There has been much attention paid to oil security in China in recent years. Although China has begun to establish its own strategic petroleum reserve (SPR) to prevent potential losses caused by oil supply interruptions, the system aiming to ensure China׳s oil security is still incomplete. This...

Many researchers have focused on the success of shopping centres in developed countries, but few studies have been done for developing countries. Using Beijing as a case study, this paper analyzes consumer shopping patterns at shopping centres. The data is collected by surveys of shoppers at...

C60 films were fabricated by vacuum sublimation and studied with dielectric spectroscopy regarding glass transition. With annealing, the dielectric loss peaks decreased in height, and the apparent activation energy deduced from their frequency dependence dropped in magnitude. The peaks, broad...

Chen et al. (2010) [1] propose a unified method–coordinate-independent sparse estimation (CISE)–that is able to simultaneously achieve sparse sufficient dimension reduction and screen out irrelevant and redundant variables efficiently. However, its attractive features depend on the...

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Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to examine long-term return of new China collectible stamps after their issuance and how stamp characteristics affect the return. Design/methodology/approach–The authors construct a model to analyze the determinants of stamps' long-term return and test...

Continuum regression encompasses ordinary least squares regression, partial least squares regression and principal component regression under the same umbrella using a nonnegative parameter Gamma. However, there seems to be no literature discussing the asymptotic properties for arbitrary...

We study a three-player cooperative game with transferable utility where the players may form different coalition structures. A new concept of stability of a coalition is introduced, and the existence of a stable coalition is proven. Based on this stability concept, a novel approach is given to...