The world has embraced a set of concepts (knowledge driven growth) which are seen as the ‘core of future growth and wellbeing’ without any commonly agreed notion of what they are, how they might be measured, and crucially therefore, how they actually do (or might) affect economic growth and...

A novel ordered-reinforced microscale polymer matrix composite based on electrophoresis and surface micromachining technologies has been proposed in the present work. The braid angle, volume content and width of the reinforcement in the composite has been designed and simulated by ANSYS finite...

We examine the water-use balance, fruit yield and water-use efficiency of five-year-old peach trees with two different mulching systems: plastic film mulched ridge, with furrows (PFM) and straw mulched (SM). Compared with the clean tillage (CT) water management method, PFM increased, and SM...

PDMS (Polydimethylsiloxane) is a typical material used to fabricate optofluidic microreactors for photocatalytic water splitting application. However, conventional direct catalyst coating methods are unable to load catalysts firmly and uniformly on the PDMS substrate, which results in weak bond...

Objectives: This paper analysis and summary rural endowment insurance and the typical model of the Yangtze River Delta region , from the cover, government subsidies and the level of treatment and other aspects rural pension insurance of the Yangtze River Delta region in China and the existing...

In this paper, the internal stress and hardness of Ni–W alloy films with W contents in the range of 0–59 wt% were investigated. The amorphous Ni–W alloy films were electrodeposited with 59 wt% W content and the structure of crystalline alloy films was formed after heat treating. The...

Smoking is not only unhealthy, it is also expensive. Spending on tobacco could drive out other critical expenditures, including basic needs. This crowd out effect would be greatest in low-income countries, affecting not only the smoker but the rest of the family as well. The aim of this study is...