Purpose – On the background of China’s turn to a market economy and a consumer-driven society, the purpose of this paper is to recount the fortunes of the age-old religion of the Naxi people and their farmer-priests, the dongba . Design/methodology/approach – Detailed ethnography,...

The probability of two nodes to be linked is related to their similarities in the network. Based on statistical inference, a network-structure similarity index, therefore, is proposed to find the potential links. This index quantifies the effects of the node communities on these links. And an...

We study a monopolistic firm’s various sales strategies to sell a new product to a rationally (in)attentive consumer who can conduct costly learning to resolve valuation uncertainty. Our analysis suggests that the optimal pricing scheme is a two-regime policy, in which the seller quotes a high...

Purpose This study aims to introduce the DoraHand, and the basic capability and performance have been verified in this paper. Besides the idea of sharing modular design and sensor design, the authors want to deliver an affordable and practical dexterous hand to the research area to contribute to...