Sustainable urban development has been receiving growing concerns from both city managers and urban residents across the world. As a yardstick of sustainability, urban carrying capacity (UCC) is an important conceptual underpinning that guides local governments in promoting sustainable urban...

"Monitoring multi-party contracts for E-business" investigates the issues involved in the performance of econtract monitoring of business automations in business to business e-commerce environment. A pro-active monitoring contract model and monitoring mechanism have been designed and developed....

Environmental problems are becoming increasingly severe in China with industrial discharges and household sewages being the main sources of water pollution in the country. For example, in the case of Taihu Lake, more than half of the total phosphorus in the lake comes from household sewage....

In this study, we examine the nature of the relationship between ethical leadership and unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB), defined as unethical behavior conducted by employees with the aim of benefiting their organization, and whether the strength of the relationship differs between...

Water is perhaps the most ubiquitous, and the most essential, of any molecule on earth. Indeed, it defies the imagination of even the most creative science fiction writer to picture what life would be like without water. Despite decades of research, however, water's puzzling properties are not...

We consider a stochastic model of a financial market with long-lived dividend-paying assets and endogenous asset prices. The model was initially developed and analyzed in the context of evolutionary finance, with the main focus on questions of “survival and extinction” of investment...

We present the fabrication of large-scale two-dimensional periodic silicon nanoarrays using nanosphere lithography. The techniques start from a monolayer of self-assembled polystyrene (PS) spheres of 220 nm in diameter on water surface, which works as a mask to fabricate large-scale periodic...

Soil and water conservation is important for the Three Gorges Reservoir Area in China, and quantification of soil loss is a significant issue. In this study, two widely used models - the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) and the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) - were applied to...