The tobacco growers with the growing area of greater than or equal to 100 mu, have become an important subject of tobacco production in Weng'an County of Guizhou Province. Regulating and developing the production and business activities of large-scale tobacco growers, plays an important role in...

The vector assignment p-median problem (VAPMP) (Weaver and Church in Transp Sci 19(1):58–74, <CitationRef CitationID="CR37">1985</CitationRef>) was one of the first location-allocation models developed to handle split assignment of a demand to multiple facilities. The underlying construct of the VAPMP has been subsequently used in a...</citationref>

Objective of this work is to investigate the electrocatalytic efficiency using cyclic voltammetry, cathodic polarization and impedance spectroscopy techniques of the porous Ni3Al–Mo electrodes obtained by reactive synthesis of Ni, Al and Mo elemental powders. The kinetic parameters are...

The long-term stability and the effect of electrolysis on the corrosion behavior of porous Ni3Al–Mo electrode obtained by reactive synthesis of Ni, Al and Mo elemental powders for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) were investigated in 6 M KOH solution under −100 mA cm−2 current density...

We compare observed corporate cumulative default probabilities to those calculated using a stochastic model based on an extension of the work of Black and Cox and find that corporations default as if via diffusive dynamics. The model, based on a contingent-claims analysis of corporate capital...

In this paper, we investigate the predictability of corporate bond excess returns using a comprehensive data sample for the period from January 1973 to December 2010. We find that corporate bond returns are more predictable than stock returns, and the predictability tends to be higher for...

Purpose – Longevity risk, that is, the uncertainty of the demographic survival rate, is an important risk for insurance companies and pension funds, which have large, and long-term, exposures to survivorship. The purpose of this paper is to propose a new model to describe this demographic...

We investigate the information cost of stock trading during the 2000 presidential election. We find that the uncertainty of the election induces information asymmetry of politically sensitive firms under the Bush/Gore platforms. The unusual delay in election results in a significant increase in...