While the poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) (PHEMA) hydrogel is highly biocompatible and stable, its actual application for soft-tissue replacement is severely limited due to the poor mechanical properties. Herein, we develop a facile strategy to construct PHEMA-based hydrogels with the highest...

Stand-alone marketing models are well-suited to deal with different behavioral features such as variation in transaction frequency (customer heterogeneity with latent classes), recency and attrition (“buy ‘till you die” models), and more general changes in customer transaction rates...

In this paper we estimate relative consumer price levels as of 2008 for 36 major Chinese cities, using an innovative method purposely designed to rectify three main defects of the existing literature, which are (1) the under-representation of marketized services in the sample data, (2) biased...

To solve the hybrid flow-shop scheduling problem in sand casting enterprises with multivariety and multistage production characteristics, an improved cuckoo algorithm was developed. First, considering the “single-batch” coupling relationship in the production process, a single-layer coding...

Dual-listed firms simultaneously follow the relevant rules in their home country and in their cross-listed country. In contrast, other firms only listed in the cross-listed country are only subject to the local regulations. Previous literature has found evidence that cross-listing can improve...

We examine the effect of government ownership on tax evasion in China. After correcting for the partial observability of tax evasion, we find that state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are more likely to evade taxes and less likely to be detected than non-SOEs. After being caught for tax evasion, SOEs...

Dual-listed firms simultaneously follow the relevant rules in their home country and in their cross-listed country. In contrast, other firms only listed in the cross-listed country are only subject to the local regulations. Previous literature has found evidence that cross-listing can improve...

This study documents a stock return premium for meeting or beating management's own earnings forecasts (MBMF) that is separate and distinct from the premium for meeting or beating analysts' earnings forecasts (MBAF) documented in prior literature. Cross-sectional analyses reveal that the MBMF...

This study explores whether meeting or beating management forecasts is indicative of managerial talent. We find that the market reacts positively when firms meet or beat their management forecasts after controlling for meeting or beating analyst forecasts and management forecast errors. Further...

Supercritical CO2 can improve gas recovery and achieve carbon sequestration in tight gas reservoir. It is a cutting-edge topic, not applied in large scale. The main restricts include the unclear mechanism of gas-to-gas displacement and reduction the value of the natural gas asset due to CO2...