A controlled study was conducted to test the effect of land application with oxidation pond treatment sugar beet rinse water (SBRW) on soil chemical properties and on corn (Zea mays L.) growth and yield. Samples were collected from each plot: pre-irrigation (provided reference “background”...

This study focuses on how information acquisition and communication influence new product development through organizational capability. Our empirical results, based on sample data from 607 Chinese firms, show that external information acquisition has a positive effect on proactiveness...

Research into two important control mechanisms for managing the supply chain relationship - contracts and trust - is on the rise. However, our understanding of how they influence innovation in a firm remains rather unclear. Thus, the primary objective of this study is to examine the individual...

There is a dilemma for rapid industrializing China to balance economic growth and low carbonization. Industrial symbiosis (IS) provides a system innovation to utilize the industry to fight climate change and pursue sustainable urban development, while few attentions are paid in literatures....

The tip leakage flow not only is responsible for a significant amount of aerodynamic losses in a turbine stage, but also leads to high heat-loads on the tip region. The paper presents a numerical investigation of influences of tip injection on aero-thermal performance of the tip leakage flow for...

This paper analyzes the approximation of a general long-memory ARFIMA (p,d,q) process by a short-memory ARMA(1, 1) process. To validate this approximation, a mean square error forecast criterion is considered, and the calculation of the mean square error between the observation Xt+l of an ARFIMA...