In expert markets, different pricing schemes generate different financial incentives for sellers to defraud customers. Using rich microdata on New York City taxi rides, we examine the difference between trip distance of non-local passengers and that of comparable local passengers, and explore to...

Gathering contributions by leading social development scholars, this report offers a comprehensive description of the national development of cultural consumption in China. By comparing the annual growth of cultural consumption, GDP growth, per-capita income growth and savings growth, the...

A strategy was developed to combine TiO 2 NPs with porous polymeric fibres with a high surface area. Poly(L-lactic acid) (PLLA)@TiO 2 fibres were first electrospun, collected as fibrous membranes, and then treated with acetone. Due to the solvent-induced-recrystallization of PLLA, the solid...

Optical fiber sensors are one preferred solution for temperature sensing especially for their capability of distributed measurement; however, many of them still suffer from complicated and expensive fabrication and are hardly suitable for temperature sensing in all liquid, gas and solid...

In this work, we demonstrate LOFTS, a Liquid core capillary based Optical fiber Fluorescence Temperature Sensor. The temperature sensitive solution is first sealed in capillary, which is then incorporated on the tip of an optical fiber to fabricate LOFTS only relying on extremely simple...

Enrofloxacin (ENR) is a widely used veterinary fluoroquinolone antibiotic and is frequently detected in water environments. In this study, degradation of ENR was investigated by molecular oxygen mediation using nanometer zero-valent copper (nZVC) as the catalyst. The dosage of nZVC, initial pH,...

Postoperative cognition dysfunction (POCD) describes a condition of persistent deficits in attention, learning and memory following surgery. The mechanisms of POCD are far from being understood and the therapeutic strategies are limit. Surgery-induced oxidative stress and peripheral inflammation...

Indium tin oxide (ITO), which is a promising n-type conducting oxide material, shows great prospects in photoelectric device applications. In this work, the ITO submicro-cubes have been synthesized by seed-assisted coprecipitation method. The effects of seed addition, In3+ concentration, aging...