Serious climate challenges and environmental concerns have led to calls to mitigate greenhouse effects and pollution by controlling livestock production. In this study, we performed a cross-boundary quasi-natural experimental analysis of the Mongolian Plateau to examine the causal effects of...

Growth mixture modeling has gained much attention in applied and methodological social science research recently, but the selection of the number of latent classes for such models remains a challenging issue. This problem becomes more serious when one of the key assumptions of this model, proper...

Theoretically, accounting earnings could be used to estimate the intrinsic value of equity. If accounting earnings could be predicted accurately, then, so could be the value of equity, thereby, creating much less risk in equity investment. However, earnings surprises are common, and therefore so...

On 15 December 2015, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) passed Rule 3211, requiring audit firms registered with PCAOB in the U.S. to disclose the audit engagement partner's name in the Form AP, effective 31 January 2017. The regulation aims to improve the transparency and...

From the perspective of forest resources change, this article uses comparative analysis and panel data regression to study the woodland use efficiency including forest resources quantity and quality change. The results show that although the forest coverage and forest stock volume per hectare...