Rabbit Anti-Mouse BAD (phospho Ser112) monoclonal antibody, clone H.556.0

While vigorously developing its economy, China is attaching more and more importance to environmental protection and pollution control. In different regions of China, however, there are great differences in economic development and the degree of environmental pollution. In this study, we use the entropy weight method to calculate the pollution indexes of different regions from 2015 to 2017. Then we evaluate the Chinese regional environmental efficiency based on a new non-parametric frontier model. Moreover, a new set of ranking interval models that treat the undesirable outputs as inputs is proposed to further describe the regional disparities of the environmental efficiency between different regions with robustness. Finally, we conduct an empirical analysis by combining the stepwise regression and principal component analysis to identify the most influential variables that may affect regional environmental efficiency. According to the results, the southeast region of China performs best in environmental efficiency, followed by the northeast region, then the southwest region, and the worst is the northwest region. For managerial implications, we find that the investment of high education and the development of the IT industry can significantly increase regional environmental efficiency. More importantly, the results of the principal component analysis provide the government with a set of variables to strategically select the most appropriate strategy. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Cellulose microparticles from ginkgo seed shells were treated by high-pressure homogenization (HPH) processing ranging from 10 to 70 MPa to produce cellulose nanoparticles with different lengths. The aim of this study was to evaluate the interfacial behavior of those resulting nanoparticles using the interfacial tension and interfacial shear rheology. The results showed that although all cellulose nanoparticles lowered the interfacial tension, the interfacial behavior of nanoparticles with different lengths are different. The cellulose particles obtained from 10 MPa treatment (H-10) showed limited adsorption due to their long size and electrostatic repulsion. The strong entangled network structure was observed from cellulose nanoparticles obtained from 30 to 50 MPa treatment (H-30 and H-50). This entangled network structure probably caused faster interfacial saturation and contributed to the formation of the interfacial film with fibril entanglements. The cellulose nanoparticles obtained from 70 MPa treatment (H-70) were relatively easier to adsorb at the oil/water interface to reduce the interfacial tension and form a discontinuous monolayer due to their short size and higher hydrophobicity. Adsorbed nanoparticles layers were visualized by atomic force microscopy at planar Langmuir films, revealing the structure of formed interfacial layers is related to particle length. Emulsions stabilized by H-10 exhibited the bad storage stability because H-10 could not effectively adsorb at the interface to form a complete interfacial film. Emulsions stabilized by H-30, 50, and 70 showed the benign storage stability due to the formation of the strong interfacial film and network structure in emulsions. This study improved understanding about interfacial properties of cellulose nanoparticles with different lengths.