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Amid China’s goals to reach peak carbon emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, along with its ecological civilization agenda, the synergy between the digital economy (DE) and environmental quality (EQ) in Chinese cities has become increasingly vital. Using panel data from 285 cities between 2016 and 2021, this study constructs an integrated framework to examine the level of coordinated development between the DE and EQ, measured through the coupling coordination degree (CCD) that captures the strength and harmony of their interaction. It further analyses spatial–temporal heterogeneity and influencing factors. The results reveal: (1) both the DE and EQ have improved steadily, with the CCD rising to a moderate level and showing clear spatial clustering; and (2) economic development, educational investment and industrial upgrading boost the CCD, whereas average years of education and government intervention may hinder it. Additionally, economic development and industrial upgrading have positive spatial spillovers, and a threshold effect of government intervention is observed.
The Journal of Management and Organization (JMO) is celebrating its 30th birthday, which is a significant event given how the journal has shaped and influenced global management research and practice. As part of the commemorative activities this perspective article aims to highlight how the journal has contributed to the development of several sub-management themes. Each theme is analysed in terms of articles published in the journal in terms of establishing existing knowledge then explaining future research ideas. This helps to solidify the journal’s reputation and standing in the field in order to foster more management research that contributes to both theory and practice. Novel social and business approaches to future organizational and manager’s needs are addressed. This will inspire more meaningful management engagement in order to further support the evolution of management research.
Insect pupae change morphologically (e.g., pigmentation of eyes, wings, setae and legs) during the intrapuparial period. Knowledge on the physiological age of pupae and their emergence are important parameters for the control of agriculturally important Tephritid flies. Traditional methods for determining age require dissecting the puparium, thus killing the specimen. Therefore, non-invasive and more ethical methods to determine physiological age are needed, especially if individual pupae are followed throughout their development. Furthermore, machine learning methods can be employed to detect pupal age, thereby reducing human-bias. Here, we studied the intrapuparial development of the Mexican fruit fly, Anastrepha ludens (Diptera: Tephritidae), using non-invasive near-infrared (NIR, 850–1100 nm) images. We photographed pupae and subsequently analysed the images with machine learning algorithms. The intrapuparial period lasted between 17 and 19 days at a constant temperature of 26°C, and 75–80% relative humidity. No visible structures were observed between days 1 and 3. The phanerocephalic pupa was observed on day 4. The darkening of the eyes began on day 12. Wing pigmentation occurred on days 13 and 14, and the legs and setae on the thorax became melanized on day 15. A convolutional neural network correctly identified the physiological age range of intrapuparial development stages with an average accuracy of 71.77%. This model using NIR imaging allows the determination of a physiological age range without arresting the development of the pupae, and an estimation of the viability of pupae without waiting for the emergence of the adult.
Public art is fundamental in the shaping of a city’s identity: in the city of Bologna’s case, this identity is inextricably tied to the Resistance. The presence or absence of women in monumental commemorations, then, becomes a way to either include or exclude them from this shared identity. By centring its analysis on the monuments dedicated to the Resistance’s fallen erected since 1945, this article will utilise the case study of Irma Bandiera to analyse women’s presence within the commemorative topography of the city. Through the study of two monuments, the Monumento Ossario ai Caduti Partigiani and the Memoriale alle 128 partigiane cadute, this article will also highlight the role of the local community in the creation of a shared and representative identity.
Paleontology is facing an ethical crisis related to its long history of extractive practices, including a practice now referred to as ‘parachute science.’ In this paper, I provide diagnostic criteria for identifying parachute science and illustrate them using the high-profile example of a Brazilian dinosaur fossil, Irritator challengeri, acquired by a German museum under dubious conditions. I use this case study to identify three types of harm resulting from parachute science, showing how they can be understood as a case of distributive epistemic injustice. I conclude by using this framework to point toward more ethical paleontological practices.
In the United States, in the second half of the nineteenth century, the reforming institutions of the horse-drawn-carriage trade prescribed descriptive geometry to their workshops in order to modernize the drawing process for modern carriages. This injunction, institutionally supported by the builder’s national association, professional newspapers, and education, was part of a wider movement to organize production at a time when the carriage trade was booming. In order to facilitate the circulation of theoretical knowledge within workshops that were reluctant to mathematize their environment, two trade journals translated, in the space of a few years, and on three occasions (once by one journal and twice by the other), the same French treatise on descriptive geometry written by a Parisian carriage woodworker. This paper highlights the process of creation of a mathematical translation in a professional environment. It emphasizes the significant role of the industrial and technical context that influenced the choice of translators, the writing style, and the speed with which a translation was produced and published. In the case of mathematical content that did not belong to the common culture of the trade, international circulation allowed for the direct transfer of knowledge from one national industry to another, without relying on academic sources as intermediaries.
The mandible is crucial for human physiological functions, as well as facial esthetics and expressions. The mandibular reconstruction surgery has dual challenges of restoration of both facial form and physiological function, which demands high precision in positioning and orientation of the bone graft. The traditional manual surgery heavily relies on surgeon’s experience. Although the computer image-guided surgery improves the positioning accuracy, the manual manipulation is still difficult to achieve precise spatial orientation of objects, resulting in unsatisfactory intraoperative execution of preoperative surgical design. This paper integrates computer image navigation and robotic technology to assist mandible reconstruction surgery, which empowers surgeons to achieve precise spatial localization and orientation adjustment of bone grafts. The kinematic analysis is conducted, and an improved Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm is proposed for spatial registration. A novel hand-eye calibration method for multi-arm robot and spatial registration of free bone blocks are proposed. The precision experiment of the image-guided navigation and the animal experiments are carried out. The impact of registration point numbers on spatial registration accuracy is analyzed. The results show the feasibility of the robot-assisted navigation for mandibular reconstruction surgery. The robotic system can improve the orientation accuracy of bone blocks to enhance the effectiveness of surgery.
The taxonomic status of Sphincteristomum Oshmarin, Mamaev & Parukhin, 1961 (sensu lato) and Lobatotrema Manter, 1963 is controversial due to overlap/confusion in distinctive diagnostic characteristics for each genus and morphological/allometric ambiguity among some of their representatives and/or within records of the same species. To address these in-depth, morphological descriptions, molecular characterizations, and species delimitation analyses were conducted using a combination of comparative morphology, molecular phylogeny, multivariate analyses, and host-parasite data. Following a comprehensive review, a refined restricted concept of Sphincteristomum and Lobatotrema is proposed. Representatives of Lobatotrema comprise Lobatotrema aniferum Manter, 1963 (sensu lato) and the morphologically/phylogenetically distinct Lobatotrema dronenin. sp. Representatives of Sphincteristomum (sensu stricto) include Sphincteristomum acollum Oshmarin, Mamaev & Parukhin, 1961, and Sphincteristomum nikolaevi Parukhin, 1970. The taxonomic status of Sphincteristomum mediterraneae Abid-Kachour, Mouffok & Boutiba, 2013 is problematic based on its intermediate taxonomic position between the Megaperinae Manter, 1934 and the Schistorchiinae Yamaguti, 1942. Molecular datasets are employed in an attempt to delineate and interpret more phylogenetic relationships among schistorchiines in light of differences in oral sucker nature, oral sucker shape, and oral sphincter shape. Distributions of schistorchiines in the Indo-West Pacific are discussed. Testes arrangement as a characteristic in this group and glandular components within a muscular oral sucker are presented. We comment on the close phylogenetic relationship between members of the Schistorchiinae and the Megaperinae.
The global C0 linearization theorem on Banach spaces was first proposed by Pugh [26], but it requires that the nonlinear term is globally bounded. In the present paper, we discuss global linearization of semilinear autonomous ordinary differential equations on Banach spaces assuming that the linear part is hyperbolic (including contraction as a particular case) and that the nonlinear term is only Lipschitz with a sufficiently small Lipschitz constant. To overcome the difficulties arising in this problem, in this paper, we rely on a splitting lemma to decouple the hyperbolic system into a contractive system along the stable manifold and an expansive system along the unstable manifold. We then construct a transformation to linearize a contractive/expansive system, which is defined by the crossing time with respect to the unit sphere. To demonstrate the strength of our result, we apply our results to a nonlinear Duffing oscillator without external excitation.
We introduce a novel unsteady shear protocol, which we name rotary shear (RS), where the flow and vorticity directions are continuously rotated around the velocity-gradient direction by imposing two out-of-phase oscillatory shears (OSs) in orthogonal directions. We perform numerical simulations of dense suspensions of rigid non-Brownian spherical particles at volume fractions ($\phi$) between 0.40 and 0.55, subject to this new RS protocol, and compare with the classical OS protocol. We find that the suspension viscosity displays a similar non-monotonic response as the strain amplitude ($\gamma _0$) is increased: a minimum viscosity is found at an intermediate, volume-fraction-dependent strain amplitude. However, the suspension dynamics is different in the new protocol. Unlike the OS protocol, suspensions under RS do not show absorbing states at any $\gamma _0$ and do not undergo the reversible–irreversible transition: the stroboscopic particle dynamics is always diffusive, which we attribute to the fact that the RS protocol is inherently irreversible due to its design. To validate this hypothesis, we introduce a reversible-RS (RRS) protocol, a combination of RS and OS, where we rotate the shear direction (as in RS) until it is instantaneously reversed (as in OS), and find the resulting rheology and dynamics to be closer to OS. Detailed microstructure analysis shows that both the OS and RRS protocols result in a contact-free, isotropic to an in-contact, anisotropic microstructure at the dynamically reversible-to-irreversible transition. The RS protocol does not render such a transition, and the dynamics remains diffusive with an in-contact, anisotropic microstructure for all strain amplitudes.
In this clinical reflection, we briefly overview how physicians’ emotion regulation has been addressed within communication training in the context of Western European medical undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing medical education. For illustrative purposes, two examples of recently developed training programmes targeting both communication skills and physicians’ emotion regulation are described. We also discuss the existing gaps in emotion regulation-based communication training, as well as future directions for medical education regarding these skills.
where $N \geq 2$, $1/2 \lt s \lt 1$, and $0 \lt \sigma \lt 2s/(N-2s)$. In the mass critical and supercritical cases, we establish a criterion for blow-up of solutions to the problem for cylindrically symmetric data. The results extend the known ones with respect to blow-up of solutions to the problem for radially symmetric data.
Direct numerical simulations are conducted to investigate the transition flow over a flat plate featuring pressure gradients and a three-dimensional rough surface. The rough surface is categorised into nine types based on the effective slope ratio ${E{{S}_{z}}}/{E{{S}_{x}}}$ ($ES_{z}$: spanwise effective slope, $ES_{x}$: streamwise effective slope) and skewness $Sk$, with the embedded boundary method employed for resolving the solid wall. Findings indicate that the influence of ${E{{S}_{z}}}/{E{{S}_{x}}}$ on the streamwise vortex pair counters the effects on the wall-normal shear and the two-dimensional spanwise vortex sheet. Negative skewness alone can stimulate all three components of the hairpin vortex simultaneously. The new formula for predicting the sheltering angle, which incorporates the up-ejecting segment, demonstrates enhanced accuracy in predicting the sheltering area across the entire rough surface, outperforming the previous formulation. The forward displacement relative to the drag peak of the pressure stagnation point along the streamwise direction remains unaffected by the spanwise effective slope and the skewness. In the upper transition region, negative skewness significantly intensifies both the production and dissipation terms of the fluctuating kinetic energy, which correlate with the inviscid instability of the separation flow and the viscous instability induced by the lift-up mechanism. During the early phase of transition, negative skewness is capable of producing linear modes that match the intensity of nonlinear coherent structures at intermediate to high frequencies, exhibiting quasi-orthogonality. During the late transition phase, zero skewness can give rise to linear modes featuring robust quasi-orthogonality at low frequencies.