Many education institutes are planning to use virtual worlds to offer distance education programs and to reach potential students globally. However, the success of such programs depends on students’ willingness to use virtual worlds for learning continuously. Students’ learning...

This article aims to scrutinize an emerging and prominent type of work team in organizations: the spontaneous virtual team (SVT). Despite the promising benefits an SVT can provide, it is confronted with great challenges throughout its lifecycle. In this article, we first highlight the unique...

Sliced Latin hypercube designs, introduced by Qian (2012), are widely used for computer experiments with qualitative and quantitative factors, multiple experiments, cross-validation and stochastic optimization. In this paper, we propose a new class of sliced Latin hypercube design, called the...

Previous studies have provided evidence that customer education play an important role in building service quality, customer trust and relationship commitment, but these studies have focused almost exclusively on complex services, such as financial services. This study extends the current work...

The purpose of this paper is to establish a strong limit theorem of the Dubins-Freedman type for arbitrary stochastic sequences. This generalizes a result by Isaac. Our theorem on growth rate for arbitrary stochastic sequences generalizes a result by Freedman and a result by Petrov. We also...

The paper introduced the connotation of network marketing of fresh agricultural products and analyzed the fundaments of launching the C2C marketing of fresh agricultural products in China. The fundaments mainly cover the development of e-commerce, the transformation of consumption concept, the...

Previous studies have provided evidence that customer education play an important role in building service quality, customer trust and relationship commitment, but these studies have focused almost exclusively on complex services, such as financial services. This study extends the current work...

The situation of plants on the slope can reflect the effect of vegetation restoration during the process of artificial vegetation recovery. Taking the typical damaged slope of Wenchuan earthquake area as the research object, through observing the vegetation situation of deserted slope, the...

Based on the developed analytical absorption model for 0.53 eV GaInAsSb alloy and the suggested material parameters, evaluating active layer controlled thermal conversion has been systematically done for both p-on-n and n-on-p configuration in its normal and inverted construction. A universal,...

District heating is regarded as a key element of energy saving actions in the Chinese national energy strategy, while space heating in China is currently still dominated by coal boilers. However, there is no existing quantitative study to analyse the future heat strategy for China. Therefore, it...