ORGANIC TEA HAS MORE HEALTH BENEFIT AND ENVIRONMENTAL ADAPTABLITY THAN CONVENTIONAL TEA

Organic tea is booming in China since it is regarded as a high quality and healthy product. To confirm this believing, six pairs of organic and conventional teas from six farms in Zhejiang and Fujian Provinces, eastern China have been analyzed. The results show that organic teas had significantly higher tea polyphenols and water extracts compared to the conventional ones in most cases. Catechins, especially the epigallocatechin gallate, epicatechin gallate and epigallocatechin were significantly higher in organic tea. The concentrations of proline andγ-aminobutyric acid were also significantly higher in organic tea. However, the amino acids, particular theanine, aspartic acid and arginine were generally lower due to insufficient supply of mineral N in soils under organic management. These results could conclude that organic tea is more health benefit and environmental adaptable compared to its conventional counterpart

The evolution of cooperation in the public goods game on the scale-free community networks under multiple strategy updating rules

Social networks have a scale-free property and community structure, and many problems in life have the characteristic of public goods, such as resource shortage. Due to different preferences of individuals, there exist individuals who adopt heterogeneous strategies updating rules in the network. We investigate the evolution of cooperation in the scale-free community network with public goods games and the influence of multiple strategy updating rules. Here, two types of strategy updating rules are considered which are pairwise comparison rules and aspiration-driven rules. Numerical simulations are conducted and presented corresponding results. We find that community structure promotes the emergence of cooperation in public goods games. In the meantime, there is a "U" shape relationship between the frequency of cooperators and the proportion of the two strategy updating rules. With the variance in the proportion of the two strategy updating rules, pairwise comparison rules seem to be more sensitive. Compared with aspiration-driven rules, pairwise comparison rules play a more important role in promoting cooperation. Our work may be helpful to understand the evolution of cooperation in social networks.Comment: 6 figures, 11 page

Supply Chain Coordination with Carbon Trading Price and Consumers’ Environmental Awareness Dependent Demand

Carbon emissions reduction in supply chain is an effective method to reduce the greenhouse effect. The paper investigates the impacts of carbon trading price and consumers’ environmental awareness on carbon emissions in supply chain under the cap-and-trade system. Firstly, it analyzes the centralized decision structure and obtains the requirements to coordinate carbon emissions reduction and order quantity in supply chain. Secondly, it proposes the supply chain coordination mechanism with revenue-sharing contract based on quantity discount policy, and the requirements that the contract parameters need to satisfy are also given. Thirdly, assuming the market demand is affected by consumer’s environmental awareness in addition form, the paper proposes the methods to determine the optimal order quantity and the optimal level of carbon emissions through model optimization. Finally, it investigates the impacts of carbon trading price on carbon emissions in supply chain. The results show that clean manufacturer’s optimal per-unit carbon emissions increase as the carbon trading price increases, while nongreen manufacturer’s optimal per-unit carbon emissions decrease as the carbon trading price increases. For the middle emissions manufacturer, the optimal per-unit carbon emissions depend on the relationship between the carbon trading price and the carbon reduction coefficient

Research and application of maximum surface subsidence model under the condition of repeated mining in weakly cemented strata

The characteristics of surface subsidence under the condition of repeated mining in weakly cemented strata are of great significance to the safe and efficient mining and ecological restoration of coal resources in weakly cemented mining areas in western China. Theoretical analysis, similar simulation, numerical simulation and field monitoring are used to study the migration law of overlying strata and surface subsidence model under repeated mining conditions in weakly cemented strata, and the model is applied in engineering. The bulking characteristics of weakly cemented rock and the influence mechanism of repeated mining overburden strata movement on surface subsidence are discussed through theoretical analysis. The ‘maximum surface subsidence model under the condition of repeated mining in weakly cemented strata’ is established. There is a linear relationship between the bulking coefficient of weakly cemented rock, the mining thickness of lower coal and the maximum surface subsidence of weakly cemented strata. Through similar simulation and numerical simulation, the characteristics of repeated mining overburden and surface subsidence in weakly cemented strata are analyzed. The research results show that the development law of the separation height of the initial mining and repeated mining of the weakly cemented strata is basically the same, and both show a step-like rise. The surface subsidence curve of repeated mining is asymmetrically distributed, and the maximum subsidence value is biased towards the side of open cut. The maximum development height of overlying strata, the maximum surface subsidence value and the surface subsidence coefficient after initial mining and repeated mining are given. The established maximum surface subsidence model is used to predict the maximum surface subsidence value on site. The predicted value of the maximum surface subsidence model is similar to the measured value on site during the mining process of the working face, which verifies the rationality of the ' maximum surface subsidence model under the condition of repeated mining of weakly cemented strata '. At the same time, the predicted value of the maximum surface subsidence after the mining of the working face can provide a reference for the actual work on site

Influence of a groove-structured vortex generator on the drag reduction characteristics of a multiphase pump

The oil–gas mixture pump significantly contributes to marginal oil field extraction and remote transportation of deep-sea oil. Nevertheless, during the operation of the mixture pump, it is inevitable to encounter problems like the separation of the mixed media from the hydraulic components as well as the gas phase from the liquid phase, which leads to enhancing the flow resistance of the mixed media. Therefore, this study investigates the influence of a groove-structure vortex generator on the drag reduction characteristics of a helical axial-flow gas–liquid multiphase pump under the design flow rate condition and various inlet gas content rates. The findings show that the vortex generator with diverse groove depths can prevent the separation of the mixed media from the blade suction surface effectively and minimize the flow resistance of the media in the 1/10 of the blade inlet. In particular, excellent drag reduction results were gained with a maximum drag reduction rate of 36.7% when the relative depth was 3/40. In addition, the efficiency of the mixture pump increased by a maximum of 2.1%, and the head increased by a maximum of 4.3%. The significance of this study lies in its potential to further optimize the design and performance of gas–liquid multiphase pumps. It provides new insights into the design and application of vortex generators. It offers robust support for the optimization and enhancement of gas–liquid multiphase pumps

Variations in species diversity patterns and community assembly rules among vegetation types in the karst landscape

The various vegetation types in the karst landscape have been considered the results of heterogeneous habitats. However, the lack of a comprehensive understanding of regional biodiversity patterns and the underlying ecological processes limits further research on ecological management. This study established forest dynamic plots (FDPs) of the dominant vegetation types (shrubland, SL; mixed tree and shrub forest, MTSF; coniferous forest, CF; coniferous broadleaf mixed forest, CBMF; and broadleaf forest, BF) in the karst landscape and quantified the species diversity patterns and potential ecological processes. The results showed that in terms of diversity patterns, the evenness and species richness of the CF community were significantly lower than other vegetation types, while the BF community had the highest species richness. The other three vegetation types showed no significant variation in species richness and evenness. However, when controlling the number of individuals of FDPs, the rarefied species richness showed significant differences and ranked as BF > SL > MTSF > CBMF > CF, highlighting the importance of considering the impacts of abundance. Additionally, the community assembly of climax communities (CF or BF) was dominated by stochastic processes such as species dispersal or species formation, whereas deterministic processes (habitat filtering) dominated the secondary forests (SL, MTSF, and CBMF). These findings proved that community assembly differs mainly between the climax community and other communities. Hence, it is crucial to consider the biodiversity and of the potential underlying ecological processes together when studying regional ecology and management, particularly in heterogeneous ecosystems