Drawing on a survey of migrants in 12 cities across four major urbanising areas in China, this paper analyses rural migrants’ intention for permanent urban settlement. We focus on one sizeable but often overlooked group of rural migrants, that is, the self-employed. Our hypothesis is that...

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship among negative media coverage, law environment and tunneling of controlling shareholders. Design/methodology/approach - Under the Chinese especial institutional background, this paper empirically test the relationship among...

Hydrogen is a kind of green fuel, and is considered as the substitute oil fuel for future. Although many of literature of photocatalyst water splitting have been presented, little of the literature focused on their energy conversions. Therefore, investigation of their energy conversions is...

In this paper, the end loss effect of arbitrary oriented parabolic trough solar collectors (PTC) is analyzed and discussed, the methods to reduce or compensate the end loss effect by extending heat absorber tube, setting a fan-shaped end plane mirror (FS-EPM) at one end of PTC and inclining PTC...

This paper develops a new class of aggregation operator based on utility function, which introduces the risk attitude of decision makers (DMs) in the aggregation process. First, under the general framework of utility function, we provide a new operator called the generalized ordered weighted...