We study how consumers trade off digital versus in-person banking services and how consumer demand impacts bank technology choices. We use the COVID-19 pandemic as a laboratory, where pandemic risk raised the cost of in-person bank services. After the cost of in-person banking rises, customers,...

Continuous removal of toxic element boron from aqueous solution was investigated with new phenolic hydroxyl modified resin (T-resin) using a fixed bed column reactor operated under various flow rates, bed height and influent concentrations. The breakthrough time, exhaustion time and uptake...

To develop an efficient method to achieve fast discharge/charge ability and long-cycle life for NCM cathodes, is still an urgent and challenging problem for further effectively improving the overall performance of lithium ion battery (LIB). Herein, NCM523 uniformly modified by Pr 6 O 11...

CoNi alloys are excellent magnetic microwave absorption materials, and the influence of various structures on performance is very significant, especially chains versus particles. Herein, a magnetic field-induced solvothermal method was applied to prepare hierarchical CoNi chains, and without the...

The Zn 3 V 3 O 8 @N-graphene (ZnVO@NG) hybrid was successfully prepared by hydrothermal method as anode material for lithium-ion Batteries (LIBs). The introduced N-graphene (NG) was used as a conductive carbonaceous plat for encapsulating Zn 3 V 3 O 8 (ZnVO) flowers due to good mechanical...

In this work, a semisolid back-extruded ZCuSn10P1 copper alloy sleeve was solution treated. The effects of solution temperature on the microstructures and mechanical properties were investigated. The results show that the solution and aging treatments have a great influence on the...

Price volatility in the corn market has changed considerably globalization and stronger linkages to the energy complex. Using data from January 1989 through December 2009, we estimate and forecast the volatility in the corn market using futures daily prices. Estimates in a Fractional Integrated...

China’s hog market faces the challenge of several external shocks, which arise from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, African Swine Fever (ASF) and related global trade uncertainties. This article develops a shocks, cycles and adjustments (SCA) model to evaluate the dynamic impact of different...

The newly launched water futures market faces a serious illiquidity problem with scarce trading volume. We examine the causes of the illiquidity based on the futures contract design literature and empirical analysis of spot water markets in the western United States. The primary cause of...