness, which were regarded as endogenous variables. The analysis was carried out with the help of structural equation modelling considering natural logarithm of manpower as a control variable. Few major findings are mentioned. EMP does not have any significant association with OPR, nor does it result in competitiveness. However, when jointly mediated through both EPR and OPR, EMP leads to competitiveness. SPC has significant negative association with competitiveness, when only direct relationship is considered. However, indirect relationship between SPC and competitiveness shows significant positive association when mediated through CSP. The resultant total effect between SPC and competitiveness turns out to be insignificant. Further, OPR fully mediates the relationship between OP and competitiveness. Managerial implications of the findings are discussed.