This research study employs data from two surveys; one of Chinese households and the other of Chinese enterprises. The study examines attitudes of Chinese households and enterprises to risk and insurance issues. The report first describes the surveys. It then presents a theoretical framework for...

Purpose This paper aims to deal with the problem of designing robot behaviors (mainly to robotic arms) to express emotions. The authors study the effects of robot behaviors from our humanoid robot NAO on the subject’s emotion expression in human–robot interaction (HRI)....

A liquid antimony (Sb) anode DCFC (direct carbon fuel cell) is fabricated on a smooth single crystal YSZ (Yttria Stabilized Zirconia) electrolyte substrate with porous Pt cathode to reveal the intrinsic reaction kinetics of electrochemical oxidation of liquid Sb and the reduction reaction...

This paper presents an investigation concerning the effects of operating conditions on the performance of a passive direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC). A self-developed porous metal fiber sintered plate (PMFSP) is used as the methanol barrier between the fuel reservoir and current collector at the...

To realize high-concentration operation of a passive air-breathing direct methanol fuel cell (PAB-DMFC) is a critical issue that should be addressed before it is used for practical applications. This work reports the feasibility of using a porous metal fiber sintered felt (PMFSF) as the anodic...

The performance of a proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell is greatly affected by the operating parameters. Appropriate operating parameters are necessary for PEM fuel cells to maintain stable performance. A three-dimensional multi-phase fuel cell model (FCM) is developed to predict the...