Pricing and personal data collection strategies of online platforms in the face of privacy concerns

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Revealing cracking and breakage behaviours of gibbsite particles

Mitigating gibbsite particle cracking and breakage during industrial alumina production can increase the quality of smelter grade alumina product by reducing the ultrafine particle content. Therefore, it is essential to investigate the particle cracking during static calcination and the breakage of calcined gibbsite particles under external force. In this work, we investigated the impact of the calcination ramping rate and the crystallite size on gibbsite particle cracking during static calcination. A slow ramping rate and a large pristine crystallite size tend to increase particle cracking. Apart from the study of particle cracking behaviour, we also investigated the breakage of calcined gibbsite particle under external force. Cracks on the particle surface can initiate breakage within the crystallite and along the grain boundary under external force. The breakage within crystallite occurs as the cleavage of the crystallite, while the breakage along the grain boundary leads to the shedding of a whole crystallite. We further explored the factors influencing the strength of calcined gibbsite particles. With increasing calcination temperature, the strength of particle increases when gibbsite converts to boehmite, and then decreases when boehmite converts into amorphous alumina. Particles containing smaller crystallites and calcined with fast ramping rates exhibit higher resistance to breakage.     

甲玛地区角岩矿微生物浸出的试验研究

介绍了西藏华泰龙矿业开发有限公司角岩的矿石性质,针对该低品位铜矿石进行了详细的微生物浸出试验研究,在原矿铜品位仅为0.12%、SiO_2含量高达69.12%的情况下,用接种量为10%的浸矿菌液,浸出1 d时,铜浸出率即为34.44%,浸出11 d时,浸出率达到70.02%,此时较无菌条件下的浸出率高出17.46个百分点。     

Polyethylene oxide-polypropylene oxide -polyethylene oxide derived porous carbon materials with different molecular weights as ORR catalyst in alkaline electrolytes

Polyethylene oxide (PEO)-polypropylene oxide (PPO)-polyethylene oxide block copolymer having different molecular weights are used as precursors of carbon materials to prepare Hollow -Derivatives carbon material as an electrocatalyst through block copolymer self-assembly. The composition and microstructure of the prepared catalysts are shown by Raman spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), Test of nitrogen adsorption and desorption curves, High resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM) and scanning electron microscopy (HR-SEM). Oxygen was passed into alkaline electrolyte solution until the solution reached saturation state. With molecular weight increasing, the obtained sample gradually changed from block to hollow and spherical. When the molecular weight was 12600 g mol^?1, the evenly hollow carbon nanocages was acquired (C-12600). In O₂ saturated alkaline electrolyte (0.1 M KOH solution), C-12600's limited current density，half-wave potential and initial potential are 5.23 mA cm^?2@0.4 V, 0.72 V and 0.81 V, respectively. And most important is that half-wave potential and onset potential have barely change after 2000 cycles of cyclic voltammetry. As a result, the porous carbon materials exhibited excellent electrocatalytic activity while maintaining high stability in alkaline KOH solution.     

秋冬季节抗性基因在AAO反应器生物段的去除和水平转移过程

厌氧-缺氧-好氧(anaerobic-anoxic-oxic,AAO)反应器的活性污泥中具有高密度的微生物,抗性基因(antibiotic resis tance genes,ARGs)汇入后可能发生水平转移并向水体释放.因此,文中考察了不同进水流量下AAO反应器在秋季和冬季对ARGs的去除效果及ARGs水平转移过程.监测结果显示,秋季进水ARGs浓度低于冬季,相应的高流量组(high-flow reactor,HFR)和低流量组(low-flow reactor,LFR)出水中sul1、tetX、e rmB、intI1和16S rDNA浓度也低于冬季.秋季LFR出水ARGs浓度高于HFR,冬季两者近似.这反映了季节和进水流量会影响AAO反应器对ARGs的去除.两组反应器在秋季和冬季对不同种类的ARGs对数去除率在0.72～1.85 log.值得注意的是,虽然秋冬季节两组反应器的出水ARGs浓度均低于进水,但是LFR出水中sul1、tetX和blaTEM的相对丰度却高于进水,推测部分ARGs可能发生了向无抗性菌株水平转移的过程.因此,从控制ARGs排放的角度,需对AAO反应器出水进行消毒等处理,以进一步降低ARGs浓度与其相对丰度.     

Threshold privacy-preserving cloud auditing with multiple uploaders

International Journal of Information Security - Data integrity is a critical security issue in cloud storage. The data integrity checking schemes by a third-party auditor (TPA) have attracted a lot...