Abstract: Why do firms appoint expired independent directors? How do expired independent directors affect corporate governance and thus impact investment decisions? By taking advantage of the sharp increase in expired independent directors’ re-employment in China caused by exogenous regulatory...

Various bentonite-sludge biochar composites were fabricated by a sequence of loading and pyrolysis for the simultaneous removal of norfloxacin (NOR) and copper (Cu 2+ ) from an aqueous solution. The morphology and characteristics of obtained composites were reflected through cation exchange...

Privacy becomes a major concern for both customers and enterprises in today's corporate marketing strategies, many research efforts have been put into developing new privacy-aware technologies. Among them, Hippocratic databases are one of the important mechanisms to guarantee the respect of...

[Abstract]: Privacy is today an important concern for both data providers and data users. Data generalization can provide signicant protection of an individual's privacy, which means the data value can be replaced by a less specic but semantically consistent value and the personal information...

Privacy has been acknowledged to be a critical requirement for many business environments. A variety of uncertainty and mutability poses challenges when sharing resources must happen in collaborative environment. Therefore, the definition of an efficient access control model, based on which...

Construction of theme park has been launched since the early 1990s in Chengdu City, but ended up as a losing proposition after its short-term prosperity because of similar scale and theme with those in other cities. As more international well-known theme parks enter the market, theme parks in...

This paper makes a brief description of the definition and methods of data mining. It describes the characteristics of agricultural data (value delivery, specialization, spatio-temporal bidimensionality) and the status of application of data mining technology in agriculture.

Since Canada is a very open economy, globalisation and increased foreign competition may entail significant long-run labour market and distributional implications. Indeed, with increased foreign competition and China’s accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2001, Canada is facing...

Based on practice of the land consolidation planning in Changfeng County of Hefei City, taking full account of reality of land consolidation and its significance as livelihood project, we analyzed map compilation procedure. In combination with actual effect of land consolidation, we carried out...