Expected demand is an important measure for a retailer to decide whether to open a new store at a candidate location. Retail chains need to understand the store choice and temporal preferences of different customer segments to estimate future customer visits to such a new store. As mixed-use...

A Z-scheme heterojunction ZnO-C/MnO2 photocatalyst was successfully prepared by a simple method of chemical reduction deposition and secondary hydrothermal treatment. X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), transmission electron microscope (TEM) and scanning...

Glass frits, as a critical ingredient, plays an important role in silver paste and determine sintering properties of the silive paste and contact quality with silicon solar cells. Here glass frits with different contents of TeO 2 additive were prepared and used to investigate the sintering...

In this paper we develop models of intra-industry trade in which the technological infrastructure associated with measurement activity plays a role in determining the ability of firms to differentiate their products, making them more marketable, and hence promoting intra-industry trade. We...

With the rapid development of the national economy of China, an increasing need for transportation facilities is becoming a serious challenge that the existing traffic system has to meet. Thus, the highway transportation capacity development level assessment has important significance in theory...

This paper describes the development of a combined ejector-vapor compression cycle (EVCC) that uses working fluid R134a and air-cooled condensers for both sub-cycles. A large amount of experiments have been conducted to test the influence of the evaporating, generating and condensing...

Perceived organizational support (POS) is viewed as an important explanatory framework for understanding the relationship between employees and the workplace, and is regarded by some researchers as central in understanding job-related attitudes and behaviors of employees. However, less research...