This paper argues that the pharmaceutical industry represents an exciting opportunity to carry out academic research. The nature of the industry allows researchers to answer new questions, develop new methodologies for answering these questions as well as to apply existing methodology to new...

This paper studies the properties and performance of a new measure of accessibility, called the activity-based accessibility (ABA) measure, and compares it to traditional measures of accessibility, including isochrone, gravity and utility-based measures. The novel aspect of the ABA is that it...

In this paper, we study the relation between the energy consumption and the stability in several typical car-following traffic models considering the effects of many-neighbor and non-locality and relative velocity, respectively. The comparison of energy consumption with respect to the stable...

China has been experiencing the substantial changes in agricultural sectors in the past decades. Interaction between diversified channels for marketing agricultural products and modern technology adoption are important for restructuring agriculture and improving productivity, but fewer...