Experimental Economics methods are used to determine Hispanic consumers’ sensory acceptance of pasture-fed beef and evaluate visual and taste influences on their overall preferences and willingness-to-pay (WTP). Two hundred and thirty-one Hispanic consumers in four experimental sites in...

Oxygen is the most important energy source for sustaining life, especial for aquatic animal because of directly affecting the most of life activities of them. Frequently, dissolved oxygen fluctuates significantly in water result in hypoxic stress for fish. Importantly, it is extremely necessary...

Pesticides play an indispensable role in agricultural production; however, conventional pesticides generally suffer from a low foliar deposition rate and poor adhesion, resulting in the actual effective dosage reaching the target pests and diseases being less than 0.1%. In this study, a sol-gel...

A biologically productive area was used in the ecological footprint method to measure the demand and impact of human activities on the natural capital, and further, to judge whether the impact is within the scope of the regional bio-capacity. In this presentation, an indicator “ecological...

Firms placed on negative credit watch face the threat of a credit rating downgrade. At the same time, they are given the opportunity to put recovery efforts in place to retain their current credit rating. In this paper, we test to what extent firms use earnings management as a short-term...

The rank list model is a general non-parametric choice model that provides an intuitive and flexible framework to capture rational consumers' preferences. The rank list model assumes that each customer has a fixed and consistent preference ranking over all products and chooses the product that...

This study uses text mining technology to construct an index of digital transformation and discusses the impact of digital transformation on enterprise innovation and its mechanisms from theoretical and empirical perspectives. It also analyzes whether digital transformation can significantly...

Purpose: The product recommendation type is attracting attention from both the retail and academic communities. However, there is no consensus on the effectiveness of set recommendation versus separate recommendation. This research investigates the interaction effect of product recommendation...

We propose a novel method of measuring the comparability of reported accounting numbers from the perspective of creditors. We demonstrate the validity of the measure and show that new bond issues of firms with superior comparability have better credit ratings and reduced bond yields, ceteris...