We consider a decentralized supply chain in which a downstream manufacturer purchases components from an upstream supplier privileged with private information about supply disruption risk. The supplier's initial reliability, asymmetric to the manufacturer, is either low or high. We examine two...

Three commercial granular catalysts were collected according to their operation time (fresh, two years, and three years, defined as Cata-1, Cata-2, and Cata-3, respectively). The catalytic efficiency (CE) and CO 2 /CO/HCl selectivity of 1,2-dichlorobenzene (1,2-DCB) were investigated at low...

The vanadium dioxide (VO2(D)), with ultra-high theoretical capacitance, has been considered as a boon for electrode materials of advanced supercapacitors (SCs). However, the VO2 has a series of shortcomings such as poor electrical conductivity, severe structural damage, and rapid capacity fading...

Satellite data reveal that China has significantly increased its vegetation cover since 2000, and vegetation will maintain the increasing trend in the foreseeable future for becoming carbon neutral. However, limited work has examined the environmental impacts of vegetation greening because...

Comprehending the response of microbial communities in rivers along urbanization gradients to hydrologic characteristics and pollution sources is critical for effective watershed management. However, the effects of complex factors on riverine microbial communities remain poorly understood. Thus,...

In this work, an LCL-type resonant dc/dc converter with a capacitive output filter is modeled in two stages. In the first high-frequency ac stage, all ac signals are decomposed into two orthogonal vectors in a synchronous rotating <em>d–q</em> frame using multi-frequency modeling. In the dc stage, all...

In this paper, a dual-bridge DC/DC resonant converter with a generalized series and parallel resonant tank is analyzed. A general approach based on Fundamental Harmonic Approximation is used to find the universal steady-state solutions. The analysis results for particular resonant tank...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the economic feasibility of a three-echelon Halal Meat Supply Chain (HMSC) network that is monitored by a proposed radio frequency identification (RFID)-based management system for enhancing the integrity traceability of Halal meat products and...