The ways in which environmental priorities are framed are varied and influenced by political forces. One technological advance--the proliferation of government open data portals (ODPs)--has the potential to improve governance through facilitating access to data. Yet it is also known that the data hosted on ODPs may simply reflect the goals and interests of multiple levels of political power. In this article, I use traditional statistical correlation and regression techniques along with newer natural language processing and machine learning algorithms to analyze the corpus of datasets hosted on government ODPs (total: 49,066) to extract patterns that relate scales of governance and political liberalism/conservatism to the priorities and meaning attached to environmental issues. I find that state-level and municipal-level ODPs host different categories of environmental datasets, with municipal-level ODPs generally hosting more datasets pertaining to services and amenities and state-level ODPs hosting more datasets pertaining to resource protection and extraction. Stronger trends were observed for the influences of political conservatism/liberalism among state-level ODPs than for municipal-level ODPs. 相似文献
Sr0.9La0.1TiO3 based textured ceramics (SLTT-S3T) with a texture fraction of 0.81 are successfully fabricated by the reactive template grain growth method, in which Sr0.9La0.1TiO3/20 wt%Ti was used as matrix and 10 wt% plate-like Sr3Ti2O7 template seeds were used as templates. The phase transition, microstructure evolution, and the anisotropic thermoelectric properties of SLTT-S3T ceramics were investigated. The results show that the ceramics are mainly composed of Sr0.9La0.1TiO3 and rutile TiO2 phases. Grains grow with a preferred orientation along (h00). A maximum ZT of 0.26 at 1073 K was achieved in the direction perpendicular to the tape casting direction. The low lattice thermal conductivity of 1.9 W/(m K) at 1073 K was obtained decreased by 34%, 40%, and 38% compared with non-textured, SrTiO3 and Sr0.9La0.1TiO3 ceramics prepared by the same process, can be attributed to the enhanced phonon scattering by the complex multi-scale boundaries and interfaces. This work provides a strategy of microstructural design for thermoelectric oxides to decrease intrinsic lattice thermal conductivity and further regulate thermoelectric properties via texture engineering. 相似文献
In this work, adsorption of H2 molecules on heteroborospherene C2v C4B32 decorated by alkali atoms (Li) is studied by density functional theory calculations. The interaction between Li atoms and C4B32 is found to be strong, so that it prevents agglomeration of the former. An introduced hydrogen molecule tilts toward the Li atoms and is stably adsorbed on C4B32. It is obtained that Li4C4B32 can store up to 12H2 molecules with hydrogen uptake capacity of 5.425 wt% and average adsorption energy of ?0.240 eV per H2. Dynamics simulation results show that 6H2 molecules can be successfully released at 300 K. Obtained results demonstrate that Li decorated C4B32 is a promising material for reversible hydrogen storage. 相似文献
In this study, seven different filler materials in different proportions were added to a Ba-Ca-Si glass matrix “H” to investigate new sealant with higher thermal expansion coefficient (CTE) value and good sealing performance for application in oxygen transport membrane (OTM). SrTi0.75Fe0.25O3-δ (STF25) was used as an OTM, and the sealing partners were ferritic steel Aluchrom and pre-oxidized Aluchrom. Compatibility tests were carried out to investigate the feasibility of the composites. Higher CTE values were found in dilatometer tests on composite samples by adding 40 wt% Ag (HAg40) and 30 wt% Ni-Cr (HNC30). Gas-tightness measurements of sandwiched samples produced appropriate helium leakage rates in the range of 10?6 mbar·l·s?1. Sealing behaviour of sealants HAg40 and HNC30 were investigated by joining STF25 and as-delivered/pre-oxidized Aluchrom together. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) on cross-sections of the joints revealed a homogeneous microstructure and good adherence of the glass sealants to support metals and STF25. 相似文献
In this work, Zn-Ni co-modified LiMg0.9Zn0.1-xNixPO4 (x = 0–0.1) microwave dielectric ceramics were fabricated using a solid state synthesis route. Rietveld refinement of the XRD data revealed that all ceramic samples have formed a single phase with olivine structure. SEM images showed that the samples have a dense microstructure, that agrees with the measured relative density of 97.73 %. Based on the complex chemical bond theory, Raman and infrared reflectance spectra, we postulate that εr is mainly affected by the ionic polarizability, lattice and bond energy, while P-O bond plays a decisive role in Q×f and τf value. Optimum properties of Q×f ~ 153,500 GHz, εr ~ 7.13 and τf ~ ?59 ppm/°C were achieved for the composition LiMg0.9Zn0.06Ni0.04PO4 sintered at 875 ℃ for 2 h. This set of properties makes these ceramics an excellent candidate for LTCC, wave-guide filters and antennas for 5 G/6 G communication applications. 相似文献
The nanocrystals play a critical role in generating and affecting functionalities of glass materials. Therefore, scientists have made considerable efforts in clarifying microscopic mechanisms of nanocrystal formation in glass to obtain the desired type of nanocrystals. However, the phase transitions of nanocrystals during heating have not been well understood. Here we report on a discovery of the reversible melting-formation of nanocrystals in an oxyfluoride germanate glass during heating-cooling circles. Using a differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), we detected a striking endothermic event at 925 K during heating, after the glass underwent a DSC upscan to a temperature between 925–986 K and subsequent cooling. Based on Raman spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy, the endotherm is attributed to the melting of nano-crystal BaGeF6 (˜20 nm). An exothermal response was observed at 890 K during the DSC downscan, implying the re-formation of BaGeF6 nano-crystals. This suggests that the melting-formation of BaGeF6 nano-crystals is a typical first-order transition. 相似文献
This work investigated the effect of replacing Zn2+ ions with Cd2+ ions on the microstructure and electromagnetic properties of NiZnCo ferrites. The studies show that the Cd2+ ions substituted for Zn2+ ions at the A sites (tetrahedral sites) of the ferrite lattice. The large ionic radius of the Cd2+ ions can cause lattice distortion. Concurrently, the low melting point of CdO can effectively reduce the sintering temperature of NiZnCo ferrite, thereby significantly changing the magnetoelectric properties of NiZnCo ferrite. These changes are mainly manifested as the decrease in the saturation magnetization (Ms) from 66.6 to 58.5 emu/g and the increase in coercivity (Hc) from 31.2 to 34.8 Oe. The dielectric constant increases considerably, dielectric loss tanδ gradually decreases from 4.71 to 0.83 at 10 kHz, and DC resistivity ρ decreases considerably from 8.0 × 104 to 1.61 × 104 Ω m. Therefore, the substitution of Cd2+ ions in NiZnCo ferrite provides excellent electrical and magnetic properties, which provide a reference for the development of high-frequency miniaturized electronic equipment. 相似文献
Microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi play essential roles in many application fields, like biotechnique, medical technique and industrial domain. Microorganism counting techniques are crucial in microorganism analysis, helping biologists and related researchers quantitatively analyze the microorganisms and calculate their characteristics, such as biomass concentration and biological activity. However, traditional microorganism manual counting methods, such as plate counting method, hemocytometry and turbidimetry, are time-consuming, subjective and need complex operations, which are difficult to be applied in large-scale applications. In order to improve this situation, image analysis is applied for microorganism counting since the 1980s, which consists of digital image processing, image segmentation, image classification and suchlike. Image analysis-based microorganism counting methods are efficient comparing with traditional plate counting methods. In this article, we have studied the development of microorganism counting methods using digital image analysis. Firstly, the microorganisms are grouped as bacteria and other microorganisms. Then, the related articles are summarized based on image segmentation methods. Each part of the article is reviewed by methodologies. Moreover, commonly used image processing methods for microorganism counting are summarized and analyzed to find common technological points. More than 144 papers are outlined in this article. In conclusion, this paper provides new ideas for the future development trend of microorganism counting, and provides systematic suggestions for implementing integrated microorganism counting systems in the future. Researchers in other fields can refer to the techniques analyzed in this paper.