Using a panel cointegration approach to estimate the agricultural total factor productivity in China

A chance-constrained binary program (CCBP) is a general optimization problem over binary decision variables restricted by a chance constraint, which ensures that a constraint with uncertain coefficients can be violated only up to a given probability threshold. Despite its wide applications, the...

Navigation channels are fairways for vessels to travel in and out of the terminal basin of a container port. The capacity of a navigation channel is restricted by the number of traffic lanes and safety clearance of vessels, and the availability of a navigation channel is usually affected by...

China is moving towards a market economy. The greater use of market forces has made China richer, accelerated modernisation and increased productive efficiency but has created new problems, including, in the health sector, problems of inequity and allocative inefficiency. From 1997, the Chinese...

The central objective of the present paper is to examine how university bioscientists select their research agendas, with special attention to biotechnology firms' influence on those agendas. Among other issues, we will assess UIRs' potential effects on the private appropriability of the...

The central objective of the present paper is to examine how university bioscientists select their research agendas, with special attention to biotechnology firms' influence on those agendas. Among other issues, we will assess UIRs' potential effects on the private appropriability of the...

The use of brackish groundwater (BGW) to supplement irrigation shortfalls has increased because of decreasing surface water availability in the arid areas of the southern United States. Reuse of reverse osmosis (RO) concentrate, a by-product resulting from desalination of BGW, can increase the...