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Lehigh University

EducationBethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States
About: Lehigh University is a education organization based out in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Catalysis & Fracture mechanics. The organization has 12684 authors who have published 26550 publications receiving 770061 citations.


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16 Aug 2013-Polymer
TL;DR: A review of the fundamental scientific principles underpinning the operation of polymers for gas separations, including the solution-diffusion model and various structure/property relations, is presented in this paper.

1,095 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the factors that may be responsible for the rapidly increasing prevalence of obesity in the United States and found that these factors have the expected effects on obesity and explain a substantial amount of its trend.
Abstract: Since the late 1970s, the number of obese adults in the United States has grown by over 50 percent. This paper examines the factors that may be responsible for this rapidly increasing prevalence rate. To study the determinants of adult obesity and related outcomes, we employ micro-level data from the 1984-1999 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. These repeated cross sections are augmented with state level measures pertaining to the per capita number of fast- food restaurants, the per capita number of full-service restaurants, the price of a meal in each type of restaurant, the price of food consumed at home, the price of cigarettes, clean indoor air laws, and hours of work per week and hourly wage rates by age, gender, race, years of formal schooling completed, and marital status. Our main results are that these variables have the expected effects on obesity and explain a substantial amount of its trend. These findings control for individual-level measures of household income, years of formal schooling completed, and marital status.

1,066 citations

01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: In today’s changing and competitive industrial environment, the difference between ad hoc planning methods and those that use sophisticated mathematical models to determine an optimal course of action can determine whether or not a company survives.
Abstract: Integer optimization problems are concerned with the efficient allocation of limited resources to meet a desired objective when some of the resources in question can only be divided into discrete parts. In such cases, the divisibility constraints on these resources, which may be people, machines, or other discrete inputs, may restrict the possible alternatives to a finite set. Nevertheless, there are usually too many alternatives to make complete enumeration a viable option for instances of realistic size. For example, an airline may need to determine crew schedules that minimize the total operating cost; an automotive manufacturer may want to determine the optimal mix of models to produce in order to maximize profit; or a flexible manufacturing facility may want to schedule production for a plant without knowing precisely what parts will be needed in future periods. In today’s changing and competitive industrial environment, the difference between ad hoc planning methods and those that use sophisticated mathematical models to determine an optimal course of action can determine whether or not a company survives.

1,066 citations

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09 Jul 2009-Nature
TL;DR: In this paper, a method was proposed to identify and purify all 12 major single-chirality semiconducting species from a synthetic mixture of carbon nanotubes, with sufficient yield for both fundamental studies and application development.
Abstract: Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are a family of molecules that have the same cylindrical shape but different chiralities. Many fundamental studies and technological applications of SWNTs require a population of tubes with identical chirality that current syntheses cannot provide. The SWNT sorting problem-that is, separation of a synthetic mixture of tubes into individual single-chirality components-has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Intense efforts so far have focused largely on, and resulted in solutions for, a weaker version of the sorting problem: metal/semiconductor separation. A systematic and general method to purify each and every single-chirality species of the same electronic type from the synthetic mixture of SWNTs is highly desirable, but the task has proven to be insurmountable to date. Here we report such a method, which allows purification of all 12 major single-chirality semiconducting species from a synthetic mixture, with sufficient yield for both fundamental studies and application development. We have designed an effective search of a DNA library of approximately 10(60) in size, and have identified more than 20 short DNA sequences, each of which recognizes and enables chromatographic purification of a particular nanotube species from the synthetic mixture. Recognition sequences exhibit a periodic purine-pyrimidines pattern, which can undergo hydrogen-bonding to form a two-dimensional sheet, and fold selectively on nanotubes into a well-ordered three-dimensional barrel. We propose that the ordered two-dimensional sheet and three-dimensional barrel provide the structural basis for the observed DNA recognition of SWNTs.

1,031 citations

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TL;DR: This paper found that female board representation is positively related to accounting returns and that this relationship is more positive in countries with stronger shareholder protections, perhaps because shareholders motivate boards to use the different knowledge, experience, and values that each member brings.
Abstract: Despite a large body of literature examining the relationship between women on boards and firm financial performance, the evidence is mixed. To reconcile the conflicting results, we statistically combine the results from 140 studies and examine whether these results vary by firms' legal/regulatory and socio-cultural contexts. We find that female board representation is positively related to accounting returns and that this relationship is more positive in countries with stronger shareholder protections--perhaps because shareholder protections motivate boards to use the different knowledge, experience, and values that each member brings. We also find that, although the relationship between female board representation and market performance is near zero the relationship is positive in countries with greater gender parity (and negative in countries with low gender parity)--perhaps because societal gender differences in human capital may influence investors' evaluations of the future earning potential of firms that have more female directors. Lastly, we find that female board representation is positively related to boards' two primary responsibilities: monitoring and strategy involvement. For both firm financial performance and board activities, we find mean effect sizes comparable to those found in meta-analyses of other aspects of board composition. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of our findings

1,013 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Yang Yang1712644153049
Gang Chen1673372149819
Yi Yang143245692268
Mark D. Griffiths124123861335
Michael Gill12181086338
Masaki Mori110220066676
Kai Nan An10995351638
James R. Rice10827868943
Vinayak P. Dravid10381743612
Andrew M. Jones10376437253
Israel E. Wachs10342732029
Demetrios N. Christodoulides10070451093
Bert M. Weckhuysen10076740945
José Luis García Fierro100102747228
Mordechai Segev9972940073
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
202338
2022140
20211,040
20201,054
2019933
2018935