The emergence of B2B spot markets has greatly facilitated spot trading and impacted supply chain structures as well as the way commercial transactions take place between firms in many industries. While providing new opportunities, the B2B spot market also exposes participants to a price risk....

This paper presents an integrated forecasting model based on the TEI@I methodology for forecasting demand for port logistics services - specifically, port container throughput. The model analyzes port logistics time series data and other information in several steps. In the first step, several...

The porous carbon with a high surface area is prepared from rice husk through pyrolysis and chemical activation and explored as the counter electrode of dye-sensitized solar cells. Structure and texture analysis reveals that the as-prepared porous carbon has a hierarchical porous structure...

Understanding the regional food security situation is of great importance to maintaining China’s food security. To provide targeted information to help regional policymakers monitor food security status, based on the differentiated foci during the phased development of food security, this...

We examine lead-lag relationships between new-building and second-hand ship prices. Our analysis shows the existence of a one-directional lead-lag relationship between two ship prices. The direction of lead-lag relationship is not affected by the time evolution and age of second-hand ships, but...

In this paper, we develop a general analytical method to compute clustering coefficients of growing networks. This method can be applied to any network as long as we can construct and solve the dynamic equation for the degree of any node. We also verify the accuracy of the method through simulation.