Based on the survey of customer satisfaction, the authors found existing problems in inspection process of the food safety monitoring laboratory A (including the whole process from receiving samples to issue of inspection report), and determined solutions using flow chart supplied by sig sigma...

Biomass-derived fuels can contribute to energy sustainability through diversifying energy supply and mitigating carbon emissions. However, the biomass chemistry poses an important challenge, i.e., the effective hydrogen to carbon ratio is significantly lower for biomass compared to petroleum,...

Using a survey of 19,977 children in two provinces, this paper explores the prevalence, correlates and potential consequences of poor vision among children in China's vast but understudied rural areas. We find that 24% of sample students suffer from reduced uncorrected visual acuity in either...

Soil erosion increasingly poses a great threat to human food security and environmental quality. It is necessary to implement the assessment of soil erosion so as to provide precautionary measures and relevant suggestions for soil conservation. In this paper, the soil erosion model, revised...

In this paper, the cascaded H-bridge (CHB) inverter is evaluated as a PV power conversion solution for large-scale PV power plants. The advantages and disadvantages of the CHB inverter for large-scale PV power plants are discussed. Comparison between the CHB and conventional central inverters is...

The purpose of this article is to investigate differences between the US and China in (1) employees’ level of engagement in the five dimensions of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) identified by Organ (<CitationRef CitationID="CR42">1988</CitationRef>), and (2) the effects of perceived distributive justice and perceived...</citationref>

The present paper was performed to analyze the pyrolysis process of corn straw. Based on the thermogravimetric analysis, the component of pyrolysis gas of corn straw was tested using the gas chromatograph analyzer. Experimental results showed that, as the reaction temperature increases, the...