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As more attention is focused on the emission of CO2 into the environment, CO2 produced by industrial sources such as fossil-fuel power plants can be used as a potential source for the manufacturing of useful chemicals. Carbonate synthesis is a…

Using a Construal Level Theory (CLT) foundation, the authors conduct four studies which find consumers are more likely to pay attention to short-term (long-term) benefits if an event is taking place in the near (distant) future. Additionally, when…

In recent years, computer-animated characters have been designed more and more vivid and lifelike, and many of them are extremely similar to real people. Due to the high degree of similarity, some classical face recognition models are mixed up in…

Aquatic vegetation appears very often in rivers and floodplains, which significantly affects the flow structure. On the other hand, a common feature of cold regions is the presence of river ice on water surfaces. Ice cover imposes an additional…

Ghana joined the league of oil and gas producing countries in 2007 when oil was discovered in the Gulf of Guinea. Through the years, however, concerns have emerged over the impacts of oil and gas activities on coastal livelihoods, especially since…

Pacific marten (Martes caurina) may benefit from invasive or non-native species that occur across some coastal areas of the Pacific Northwest. I used remote-camera trapping and stable-isotopes of carbon and nitrogen to infer resource-use strategies…