Purpose: This study used the colours of plates as atmospheric stimulus factors in the Mehrabian–Russell model of environmental influence, which served as the study’s basic background theory, to explore how plate colour affects consumer appetite preference and dining emotions in Chinese fine...

Recently Lin & Wei (2003) developed the score test for heteroscedasticity in nonlinear regression models and investigated the power of this test through Monte Carlo simulations. This paper presents an approach for estimating local power of the score test, based on an asymptotic approximation to...

Karst landscapes are widely distributed in China, and buried karst is widespread in Guangdong. This study mainly focuses on buried karst or karst caves which are underground at depths of up to 50 m and can significantly affect engineering construction activity. The karst caves, which are widely...