Pan-Turkism is the nationalism political trend of thought in recent years, meanwhile, it also a kind of extreme nationalism movement related close with Turkey. In the long period of historical evolution, Pan-Turkism, Pan-Islamism, ultranationalism, and East-Turkistan interweave together with...

When modeling consumers’ forward-looking behavior using choice data on frequently purchased products, the common approach assumes that consumers have rational expectations about future promotions. Previous studies modeled such expectations using a first-order Markov (FOM) process. However,...

Time theft is a costly burden on organizations. However, there is limited knowledge about why time theft occurs. To advance this line of research, this conceptual paper looks at the association between organizational injustice and time theft from identity, moral, and equity perspectives. This...

We first introduce the status quo of the development of vegetable industry in Hebei Province, and then conduct empirical analysis of the development of vegetable industry in Hebei Province. Further, we analyze the development advantage of the vegetable industry in Hebei Province using SAI (Scale...

A lack of adequate land use planning can contribute to severe soil erosion and increased sediment yield, creating major environmental problems and threatening the sustainable development of economies and societies. The objectives of this study were to model the effects of land use change on...

In this paper, a variable gain design approach for the high-gain disturbance observer, called Proportional-Integral-Observer (PI-Observer), is proposed to solve the problem of choosing suitable observer gains. The high-gain PI-Observer is successfully applied to estimate unknown inputs of...

Lignocellulosic biomass, microalgae and sewage sludge have distinct compositions and structures to each other. To understand the effect of feedstock differences on biomass liquefaction process, the liquefaction characteristics of rice straw (lignocellulosic biomass), Spirulina (microalgae) and...

Hundreds of papers and hundreds of factors attempt to explain the cross-section of expected returns. Given this extensive data mining, it does not make any economic or statistical sense to use the usual significance criteria for a newly discovered factor, e.g., a t-ratio greater than 2.0....

Drawing on social identity theory, we hypothesize that professionals develop their organizational and work-unit identifications through organizational prestige and work-unit prestige respectively. We further hypothesize that professional status negatively interacts with organizational prestige...

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>This study applies Narayan and Popp's ([Narayan, P. K., 2010]) unit-root test with two endogenous breaks to assess the validity of long-run real interest rate parity (RIRP) via investigating the non-stationary properties of the real interest rate convergence...</p>