We examine the relationship between a society's legal system, a society's culture of empathy, the strength of venture capital contracts and venture performance. We develop a double-sided moral hazard model in which an entrepreneur and a venture capitalist exert value-adding efforts in a venture....

Objectives To measure the economic burden of cerebral palsy (CP) in China is to provide information on CP's societal impacts to policy-makers.Methods The economic burden of CP includes direct healthcare costs, direct non-healthcare costs, developmental costs and indirect costs such as...

What are relevant urban development investment strategies for improving building energy efficiency (BEE) and decarbonizing the urban district heating supply in rapidly urbanizing China? Different trajectories of BEE and energy supply technologies are compared in the urban context in a northern...

We study two tests for the equality of two population mean vectors under high dimensionality and column-wise dependence by thresholding. They are designed for better power performance when the mean vectors of two populations differ only in sparsely populated coordinates. The first test is...

Personal carbon trading (PCT) is a downstream cap-and-trade scheme used to reduce carbon emissions from the household sector. It is argued that the PCT scheme could provide a buffer between the energy price and the total energy price, and thus energy demand remains stable. However these effects...

Although problems are a fundamental dynamics of tourism knowledge production, a systematic, exclusive, and in-depth study of tourism problems or tourism problemology has been overlooked. This study, which represents the first time to examine the nature of tourism problemology, aims to fill this...

PCT (personal carbon trading) is a downstream cap-and-trade scheme used to reduce carbon emissions from the household sector. It is argued that the PCT scheme could provide a buffer between the energy price and the total energy price, and thus energy demand remains stable. However these effects...

Meca et al. (2004) studied a class of inventory games which arise when a group of retailers who observe demand for a common item decide to cooperate and make joint orders with the EOQ policy. In this paper, we extend their model to the situation where retailer’s delay in payments is permitted...

As the tidal current industry grows, power extraction from tidal sites has received widespread attention. In this paper, a blade element actuator disk model that is coupled with the blade element method and a three-dimensional Navier–Stokes code is developed to analyse the relationship between...

The battery cooling/heating with active methods is required for EVs (electric vehicles) in the extreme temperature conditions. This work presents a new active battery cooling/heating method based on PCS (phase change slurry) cycle. Two typical often used active cooling/heating methods so-called...