We study how consumers trade off digital versus in-person banking services and how consumer demand impacts bank technology choices. We use the COVID-19 pandemic as a laboratory, where pandemic risk raised the cost of in-person bank services. After the cost of in-person banking rises, customers,...

We show that common institutional ownership (CIO) along the supply chain can mitigate hold-up problems faced by bilateral relationships resulting from incomplete contracts. Suppliers conduct more relationship-specific innovative activities when CIO networks are wider and deeper. We establish...

Classical interval estimation ignores misspecification uncertainty that is almost inevitable in practice. This paper proposes an approach to construct an uncertainty interval that incorporates misspecification based on an $f$-divergence. We construct the uncertainty interval estimators using...

Microbial necromass has been increasingly recognized as an important source of soil organic carbon (C). However, how nitrogen (N) addition regulates microbial necromass decomposition and the size of different necromass pools remain poorly understood. Here, via an incubation of 13 C-labeled...

Methane and ethane are the two most abundant hydrocarbon species in shale gas, while the adsorption behavior of their binary mixture in shale is still not well understood. In this study, adsorption of methane, ethane, and their binary mixture on twelve dried shale samples collected from the...

A lab-scale sulfur-limestone based bioretention system with a submerged zone was used to remove nitrate-nitrogen (NO3--N) from stormwater. The results indicated that denitrification mainly occurred during the first 5 d of drying period. With the NO3--N concentration in the influent increasing...

Studying the interrelation of soil water and plant water is essential for an in-depth understanding of eco-hydrological processes. However, water use relationships and comparative studies between shrubs and alpine grassland of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau remain poorly understand. In this study, we...

The two-electron water oxidation reaction (2e-WOR) is an eco-friendly process to produce H2O2, which attracts much attention due to its low cost and high safety. CaSnO3 is a potential industrial catalyst for 2e-WOR reaction with high performance. However, the surface structure and active site of...

Black phosphorus (BP), one rising star of two-dimensional (2D) materials, has showcased a huge capability for ppb-level NO 2 detection. However, sluggish reaction kinetics and fragile stability frustrate its further application. In this regard, for the first time we prepared Ag nanoparticles...

Dynamic behavior of miscible CO2-oil mixtures in nanopores is the heart of CO2-EOR and CO2 storage in shale reservoirs. However, the underlying physics resulting from scale effects remains unclear due to the lack of in-depth mechanisms analysis and powerful theoretical models. In this work, a...