This study specifically focuses on the perspectives of academic instructional librarians, academic library administrators, and library and information science educators regarding the important skills/traits, job duties, educational needs, and challenges associated with the crucial role of...

Is the productivity effect of robotics technology another example of the modern productivity paradox? This study adds to the debate on this question by providing firm-level evidence from China and exploring the underlying mechanisms. Focusing on a recent period from 2013 to 2017, we find that...

This paper investigates the effect of robot adoption on employment adjustment at the firm level in China. Using an instrument that exploits the source of the firm-level variation in robot adoption, we find that using industrial robots increases employment within firms, especially when focusing...

This paper examines inter-industry patterns of the employment of older workers over the last 20 years to understand where employment opportunities have grown the most. The underlying premise is that firms strategically align their age mix depending on production function and labor cost...

Using a sample of Chinese mutual funds over the 2007–2021 period, we explore whether prospect theory (PT) can accurately portray the risk preferences and behavior of Chinese fund investors. We find a significant positive relationship between the fund-level PT value and future flows. After...

Nitrogen-polluted wastewater posed great threat to the environment and human beings. Bismuth-based materials have presented high potentials for wastewater treatment. However, it suffers from unsatisfactory electrocatalytic efficiency, especially for nitrate-N removal. Considering the superior...

The Tibetan Plateau (TP) is known as the water tower of Asia. Water quality has long been a focus of public concern in this climate-sensitive and geologically complex area, especially in the Yarlung Tsangpo River Basin (YTRB), where population and agriculture are concentrated. Thallium (Tl) is a...

The rational design of hierarchical nanostructure consisting of multiple components with remarkable electrochemical performance is regarded as a significant technique for fabricating high-performance energy storage devices. Herein, self-supported tree-like (Ni,Co)Se 2 /Ni(OH) 2 heterogeneous...

We find the minimum probability of lifetime ruin of an investor who can invest in a market with a risky and a riskless asset and who can purchase a reversible life annuity. The surrender charge of a life annuity is a proportion of its value. Ruin occurs when the total of the value of the risky...