Sweet sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) is a promising energy crop for biofuel production. A demonstration study on cost-effective conversion of fermentable sugars in sweet sorghum stems into ethanol with advanced solid-state fermentation technology is presented in this paper. A continuous...

This paper studies a case of corporate governance in the Mingxing Electric Power Company (MXEP). The corporate governance failure was not caused by lack of autonomy inside the company, but lack of sufficient checks and balances at the top management level. The internal disciplinary mechanism of...

The ready mixed concrete (RMC) industry is an important sector of the construction industry in many places. Its level of development in terms of size and performance may be taken as an index representative of the development level of a particular construction industry taken as a whole. Therefore...