In addition to describing the history of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Taiwan, the government's measures to contain the outbreak, and the actual economic impacts of SARS on Taiwan's economy, this paper presents the results of a multiregional computable general equilibrium model...

From the perspective of the influence on credit for farmers, this paper takes the temporarily poor farmers in Rongchang County of Chongqing Municipality as the respondents, and employs the expert survey method and on-site analysis to analyze the reasons and put forward three hypotheses. Using...

Based on field surveys1 conducted in the rural Tibetan-inhabited regions of Gansu, Qinghai and Yunnan Provinces, this chapter has found that radio and television (TV) — compared to other forms of media — currently play an indispensable role in promoting Party and state policies, influencing...

It is shown that there is no direct relation between the fractional exponent v of the fractional integral and the fractal structure of the memory set considered, v depends only the first contraction coefficient χ1 and the first weight P1 of the self-similar measure (or infinite self-similar...

In recent decades, Chinese agriculture has moved towards higher-energy and higher carbon-input systems to increase food production in the country's limited area of croplands. To investigate the environmental impacts of this trend, this study aimed to develop an “Integrated Life Cycle...