Soot characteristics of emulsified and nonemulsified fuels and the effects of microexplosions on soot production were investigated by analyzing the soot extinction coefficient, burning rate, diffusion characteristics, and natural convection of fuels during droplet combustion. schlieren imaging...

To reduce carbon footprint, the country is struggling to minimize the effects of climate change by adopting cleaner and efficient brick-making technologies in the construction sector. For compulsory transition, technical solutions entail converging with social, financial factors, and information...

In following a pathway towards decarbonisation of energy systems, Australia has successfully accelerated the adoption of solar technologies, with approximately three million small-scale distributed solar panels installed on rooftops of Australian homes. This study, in seeking to explore the...

A novel grain boundary diffusion process with low-pressure technology was employed to develop Nd-Fe-B sintered magnet samples as thick as 2mm. The uniform and successive Nd-rich phase in the low-pressure diffused magnets promotes Tb atoms to permeate inside the magnets, and the diffusion depth...

Titanium-nickel diffusion couples were prepared by use of pure titanium and nickel sheets and were heated to three different temperatures of 800 ˚C, 850 ˚C and 900 ˚C up to 15 h. Microstructural observations using scanning electron microscopy equipped with energy dispersive spectroscopy at...

Why do some cities adopt practices meant to resolve social and environmental problems faster and more extensively than others? Existing theories of diffusion emphasize administrative adoption, which reduces cities to monolithic actors with binary outcomes. But a plethora of public and private...

In the residential sector, the diffusion of advanced, energy-efficient technologies is often slow, a phenomenon that can be attributed to a combination of factors both intrinsic and extrinsic to the product. Barriers such as high first costs, long paybacks, poor rates of return, limited access...

This paper aims to examine the role of the subway network, a typical transportation way within the urban area, on innovation and knowledge diffusion. Based on the difference-in-difference strategy and spatial analysis, we use 1332 newly opened stations in China from 2000 to 2013 as a...

In short, yes. I use a multi-region integrated assessment model with fuel-specific endogenous technical change to examine the impact of Europe and China reducing emissions to zero by mid-century. Without international technological diffusion this is insufficient to avoid catastrophic climate...

In this paper, we review the literature on declining business dynamism and its implications in the United States and propose a unifying theory to analyze the symptoms and the potential causes of this decline. We first highlight 10 pronounced stylized facts related to declining business dynamism...