As the driving force of modern economic development, the evolution of the global energy patterns during major emergencies deserves attention. This study aims to uncover changes in global energy patterns during the COVID-19 epicenter storm. The results reveal concentrated energy trade volume in a...

Transition metal-based n-doped carbon materials have proven to be promising low-cost electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reactions (ORR) which a critical step in systems such as fuel batteries and zinc-air batteries. In this paper, Metal-organic framework (MOFs) derived transition metal...

In this paper, we revisit the results from the influential study by Borensztein et al. (Journal of International Economics 45:115?135, 1998), which argues that inward foreign direct investment (FDI) promotes the economic growth in a less developed host country only when the host country obtains...

This paper examines the question of whether less-developed countries' (LDCs') experiences with foreign direct investment (FDI) systematically different from those of developed countries (DCs). We do this by examining three types of empirical FDI studies that typically do not distinguish between...

Food processing has been widely recognized as a traditional, unskilled-labor intensive production. Yet rapid development in technology drives food processing into more sophisticated and technology-oriented industry. This paper utilizes a fixed effects model to test the hypothesis that the food...