Three foreign policy initiatives under President Xi Jinping over the past three years have considerably enhanced China's global influence: partnership diplomacy, the Silk Road economic diplomacy, and the new financial diplomacy. Partnership diplomacy seeks to forge a global network of...

We examine the role of high-skilled foreign labor in VC-backed startups through two natural experiments. First, we show that winning more H-1B visas in random lotteries enhances VC-backed startups' financial performance, likelihood of going public, and quantity and quality of innovation. Second,...

The melting-solidification on the horizontal cyclone furnace plays an irreplaceable role in realizing the utilization of ash. The purpose of this research is to simulate and obtain the fly ash molten glass at the local location of the horizontal cyclone furnace utilizing a small high-temperature...

A new type of adsorption material, polypyrrole-modified mushroom residue activated carbon (Ppy-MRAC), was prepared by compounding MR in agricultural waste and Ppy using a dipping method. A characterization analysis indicated that Ppy-MRAC is a mesoporous material, containing functional groups...