Co-creation 5.0 is a new era in which frontline employees (FLE) and service robots work as a team. This study examines the consequences of co-creation 5.0 on service outcomes in a real context and analyses the moderating effect of the FLEs and collaborative service robot (CSR) teams. We employed...

A low-cost plasmonic photocatalyst, consisting of carbon-doped TiN nanoparticles supported on an ultrathin carbon layer, was successfully synthesized for photocatalytic dye degradation through a simple calcination process using a TiCl4/urea mixture. The resulting catalyst exhibited remarkable...

Seit 2021 müssen Unternehmen, die Tantal, Wolfram, Zinn und Gold in die Europäische Union (EU) importieren und einen bestimmten Schwellenwert überschreiten, Sorgfaltspflichten umsetzen um zu verhindern, durch ihre Beschaffungspraktiken zu Konflikten und Menschenrechtsverletzungen beizutragen....

Rehabilitation of disused mine sites through stabilisation and botanical restoration is ecologically important, but metal transfer pathways to colonising wildlife are often less understood and have never been studied in marsupials. The rehabilitated Royal George tin mine tailings and...

Electroreduction of CO2 into value-added products relies on the availability of highly active/selective and robust catalysts. Herein, we report a strategy to controllably enhance the catalytic activity of tin coordination polymers (Sn-CPs) for CO2 electroreduction via framework...

With the ever-growing demand for high energy and power density lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), tin (Sn) has been considered a capable anode material because of its high theoretical capacity (993.4 mAh/g). However, the practical application of Sn anodes suffers from low capacity retention due to...

"Centering the experiences of small-scale tin miners organized into mining cooperatives, Subterranean Matters explores the relationship between labor, geological materialities, and expressions of nationalism in contemporary Bolivia. Mining cooperatives occupy a contradictory place in Bolivian...

Orientations -- Prologue: an introduction to the personal, methodological, and spatiotemporal scales of the project -- The eyes of the world: themes of movement, visualization, and (dis)embodiment in Congolese digital minerals extraction (an introduction) -- Mining worlds. War stories: seeing...

Trends and prospects of international major commodity prices. In 2012, the international commodity markets have seen declining prices, especially during the first half of the year, with some improvement mainly in the last quarter. On the whole, most of major commodity prices declined, following...

SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER DATO’ SRI MOHD. NAJIB BIN TUN ABDUL RAZAK INTRODUCING THE MOTION TO TABLE THE TENTH MALAYSIA PLAN. [Prime Minister's office Malaysia]. URL:[http://www.pmo.gov.my/?menu=speech&news_id=297&page=1676&speech_cat=2].

This paper examines the short and long term effects of the Summer Olympics, Winter Olympics, and the World Cup on the economy of the host country. We find that selection for hosting the Summer Olympics only produces a significant positive announcement period effect in the host country's domestic...

The Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (IRMM) of the Joint Research Centre (JRC), a Directorate-General of the European Commission, operates the International Measurement Evaluation Programme IMEP. It organises interlaboratory comparisons (ILC's) in support to EU policies. This...

For most of the twentieth century tin was fundamental for both warfare and welfare. The importance of tin is most powerfully represented by the tin can - an invention which created a revolution in food preservation and helped feed both the armies of the great powers and the masses of the new...

1. Not by tin alone : the polymetallic content of primary tin production and Cornwall's role in the international mining industry / Roger Burt and Norikazu Kudo -- 2. Bankers, entrepreneurs, and Bolivian tin in the international economy, 1900-1932 / Oscar Granados -- 3. Summer's food for...

Direct utilization of methanol in liquid tin anode solid oxide fuel cells has been experimentally demonstrated at 1023K. A Cu and SDC modified Sn anode solid oxide fuel cell had a maximum power density of 259.2mW/cm2 during operation on methanol. Carbon deposition was not observed in the Raman...

Titanium nitride (TiN) is a promising material that has a higher potential for increasing electrocatalyst durability in PEM (proton exchange membrane) fuel cells. In this report we provide an explanation for the higher catalytic performance of titanium nitride nanoparticles (TiN NP) based...

This is an updated edition which includes new supplements on Tin, Tantalum and Tungsten and on Gold. Trade and investment in natural mineral resources hold great potential for generating income, growth and prosperity, sustaining livelihoods and fostering local development. However, a large share...

The Chemical Thermodynamics of Tin is based on a critical review of the thermodynamic properties of tin, its solid compounds and aqueous complexes, carried out as part of NEA Thermochemical Database Project Phase III (TDB III). The database system developed at the OECD/NEA Data Bank ensures...

Atomistic simulations of low coverage Sn growth on Au(111) using the Bozzolo–Ferrante–Smith (BFS) method for alloys are presented. Simulated annealing and atom-by-atom analysis of the energetics explains the close competition between the experimentally observed surface alloying and...

1. Introduction -- 2. Tin : the foundations of an industry -- 3. Tin and industrial capitalism, 1815-1918 -- 4. The problem with tin, 1919-1929 -- 5. The depression : initial responses, 1928-1930 -- 6. The formation of the International Tin Committee, 1927-1931 -- 7. Constructing the machinery...