We take the papers, on performance appraisal of land consolidation (including land consolidation benefits, etc.) published in the core journals in the Chinese Journal Full-text Database, as the study samples; conduct analysis in terms of the number of papers, the paper source journals, the...

Experimental studies are carried out to investigate cold flow field and combustion performance of a workable liquid-fueled trapped vortex combustor (TVC). A remarkable design of the model is that all the air flows through the combustor is supplied from a single source, which makes it distinct...

Complex polynomial optimization problems arise from real-life applications including radar code design, MIMO beamforming, and quantum mechanics. In this paper, we study complex polynomial optimization models where the objective function takes one of the following three forms: (1) multilinear;...

A service plan is a type of optional warranty beyond manufacturers' base warranties that retailers offer to consumers. In this paper, we examine how a service plan affects the role played by a manufacturer's base warranty. Analysis shows that when consumers can assess product quality (i.e., the...

Motivated by the business practice whereby some manufacturers open their own retail stores despite the existence of more efficient independent retailers, this paper examines the distribution channel choice of competing manufacturers under demand uncertainty and resale price maintenance. We...

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, much attention has been paid to investigating the appropriateness of the current practice of default risk modeling in banking, finance and insurance industries. A recent empirical study by Guo et al.(2008) shows that the time difference between...