Taking Chengde Summer Mountain Resort for example, agricultural development and application in gardening practices in the flourishing ages of Kangxi and Qianlong, and cultural connotations of valuing the fundamental role of agriculture in national economy were analyzed.

Prior research and managerial practices have often over-emphasized employees’ performance and ignored their occupational well-being. However, a series of employee suicide scandals in China have drawn people’s attention to employees’ occupational well-being and heightened the importance of...

[Abstract]: Based on the literature review of EDI adoption and small business use of IT, the four variables of decision factor that influence Singaporean SMEs to adopt EDI were identified as perceived benefit of EDI, organizational readiness for EDI,competitive pressure, and power and...

A review of the literature showed that there appears to be very little research undertaken on EDI adoption by SMEs particularly in Singapore. The study by Ping Li and Joseph Mula is a preliminary attempt to quantify this area. Using a survey-based methodology, the research examined EDI adoption....

[Abstract]: Publishing data for analysis from a microdata table containing sensitive attributes, while maintaining individual privacy, is a problem of increasing significance today. The k-anonymity model was proposed for privacy preserving data publication. While focusing on identity disclosure,...

Default correlation is the key point for the pricing of multi-name credit derivatives. In this paper, we apply copulas to characterize the dependence structure of defaults, determine the joint default distribution, and give the price for a specific kind of multi-name credit derivative —...

In terms of stochastic orders, the purpose of this paper is to show how the random environment can affect the number of working components of a system with heterogeneous components sharing a common random environment. Applications to a class of semiparametric mixture models, stress-strength...

In this paper, a new method is presented to analyze the linear stability of the synchronized state in arbitrarily coupled complex dynamical systems with time delays. The coupling configurations are not restricted to the symmetric and irreducible connections or the non-negative off-diagonal...