With the emergence of mobile Internet and social media, human relationship has evolved into a new form due to the much broader reach and more efficient communications enabled by information technology. This paper examines the communication pattern and impact on social group in the context of a...

This paper argues that urbanization reshapes individual's risk preference by exerting self-selection and assimilation effects. Taking advantage of the unique hukou system in the People's Republic of China, we initiate a quasi-experiment method to elicit the two effects, employing the 2013-wave...

The Cash for Clunkers program is not such a clunker if one considers a fuller list of benefits, according to Anna Ching, Mika Clark, Tania Dutta and Yan Zhu.

We obtain the rate of convergence of the functional limit for increments of a d-dimensional Brownian motion. As an application of the main result, we get a d-dimensional version of the result on the size of small increments of a Brownian motion.

In order to investigate the difference of aromatic substances among flavored cigarette paper, which supplied by several manufacturers with different batches, the stability of the complex system of scented cigarette paper was analyzed and evaluated. In this study, H eadspace-gas...

Design of treatment strategy considering the behavior of pollutant with respect to runoff hydrograph is important for effective management of storm runoff. In this study, a mathematical model for storm runoff management was developed. The model determines the storm runoff management strategy and...