The floodplain ecosystem is crucial for facilitating or regulating regional ecological functions. The intensified use of floodplain may significantly influence the soil's potential to handle ecosystem services by changing key biotic groups such as soil microbes. However, little is known about...

All-small-molecule OSCs (ASM-OSCs) are more suitable for commercial-scale manufacturing owing to the merits of small molecules, such as well-defined chemical molecular structures, easy synthesis, as well as less batch-to-batch variation. With the repaid development of non-fullerene acceptors,...

This paper studies the relation between firms' access to finance, labor productivity and investment using Lithuanian firm-level data from 2000–2018. To do so, we construct a measure of financial constraints. We estimate that, given firm characteristics, removing these constraints can improve...

This paper documents the existence of medium-to-long term output losses following large crises using panel data that cover 192 countries from 1970 to 2015 and shows that the magnitudes of economic scarring depend on the nature of the shock, economic activity, and pre-crisis conditions. It also...

Using business registry data from China, we show that internal capital markets in business groups can play the role of financial intermediary and propagate corporate shareholders’ credit supply shocks to their subsidiaries. An average of 16.7% local bank credit growth where corporate...

The variation of water thermophysical properties in the deep high-temperature enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) is dramatic, which seriously affects the thermal performance of the system. While most previous researches focus on the variation of water density and viscosity with temperature in the...

As a response to ligand binding, transmembrane cell receptors often enhance their clustering, or oligomerization, during the signalling process. Here we present a statistical mechanical model which combines the aspects of both clustering and signalling. In this model, receptors float on the...

Distributions of triplets in some genetic sequences are examined and found to be well described by a two-parameter Markov process with a sparse transition matrix. The standard deviations of all the relevant parameters are not large, indicating that most sequences gather in a small region in the...

We report the results of a six-year study (2007–2013) of tillage regimes for use in producing winter wheat (Jimai 22) on the North China Plain, with supplemental irrigation. The tillage regimes include: plowing for six years (P6); rotary for six years (R6); rotary after subsoiling with an...