Oxidation is a common-used strategy to enhance the surface functionality of activated carbon. Disappointingly, previous oxidation routes always enrich high-polarity poor-capacitance O-C=O groups (i.e., carboxyl/lactone) on the carbon material surface, which is a double-edged sword for its...

In this paper, the authors propose an effective scheme for association rule mining of personal hobbies in social networks. By introducing the connection and clipping techniques, the authors are able to ignore unrelated items in the process of finding frequent itemsets, resulting in more accurate...

With the wide adoption of alternate wetting and drying (AWD) irrigation for rice production, the water and nitrogen (N) fate in lowland paddy fields under AWD irrigation was needed to be investigated for assessing the water saving and environmental effects of AWD, compared to traditional...

The widely adopted alternate wetting and drying (AWD) irrigation for rice production in lowland paddy fields with shallow groundwater table is increasingly needed to quantify the soil water regime for irrigation schedule design. Field experiments were conducted to compare the soil water flow...

The private non-financial sector in Europe is facing increased challenges in meeting its debt servicing obligation. In response, governments are revisiting legal tools and—in some cases—institutional arrangements to deal with over-indebtedness. For households, where the problem in some...