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BACKGROUND & AIMS: Gut microbiota is closely related to the occurrence and development of colorectal cancer (CRC). However, the differences in bacterial co-abundance groups (CAGs) between tumor tissue (TT) and normal tissue (NT), as well as their associations with clinical features, are needed to be clarified. METHODS: Bacterial 16 S rRNA sequencing was performed by using TT samples and NT samples of 251 patients with colorectal cancer. Microbial diversity, taxonomic characteristics, microbial composition, and functional pathways were compared between TT and NT. Hierarchical clustering was used to construct CAGs. RESULTS: Four CAGs were grouped in the hierarchical cluster analysis. CAG 2, which was mainly comprised of pathogenic bacteria, was significantly enriched in TT samples (2.27% in TT vs. 0.78% in NT, p < 0.0001). CAG 4, which was mainly comprised of non-pathogenic bacteria, was significantly enriched in NT samples (0.62% in TT vs. 0.79% in NT, p = 0.0004). In addition, CAG 2 was also significantly associated with tumor microsatellite instability (13.2% in unstable vs. 2.0% in stable, p = 0.016), and CAG 4 was positively correlated with the level of CA199 (r = 0.17, p = 0.009). CONCLUSIONS: Our research will deepen our understanding of the interactions among multiple bacteria and offer insights into the potential mechanism of NT to TT transition.
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Bacterias , Neoplasias Colorrectales , Microbioma Gastrointestinal , ARN Ribosómico 16S , Humanos , Neoplasias Colorrectales/microbiología , Bacterias/clasificación , Bacterias/genética , Bacterias/aislamiento & purificación , Masculino , Microbioma Gastrointestinal/genética , Femenino , ARN Ribosómico 16S/genética , Persona de Mediana Edad , Anciano , Inestabilidad de Microsatélites , Adulto , ADN Bacteriano/genética , Anciano de 80 o más Años , Filogenia , Análisis por ConglomeradosRESUMEN
Observational ostracism, as a form of social exclusion, can significantly affect human behavior. However, the effects of observed ostracism on risky and ambiguous decision-making and the underlying neural mechanisms remain unclear. This event-related potential study investigated these issues by involving participants in a wheel-of- fortune task, considering observed ostracism and inclusion contexts. The results showed that the cue-P3 component was more enhanced during the choice phase for risky decisions than for ambiguous decisions in the observed inclusion contexts but not in the observed ostracism contexts. During the outcome evaluation phase, feedback-related negativity amplitudes following both risky and ambiguous decisions were higher in the no-gain condition than in the gain condition in the observed inclusion context. In contrast, this effect was only observed following risky decisions in the observed ostracism context. The feedback-P3 component did not exhibit an observed ostracism effect in risky and ambiguous decision-making tasks. Risk levels further modulated the cue-P3 and feedback-related negativity components, while ambiguity levels further modulated the feedback-P3 components. These findings demonstrate a neural dissociation between risk and ambiguity decision-making during observed ostracism that unfolds from the choice phase to the outcome evaluation phase.
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Toma de Decisiones , Electroencefalografía , Asunción de Riesgos , Humanos , Masculino , Femenino , Toma de Decisiones/fisiología , Adulto Joven , Adulto , Potenciales Evocados/fisiología , Encéfalo/fisiología , Aislamiento Social/psicología , Señales (Psicología)RESUMEN
In China, the co-incineration of municipal solid waste (MSW) with industrial organic solid waste (IOSW) is increasingly adopted. Compared with MSW, IOSW contains higher levels of sulfur (S) and chlorine (Cl), presenting significant challenges for controlling S/Cl emissions in MSW incineration plants. In this study, the impact of co-incinerating IOSW was investigated in a 500 t/d incinerator grate, focusing on the emissions and transformation behaviors of S/Cl. IOSW, with a consistent sulfur content of about 0.22 wt% and a more variable chlorine content averaging 0.53 wt%, contains over 40 % organic sulfur and >90 % organic chlorine, higher than in MSW. The results of co-incineration experiments showed that the median SO2 concentration in the flue gas was stable at 50 mg/m3, while HCl concentration decreased initially and then increased as the co-incineration ratio of IOSW rose from 20 % to 40 %. Furthermore, the concentrations of SO2 and HCl were not significantly influenced by wind flow but were positively affected by the rising furnace temperatures. Besides, the co-incineration ratio had minimal impact on sulfur in fly ash before deacidification, primarily derived from the gas stream. However, the (Na + K)/Cl ratio in fly ash progressively increased from 1.5 to 1.9, and the Ca content decreased from 0.35 % to 0.15 % as the co-incineration ratio rose to 40 %, indicating more chlorine migration into the fly ash at higher co-incineration rates. This research offers essential guidance for effectively controlling pollutant emissions during the co-incineration of IOSW, specifically the S/Cl pollutants.
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People prefer active decision-making and induce greater emotional feelings than computer-based passive mode, yet the modulation of decision-making mode on outcome evaluation remains unknown. The present study adopted event-related potentials to investigate the discrepancies in active and computer-based passive mode on outcome evaluation using a card gambling task. The subjective rating results showed that active mode elicited more cognitive effort and stronger emotional feelings than passive mode. For received outcomes, we observed no significant Feedback-Related Negativity (FRN) effect on difference waveshapes (d-FRN) between the 2 modes, but active decision-making elicited larger P300 amplitudes than the passive mode. For unchosen card outcomes, the results revealed larger d-FRN amplitudes of relative valences (Superior - Inferior) in responses to negative feedback in active mode than in passive mode. The averaged P300 results revealed an interplay among outcome feedback, decision-making mode, and relative valence, and the average P300 amplitude elicited by the received loss outcome in the active mode partially mediated the relationship between subjective cognitive effort and negative emotion ratings on loss. Our findings indicate discrepancies between active and computer-based passive modes, and cognitive effort and emotional experience involved in outcome evaluation.
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Toma de Decisiones , Electroencefalografía , Humanos , Electroencefalografía/métodos , Autoinforme , Emociones , Potenciales Evocados , Retroalimentación Psicológica , Computadores , EncéfaloRESUMEN
Sleep loss robustly disrupts mood and emotion regulation in healthy individuals but can have a transient antidepressant effect in a subset of patients with depression. The neural mechanisms underlying this paradoxical effect remain unclear. Previous studies suggest that the amygdala and dorsal nexus (DN) play key roles in depressive mood regulation. Here, we used functional MRI to examine associations between amygdala- and DN-related resting-state connectivity alterations and mood changes after one night of total sleep deprivation (TSD) in both healthy adults and patients with major depressive disorder using strictly controlled in-laboratory studies. Behavioral data showed that TSD increased negative mood in healthy participants but reduced depressive symptoms in 43% of patients. Imaging data showed that TSD enhanced both amygdala- and DN-related connectivity in healthy participants. Moreover, enhanced amygdala connectivity to the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) after TSD associated with better mood in healthy participants and antidepressant effects in depressed patients. These findings support the key role of the amygdala-cingulate circuit in mood regulation in both healthy and depressed populations and suggest that rapid antidepressant treatment may target the enhancement of amygdala-ACC connectivity.
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Trastorno Depresivo Mayor , Adulto , Humanos , Trastorno Depresivo Mayor/diagnóstico por imagen , Trastorno Depresivo Mayor/tratamiento farmacológico , Privación de Sueño/diagnóstico por imagen , Amígdala del Cerebelo/diagnóstico por imagen , Giro del Cíngulo/diagnóstico por imagen , Antidepresivos/farmacología , Antidepresivos/uso terapéutico , Imagen por Resonancia Magnética/métodosRESUMEN
Humans may behave in different manners when making decisions with friends and strangers. Whether the interpersonal relationship and the characteristics of the individuals in the group affected the group decision-making under uncertainty in the real-time interaction remains unknown. Using the turn-based Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART), the present study examined the group decision-making propensity under uncertainty with partners in different interpersonal relationships and interpersonal orientations. Corresponding inter-brain synchronization (IBS) patterns at the prefrontal cortex (PFC) were also uncovered with the fNIRS-based hyperscanning approach. Behavioral results identified that dyads in the friend group exhibited the uncertainty-averse propensity when comparing with the stranger group. The fNIRS results reported that feedback-related IBS at the left inferior frontal gyrus (l-IFG) and medial frontopolar cortex (mFPC) during different feedbacks was modulated by interpersonal relationships. The IBS at all channels in the PFC during the positive and negative feedbacks, respectively, predicted the decision-making propensity under uncertainty in the stranger and friend groups based on the support vector machine (SVM) algorithm. The moderating role of the social value orientation (SVO) was also verified in the mediation effect of the dyad closeness on the decision-making propensity under uncertainty via the IBS at the right lateral frontopolar cortex (r-FPC). These findings demonstrated disparate behavioral responses and inter-brain synchronization patterns underlying group decision-making under uncertainty with partners in different interpersonal relationships.
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Mapeo Encefálico , Humanos , Encéfalo/fisiología , Mapeo Encefálico/métodos , Relaciones Interpersonales , Corteza Prefrontal/diagnóstico por imagen , Corteza Prefrontal/fisiología , Espectroscopía Infrarroja Corta/métodos , IncertidumbreRESUMEN
The framing effect refers to the phenomenon that different descriptions of the same option lead to a shift in the choice of the decision maker. Several studies have found that emotional contexts irrelevant to a decision in progress still influence the framing effect on decision making. However, little is known about the potential role of emotional contexts in the framing effect on outcome evaluation under uncertainty and the related neural mechanisms. The present study measured event-related potentials (ERPs) to capture the time series of brain activities during the processing of gain- and loss-framed choices and outcomes primed with neutral and negative emotional contexts. The results revealed that in the neutral emotional context, the P300 amplitudes following both positive and negative feedback were greater in the gain-framed condition than those in the loss-framed condition, demonstrating a framing effect, whereas in the negative emotional context, this effect was unstable and observed only following negative feedback. In contrast, regardless of whether the feedback was positive or negative, the framing effect on the feedback-related negativity (FRN) amplitudes was insensitive to neutral and negative emotional contexts. Furthermore, the time-frequency analysis showed that the framing effect on the theta power related to the FRN was also insensitive to neutral and negative emotional contexts. Our findings suggest that brain responses to framing effects on outcome evaluation in a later cognitive appraisal stage of decision making under uncertainty may depend on the emotional context, as the effects were observed only following negative feedback in the negative emotional context.
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Toma de Decisiones , Emociones , Humanos , Incertidumbre , Toma de Decisiones/fisiología , Emociones/fisiología , Encéfalo/fisiología , Potenciales Evocados/fisiología , ElectroencefalografíaRESUMEN
Introduction: Advice-giving is a double-edged sword in social interaction, which could bring benefits or considerable losses for the advisee. However, whether the social relationship affects the time course of advisor's brain response to outcome evaluation after the advice-giving remains unclear. Methods: In the present study, we used event-related potentials (ERPs) to investigate the modulation of social relationships on advisor's outcome feedback processing after the advice-giving and related neural activities. Results: The results showed larger feedback-related negativity (FRN) to a loss than to a gain both when the friends accepted and rejected the advice, whereas this effect only existed when the strangers rejected the advice, but not when they accepted it. In contrast, the P3 results demonstrated the enhanced neural sensitivity when the strangers accepted the advice than rejected it despite leading to a loss, while a larger P3 amplitude was found when the friends accepted the advice than rejected it and brought a gain. The theta oscillation results in the friend group revealed stronger theta power to loss when the advisee accepted the advice than rejected it. However, this effect was absent in the stranger group. Discussion: These results suggested that outcome evaluation in advice-giving was not only influenced by feedback valence and social reward, but also modulated by social relationships. Our findings contributed to the understanding of the neural mechanisms of advice-giving outcome evaluation in a social context.
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The COVID-19 has seriously impacted various aspects of the society on a global scale. However, it is still unclear how perceived risk influences epidemic information-avoidance behavior which generally helps us understand public information avoidance. This study aimed to assess the relationship between the perceived epidemic risk and information-avoidance behavior and the mediating role of fear and powerlessness during the COVID-19 pandemic in China. A total of 557 Chinese respondents with COVID-19 treated in modular hospitals ranging from 16 to 72 years old were recruited and completed questionnaires in the face-to-face manner containing scales of the perceived epidemic risk of COVID-19, fear, powerlessness, and information-avoidance behavior. To test the conceptual model, we adopted structural equation modeling (SEM) with the perceived risk of the COVID-19 pandemic as a predictor, fear and powerlessness as mediating variables, and information-avoidance behavior as the outcome. The results indicated a significant and positive association between the perceived epidemic risk of COVID-19 and information-avoidance behavior. Powerlessness acted as the mediator between the perceived epidemic risk of COVID-19 and information-avoidance behavior. The perceived epidemic risk of COVID-19 influenced information-avoidance behavior through fear and powerlessness in turn. Findings from this study implied that public health managers should consider the mediating roles of negative emotions such as fear and powerlessness for coping with behaviors in public health emergencies, especially the information avoidance behaviors related to risk perception.
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Money is the most common medium of exchange and plays an important role in our daily life. However, current literature has not yet specifically touched on the influence of money priming on decision-making behaviour under uncertainty and related neural mechanisms. In this study, we used event-related potentials with an adapted version of the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) paradigm to examine brain activity related to the effects of money priming on outcome evaluation in decision-making under uncertainty. Reward positivity (RewP) and P300 components were analysed with respect to feedback valence (win vs. loss) and priming condition (money vs. neutral). The ERP results demonstrated that when individuals made decisions after having been primed with the monetary concept, the positive outcome feedback evoked a larger RewP component than after they had been primed with neutral stimuli. Conversely, there was no significant money priming effect when the outcome feedback was negative. In contrast, when individuals made decisions after having been primed with the monetary concept, the negative outcome feedback evoked a larger P300 than after they had been primed with neutral stimuli, whereas there was no significant money priming effect when the outcome feedback was positive. Our findings, thus, indicate that the brain response to money priming effects on the outcome evaluation in the BART occurs at both an early semi-automatic processing stage and a later cognitive appraisal stage. They further suggest that individuals prefer achieving financial gains at first and then focus on preventing financial losses in the money priming condition relative to the neutral priming condition.
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Electroencefalografía , Potenciales Evocados , Humanos , Incertidumbre , Retroalimentación , Potenciales Evocados/fisiología , Recompensa , Retroalimentación Psicológica/fisiología , Toma de Decisiones/fisiologíaRESUMEN
Previous experience often guides people's decision-making. How the corresponding consecutive outcomes in the gain-loss frame modulate feedback evaluation in dynamic situations remains unclear. In this study, we used event-related potentials (ERPs) with a Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) to investigate the effect of the consistency with previous feedback on current choices under the gain-loss frame and the neural mechanism by coding ERP signals evoked by consecutive outcomes among adults (N = 42). Results indicated that the framing effect on feedback-related negativity (FRN) amplitudes following current feedback in decision-making was insensitive to prior feedback. In contrast, the P300 amplitudes following two inconsistent consecutive rounds of feedback were greater than that following two consistent consecutive rounds of feedback in the gain frame, while this effect was absent in the loss frame, revealing a more significant valance-framing effect. These findings demonstrate that two inconsistent rounds of feedback enhance the framing effect, and suggest that the framing effect is sensitive to prior feedback in a late cognitive appraisal stage in decision-making under uncertainty, rather than in an early feedback processing stage. The present study provides novel insights into how consecutive outcomes in the gain-loss frame modulate feedback evaluation in dynamic situations.
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Toma de Decisiones , Electroencefalografía , Adulto , Humanos , Retroalimentación , Toma de Decisiones/fisiología , Potenciales Evocados/fisiología , Retroalimentación Psicológica/fisiología , Encéfalo/fisiologíaRESUMEN
Gender plays an important role in various aspects of second language acquisition, including lexicon learning. Many studies have suggested that compared to males, females are less likely to experience boredom, one of the frequently experienced deactivating negative emotions that may impair language learning. However, the contribution of boredom to gender-related differences in lexicon learning remains unclear. To address this question, here we conducted two experiments with a large sample of over 1,000 college students to explore the relationships between gender differences in boredom and lexicon learning. In Experiment 1, a cohort of 527 participants (238 males) completed the trait and state boredom scales as well as a novel lexicon learning task without awareness of the testing process. In Experiment 2, an independent cohort of 506 participants (228 males) completed the same novel lexicon learning task with prior knowledge of the testing procedure. Results from both experiments consistently showed significant differences between female and male participants in the rate of forgetting words and the state boredom scores, with female participants performing better than male participants. Furthermore, differences in state boredom scores partially explained differences in the rate of forgetting words between female and male participants. These findings demonstrate a novel contribution of state boredom to gender differences in lexicon learning, which provides new insights into better language-learning ability in females.
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Human faces consist of rich information for social interactions and facial attractiveness is a key dimension affecting social decisions. Previous studies have indicated that human players are less likely to refuse an unfair offer from proposers with high facial attractiveness in the Ultimatum Game (UG). However, the neural mechanisms underlying such beauty premium effect remain unclear. In this study, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and examined the effects of facial attractiveness on brain responses to fair and unfair offers in the UG. Behavioral data showed that subjects were overall prone to refuse unfair offers across conditions but were more likely to accept unfair offers from higher facial attractive proposers than those from lower facial attractive proposers. Imaging data showed that unfair offers induced greater activity in the anterior insula and medial prefrontal cortex (MePFC) compared to those in fair offers condition for both high and low facial attractive proposers. Moreover, the acceptance rate of unfair offers positively correlated with the MePFC activity for high facial attractive proposers and negatively correlated with the anterior insula activity for low facial attractive proposers. These findings suggest that facial attractiveness modulates brain responses to unfairness through altering the roles of emotion and cognitive motivation in social interactions.
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Belleza , Imagen por Resonancia Magnética , Humanos , Toma de Decisiones/fisiología , Encéfalo/diagnóstico por imagen , Encéfalo/fisiología , Emociones/fisiologíaRESUMEN
With the ever-changing social environment, stress has exerted a substantial influence on social interaction. The present study examined the underlying cognitive and neural mechanism on how acute stress affected the real-time cooperative and competitive interaction with four hypothesized path models. We used the hyperscanning technique based on functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) device to examine brain-to-brain coherence within the dyads engaging Pattern Game under acute stress manipulated through Trier Social Stress Test for Groups. Behavioral results showed stressed dyads exhibited better cooperative performance and higher self-other overlap level during the cooperative session than dyads in the control group. The fNIRS results identified higher interpersonal brain synchronization in the right temporal-parietal junction (r-TPJ) stronger Granger causality from partner-to-builder during the cooperative session in the stress group when compared with the control group. Our results corroborated better performance in the cooperative context and further identified that brain-to-brain coherence in r-TPJ and self-other overlap serially mediated the effect of acute stress on cooperative performance.
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Conducta Cooperativa , Espectroscopía Infrarroja Corta , Encéfalo/diagnóstico por imagen , Mapeo Encefálico/métodos , Femenino , Humanos , Relaciones InterpersonalesRESUMEN
To realize the thermal detoxification of municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) fly ash in a relatively mild environment, molten salts thermal treatment technology was proposed in our previous research, which showed good effects. To investigate the properties of molten salts (NaCl-CaCl2) during cycling reusing, the change of the main components and the physical properties of the used molten salts were estimated. Results showed that the salts in fly ash would dissolve into molten salts. During this process, the concentration of K+, SO42- kept increasing while Cl- was decreased. The changing trend of Na+ and Ca2+ was dependent on the ratio of Ca/Na in raw fly ash. Ca(OH)2 in fly ash would react with CaCl2 to form CaClOH. Moreover, the introduction of the salt components on the thermal properties of molten salts were also studied. The melting point hardly changed by NaCl, CaSO4, and SiO2. Nevertheless, it was lowered to 431 °C with 15% CaCO3 addition, while increased to 523 °C with 20% KCl. Besides, there were no significant influences on the viscosity, stability, and thermal diffusivity of molten salts. KCl had the greatest influence on the specific heat capacity of molten salt, with an increase of about 20%.
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Metales Pesados , Eliminación de Residuos , Carbono , Cloruros , Ceniza del Carbón , Incineración , Metales Pesados/análisis , Material Particulado , Sales (Química) , Dióxido de Silicio , Residuos Sólidos/análisisRESUMEN
The topic of self-other differences in decision-making has gained considerable attention in recent years. Despite a broad range of behavior studies that have shown self-other discrepancy in decision-making, few neuroimaging studies with event-related potentials (ERPs) have directly compared decisions made for oneself with those made for others. It remains controversial whether self-other differences of outcome evaluations in gambling tasks can also be shown in brain potentials. In this study, we used event-related potentials with a Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) paradigm, a sequential, dynamic decision-making task to examine the effects of self-other differences on evaluation outcome in brain activity. Feedback Related Negativity (FRN) and P300 components were analyzed with respect to feedback valence (win vs. loss) and beneficiary (self vs. stranger). The ERP results showed that when making decisions for oneself, the negative outcome feedback evoked a larger P300 compared to making decisions for a stranger. However, there was no significant effect of self-other differences when the outcome feedback was positive. In contrast, regardless of whether the feedback was positive or negative, the FRN amplitude was insensitive to the self-other manipulation. Furthermore, we found that both components were modulated by the valence of the feedback. More pronounced FRN and P300 were induced when the feedback was negative, relative to when the feedback was positive. Our findings indicate that brain responses to outcome evaluation on the BART may be divided into an early semi-automatic processing stage and a later cognitive appraisal stage and that the self-other differences in sequential, dynamic decision-making tasks under uncertainty mainly affect the allocation of attention resources in the late cognitive processing stage.
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Toma de Decisiones , Electroencefalografía , Encéfalo , Potenciales Relacionados con Evento P300 , Potenciales Evocados , Retroalimentación Psicológica , Humanos , IncertidumbreRESUMEN
A growing body of research has largely confirmed and supported the idea that experimental sleep loss, such as sleep deprivation or sleep restriction, could affect individuals' risk-taking behavior and brain activity. However, whether self-reported sleep quality resulting from daily life modulates how feedback is evaluated during decision-making is still unclear. In this study, we used event-related potentials (ERPs) with a Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) to investigate how self-reported daily sleep quality modulates the brain's response to feedback from decision-making in the gain and loss frames. Behavioral data showed an increased aversion to uncertainty in the gain frame relative to the loss frame for individuals with higher sleep quality. However, this was not true for individuals with lower voluntary sleep quality. Similarly, the ERP data demonstrated that individuals with lower self-reported daily sleep quality displayed no changes in feedback-related negativity (FRN) in response to outcomes from decision-making in the gain and loss frames; however, individuals with higher self-reported daily sleep quality showed a greater FRN in response to decision-making in the gain frame than that in the loss frame. A Pearson correlation analysis showed that self-reported daily sleep quality was positively related to the variance of the FRN amplitude in response to the gain and loss frames. These findings suggest that framing effects on decision-making under uncertainty may depend on self-reported daily sleep quality and that the effects disappear when the sleep quality declines.
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Electroencefalografía , Asunción de Riesgos , Toma de Decisiones , Potenciales Evocados , Humanos , Autoinforme , Sueño , IncertidumbreRESUMEN
Co-pyrolysis with oxygen-lean waste tires could improve the quality of pyrolytic oil from the bio-wastes while H2S/COS generated during co-pyrolysis process has a negative impact on the utilization of oil/syngas as well as the flue gas pollution control. Compared to traditional wet desulfurization process, high-temperature desulfurization via molten carbonates could reduce heat loss and favor the recycling of captured sulfur. Notably, small-molecule pyrolytic gases might change the species of sulfur-containing gases and promote the re-emission of absorbed sulfur from the molten salts. To fully understand the effects of pyrolysis gases (H2/CO/H2O/CO2) on molten salts desulfurization efficiency as well as mutual conversion mechanism of H2S and COS, equilibrium compositions calculations and adsorption experiments were carried out in the present study. The results showed that H2/CO had few effects on molten salts desulfurization performance and mutual conversion of H2S/COS. In contrast, CO2 and H2O had obvious adverse effects on desulfurization efficiency through the transferring of free S2- into emitted sulfur-containing gases. More specifically, only a small amount of CO2 reacted with S2- to produce COS while more S2- was converted to H2S and released from the reactor outlet when H2O was introduced. Fortunately, the impact of H2O or CO2 on molten salts desulfurization could be weakened with the addition of CaCO3 by transferring the molten free S2- into precipitated CaS. Besides, multi-stage desulfurization units connected in series and parallel were proposed and estimated, which was confirmed to show good performance to maintain the high desulfurization efficiency from the complicated pyrolytic gases.
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Gases , Pirólisis , Carbonatos , Calor , AzufreRESUMEN
Fast pyrolysis offers a promising efficient way for the resourceful disposal of waste tires and heating rate was a key influence factor on products properties. However, the heating rates of the widely used experimental apparatus (like thermogravimetric) were generally outside the scope of most fast pyrolysis devices. To better guide actual pyrolysis process, the present study focused on the effects of high heating rates (ranged from 60 to 6000 °C/min) on products distribution and sulfur transformation during waste tires pyrolysis. And experiments were conducted at temperatures from 425 °C to 575 °C by using a self-designed photothermal reactor. The results showed that increasing heating rates posed slight effect on the products yields at 425 °C while obviously decreased char yield by forming more gases at higher temperatures. Moreover, high heating rates promoted the fast cracking of tires to form more radical fragments, leading to the formation of numerous small-molecule H2, CH4 and H2S. Meanwhile, secondary reactions among nascent volatiles remarkably increased the fraction or aromatic compounds in the pyrolytic tar especially at 500 °C and 575 °C. Although high heating rates hardly changed the carbon distribution characteristics in the char, increasing heating rate from 60 to 600 °C/min significantly reduced sulfur content in the char, regardless of the final pyrolysis temperature. These findings were believed to well support the application of fast pyrolysis technique for the disposal of waste tires.
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Calefacción , Pirólisis , Calor , Azufre , TemperaturaRESUMEN
The framing effect, which is one of the cognitive biases, can play a major role in changing preferences and the decision-making process. However, whether the gain and loss frames modulate the evaluation of feedback during decision-making is still unclear. In this study, we used event-related potentials (ERPs) with a Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) paradigm to examine the effects of a gain and loss frame on the evaluation of feedback during the decision-making process of the brain. Behavioral data showed an increased uncertainty-aversion, especially after receiving negative feedback (balloon explosion) during the completion of the BART in the gain frame relative to the loss frame. The ERP data demonstrated a more negative feedback-related negativity (FRN) after receiving negative feedback in the gain frame relative to the loss frame. Additionally, the FRN amplitude elicited by the negative feedback correlated with the future decision-making behavior in both the gain and loss frames. These findings demonstrated that, in comparison to the loss frame, the gain frame increased behavior and brain sensitivity to the failure of decision-making under uncertainty.