This study examines whether ESG affects capital occupation in supply chain and firm value using a dataset of Chinese-listed firms. We demonstrate that focal firm with better ESG performance extend their receivable periods to customers and has access to longer payable periods provided by...

Introduction and Overview -- Chapter 1 China’s Miracle in Growth and Poverty Reduction -- Chapter 2 Explaining China’s Growth Miracle -- Chapter 3 Why China Must Advance Transformation and Improve the Quality of Growth -- Chapter 4 Rising Income Inequality -- Chapter 5 Social Disparity and...

Despite of key functions as valuable global resources and essential ecological zones interconnecting terrestrial/freshwater and marine habitats, little is known on profiles of antibiotic resistance in coastal mudflats, which is of significance to understand the overall dissemination of...

For air conditioning equipment, mini-channel heat evaporator/heat exchanger excels in performance over the traditional fin-tube counterpart. However, the uniformity of two-phase refrigerant flow distribution in mini-channel evaporator remains unsolved. To enhance the flow distribution in...

The promotion of gas hydrate formation kinetics through mass transfer enhancement has been an important research topic, for which microparticles have been considered an effective method. In this work, carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) hydrate formation kinetics in microparticles are...