U.S. nonfinancial business debt increased substantially in recent years in both absolute and relative terms and is now near its record high. Figure 1 shows that most of this increase was due to significant growth in investment-grade (IG) corporate bonds and institutional leveraged loans, while...

We report the effect of A-site disorder σ2 on the structural, dielectric, ferroelectric (FE) and electrocaloric (EC) properties of lead-free Ba1-x-ySrxCayTiO3 (0.025≤x≤0.3, 0.275≤y≤0.113) perovskites. We have synthesized a series of samples with the same A-site cationic mean radius but...

Distributed optical fiber sensing is suitable for long-distance water pipeline deformation monitoring. However, the distributed optical fiber measures the structural strain, which is difficult to reflect the deflection deformation of the pipeline directly. So, it is necessary to study...

The bagging of fruits provides efficient protection from high intensity sunlight and improves fruit color, and quality. But bagged fruit suddenly exposed to bright light can cause sunburn and destroys peel cell structure. In this study, fruits from ten-year-old apple trees of ‘Gala’ were...