This is an era in which information technology is highly advanced and contact information of one's classmates from all over the world is always changing with living areas changed. This will inevitably make one lose touch with their classmates and alma mater. Based on this situation, a platform...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the relationships between acquirer size and performance outcomes of the different process of acquisition in the Chinese context and the moderating effect of political connections on the size-performance relationship....

A phosphate protective film was prepared on carbon steel. The structure of the film was analyzed with X-ray photoelectron spectra (XPS) and atomic is force microscope (AFM). AFM observed the full process of film formation clearly. XPS with rotation etch displayed multilayer structure of...

Bank customer churn prediction is one of the key businesses for modern commercial banks. Recently, various methods have been investigated to identify the customers who would leave away. This paper proposed a new framework based on feature clustering and classification technique to help...

TiCl4/MgCl2, TiCl4/MgCl2/donor catalysts and TiCl4/donor complexes were prepared in this experiment; the donors are EB, DNBP, DBPG, DBW, PPDE, and BMMF respectively. Chemical states of Ti on the surface of MgCl2-supported Z–N catalysts were analyzed with X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS)....

To meet rising energy demands in a sustainable manner, the United States Renewable Fuel Standard 2 (RFS2) mandates the production of 3.78billion L (1billion gallons) of biomass-based biodiesel per year by 2020. Urban marginal lands, herein defined as lots with poor agricultural potential and...

The cryptocurrency (crypto) market has grown dramatically over the past decades since the emergence of the Bitcoin protocol in 2008. Traditionally, blockchain users would trade cryptos on centralized exchanges such as Binance, OKex, and Huobi. Decentralized exchanges (DEXs), exchanges that allow...

While public transit is a major place where people devote their time to smartphones, particularly social media usage, the literature has paid scant attention to how contextual factors in public transit affect the individual usage behavior of social media. Building upon prior literature on stress...