Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the development of the grocery retail market in China. International retailers have been in China for more than ten years, during which period a series of profound changes has occurred in the Chinese retail sector. International retailers...

A new scheme for measuring magneto-optical (MO) effect is developed in the present work, called photoresistance magnetic circular dichroism (PR-MCD). It detects the differential photoresistance of materials between two circularly polarized excitations. That allows us to detect the MO effect...

A study was conducted on the adsorption characteristics of the adsorption refrigeration working pairs using alkaline-earth metal chlorides as adsorbents and ammonia as refrigerant. The adsorption isotherms between alkaline-earth metal chlorides and nitrogen were studied. The study shows that the...