Purpose – The purpose of this paper was to investigate the effects of postponement in the context of environmentally sound management. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examined the environmental issues for a postponement strategy, with transport as a mediating factor. It also...

Based on the current situation of agricultural development and agricultural material utilization in Wannian County of Jiangxi Province, we mainly use the form of questionnaire survey and design the relevant questions, to study the farmers' awareness of circular agriculture and its influencing...

From 2001 to 2005 the American housing market witnessed a housing bubble with rising housing prices and home ownership rates. Home equity that constitutes a large share of net worth for most families increases also during this housing bubble. This paper examines the degree to which the overall...

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is designed to maximise equipment effectiveness by establishing a comprehensive productive-maintenance system. It provides a holistic, company-wide approach to improving overall operational efficiency by integrating processes and technology which cover the...

Many governments are taking measures in support of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to mitigate the economic impact of the COVID-19 outbreak. This paper presents a theoretical model for evaluating various government measures, including insurance for bank loans, interest rate subsidy,...

This paper considers the effects of a policy that links retirement age to life expectancy. We focus on the effects on healthy life expectancy before and after retirement, and on the likelihood of being in good health at retirement age. To investigate these effects, we use a stochastic projection...

We study the evolution in remaining life expectancy and healthy life expectancy of the U.S. population from 1972 to 2020, distinguished by genders. We propose a methodology to forecast life expectancy and healthy life expectancy by incorporating the joint future developments of age-specific...

This paper proposes a model for self-assessed health at an aggregate level that allows to generate age- and gender-specific stochastic forecasts of future health. We decompose health status into a time effect and an age effect. We then further decompose the time effect into observed...