type="main" <title type="main">Summary</title> <p>Increasing pressures from a variety of directives and standards have caused manufacturing enterprises to consider and implement energy assessment and energy performance goals—to improve both their economic and their environmental performance. Flexible manufacturing systems...</p>

The switching of health insurance plans and health care utilization are potentially correlated with both observable and unobservable information. This paper presents a two-period model of health care utilization, and attempts to account for unobserved heterogeneity that simultaneously affects...

We review inventories in mainland China by evaluating the trajectory of aggregate inventories in recent decades, and then modelling the relationship of inventories in some 300,000 manufacturers with respect to volume (using cost of goods sold), industry (using SIC codes), and geographical...

Novel three-dimensional (3D) branched nanotubes of sodium niobate (NaNbO3) were produced by a multi-step reaction, which involves the synthesis of Nb2O5 branched nanowires and subsequently treating these precursors in alkali solution. XRD and SEM have been used to analyze current products. All...