Purpose –The purpose of this study is to examine the association between certain audit firm characteristics and the number of Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)-identified audit deficiencies. Design/methodology/approach –Using a hand-collected sample of PCAOB inspection...

Until now, researchers have not addressed the relationship of competition and investment in China's telecommunications industry, the biggest mobile telecommunications market in the world with unique institutional characteristics. This paper seeks to fill this gap by examining the effects of...

The aim of this research is to prepare of a novel form-stable composite phase change material (PCM) for the latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) in buildings, passive solar space heating or functional fluid by entrapping of SA into PMMA cell through ultraviolet curing dispersion...

In 2006 China had become the fifth leading nation in terms of its share of the world's scientific publications. Today it is second only to the United States. This achievement has been accomplished in part by a conscientious effort by the government to improve the research performance of China's...