High surface carbon aerogels with hierarchical and tunable pore structure were prepared using ionic liquid as carbon precursor via a simple salt templating method. The as-prepared carbon aerogels were characterized by nitrogen sorption measurement and scanning electron microscopy. Through instant visual observation experiments, it was found that salt eutectics not only serve as solvents, porogens, and templates, but also play an important role of foaming agents in the preparation of carbon aerogels. When the pyrolyzing temperature rises from 800 to 1000°C, the higher temperature deepens the carbonization reaction further to form a nanoporous interconnected fractal structure and increase the contribution of super-micropores and small mesopores and improve the specific surface area and pore volume, while having few effects on the macropores. As the mass ratio of ionic liquid to salt eutectics drops from 55% to 15%, that is, the content of salt eutectics increases, the salt eutectics gradually aggregate from ion pairs, to clusters with minimal free energy, and finally to a continuous salt phase, leading to the formation of micropores, uniform mesopores, and macropores, respectively; these processes cause BET specific surface area initially to increase but subsequently to decrease. With the mass ratio of ionic liquids to salts at 35% and carbonization temperature at 900°C, the specific surface area of the resultant carbon aerogels reached 2309 m2 g–1. By controlling the carbonization temperature and mass ratio of the raw materials, the hierarchically porous architecture of carbon aerogels can be tuned; this advantage will promote their use in the fields of electrodes and adsorption.

This paper examines the impact of thanks from the sellers on consumer satisfaction in the tourism industry. Study 1 shows that thanks from the sellers (vs. no thank from the sellers) will decrease consumer satisfaction. In this process, perceived fairness and perceived value play a serial mediation role. Study 2 shows that the pricing type (the fixed price vs. the flexible price) plays a moderate role on the impact of thanks from the sellers at the end of a transaction on consumer satisfaction. This paper introduces transaction utility theory and culture difference to explain the seemingly inconsistent phenomenon. Introduction The present studies focus on retailers expressing gratitude and, especially, how the communication of retailer expressing gratitude or not affects consumer satisfaction under the tourism purchase environment. Image that you encounter a seller is selling the souvenirs in the tourist spot you just visit, you would like to buy one of the souvenirs, such as a special cup with the souvenirs logo, you conclude a deal with the seller eventually, after that, the seller thanks for your purchasing and you leave. One question arises, will consumers feel less satisfaction when sellers say nothing than when they say “Thank you” at the end of a transaction? Theoretical Background Thanking is one of the speech acts or communicative acts frequently and abundantly utilized in human interactions, even though, most of these studies have focused on a western perspective, little is known about the experience of tourists from Asia. In western countries, people are accustomed to saying "thank you" after the benefit of others. Some behavioral responses may resemble the expression of gratitude (e.g., saying thank you to a waiter in a restaurant), but may instead be an automatic polite response not grounded in emotion (Buck 2004; Emmons and McCullough 2003; Fazalehasan et al 2017). However, in Somali and China culture, people are not used to expressing thanks, which makes many Americans or Australian feel rude or impolite (Chiu and Hong 2013; Robertson 2014). Here we test the prediction that gratitude from retailers may affect consumer satisfaction in a potentially counterintuitive manner. In other words, we hypothesize that gratitude from the retailer may lead to lower consumer satisfaction. This prediction draws from both the existing literature on gratitude as well as from research on culture difference and transaction utility theory from the response to gratitude. Research Design Two experiments have been conducted to test the hypotheses. Study 1 will provide support for the three central hypotheses regarding perceived fairness inference (hypothesis 1), perceived value inferences (hypothesis 2), and consumer satisfaction (hypothesis 3). Study 2 will test an important boundary condition. This study shows that the proposed negative effect of saying thank you (vs. saying nothing) holds only if the price of product is fixed. Result and Conclusion In the study 1, we found that sellers saying thank you after the transaction leads to less consumer satisfaction. Therefore, an important contribution of our work emerges from our melding of the literature on perceived fairness and value and demonstrating that gratitude from the sellers dictates which literature is more applicable in relationship marketing. Furthermore, we also examined the mechanism in study 2 and explore a boundary condition. We discovered that when the price of a souvenir is fixed, consumers feel more satisfaction when sellers say nothing than when they say “Thank you” at the end of a transaction. Conversely, when the price of a souvenir is not fixed, which is to say when consumers can bargain in the store, consumers feel less satisfaction when sellers say nothing than when they say “Thank you” after the transaction

In this paper, OTT (Over-The-Top) refers to voice, video and data services that arrive from a third party service provider (SP) and doesn’t require any business or technology affiliations with the network operator (Southwell 2011). Traditional telephone companies (telcos) are under big threat from OTT messaging applications which have been splitting flow of text message and voice from the former. Even though, mobile operators still enjoy some asymmetric advantages by controlling the basic telecommunications infrastructure, monitoring the network usage and distinguishing between different OTT actors (Bertin et al. 2011). From a market structure perspective, mobile telecoms industry with the entrance of OTT messaging applications is analogous to the traditional dual-channel structure. On one hand, mobile operators “sell” communication services such as SMS and voice directly to subscribers; on the other hand, they “wholesale” the network infrastructure to OTT SPs on which OTT applications distribute text, picture, video and voice for end users. Extant research has extensively examined the channel selection, channel competition and coordination in traditional sectors (Cai 2010; Cattani et al. 2006; Chiang et al. 2003; Dumrongsir et al. 2008). However, the explanation of dual channel might not be well applicable to the mobile operator and OTT issue considering some new features in the industry. 1) comparing with traditional product distribution, the mobile operators are selling “the right to use the network”, thus they could both charge the “access” and “usage” fee. 2) unlike the traditional retailing channel where consumers make payments to retailer, consumers using OTT would pay network usage fee (data fee) to the mobile operator. 3) traditional retailors earn their profits by selling products with a higher price than the wholesale price. However, OTT services aim to develop their own business after accumulation of sufficient quantities of users, such as revenues form ads, traffic guidance and so on. This paper is conducted to analyze the pricing strategy of mobile operators facing the challenge of OTT. For simplicity, we assume a monopoly market, namely one mobile operator provide network infrastructure for one OTT messaging service provider who provides communication service for consumers. Based on dynamic game theory, we show that: firstly, under non-cooperative strategy, a mobile operator should charge OTT a positive network access fee which is positively correlated to OTT platform’s future commercial value and direct communication service price, and negatively correlated to indirect communication service; secondly, under cooperative strategy, a mobile operator and OTT could create a more joint profit than that under non-cooperative strategy. The platform access fee that the joint venture charges end users is negatively correlated with OTT platform future commercial value; thirdly, despite the choice of cooperative or non-cooperative strategy, the price of direct communication products has a negative correlation with OTT platform future commercial value and a positive correlation with the platform quality; while the price of indirect communication products is positively correlated with platform future commercial value and is negatively correlated with OTT platform quality. Finally, we conclude with a discussion of the managerial implications for mobile operators and OTT SPs. With regard to policy makers, we suggest that a convenient cooperation environment should be provided, because both mobile operator and OTT SP would obtain a high profit under cooperative condition than that under non-cooperative condition and at the same time consumers could also enjoy a better welfare. This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (71172011 and 71272160) and NCET-12-0772.

본 연구는 Poly(ether block amide) (PEBA)와 poly(dimethyl-siloxane) (PDMS)를 혼합한 블렌드막(PEBA: PDMS = 5 : 2,6 : 1 wt%)을 상전이법을 이용하여 제조하여, 이산화탄소의 분리능을 향상시키고자 하였다. PDMS와 PEBA (4033) 은 투과특성의 비교를 위해 각각 같은 방법의 단일막으로 제조되었고, 용매로는 n-butanol을 사용하였다. 제조된 막은 SEM 을 이용하여 morphology를 분석하였고, 압력에 따른 CO2와 N2의 투과도를 측정하였다. 실험결과, PEBA/PDMS 블렌드막은 3기압에서 단일 PDMS막에 비해 N2에 대한 CO2의 선택도가 4~5배 높은 것으로 나타났다.

Since the reform and opening up, China has maintained rapid economic growth for nearly 40 years, and is the country with the fastest economic growth in the world. However, the rapid economic growth has also paid a huge social price, which is directly related to the unreasonable economic structure and extensive growth mode. Traditional engines of economic growth began to fade. This paper through the analysis to the theory of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign economists study on economic growth: economic growth is an extremely complex process, many factors influence the economic growth, correctly grasp the role of these factors in economic growth, to grasp the law of economic growth, the correct understanding of modern economic growth is very important. Sustained economic growth in China, on the basis of dynamic analysis, combined with the current economic situation at home and abroad, as you can see, in the high-speed economic growth since reform, various factors have been attenuation or mutation, the major developed countries and regions for the adjustment of the external imbalance in pressure, the depth of the global economic growth and recovery of the factors of uncertainty, It is difficult to maintain and improve the driving force and source of China’s economic growth in the future. The current industrialization process has reached a historical and international high level and is nearing the end. The growth rate of industrial investment will slow down significantly in the future. The demographic dividend is gradually depleting, and the savings rate will gradually decrease in the future. The era of rapid economic growth brought by demographic dividend and high savings rate in a long period of time will change. Therefore, based on the perspective of supply side demand and the development of new industries, the paper analyzes the driving force of traditional economic growth in China in the past, and holds that the driving force of consumption upgrading and digital economy are the important driving force of economic growth, and strives to improve the consumption structure of residents, increase the consumption rate and vigorously develop digital economy. Shifting China’s economic growth from relying on external demand to relying on domestic demand will provide strong support for high-quality development.

Purpose - Social welfare is a social insurance system that provides funds and services for all citizens to maximize their life quality. Its ultimate goal is to alleviate social contradictions. Therefore, this paper explores the determinants of social welfare in terms of macroeconomics. Research design, data, and methodology - Based on the vector error correction model, the annual time series from 1990 to 2017 will be used to conduct an empirical analysis. The real GDP, the real income, the inflation and the degree of openness will be treated as independent variables. The input of social welfare will be treated as a dependent variable. These variables will be used to perform the cointegration test and the vector error correction model to explore how the macroeconomic variables affect social welfare both in long run and short run. Result - Via the empirical analysis, it can be summarized that the real GDP, the real income and the degree of openness are the driving determinants to enlarge the social welfare. Conversely, the inflation is the obstructive determinant to reduce the social welfare. Conclusion - The positive and negative determinants of social welfare exist simultaneously, China’s government should take macroeconomic regulation and control to balance them to enlarge social welfare.

Trade and investment and consumption are the three important engine of economic growth. In 2016, the contribution rate of consumption of China's economic growth reached 64.6%, more than 33 trillion yuan, the total retail sales of social consumer goods consumption has become the first constitution of the national economic growth. This marks, China has entered the consumption boom at the same time also means that China Daily chemical market has entered a rapid growth of the golden age, daily chemical industry usher in a new round of major development machine pedantic. Under the new situation, to a strong rise of local brands from its former glory, and how in foreign trade brand market competition, how to embody fully respect on consumption subject and how to obtain competitive advantage, comprehensive this faster growth in promoting consumption and promoting the development of the globalization of domestic brands, no doubt is of great strategic significance and realistic significance.

본 연구의 주목적은 조양하 유역의 유출응집구조와 에너지소비 양상을 멱함수 법칙분포의 틀 내에서 해석하고 이를 기반으로 토사유실에 민감한 우심지역을 추출하기 위한 방법론을 제시해 보고자 하는 것이다. 이를 위하여 GIS를 기반으로 대상유역 내 지점별 배수면적과 함께 소류력 및 수류력을 정의하는 지형학적 인자를 추출하여 해당 인자들에 대한 여누가 분포의 도해적 해석과 함께 멱함수 법칙분포의 적합을 수행하였으며 소류력과 수류력의 규모별 특성권역을 기반으로 토양우실 우심지역을 추출하여 보았다. 소류력를 기반으로 한 토사유실 우심지역의 경우 수류력을 기반으로한 결과에 비하여 우심지역의 범위가 매우 좁게 평가되고 있음을 시각적으로 확인할 수 있었다. 이러한 결과는 소류력이 멱함수 법칙분포를 따르지 않는 규모종속성 지형학적 인자이기 때문인 것으로 판단된다. 이에 따라 해당 지형학적 인자는 멱함수 법칙분포의 틀 내에서 자연유역의 에너지 규모를 적절하게 반영하지 못하는 것으로 사료되며 본 연구에서 수류력을 기반으로 제시한 지형학적 인자가 토사유실의 평가를 위해 보다 합리적인 것으로 판단된다. 토사유실 우심지역을 도시해 본 결과 국부경사에 종속적인 사면활동 활성구간에서 발생한 토사가 국부경사와 배수면적에 종속적인 지표유동 활성구간을 통하여 계곡으로 이동하는 경로를 시각적으로 확인할 수 있어 본 연구에서 제시한 방법론의 타당성을 판단할 수 있었다.

본 연구의 주목적은 조양하 유역의 유출응집구조와 에너지소비 양상을 멱함수 법칙분포의틀 내에서 해석하는 것이다. 이를 위하여 GIS를 기반 으로 대상유역 내 지점별 배수면적과 함께 소류력 및 수류력을 정의하는 지형학적 인자를 추출하고 해당 인자들의 여누가 분포에 대한 도해적 해석과 함께 멱함수 법칙분포의 적합을 수행하였다. 주요한 결과로서 세 가지 지형학적 인자들의 여누가 분포는 세 개의 개별적인 거동특성 구간으로 구분할 수 있었다. 멱함수 법칙분포 확률밀도함수의 매개변수를 최우도법을 이용하여 추정해 본 결과 배수면적과 수류력은 대표적인 규모를 유한 하게 결정할 수 없는 규모 불변성 지형인자이지만 소류력은 유한한 규모를 갖는 규모 종속성 지형학적 인자로 판단할 수 있었다. 또한 소류력의 경우 제한된 범위 내에서만 복잡계 거동을 보여 멱함수 법칙분포를 따르지 않는 것으로 판단되었다. 최우도법을 적용하여 추정한 배수면적의 멱함수 법칙분포 지수는 선행연구에 비하여 큰 수치로서 해당 지수의 추정에 사용된 방법론의 차이에 기인하는 것임을 확인할 수 있었다. 또한 수류력의 멱함수 법칙분포 지수는 선행연구에 비하여 다소 작은 수치로서 대상유역의 규모에 따른 수로경사의 특성에 기인하는 것으로 판단되었다.