Energy consumption forecasting is a critical and necessary input to planning and controlling energy usage in the building sector which accounts for 40% of the world’s energy use and the world’s greatest fraction of greenhouse gas emissions. However, due to the diversity and complexity of...

Territory is a geographical concept; however, it also contains political denotation. Territory is considered as an integral part of sovereignty: a sovereign state must possess a geographical area on which the sovereign establishes its authority and exercises its power. However, has this close...

This paper studies the impact of mergers between on-demand service platforms on consumer surplus and labor welfare. We analyze a game-theoretical model in which customers choose between platforms based on prices and expected waiting times, and agents base decisions about which platform to work...

Noble metals atomically anchored on supporters has given rise to a series of excellent heterogeneous catalysts. Nevertheless, the stability of single-atom catalysts (SACs) is of great challenge for large-scale practical applications due to their highly unsaturated coordination environment. In...