In many parts of Southeast Asia, farming, industry, commerce and urban communities compete for dwindling water supplies. Some countries have tried to deal with this problem and share water efficiently and fairly by using tradable water use quotas. Such systems have not, however, been easy to...

One of the obstacles many conservation strategies face is the amount of time and money it actually costs for people t o be involved in their implementation - in other words, their "transaction costs" (TCs) . A new study from China has looked at how these costs have affected an innovative...

Purpose: The impact of network centrality on innovation performance is inconclusive. The purpose of this paper is to examine how formal and informal institutions affect the influence of network centrality on firms’ innovation performance in emerging economies by integrating social network...

Recent research has shown great interest in statistical inference methods for community detection, not only in models and algorithms but also in the detectability. In this paper we propose a fast community detection algorithm based on the degree-corrected block model. By introducing a parameter...

This paper presents a two-stage regression model for quantifying different stages of a disease progression with delayed diagnosis time and for identifying the risk factors associated with each stage. Conventional chronic disease progression studies reported replied on the assumption that the...