Despite acknowledging that the economic recovery of Australia and particularly Western Australia from one of the worst global financial downturns will be coupled with a revived Chinese economy, there is a lack of knowledge about these connections. This study evaluates business drivers of Western...

In this paper, we perform a segment-level analysis of the structural differences in average gauge in the US and Europe and assess their impact on traffic and delay at major US airports. The results show that, while average gauge is consistently greater in Europe, the magnitude of the difference...

Being based on preliminary study of Kunming famous temples during the Ming and Qing dynasties, field investigation was carried out about the framework of landscape, layout of waters, characteristic of structure and plant furnishing in Tanhua temple, Black Dragon Pool, Masijid of Shuncheng,...

Building on social exchange theory, we study the role of justice perceptions in curtailing opportunism and, in turn, improving performance and reducing governance cost in buyer–supplier relationships. Our analysis of 225 dyads in the Chinese home appliance industry indicates that distributive...

Practice experience suggests that the traditional calibration of hydrological models with single objective cannot properly measure all of the behaviors of the hydrological system. To circumvent this problem, in recent years, a lot of studies have looked into calibration of hydrological models...

Community detection is one of the most important problems in complex networks. Many algorithms have been proposed in the last decade, and most of them focus on the non-overlapping community structures in the early days. Overlapping and hierarchical structures are another two important properties...

Spatial and temporal changes in flood events in China are becoming increasingly important due to the rapid climate warming that is occurring. This study was conducted to consider changes in flood events and the factors affecting such changes. To accomplish this, China was divided into natural...

This paper presents a new method for quantifying vulnerability to natural hazards in China. As an important area of vulnerability research, quantitative assessment of vulnerability has raised much focus in academia. Presently, scholars have proposed a variety of methods for quantitative...

We examine the short term stock price performance of firms that acquire or sell technology rights. We find significant positive announcement-period abnormal returns to the acquirers and sellers. However, the price increases reverse during the subsequent twenty trading days. These quick fortune...

The new energy revolution, of which the primary energy will be based on renewable energy sources and the terminal energy will be based on electric power, will have a revolutionary impact on the future power grids. In order to develop the corresponding power grid for the future energy system,...