Critical for international marketers in volatile markets is understanding of factors that influence consumer responses during a product-harm crisis. Applying social psychology concepts of heuristic judgments and attribution theory, the authors study mistrust of non-contaminated but...

This paper proposes an extended input-output model on education. Production is divided into two subsystems, the education sector and the non-education sector. The education sector is reflected by both 'monetary flows' and 'student flows.' Second, static and dynamic extended input-output models,...

It is necessary to find the efficient spatial allocation of water conservancy investment of capital construction (WCICC) in practical work of water conservancy in China. This paper analyzes the reasonable allocation structure of WCICC among the nine major river basins in China by using Analytic...

Centrifugal pumps are widely used in cooling water systems to transport cooling water to its users. They are installed in the header line of the feed pipe, constituting a main pump network. The pressure head of the main pumps must be large enough to satisfy the pressure heads of all coolers. The...

Prior research suggests that consumers make trade-offs between two products by focusing more on alignable differences (i.e., the values of the options on the same attributes are different) than on nonalignable differences (i.e., the options have different attributes). The present research...

Kunming City is accelerating the process of agricultural modernization, industrialization, informationization and ecological development. In this process, it needs speeding up building new high level and advanced rural practical skilled personnel team suitable for development demand. By...

Regressions often use pre-orthogonalized regressors: prior to the main regression, an independent variable xi is regressed upon the other regressor(s), and its residuals are used in the right-hand side of the main regression instead of the raw variable itself. For example, the exposure of a...

A critical step in group sequential designs is computation of the appropriate critical values for rejecting H0 at the interim look to keep the overall type I error rate at a prespecified level. When applying the sequential test in a study with an equivalence hypothesis, calculation of the...