Graphitic onion-like carbon (GOC) present multi-shelled concentric polyhedral morphology with the particle size of 2.67 µm to 10.10µm. Used as anode material for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) and potassium-ion batteries (PIBs), the specific concentric structure can effectively avoid interlayer...

Increasing evidence showed that litter positioning (above- vs. below-ground) would substantially influence decomposition process especially in drylands. However, it is not clear how positioning interacts with litter quality and incubation period controlling a long-term decomposition process. A...

This paper presents an environment-friendly adsorption chiller using Zeolite FAM Z01–water pair as opposed to the conventional silica gel and water pair. The adsorbent, zeolite, is thinly coated onto the surfaces of fin-tube heat exchanger for faster rates of heat and mass transfer. Another...

Improved kernel-based estimates of integrated squared density derivatives are obtained by reinstating non-stochastic terms that have previously been omitted, and using the bandwidth to (approximately) cancel these positive quantities with the leading smoothing bias terms which are negative. Such...

The sliced mean variance–covariance inverse regression (SMVCIR) algorithm takes grouped multivariate data as input and transforms it to a new coordinate system where the group mean, variance, and covariance differences are more apparent. Other popular algorithms used for performing graphical...

We present a new Stata command, irp, that generates the inverse response plot (Cook and Weisberg, 1994, Biometrika 81: 731–737) of a response on its predictors. Using the inverse response plot, an appropriate scaled power transformation for the positive response variable can be found so that...