The hazardous waste sulfuric acid from alkylation process contains numerous organic pollutants and seriously threatens the ecological environment. Conventional pyrolysis process inevitably demands high investment and energy-extensive input, which constrains further large-scale applications....

Polymeric carbon nitride of C3N5 is being utilized as a new visible-light-driven catalyst due to its narrower bandgap (~ 2.0 eV). Building step-scheme (S-scheme) heterojunction by coupling with other semiconductors especially those own oxygen vacancies (OVs) can further upgrade the...

Building step-scheme (S-scheme) heterojunctions is newly emerging to be an efficient means to get excellent photocatalysts for water pollution control. Herein, a 2D/0D S-scheme heterojunction of C 3 N 5 /Bi 2 WO 6 is synthesized by in-situ growing 0D Bi 2 WO 6 nanodots on 2D C 3 N 5 nanosheets....

On March 31st, 2023, the Italian data protection authority found that ChatGPT violated data protection laws and banned the service in Italy, providing a natural experiment to assess the economic consequences of generative AI. Leveraging this event, we show that Italian firms with greater...

In China, as in many developing countries, poverty is primarily a rural phenomenon. Considerable efforts have been made over the last few decades to reduce poverty in China's rural areas; and indeed, the poverty rate in these areas has fallen from 30.7% in 1978 to 3.8% in 2009. This paper begins...

Vocational education and training (VET) is defined in general practice as technical education and skills training mainly for jobs that are based on manual or practical activities. According to China's 1996 Vocational Education Law, VET is deemed a key component of China's educational system, and...

Investors have a finite capacity to organize all information they receive from financial disclosures. In a model of rational inattention, we show that investor attention capacity affects the probability of disclosure. In the model, an informed firm makes a strategic voluntary disclosure subject...