Problem Definition: We study the effects of financing on supply chain sustainability. Academic/Practical Relevance: In recent years, companies have increasingly used supply chain financing---as a replacement of bank financing---to engage their financially constrained suppliers. Our study is...

The Chinese government is fostering a new development pattern with domestic circulation as the mainstay and domestic and international circulations reinforcing each other. This arouses the need to construct a micro-foundation to coordinate firms' OFDI and domestic investment. Since the Belt and...

With the rapid development of the energy internet, the proportion of flexible loads in smart grid is getting much higher than before. It is highly important to model the demand response of flexible load. Therefore, a new demand response method considering multiple flexible loads is proposed in...

Nitrogen pollution in medium-to-small rivers often brings about eutrophication to lakes. In this work, a composite technique consisting of retention pond (RP)-subsurface flow constructed wetland (SFCW)-stabilization pond (SP) was proposed in the present study. Results showed that RP-SFCW-SP can...

District energy systems can not only reduce energy consumption but also set energy supply dispatching schemes according to demand. However, not only the correlation between multiple optimization objectives, but also the time-varying energy demand is ignored when establishing and solving the...

Three-short pass cooling channels are typical internal cooling structures used in turbine blades. It well manipulates the flow field and controls heat transfer. However, a high-pressure pressure drop is one of the main concerns of this cooling channel design. Numerous prior works have varied...

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...