The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of five municipal landfills on residential property values in a major metropolitan area (Cleveland, Ohio). The study concludes that landfills will likely have an adverse impact upon housing values when the landfill is located within several...

[Abstract]: Based on the literature review of EDI adoption and small business use of IT, the four variables of decision factor that influence Singaporean SMEs to adopt EDI were identified as perceived benefit of EDI, organizational readiness for EDI,competitive pressure, and power and...

A review of the literature showed that there appears to be very little research undertaken on EDI adoption by SMEs particularly in Singapore. The study by Ping Li and Joseph Mula is a preliminary attempt to quantify this area. Using a survey-based methodology, the research examined EDI adoption....

[Abstract]: Publishing data for analysis from a microdata table containing sensitive attributes, while maintaining individual privacy, is a problem of increasing significance today. The k-anonymity model was proposed for privacy preserving data publication. While focusing on identity disclosure,...

Background: Intuitively speaking, there is an inverse proportional relationship between exports and overcapacity, which means in export's busy season, enterprises would expand output and improve capacity utilization rate but control yields to avoid dull sale in slack season, causing exacerbated...

We select gross national happiness (GNH), per capita GDP, the number of tourists received in rural areas, waste gas emission and other indicators that are closely related to harmonious economic development. Using the indicator data, we establish the multiple linear regression model that is in...

Gongbo Nature Reserve, located in Nyingchi of Tibet, is by far the largest construction project of forest reserves that China approves and invests in. This article adopts the shadow project method, and estimates the water conservation function of forest ecosystem of Gongbo Nature Reserve based...

In this paper we study the expected utility maximization problem for discretetime incomplete financial markets. As shown by Xia and Yan (2000a, 2000b) in the continuous-time case, this problem can be solved by the martingale measure method. In a special discrete-time model, we explicitly work...

The world economy continues to develop, prosperity and crisis coexist. The global financial crisis and the European debt crisis brought unstable factors to the world economy, and the security of global financial system was challenged. To cope with the crisis in the future, worldwide financial...

Increasing concerns regarding environment and sustainability drive firms to devote resources to green product development to satisfy customers’ preference and gain competitive advantage. Organizations require an effective learning orientation along with a market-based orientation in order to...