Levulinic acid (LA) is considered a very interesting green, biomass derived versatile chemical intermediate with high application potential. Herein, MOF–5 was evaluated as a perspective support to synthesize heterogeneous catalysts with Brønsted acid sites and Lewis acid sites, via simple...

AZ91-xRE(Ce, Y, Gd, x=0, 0.3, 0.6, 0.9) alloy with different cooling rates were prepared by die casting. Effects of cooling rate and rare earth elements (Ce, Y and Gd) on Mg 17 Al 12 compound in the alloy and the role of Mg 17 Al 12 compound in fracture process were studied. The results show...

The paper investigates the extent of the impact from "hot money" or speculative capital inflow on the fluctuations of China's real estate market and stock market. The results indicate that hot money has driven up property prices as well as contributed to the accelerating volatilities in both...

This paper examines the extent of asymmetric effects and the hypothesis of Japanese dominance in East Asian financial integration by analyzing the transmission mechanism to local interest rates from interest rates originating in both Japan and the US. The results support a weak version of the...

The article investigates to what extent various underlying macro (oil, supply, demand and portfolio) shocks impact the fluctuations of Japanese stock prices by developing a multivariate structural vector autoregression (SVAR) model. The results from a Markov regime-switching (MS) specification...

Stochastic resonance (SR) in an over-damped linear system subjected to an excitation of bias signal modulated noise with multiplicative and additive noises is investigated. We obtain the exact expressions of the first two moments and the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the output by using...

The stochastic resonance in a bias monostable system subject to frequency mixing force and multiplicative and additive noise is investigated. Based on the adiabatic elimination theory, the analytic expressions of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for the fundamental and higher harmonics are...