Abstract Elevating operating voltage is an effective route to further promote the energy density of nickel-rich layered oxides based lithium batteries. However, high-voltage cycling generally incurs rapid capacity fade of cells due to severe decomposition of commercially available liquid...

The material and microstructure of the carrier-selective layers in the perovskite solar cells are important to determining their efficiency and stability. Planar tin dioxide (p-SnO 2 ) is the most commonly used inorganic electron transport layer, but there are few reports on its mesoporous...

Forecasting the price in online auctions is important for buyers and sellers. With good forecasts, bidders can make informed bidding decisions and sellers can select the right time and place to list their products. While information from other auctions can help forecast an ongoing auction, it...

The flexibility of time and location as well as the availability of an abundance of both old and new products makes online auctions an important part of people's daily shopping experience. While many bidders rely on variants of the well-documented early or last-minutes bidding strategies,...

Applying statistical tools to help understand business processes and make informed business decisions has attracted enormous amount of research interests in recent years. In this dissertation, we develop and apply data mining techniques to two sources of data, online bidding data for eBay and...

This paper performs a meta-analysis to investigate how changes over time, model specifications, differences in data sets, and variable definitions could contribute to the differences in estimates of returns to education in China. The results show that approximately 10 percent of the variation...

The present investigation explores the possibility that power has increased salience among males but not females. Evidence indicates that stimuli that are self-relevant or related to chronic goals are more likely to capture attention than neutral information. Across three studies we explore the...

A central tenet of organizational justice theory is that people prefer decisions to be made with higher than with lower procedural fairness. The results of five studies unearthed a boundary condition for this general tendency. People who experienced non-contingent success had less of a desire to...

We study how the allocation of federal contracts influences the sustainability of corporate policies. We find that a firm’s poor record of environmental and social (E&S) incidents is associated with losing government contracts and facing worse contract terms. ‘Punished’ contractors improve...