An investigation on the influence of support type for Ni catalysed vapour...
Ni (20 wt%) supported on SiO2, γ-Al2O3 and ZrO2 catalysts was examined for hydrogenation of aqueous levulinic acid (LA) to γ-valerolactone (GVL) at 270 °C and ambient pressure. The band intensities of...
View Article(In Press) Governments matter for capitalist economies: Regeneration and...
Many traditional regions are undergoing change and transformation as industries restructure. The development of 'green economies' and the transition to a low-carbon economy offers areas experiencing...
View ArticleUltra-thin high efficiency semitransparent perovskite solar cells
Solar cells based on organometal trihalide perovskite light absorbers have recently emerged as one of the most promising class of photovoltaic devices. Given their high performances, along with their...
View Article(In Press) Balance and gait in people with multiple sclerosis: A comparison...
Background and purpose: The objective of this study is to compare the balance and gait of 11 people with multiple sclerosis (MS) to 11 healthy controls and to investigate the immediate change after a...
View ArticleMimicry of sputtered i-ZnO thin films using chemical bath deposition for...
Solution processing provides a versatile and inexpensive means to prepare functional materials with specifically designed properties. The current challenge is to mimic the structural, optical, and/or...
View ArticleTrans Tasman Radiation Oncology Group: Development of the Assessment of New...
IntroductionThe study aim was to develop a generic framework to derive the parameters to populate health-economic models for the rapid evaluation of new techniques and technologies in radiation...
View ArticleThe Regulation of Credit Rating Agencies: A Realistic View
There is a widespread agreement on the proposition that the performance of the credit rating agencies has not been that great and that their ratings and downgrades played pivotal roles in the global...
View ArticleData-based identification and control of nonlinear systems via piecewise...
The piecewise affine (PWA) model represents an attractive model structure for approximating nonlinear systems. In this paper, a procedure for obtaining the PWA autoregressive exogenous (ARX)...
View ArticleTime-dependent unified hardening model: Three-dimensional elastoviscoplastic...
A new three-dimensional (3D) elastoviscoplastic (EVP) constitutive model for both normally consolidated and overconsolidated clays is presented. In developing the new model, first the time effects on...
View ArticleNon-injection synthesis of doped zinc oxide plasmonic nanocrystals
Plasmonic metal oxide nanocrystals bridge the optoelectronic gap between semiconductors and metals. In this study, we report a facile, non-injection synthesis of ZnO nanocrystals doped with Al, Ga, or...
View ArticleModel penicillin fermentation by least squares support vector machine with...
Penicillin fermentation is an important part of microbial fermentation. Due to the existence of error date in the independent variables and dependent variables of the penicillin fermentation sample...
View ArticleImplementation and removal of an affrmative-action quota: The impact on task...
Both the United States and Canada have federal legislation that attempts to address employment inequities across specific target groups. The US has a long tradition of affirmative action, dating back...
View ArticlePositive association between reported childhood peer teasing and adult...
The link between Borderline Personality Disorder and childhood maltreatment is well established, although little research has explored abuse outside the familial environment. The purpose of this study...
View ArticleAcquisition of functional antibodies that block the binding of...
The targets and mechanisms of human immunity to malaria are poorly understood, which poses a major barrier to malaria vaccine development. Antibodies play a key role in human immunity and may act by...
View ArticleInsights into the immunological properties of intrinsically disordered...
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the...
View ArticleThe determinants of hiring older workers in Britain revisited: An analysis...
This article reexamines the role of specific human capital and back loading of compensation as deterrents to hiring older workers. We utilize the framework initially suggested by Hutchens (1986) and...
View ArticleThe Effects of Environmental Regulation on Corporate Performance: A Chinese...
This paper presents empirical evidence on the effects of environmental regulation announcements on corporate performance in China when performance is proxied by stock returns. While some results...
View ArticleSwarm algorithm with adaptive mutation for airfoil aerodynamic design
The Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) method is sensitive to convergence at a sub-optimum solution for complex aerospace design problems. An Adaptive Mutation-Particle Swarm Optimization (AM-PSO)...
View ArticleWorking Capital as a Determinant of Corporate Profitability
This study examines the interaction of corporate profitability, working capital management and firm characteristics. Advanced quantitative techniques, such as dynamic panel estimation and median...
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