In this study, an inexact stochastic fuzzy programming (ISFP) model is proposed for land-use allocation (LUA) and environmental/ecological planning at a watershed level, where uncertainties associated with land-use parameters, benefit functions, and environmental/ecological requirements are...

The direct conversion of CO2 and CH4 into liquid products is a meaningful process but full of challenges, especially for tuning the liquid product distribution. Here, Cu and amino group functionalized metal-organic frameworks catalyst (Cu/UiO-66-NH2 ) were designed for a one-step synthesis of...

This paper examines how transformations in the housing system in the People's Republic of China (PRC) influence the PRC pattern of urbanization. It first discusses how housing policies determine the supply and demand of housing in urban PRC and subsequently analyzes how the changes in the mode...

Using simulated patients to mimic nine established non-communicable and infectious diseases over 27 trials, we assess ChatGPT's effectiveness and reliability in diagnosing and treating common diseases in low- and middle-income countries. We find ChatGPT's performance varied within a single...

Using simulated patients to mimic nine established non-communicable and infectious diseases over 27 trials, we assess ChatGPT's effectiveness and reliability in diagnosing and treating common diseases in low- and middle-income countries. We find ChatGPT's performance varied within a single...

This paper analyzes the foreign trade gap between 36 countries and regions and the role China plays from 1978 to 2007. The paper finds that the absolute gap among those countries increase, but the relative gap decrease, the gap between the developing and the developed decrease, the...

As the demand for organic and natural food grows in the U.S., studies show that consumers would and do pay more for these foods than their traditional counterparts. However, the question remains as to whether consumers really understand the differences between organic and natural products versus...

We construct an economic model of epidemiology, in which agents' economic decisions affect epidemic dynamics and vice versa. Agents are randomly matched and trade goods in pairwise meetings. The meeting rate increases in agents' search efforts, and the pathogen can be transmitted from infected...

Using experimental and non-experimental methods, this paper verifies the causal effect of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection on mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Based on cross-provincial data within China, we document a significant increase in the probability of announcing M&A bids in...

We show that ongoing zero portfolio weights in cryptocurrency are surprisingly difficult to generate in a standard Bayesian portfolio theory framework. With ten years of prior data, equity market investors would need very pessimistic priors on mean returns to justify never having bought...