Permeability is a key parameter for gas recovery from marine hydrate reservoirs. In this study, two kinds of BZ02 and BZ04 glass beads provided skeleton structure for methane hydrate synthesis in pressure vessel. Based on the observation of Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), the glass beads in...

Porous CoAl 3 intermetallic is a candidate material in the field of catalytic and filtration due to its high porosity, good thermostability and quasicrystal structure. However, its rapid and reliable preparation are still a challenge, and the high-temperature antioxidant mechanism need to be...

There has been a heated debate on the desirability of and the procedure justice concerning Twitter's Trump Ban. Using online survey data with student subjects, we investigate how information shapes people's attitude on Twitter's Trump ban. We find that people's attitude can be significantly...

We assemble a novel firm-level dataset to study the adoption and termination of suppliers over business cycles. We document that the aggregate number and rate of adoption of suppliers are procyclical. The rate of termination is acyclical at the aggregate level, and the cyclicality of termination...

When adjudicating multi-billion-dollar cases involving the licensing of patents covering industry standards such as Wi-Fi and 5G (standards-essential patents or SEPs), courts around the world have increasingly issued injunctions preventing one party from pursuing parallel litigation in another...

Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; 1. Introduction; Consumption and environmental sustainability; Looking into the future: growth in consumption and its global effects; Linking local consumption to global environmental...

We document five novel facts about the role of search effort in forming trading relationships among firms by combining a variety of micro and macro datasets. These facts strongly suggest the presence of search complementarities. To study the implications of these facts for aggregate...

We study the consumer response to the extension of a perishable food item’s shelf life. We develop a theoretical model that describes a utility maximizing consumer planning for an uncertain number of consumption occasions. This model permits prediction of both changes in the purchase and waste...

In this paper, we study the problem when an unreliable Sender can use a trusted communication device, such as the blockchain system, to combine strategic information transmission with money burning to increase the Sender's reliability. The Sender faces designing a communication with...