Eliciting Positive Responses to Refurbished Electronics Through Consumer Empowerment

Electronic waste (e-waste) has become the fastest-growing waste stream in the world, with small equipment accounting for a significant portion. Refurbished electronics can satisfy consumers\u27 device needs while enabling the appropriate reuse of replaced devices, promising a pathway to address the problem. However, research concerning consumer perceptions and behaviours towards refurbished electronics remains limited. This research investigates how to elicit consumers\u27 positive responses to refurbished electronics through message framing. Specifically, we suggest that framing the contribution to sustainability from a different perspective (consumers vs. manufacturers) could influence consumers with different personality traits, i.e., power distance belief (high vs. low). People with high power distance beliefs prefer advertisements that emphasise the contribution from the consumers\u27 viewpoint or perspective. Low power distance belief individuals respond indifferently to message frames. This differential effect is due to consumers\u27 perception of empowerment

Thermophysical Properties of Lignocellulose: A Cell-scale Study down to 41K

Thermal energy transport is of great importance in lignocellulose pyrolysis for bio-fuels. The thermophysical properties of lignocellulose significantly affect the overall properties of bio-composites and the related thermal transport. In this work, cell-scale lignocellulose (mono-layer plant cells) is prepared to characterize their thermal properties from room temperature down to 41 K. The thermal conductivities of cell-scale lignocellulose along different directions show a little anisotropy due to the cell structure anisotropy. It is found that with temperature going down, the volumetric specific heat of the lignocellulose shows a slower decreasing trend against temperature than that of microcrystalline cellulose, and its value is always higher than that of microcrystalline cellulose. The thermal conductivity of lignocellulose decreases with temperature from 243 K to 317 K due to increasing phonon-phonon scatterings. From 41 K to 243 K, the thermal conductivity rises with temperature and its change mainly depends on the heat capacity's change

Transcriptome profiling of the floating-leaved aquatic plant Nymphoides peltata in response to flooding stress

This table provides all differentially expressed genes meeting the threshold (FDR ≤ 0.01) and the GO terms that the differentially expressed genes were enriched. (XLS 207 kb