Scale formation that drastically increases thermal resistance and reduces freshwater production remains a critical challenge in thermal desalination. Novel designs of falling film evaporator and optimal operating condition hold great promise to mitigate scale formation, and increase performance...

A serial of of pyridine-based chelates M-PYPA were synthesized via a facile and green strategy. The chelates served as highly efficient catalysts toward CO 2 cycloaddition. For Fe-PYPA, a conversion rate of 95.8% and a product selectivity of 98.6% to PO were achieved at 100 °C with 1.5 MPa CO 2...

In recent years there has been much effort dedicated to developingapproaches for service selection based on non-functional properties.It is clear that much progress has been made, and by consideringthe individual approaches there is some overlap in functionality, but obviouslyalso some...

This thesis examines the income-shifting behaviour of multinational corporations when they are facing international corporate income tax rate differentials. Multinational corporations may apply tax-planning strategies in order to shift their pre-tax profits from a high-tax country to a low-tax...

Recently, the (2+1)-dimensional modified Kadomtsev–Petviashvili (mKP) equation was decomposed into two known (1+1)-dimensional soliton equations by Dai and Geng [H.H. Dai, X.G. Geng, J. Math. Phys. 41 (2000) 7501]. In the present paper, a systematic and simple method is proposed for...

The multinationalization of corporate investment in recent years has given rise to a number of international tax avoidance schemes that may be eroding tax revenues in industrialized countries, but which may also reduce tax burdens on mobile capital and so facilitate investment. Both the welfare...

The multinationalization of corporate investment in recent years has given rise to a number of international tax avoidance schemes that may be eroding tax revenues in industrialized countries, but which may also reduce tax burdens on mobile capital and so facilitate investment. Both the welfare...

The multinationalization of corporate investment in recent years has given rise to a number of international tax avoidance schemes that may be eroding tax revenues in industrialized countries, but which may also reduce tax burdens on mobile capital and so facilitate investment. Both the welfare...