Two-dimensional materials such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are ideal candidates to create ultra-thin optoelectronics that can be flexible and semitransparent. Although optoelectronic devices ...

Hahamono cinema, a sub-genre of Japanese melodrama, focuses on the characterization of maternal figures. The peak in hahamono film production was in the 1940s-50s. This era coincides with the period of war and trauma of ...

The use of sports to prevent youth from engaging in criminal behavior or involvement in gangs is common practice. Recently, interest in sports programming as a deterrent to re-offending and as a vehicle to improve psychosocial ...

This paper analyzes the variation in access to and use of financial services for women in approximately 120 countries. Using panel data from the Global Financial Inclusion Index (Global Findex 2017) on account ownership ...

This paper uses panel data from 31 provinces in China for the years 1997 to 2016 and employs three models, including simple pooled OLS, random-effects and fixed-effects to examine the relationship between the minimum wage ...

Cases of depression have risen over the years. Men, women, and children have been affected by this disease and the results of depression can be devastating. However, there may be ways to effectively treat and cure those ...

Every U.S. President in recent decades has had to respond to at least one pandemic disease. Political leadership has proven decisive. In the coming years, U.S. foreign policy will face at least three inter-related issues: ...

Despite the long tradition of studies on the Japanese honorific system, formal analyses of addressee-honorific markers have not been carried out until very recently. Although not explicitly claimed, it was more or less ...

En los últimos tiempos, confluyeron dos fenómenos en auge a nivel global: la creciente e insaciable demanda mundial por recursos naturales y una ciudadanía que se moviliza exigiendo participación en las decisiones sobre ...