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The relationships between PM2.5 and meteorological factors in China: Seasonal and regional variations
The interactions between PM2.5 and meteorological factors play a crucial role
in air pollution analysis. However, previous studies that have researched the
relationships between PM2.5 concentration and meteorological conditions have
been mainly confined to a certain city or district, and the correlation over
the whole of China remains unclear. Whether or not spatial and seasonal
variations exit deserves further research. In this study, the relationships
between PM2.5 concentration and meteorological factors were investigated in 74
major cities in China for a continuous period of 22 months from February 2013
to November 2014, at season, year, city, and regional scales, and the spatial
and seasonal variations were analyzed. The meteorological factors were relative
humidity (RH), temperature (TEM), wind speed (WS), and surface pressure (PS).
We found that spatial and seasonal variations of their relationships with PM2.5
do exist. Spatially, RH is positively correlated with PM2.5 concentration in
North China and Urumqi, but the relationship turns to negative in other areas
of China. WS is negatively correlated with PM2.5 everywhere expect for Hainan
Island. PS has a strong positive relationship with PM2.5 concentration in
Northeast China and Mid-south China, and in other areas the correlation is
weak. Seasonally, the positive correlation between PM2.5 concentration and RH
is stronger in winter and spring. TEM has a negative relationship with PM2.5 in
autumn and the opposite in winter. PS is more positively correlated with PM2.5
in autumn than in other seasons. Our study investigated the relationships
between PM2.5 and meteorological factors in terms of spatial and seasonal
variations, and the conclusions about the relationships between PM2.5 and
meteorological factors are more comprehensive and precise than before.Comment: 3 tables, 13 figure
Eeg experimental study on the infl uence of learning activity design on learning effect
With the rapid development of new media, online learning has become an indispensable form of educational practice all over
the world. A large number of studies and practices have shown that the gamifi cation of online learning has improved students’ engagement
and attention to a certain extent, but there are still some problems in some aspects. This study intends to use EEG interaction technology to
monitor students’ learning situation in real time, and study the infl uence of diff erent learning activity designs on students’ learning effi ciency
and continuous learning willingness through the design of diff erent elements of learning activities, such as learning knowledge density
design and knowledge quantity design. To further understand the learning effi ciency and continuous learning willingness of students when
they participate in diff erent learning activities, propose and verify the relationships and principles between diff erent parameters, and provide
scientifi c methods and theoretical basis for the design of gamifi ed education system
Maximizing the minimum and maximum forcing numbers of perfect matchings of graphs
Let be a simple graph with vertices and a perfect matching. The
forcing number of a perfect matching of is the smallest
cardinality of a subset of that is contained in no other perfect matching
of . Among all perfect matchings of , the minimum and maximum values
of are called the minimum and maximum forcing numbers of , denoted
by and , respectively. Then . Che and Chen
(2011) proposed an open problem: how to characterize the graphs with
. Later they showed that for bipartite graphs , if and
only if is complete bipartite graph . In this paper, we solve the
problem for general graphs and obtain that if and only if is a
complete multipartite graph or ( with arbitrary additional
edges in the same partite set). For a larger class of graphs with
we show that is -connected and a brick (3-connected and
bicritical graph) except for . In particular, we prove that the
forcing spectrum of each such graph is continued by matching 2-switches and
the minimum forcing numbers of all such graphs form an integer interval
from to
Human Mobility Trends during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States
In March of this year, COVID-19 was declared a pandemic and it continues to
threaten public health. This global health crisis imposes limitations on daily
movements, which have deteriorated every sector in our society. Understanding
public reactions to the virus and the non-pharmaceutical interventions should
be of great help to fight COVID-19 in a strategic way. We aim to provide
tangible evidence of the human mobility trends by comparing the day-by-day
variations across the U.S. Large-scale public mobility at an aggregated level
is observed by leveraging mobile device location data and the measures related
to social distancing. Our study captures spatial and temporal heterogeneity as
well as the sociodemographic variations regarding the pandemic propagation and
the non-pharmaceutical interventions. All mobility metrics adapted capture
decreased public movements after the national emergency declaration. The
population staying home has increased in all states and becomes more stable
after the stay-at-home order with a smaller range of fluctuation. There exists
overall mobility heterogeneity between the income or population density groups.
The public had been taking active responses, voluntarily staying home more, to
the in-state confirmed cases while the stay-at-home orders stabilize the
variations. The study suggests that the public mobility trends conform with the
government message urging to stay home. We anticipate our data-driven analysis
offers integrated perspectives and serves as evidence to raise public awareness
and, consequently, reinforce the importance of social distancing while
assisting policymakers.Comment: 11 pages, 9 figure
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