The Global Forest Products Model (GFPM) was developed to upgrade the FAO methodology for forest products outlook projections. Its purpose is to analyze and project the consumption, production, trade, and prices of forest products. The system deals with 180 individual countries, three classes of...

In recent years, a growing number of B2B e-businesses are adopting inter-organizational information systems (IOS). IOS enable and facilitate sharing of IT resources and capabilities between two or more organizations. Scholars also agree that information technology (IT) recourses and capabilities...

Extant literature has focused on the complementary or substitute relationship between contractual or relational governance in information systems (IS), however, only a few studies reveal the factors and their interactions which impact the decision making on inter-organizational information...

Ecological compensation has become very common worldwide due to the imbalance in the development of modern society, economy, and the environment and the increased pressure on ecosystem carrying capacity. Nonetheless, the various approaches for quantifying ecological compensation standards differ...

The lack of solution processability of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) has been a major obstacle to hamper their practical applications. At present, a common belief is that the solution processability of MOFs can only be improved by functionalized with extra additives. In this work, we have...

Foam materials have been widely used in a variety of applications. However, plastic foams pose a particularly complex problem because they are mostly disposable, hard to recycle in most areas, and can never be fully degraded. Here, naturally degradable cellulose-based bio-foam was obtained by...