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Fighting coal — Effectiveness of coal-replacement programs for residential heating in China: Empirical findings from a household survey
Household fuel substitution has been a crucial step for controlling air pollution in China, but the performance evaluation of household fuel substitution policies is overlooked. This study capitalized on the opportunity to use data collected during the household coal-replacement program in North China to evaluate the effect of a mandatory policy on fuel substitution at the micro-level. The results indicate that there is a significant effect of the coal-replacement program on fuel substitution, as we expected. The coal-to-electricity policy is effective in achieving the goal of a clean winter but not a warm winter due to the decline of delivered energy, while the high-quality coal replacement policy results in better performance in delivered energy but no improvement in indoor air quality. It is recommended to prioritize supporting measures on both the supply and demand sides before implementation, along with undertaking differential measures during the implementation phase to better address energy inequality
Neighborhood Matching Network for Entity Alignment
Structural heterogeneity between knowledge graphs is an outstanding challenge
for entity alignment. This paper presents Neighborhood Matching Network (NMN),
a novel entity alignment framework for tackling the structural heterogeneity
challenge. NMN estimates the similarities between entities to capture both the
topological structure and the neighborhood difference. It provides two
innovative components for better learning representations for entity alignment.
It first uses a novel graph sampling method to distill a discriminative
neighborhood for each entity. It then adopts a cross-graph neighborhood
matching module to jointly encode the neighborhood difference for a given
entity pair. Such strategies allow NMN to effectively construct
matching-oriented entity representations while ignoring noisy neighbors that
have a negative impact on the alignment task. Extensive experiments performed
on three entity alignment datasets show that NMN can well estimate the
neighborhood similarity in more tough cases and significantly outperforms 12
previous state-of-the-art methods.Comment: 11 pages, accepted by ACL 202
Stable nontrivial Z2 topology in ultrathin Bi (111) films: a first-principles study
Recently, there have been intense efforts in searching for new topological
insulator (TI) materials. Based on first-principles calculations, we find that
all the ultrathin Bi (111) films are characterized by a nontrivial Z2 number
independent of the film thickness, without the odd-even oscillation of
topological triviality as commonly perceived. The stable nontrivial Z2 topology
is retained by the concurrent band gap inversions at multiple
time-reversal-invariant k-points and associated with the intermediate
inter-bilayer coupling of the multi-bilayer Bi film. Our calculations further
indicate that the presence of metallic surface states in thick Bi(111) films
can be effectively removed by surface adsorption.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
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