This annual survey of Chinese judicial practice in private international law in 2006 opens with an analysis of several significant judicial interpretations which will serve as guidelines for Chinese courts at various levels in charge of cases involving foreign elements, and which may give rise...

The current circular economy concept supports the recycling of organic wastes into value-added products. In this work, four typical organic wastes including sewage sludge (SS), chicken manure (CM), food waste (FW), and corn straw (CS) were employed to produce hydrolysates augmenting shortcut...

We exploit the staggered introduction of the PCAOB’s international inspection program to examine the role that the stringency of public audit oversight plays in shaping US institutional investors’ home bias. Analyzing a sample of foreign firms listed in the United States, we evaluate whether...

In this work, goethite modified activated carbon (α-FeOOH@AC) was synthesized by wetness-impregnation and used as a persulfate (S2O82-, PS) activator to inactivate Escherichia coli in water. Surficial analysis displayed that micron-sized (0.5 to 1 μm) α-FeOOH particles were uniformly...