Amid growing pressures to comply with ESG standards, firms increasingly disclose their ESG targets. However, given the difficulty in verifiability, it is unclear whether this public commitment to ESG goals signals firms’ sincere intention to improve ESG practice or is only cheap talk. In this...

We investigate how product market competition affects corporate voluntary disclosure decisions, specifically regarding supply-chain information. Our results, based on a sample of manufacturing companies listed in China from 2010 to 2016, show that companies in more competitive industries...

DNA methylation has been hypothesized to mediate the effects of exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) on fetal growth, but few studies have well explored it. We selected 180 pregnant women from a cohort study conducted in Tangshan City, Northern China, determined 11 PFASs concentrations...

Two-dimensional COFs have shown great potential in photocatalysis, and the ordered layer arrangement is vital for the efficient utilization of photogenerated charge carriers. Herein, with a twisted knot of hexabenzocoronene, an ultrastable dioxin-linked 2D COF with undulated lattice was...

In the preparation of microcapsules (MCs) by interfacial polymerization, octaphenyl polyoxyethylene (OP) is utilized as an emulsifier to control the particle size distribution of MCs. In the preparation system with polyisocyanate as the oil phase monomer, OP has a single hydroxyl (-OH) group...

The proliferation of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) advocates a distributed paradigm for coordinating PEV charging. Unlike existing primal-dual decomposition or consensus methods, this paper proposes a cutting-plane-based distributed algorithm considering a peer-to-peer (P2P) communication...

Maximum likelihood estimation of the persistence parameter in the discrete time unit root model is known for suffering from a downward bias. The bias is more pronounced in the continuous time unit root model. Recently Chambers and Kyriacou (2010) introduced a new jackknife method to remove the...

Chen and Deo (2009a) proposed procedures based on restricted maximum likelihood (REML) for estimation and inference in the context of predictive regression. Their method achieves bias reduction in both estimation and inference which assists in overcoming size distortion in predictive hypothesis...