The lockdown policies related with the COVID-19 pandemic brings carbon emissions slump, but emissions potentially restore to increase as lockdown policies relaxed and the economy recovers. In this context, this study aims to explore the changes in carbon emissions and their underlying factors in...

The dynamics of evaporating and non-evaporating drops falling in air under the influence of gravity is experimentally and theoretically studied in this work. Water and acetone drops with diameters 2.0 were tracked for approximately 2 m, corresponding to a flight-time of almost one second....

A striking and unexpected feature of the financial crisis has been the sharp appreciation of the US dollar against virtually all currencies globally. The paper finds that negative US-specific macroeconomic shocks during the crisis have triggered a significant strengthening of the US dollar,...