This study considers a supply chain consisting of a commodity supplier and a final product manufacturer with uncertain demand. In addition to purchasing from the supplier through a forward contract, the manufacturer can adjust their inventory by trading the commodity in an online spot market...

The supply disruption of the critical raw material and the manufacturer's pre-disaster insufficient relief supply reserves significantly affect the relief supply chain system. To solve this dilemma, we divide the demand for relief supplies into critical and non-critical periods according to...

Thermal comfort is of great significance to maintain the normal metabolism of life. Personal thermal management (PTM) that passively regulates the immediate environment around the human body is a promising alternative. In this work, we report a state-of-the-art concept of self-healing inorganic...

The problem of heat dissipation has become the key to restrict the operation state and service time of electronic components. In this work, ternary eicosane@styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene (SEBS)@boron nitride gels (ESBGs) are fabricated by liquid phase blending and sol-gel transition towards...

Web3 and DeFi are widely advocated as innovations for greater financial inclusion and democratization. We conduct an initial investigation using data from the Ethereum network. We describe its network structure and distributions of transactions, mining, and ownership. Mining and ownership of...

Recently, China's Ministry of Education has established a new department to regulate extracurricular tutoring for the purpose of reducing students' excessive academic burden. In this paper, we provide empirical evidence that academic competitiveness among students is a key driver of the...

Web3 and DeFi are widely advocated as innovations for greater financial inclusion and democratization. We conduct an initial investigation using large-scale computing and big data concerning Ethereum, the largest Web3 platform. We describe its network structure, time trends, and distributions of...

We calculate the return on the major Asian currency denominated long-term government bonds in terms of a basket of the People's Republic of China's (PRC) imports of goods and services, namely the real return on those assets from the PRC's perspective. In the sample period of January 2002 to...

The segmentation of global manufacturing and services provided China and subsequently India with a golden opportunity to make full use of their absolute advantage low cost yet educated labour to integrate into the world economy within a comparatively shorter period of time than some earlier...