Religiosity and cross‐country differences in trade credit use

Using the firm‐level data over 1989–2012 from 53 countries, we find religiosity in a country is positively associated with trade credit use by local firms. Specifically, after controlling for firm‐ and country‐level factors as well as industry and year effects, we show that trade credit use is higher in more religious countries. Moreover, both creditor rights and social trust in a country enhance the positive association between religiosity and trade credit use, while the quality of national‐level disclosure mitigates the aforementioned positive association. These results are robust to alternative measures of religiosity, alternative sampling requirements and potential endogeneity concerns

Remote Creation and Editing of Augmented Reality Content Using Cloud Anchors

Adding augmented reality content, such as virtual objects, at a physical location currently requires the creator to be present at the location to capture a video of the scene and to add AR content. This disclosure describes the use of cloud anchors that enable a user to record a video at a location along with AR metadata such that AR content can be added to the location (or modified) at a later time when the user is at a different location. The cloud anchor can also be used for real time or offline with other users who are not at the location where the AR content is captured

Induction, development and regulation of trimolters: Great progress in the domesticated silkworm (Bombyx mori L.)

As the only truly agricultural and great economic domesticated insect, the silkworm is not only value as a model for genetics and rmolecular biology research, but it also has great value for new silk materials. Induction and regulation of trimolter induced by anti-juvenile hormone have shown vast potential to be significant patterns in silkworm research, especially after the further studies on the regulation mechanism of trimolters. This paper reviews the great progress of the induction technique of trimolter silkworms, particularly focusing on its cocoon quality, cocoon filament and the production of advanced silk materials. This review also presents the control technology of fine filament size and the regulatory mechanism of trimolters during the developmental stages.Key words: Silkworm, trimolter, chemical induction, development, filament control, regulatory mechanism

Precise Color Control of Red-Green-Blue Light-Emitting Diode Systems

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Swash-flow induced forces on human body standing on a smooth and impermeable slope: A numerical study with experimental validations

\ua9 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.Swash flow poses a significant hazard to pedestrians standing on the slope of the seawall. Unlike the forces of overtopping flow or open channel flow on the human body, which have been studied before, swash flow has two distinct cycles within one wave period: onshore flow and offshore flow. Both cycles can risk human safety by exerting hydrodynamic forces on the body. This paper presents a numerical study to examine the hydrodynamic forces exerted on the human body when subjected to swash flow on a smooth and impermeable slope. A Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) model is set up in OpenFOAM, where the numerical results are compared with experimental data obtained from wave tank tests. Reasonable agreement has been achieved, which validates the numerical model. We examine the kinematics of swash flow generated by plunging and surging breakers. In the case of a plunging breaker, we observe that the instantaneous runup height exhibited asymmetry, whereas it is nearly symmetric for a surging breaker. The velocity profile is then used to compute the momentum flux of the swash flow, which is shown to be associated with the inline forces exerted on the human body. We have defined an instability index to assess the risk of pedestrian mobilisation by swash flow, demonstrating its dependence on the Iribarren number and the body\u27s position. The analysis reveals that the associated risk is substantially reduced as the Iribarren number increases and when the body moves towards the shoreline