The explosive growth of online social networking necessitates a better understanding of privacy in this context to guide system design and policy-making. Drawing on the theory of psychological boundaries and previous literature on information privacy, we extend the extant conceptualization of...

The explosion of online user-generated content (UGC) and the development of big data analysis provide a new opportunity and challenge to understand and respond to public opinions in the G2C e-government context. To better understand semantic searching of public comments on an online platform for...

Too much of a good thing can be harmful. Choice overload, a compelling paradox in consumer psychology, exemplifies this notion with the idea that offering more product options could impede rather than improve consumer satisfaction, even when consumers are free to ignore any available option....

Autophagy is an important intracellular homeostatic mechanism beneficial for eliminating invading pathogens. Investigating the interaction between pathogens and cell autophagy can help us understand how these diseases occur and develop. In this study, HCT-8 cells were cultured with...

Using the nonparametric causality-in-quantiles approach, the paper investigates the influences of climate risk on green bond return and volatility under different market conditions in China. The results show that the impact of climate risk on green bond volatility is more significant than that...

Non-saturated markets such as high-tech markets are attracting more and more eco-conscious consumers. Their utility can be increased by firms’ investment in carbon reduction, so the overall demand can be expanded without intensifying the market competition too much. In this paper, we build a...

Global sourcing is popular due to its ability to provide high-quality products from a global pool of suppliers. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a high risk of delivery delays. Once such delay occurs, the overseas supplier and the buyer usually execute the purchasing contract at a...