Project scheduling is one of the core elements of project management, which is essential for engineering-to-order manufacturing companies to improve productivity, reduce costs and shorten project finish time. This paper explores the multi-mode project scheduling problem under resource and finish...

As an effective financing method for suppliers to solve capital shortage problem before production, purchase order financing (POF) has been widely used. However, in current practices of POF, the separation of order allocation decision of the focal firm and lending decision of the financial...

In order to study the impact mechanism of work stress on driver stress and the mediating effect of psychological stress, a questionnaire survey consisting of three subscales was conducted. Subscale 1 was about work stress; Subscale 2 was associated with psychological stress, while Subscale 3...

The existing literature on law and finance generally assumes that firms are passive recipients of the influence of investor protections on their ability to raise external financing. This view ignores the role of private incentives. In this paper, we empirically identify a commitment mechanism,...

Grouping behavior is an important element which affects pedestrian group-moving behavior significantly. Current studies only give a few discussions on how grouping behavior affects pedestrian counter flow, while the effect of grouping behavior on evacuation flow is largely ignored. Here we...