Escalating geopolitical tensions between countries may lead to a country’s adoption of foreign economic policies that promote economic decoupling from the rival country. Our study examines which multinational enterprises (MNEs) tend to embrace their home government’s decoupling policies in...

We study merchant energy production modeled as a compound switching and timing option. The resulting Markov decision process is intractable. State-of-the-art approximate dynamic programming methods applied to realistic instances of this model yield policies with large optimality gaps that are...

The accuracy of nuclear data affects the safety of the reactor, which is of great significance in the process of reactor core physical calculation. In order to study the influence of different national nuclear data libraries on the reactor physical calculation results keff, based on the nuclear...

Thiophosphate compounds have attracted much attention in coordination chemistry, but their deep adsorption mechanism remains underexplored as flotation collectors. The flotation performance and adsorption mechanism of a novel (dibutoxy-thiophosphorylsulfanyl)-acetic acid (CDDP) chelating...

Oxidation is a common-used strategy to enhance the surface functionality of activated carbon. Disappointingly, previous oxidation routes always enrich high-polarity poor-capacitance O-C=O groups (i.e., carboxyl/lactone) on the carbon material surface, which is a double-edged sword for its...

Merchant energy trading companies manage conversion assets to exploit price differences across time, space, and sources of energy in the face of energy futures term structure risk. Financial hedging of this risk is standard practice. Market incompleteness, such as limited futures liquidity,...