Classifying household water-consumption behaviors is crucial for providing targeted suggestions for water-saving behaviors and enabling effective resource management and conservation. Although it is common knowledge that energy consumption is closely coupled with household water consumption, the...

This paper investigates empirically the change(s) in the long-run relationship(s) between the stock prices of eight Far East countries around the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998. Further tests are conducted to check the change in the influence of the Japanese and the US stock markets in the...

Motivated by increment process modeling for two correlated random and non-random systems from a discrete-time asset pricing with both risk free asset and risky security, we propose a class of semi-parametric regressions for a combination of a non-random and a random system. Unlike classical...

This paper empirically examines the determinants of director compensation and CEO compensation and investigates whether director compensation has an effect on CEO compensation. Based on 713 firms (or 2,852 firm-years) between 2007 and 2010, we find that CEO tenure is related to the ability of...

This paper investigates the effect of the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 on the long-run relationship(s) between the stock prices of Far East countries. Further tests are conducted to check the change in the dominance of the Japanese and the US stock markets in the Far East Region. Empirical...

This article examines the relation between average holding periods, stock illiquidity and investors' disposition effects in the Chinese stock markets between 1996 and 2003. The results show that Chinese investors' holding periods are longer for illiquid stocks and are inversely associated with...

In the present research, the multi-pulse resistance spot welding involving three thermal cycles has been carried out on the Q&P980 steel sheet with the thickness of 1.8mm. The influence of welding pulses on the microstructure evolution and mechanical properties of the welded specimens was...

Online word-of-mouth (WOM) has attracted considerable attention from researchers due to its abundant information on customer perceptions that drive product and service improvement. This study develops a novel weighted service quality (WSQ) metric derived from online customer opinions, leveraging...