Wealthy nations led health preparedness rankings in 2019, yet many poor nations controlled COVID-19 better. We argue that a history of rice farming explains why some societies did better. We outline how traditional rice farming led to tight social norms and low-mobility social networks. These...

This study examines the impact of supply chain (SC) concentration on corporate research and development (R&D) investment based on different corporate ownerships. Building upon the resource dependence theory, we find that corporations with a high concentration of SC invest less in R&D activities,...

Pyrolysis is a very promising thermochemical conversion technology for converting the plastic waste into energy to solve the plastic waste issue worldwide. In this work, a 20 kg scale vacuum distillation tower was used to separate the plastic pyrolysis fuel into 74 fractions at different AET...

In this paper, an ionic liquid antioxidant 1-(2-Cyanoethyl)-2-undecylimidazolium gallate, abbreviated as [UIM0Y2][C6H2(OH)3COO], was designed and synthesized for antioxidation of biodiesel. The synthesized samples were characterized by 1H NMR and FT-IR. The effects of [UIM0Y2][C6H2(OH)3COO] on...