The aggregation and transport of biochar colloids (BCs) in the soil and groundwater is critical for applying biochar in the field and biochar long-term environmental risk assessment. This research aimed to study the influence of dissolved organic matter (DOM) with different molecular weights...

Owing to excellent activity and selectivity for two-electron O2 reduction to H2O2, well-dispersed AuPd nanoalloy cocatalyst is high desired for photocatalytic H2O2 production. In practice, however, it is hardly realized due to technical difficulty. Utilizing the directed transfer of...

The requirement of sustainable energy is of great significance for easing the energy shortage crisis, in which the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in metal-air batteries and fuel cells plays a crucial role in efficient energy conversion. The development of noble-metal-free, efficient, and stable...

Load forecasting, especially short-term load forecasting, is of great significance to the safe operation of power grids and power system optimization. Historical data is commonly applied in the most of existing methods of load forecasting to predict the future data in one time step, which is...

Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) can cause the patients' condition to become serious at some check-point, and thus patients need the intensive care unit (ICU) intervention to survive. The resulted urgent and extensive needs of ICUs posed significant risks to the management of the medical...

Crowd counting is generally a pixel-wise regression task and owns the broad application prospects. In order to generate high-quality density maps, recent remarkable works mostly adopt the long skip connection or encoder-decoder architectures which aggregate features via the step-by-step...

Problem definition: To guarantee a responsible supply chain, there are governmental regulations or industry standard that suppliers have to adhere to. A supplier is primarily responsible for the cost to follow these standards, and if any violation occurs, the damage cost mostly falls onto the...

Under the bounded rationality assumption, a principal rarely provides an optimal contract to an agent. Learning from others is one way to improve such a contract. This paper studies the efficiency of social network learning (SNL) in the principal-agent framework. We first introduce the...