Many online platforms adopt the ad-sponsored business model, which involves offering free services to consumers while collecting their data and selling targeted advertising space to advertisers. However, collecting consumer data has raised growing privacy concerns, which may affect consumers’...

Recent developments in data-centric technologies (e.g., big data, Internet of Things, cloud computing) have given rise to the data-centric models as an example of servitization. Servitization here refers to firms selling a product as a service instead of selling product ownership, which has been...

We study the incidence of pollution taxes and their impact on unemployment in an analytical general equilibrium efficiency wage model. We find closed-form solutions for the effect of a pollution tax on unemployment, factor prices, and output prices, and we identify and isolate different channels...

A questionnaire survey was performed in eight Chinese cities (40,279 adults participated; response rate 75%). There were questions on demographic information of the participants, allergic rhinitis, asthma, perceived odors and home environment. Among participants: the majority were women (74.7%)...

In our previous works [J. Phys. Chem. Solids 163 (2022) 110600], the quaternary Heusler alloy CrLaCoAl has been predicted to be half-metallic ferrimagnet with high Curie temperature, and meet the dynamic, mechanical and thermal stabilities. Furthermore, a smaller convex hull indicates that it is...

Oxygen is the most important energy source for sustaining life, especial for aquatic animal because of directly affecting the most of life activities of them. Frequently, dissolved oxygen fluctuates significantly in water result in hypoxic stress for fish. Importantly, it is extremely necessary...

For the treatment of nitrogen-containing sewage and wastewater, denitrification embedded immobilized filler show high nitrogen removal performance and stability, but the cultivation of a large number of compound denitrifying bacteria needed for embedding immobilization requires a huge...

Nickel (Ni) contamination imposes deleterious effects on the stability of soil ecosystem. Soil fungal community as a crucial moderator of soil remediation and biochemical processes has attracted more and more interests. In the present study, soil fungal community composition and diversity under...

OH-initiated oxidation reactions of o-xylene are widely concerned both in combustion and atmospheric chemistry. In this work, the kinetics of o-xylene reaction with OH radical has been studied systematically in a wide temperature range of 220-3000 K for high-pressure limit and several selected...

We study how air pollution affects firm dynamics: entry, exit, innovation, and (aggregate) productivity. Using an instrumental variable strategy, we find that air pollution significantly reduces entry and innovation and raises exit. Moreover, air pollution leaves firms with higher productivity...