Originality has a self-evident importance for science, but objectively measuring originality poses a formidable challenge. We conceptualise originality as the degree to which a scientific discovery provides subsequent studies with unique knowledge that is not available from previous studies....

Y-SBA-15 was synthesied by doping Yttrium (Y) into SBA-15 using a solvent-free solid-state grinding method, and 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium phosphomolybdic salt ([Bmim] 3 PMo 12 O 40 , abbreviated to [Bmim]PMoO ) was synthesized, and then it was loaded on Y-SBA-15. [Bmim]PMoO/Y-SBA-15 is a...

The high-temperature sparks from the cutting or welding will decompose the print circuit board (PCB) use epoxy resin. To explore the influence of curing agents on the oxygen participated thermal decomposition mechanisms of the epoxy resin, the epoxy-O 2 models, which are cured by 3,3-DDS,...

The spectrum-sparse signal, which includes a fraction of large Fourier coefficients in frequency domain, is an important signal form that widely adopted in numerous fields. To handle the spectrum-sparse signal with large data sets demanded by big data applications or wideband spectrum sensing,...

Anaerobic digestion is an important approach to treat and utilize kitchen waste, while its biogas residue (BR) disposal remains a serious problem. This study investigated the feasibility of chemical looping gasification (CLG) as an efficient way to treat and generate syngas from BR. Besides,...

Using CEOs’ exposure to the Great Chinese Famine (1959-1961) as a measure of early-life trauma in their life (termed, famine-CEOs), we find that firms led by famine-CEOs are associated with lower corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance. Our findings are consistent with the egoism...

This study explores the relationship between inflation and income inequality in an open-economy Schumpeterian growth model with heterogeneous households, firm-level innovation, and cash-in-advance constraints on R&D investment. We find that income inequality may monotonically increase with...

The authors examine the effects of a firm’s and its competitors’ online reviews on its demand within the hotel industry. The authors leverage a unique dataset of actual bookings from properties of a major hotel chain in six different markets in the United States, supplemented with online...

Contaminated wastewater irrigation may introduce antibiotic residues in the soil-plant systems. This study aimed to investigate the uptake of tetracyclines by spinach and collard greens and assess associated ecological and human health risks. Synthetic wastewater spiked with 1 ppm and 10 ppm of...