This paper examines the relationship between the objectively measured and perceived built environment, and the relative strength of their association with bicycling behavior. By drawing on socio-cognitive theory, a conceptual model was proposed to explain the relationships between the objective...

Understanding the logic of fiscal decentralization is pivotal to the next steps of fiscal reform. The first step is a retrospection of the literature and evidence accumulated in the field. As a typical transition economy with rapid and extensive devolution reforms, China is the ideal context to...

Internationally, the public sector is adopting social media applications (e.g. Twitter and social networking services (SNS)) to harness cutting-edge information technology (IT) developments, but we know little about what drives the diffusion of these applications. In this paper, I adapt the...

The effects of paste components on the properties of porous TiO2 film electrodes prepared through screen-printing technique were investigated in order to efficiently control and optimize the main fabrication step of the dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The screen-printed porous TiO2 films...