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Mental Construal Priming as a Facilitator of Leisure Travel among People with Mobility Challenges
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The Factor Structure of Hospitality Satisfaction among Travelers with Mobility Impairments: An Integration of Content Analysis and the Three-Factor Theory of Customer Satisfaction
There is a lack of attention to the demand from hospitality businesses for efficiently allocating limited resources on implementing services that enhance travelers’ satisfaction the most. Through quantitative content analysis of on-line travel reviews during 2004-2012, the current study explored the hospitality services most concerned by tourist with mobility impairments (TWM). With multiple regression analysis it further categorized these services by their contribution to enhancing TWM’s satisfaction based on a three-factor theory (Matzler & Sauerwein, 2002). The study initiates the identification of satisfaction factor structure based on textual data. It also provides pragmatic guides for better hospitality services to TWM
Effects of solvent additive on "s-shaped" curves in solution-processed small molecule solar cells.
A novel molecular chromophore, p-SIDT(FBTThCA8)2, is introduced as an electron-donor material for bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells with broad absorption and near ideal energy levels for the use in combination with common acceptor materials. It is found that films cast from chlorobenzene yield devices with strongly s-shaped current-voltage curves, drastically limiting performance. We find that addition of the common solvent additive diiodooctane, in addition to facilitating crystallization, leads to improved vertical phase separation. This yields much better performing devices, with improved curve shape, demonstrating the importance of morphology control in BHJ devices and improving the understanding of the role of solvent additives
Micropore-Boosted Layered Double Hydroxide Catalysts:EIS Analysis in Structure and Activity for Effective Oxygen Evolution Reaction
Since the oxygen evolution catalysis process is vital yet arduous in energy conversion and storage devices, it is highly desirous but extremely challenging to engineer earth-abundant, noble-metal-free nanomaterials with superior electrocatalytic activity toward effective oxygen evolution reactions (OERs). Herein, we construct a prismlike cobalt–iron layered double hydroxide (Co–Fe LDH) with a Co/Fe ratio of 3:1 utilizing a facile self-templated strategy. Instead of carbon-species-coupled treatment, we focus on ameliorating the intrinsic properties of LDHs as OER electrocatalysts accompanied by the hierarchical nanoflake shell, well-defined interior cavity, and numerous microporous defects. In contrary to conventional LDHs synthesized via a one-pot method, Co–Fe LDHs fabricated in this work possess a huge specific surface area up to 294.1 m^2 g^(–1), which not only provides abundant active sites but also expedites the kinetics of the OER process. The as-prepared Co–Fe LDH electrocatalysts exhibit advanced electrocatalytic performance and a dramatic stability of the OER in an alkaline environment. In particular, the contribution of micropore defects is clearly discussed according to the electrochemical impedance spectroscopy analysis, in which the time constant of the OER at the micropore defect is several orders of magnitude smaller than that at the exterior of Co–Fe LDHs, forcefully verifying the intrinsic catalytic activity enhancement derived from the micropore defects. This work provides a promising model to improve OER electrocatalyst activity via produce defects and research the contribution of micropore defects
Gapless topological Fulde-Ferrell superfluidity in spin-orbit coupled Fermi gases
Topological superfluids usually refer to a superfluid state which is gapped
in the bulk but metallic at the boundary. Here we report that a gapless,
topologically non-trivial superfluid with inhomogeneous Fulde-Ferrell pairing
order parameter can emerge in a two-dimensional spin-orbit coupled Fermi gas,
in the presence of both in-plane and out-of-plane Zeeman fields. The
Fulde-Ferrell pairing - induced by the spin-orbit coupling and in-plane Zeeman
field - is responsible for this gapless feature. This exotic superfluid has a
significant Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition temperature and
has robust Majorana edge modes against disorder owing to its topological
nature.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures; add the results on the critical BKT temperature
and superfluid density, as well as the discussion on the robustness of the
chiral edge states against disorde
Linearized Tensor Renormalization Group Algorithm for Thermodynamics of Quantum Lattice Models
A linearized tensor renormalization group (LTRG) algorithm is proposed to
calculate the thermodynamic properties of one-dimensional quantum lattice
models, that is incorporated with the infinite time-evolving block decimation
technique, and allows for treating directly the two-dimensional transfer-matrix
tensor network. To illustrate its feasibility, the thermodynamic quantities of
the quantum XY spin chain are calculated accurately by the LTRG, and the
precision is shown to be comparable with (even better than) the transfer matrix
renormalization group (TMRG) method. Unlike the TMRG scheme that can only deal
with the infinite chains, the present LTRG algorithm could treat both finite
and infinite systems, and may be readily extended to boson and fermion quantum
lattice models.Comment: published versio
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