The circular economy advocates for biomimicry, ecosystem service valuation, bioeconomy, and renewable energy. Each of these, however, has its own set of conflicts with biodiversity protection. Given the imminent need to protect biodiversity, the authors call for further research on the interaction between biodiversity and the circular economy, and for circular economy advocates to explicitly acknowledge the concept’s limitations, thereby revealing the need for intersectional and complementary policies which aim to protect biodiversity. The transport sector is becoming a key sector for China to accomplish its targets for reducing carbon emission intensity (CEI). Identifying the dominant factors driving CEI of the transport sector is important for CEI mitigation. This paper applied dynamic panel quantile regression to explore the effect of driving factors on CEI in the Chinese transport sector at the provincial level during 2000-2016. The empirical findings indicate that economic growth has a positive influence on CEI at low quantiles, whereas this effect is the opposite at high quantiles. Further, the findings show an inverted U-shaped pattern between economic growth and CEI at low quantiles, which validates the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis in low-CEI provinces. Energy intensity positively influences CEI, with the greatest impact occurring at higher quantiles. Among the lowest CEI provinces, private vehicles and cargo turnover appear to contribute to CEI, and a positive impact of urbanization exists, except at the 5th and 30th quantiles. In conclusion, policy implications for effectively promoting the CEI abatement in the transport sector are discussed. This study aimed to identify the individual effect of biochemical composition on odor emission potential of biowaste during aerobic biodegradation. Three kinds of typical mixed wastes, including vegetable-fruit waste, garden waste, and protein-rich waste, were tested for emission quantity of seven common odorous families within 21 days of biodegradation under aerobic conditions. The cumulative odor yields (COY) were as follows protein-rich waste (2408 μg g-1 DM) > vegetable-fruit waste (1169 μg g-1 DM) > garden waste (62 μg g-1 DM), and their cumulative odor intensity were 16,701, 1888, and 212 g-1 DM, respectively. The odor emission of vegetable-fruit waste mainly occurred in the first 3 days, accounting for 91.7% COY, and the predominant contributor to odor intensity (PCOI) were terpenes and sulfur compounds. With regard to garden waste, the odor emission rate was the highest on day 1 (22.4 μg g-1 DM d-1) and then rapidly decreased, and the PCOI were aldehydes. The odor emission rate of protein-rich waste increased gradually in the initial stage and reached the peak value on day 10 (661.9 μg g-1 DM d-1), and its PCOI were sulfur compounds. This study revealed for the first time the relationship between the odor emission potential of biowaste and its characteristic of biochemical composition, then proposed potential application for odor pollution control during aerobic composting. Infants engage in social interactions that include multiple partners from very early in development. A growing body of research shows that infants visually predict the outcomes of an individual’s intentional actions, such as a person reaching towards an object (e.g., Krogh-Jespersen & Woodward, 2014), and even show sophistication in their predictions regarding failed actions (e.g., Brandone, Horwitz, Aslin, & Wellman, 2014). Less is known about infants’ understanding of actions involving more than one individual (e.g., collaborative actions), which require representing each partners’ actions in light of the shared goal. read more Using eye-tracking, Study 1 examined whether 14-month-old infants visually predict the actions of an individual based on her previously shared goal. Infants viewed videos of two women engaged in either a collaborative or noncollaborative interaction. At test, only one woman was present and infants’ visual predictions regarding her future actions were measured. Fourteen-month-olds anticipated an individual’s future actions based on her past collaborative behavior. Study 2 revealed that 11-month-old infants only visually predict higher-order shared goals after engaging in a collaborative intervention. Together, our results indicate that by the second year after birth, infants perceive others’ collaborative actions as structured by shared goals and that active engagement in collaboration strengthens this understanding in young infants. Objects and their parts can be visually recognized from purely spatial or purely temporal information but the mechanisms integrating space and time are poorly understood. Here we show that visual recognition of objects and actions can be achieved by efficiently combining spatial and motion cues in configurations where each source on its own is insufficient for recognition. This analysis is obtained by identifying minimal videos these are short and tiny video clips in which objects, parts, and actions can be reliably recognized, but any reduction in either space or time makes them unrecognizable. Human recognition in minimal videos is invariably accompanied by full interpretation of the internal components of the video. State-of-the-art deep convolutional networks for dynamic recognition cannot replicate human behavior in these configurations. The gap between human and machine vision demonstrated here is due to critical mechanisms for full spatiotemporal interpretation that are lacking in current computational models. Ciguatera fish poisoning is a frequently reported non-bacterial food-borne illness related to the consumption of seafood contaminated with ciguatoxins, and possibly maitotoxins. These toxins are synthesized by marine dinoflagellate species of Gambierdiscus and Fukuyoa genera, and their abundance is a matter of great concern due to their adverse effects to aquatic life and human health. The present study aims to assess the sensitivity of rat cardiomyoblast H9c2(2-1) cells to Gambierdiscus toxic compounds using concentration- and time-dependent sulforhodamine B (SRB) colorimetric assays. Low concentrations of Gambierdiscus extracts (corresponding to 1.3-2.3 cells mL-1) induced a concentration-dependent response. Specificity in time-dependent response of H9c2(2-1) cells was demonstrated for G. excentricus after a 180 min exposure compared to both G. cf. belizeanus and G. silvae species, with EC50s obtained after 720 and 360 min, respectively. The sensitivity of H9c2(2-1) cells to dinoflagellate toxic compounds was also tested with other genera from benthic (Coolia malayensis, Ostreopsis cf.