We find that when a major customer has greater market power in its industry, its supplier firm exhibits better performance. The effect of the major customer's market power on its supplier's performance is more pronounced when the economic bonding between the customer firm and the supplier is...

Participation of nondispatchable renewable energy resources (RER) such as wind turbines (WT) and photovoltaic (PV) systems is one of the main challenges of these clean energy resources. Due to the uncertain nature of these resources, predictions of their amount of power in the day-ahead market...

This study aimed to investigate the geometry distinction of the pores formed by brittle minerals in shale oil reservoir and dig out its significance in hydrocarbon migration and exploitation. 14050 pores related to brittle minerals in typical shale oil reservoir samples are selected as the...

Condition monitoring and health management of deteriorating systems have attracted significant attentions in reducing failure rate and ensuring normal operation of systems. However, related existing methodologies usually confront difficulty when applied to systems with multivariate performance...