The desert steppe in Inner Mongolia is an important part of the temperate grasslands in Central Asia and plays a key role in sustaining the regional pastoral livelihood and securing the ecological environment in northern China.Grassland net primary productivity (NPP) is an important indicator to ecosystem health, and is largely affected by the vari

Distance education is fast emerging as an alternative method for course delivery, thereby increases access to higher education at the national and international level.Distance education adopts a multimedia approach to instruction which differentiates it from the conventional mode of teaching-learning.The present study was undertaken to examine the

Abstract Most existing production vehicle tracking services rely on the Global Positioning System (GPS) and a proprietary server/client infrastructure.This type of inflexible and centralized architecture incurs severe vender-dependency and high service cost.In this paper, we propose a cost-effective decentralized vehicle remote positioning and trac

Driven by the pain points of the organic food supply chain, which has been plagued by counterfeiting and difficulties in pursuing accountability, this paper investigates a secondary organic food supply chain consisting of suppliers and retailers and establishes two supply chain models under the traditional model and in the blockchain traceability c

We have developed a practical-scale dry disassembling process to dismantle PWR (Pressurized Water Reactor) spent nuclear fuel assembly in the order of several tens of kilograms of heavy metal/batch to supply rod-cuts (cladding tube Liebherr IKBP2760 BioFresh Performance 140cm Built In Integrated Larder Fridge and UO2 pellets) for mechanical decladd