By analysing a 1992 national level household sample survey data collected from the female recipients of collateral-free loans of three relatively large rural development agencies in Bangladesh—GB, BRAC, and BRDB—the present study shows that the participation in income-generating projects by...

This research report proposes a novel conceptual distinction between two motivations to post user-generated content – social motivation and informational motivation – and tests five linguistic features characterizing user-generated content that was posted driven predominantly by one of these...

This research demonstrates a visual phenomenon with broad implications for pro-social behavior promotion. We find that the color saturation of marketing communication encouraging pro-social behavior can influence its effectiveness. We suggest that higher color saturation signals vigor and power,...

The process of the evolution trajectory of the management logistics function is tracked in the context of the theory and practice of a networked approach to supply chain management (SCM). Issues around the main competitive forces are driving reforms in deregulation, globalisation, and...

Model Predictive Control (MPC) has recently found wide acceptance in industrial applications, but its potential has been much impeded by linear models due to the lack of a similarly accepted nonlinear modeling or databased technique. Aimed at solving this problem, the paper addresses three...

The collapse of the Californian electricity market system in 2001 has highlighted urgency in research in intelligent electricity trading systems and strategies involving both suppliers and customs. In their trading systems, power generation companies under the new electricity trading arrangement...

Assessing fiscal sustainability – i.e. considering whether or not a country can maintain its current fiscal policies without running into solvency problems and possible default – requires projections on a government's future revenue stream, expenditures and contingent liabilities within a...

The objective of this study is to examine the market valuation of environmental capital expenditure investment related to pollution abatement in the pulp and paper industry. The total environmental capital expenditure of $8.7 billion by our sample firms during 1989-2000 supports the focus on...

Wind environment research in the populated urban area is an important topic on wind potential evaluation as well as wind comfort analysis. This study took measurement of 57 crossroad spots in the campus in North China University of Technology in Beijing. The data of wind speed and direction were...

This thesis makes a number of contributions to the MS literature. First, it develops a Market Fraction (MF) model with heterogeneous raders in a simple asset-pricing framework, which shows that the long-run behaviour and convergence of many variables describing the market can be characterised by...