Purpose: This paper analysed survey data of 715 rice-producing households in China to assess the determinants of adoption of five mutually exclusive soil conservation practices (SCPs) and their impact on rice yield and chemical fertiliser use. Design/methodology/approach: The multinomial...

This study investigates the causal relationship between the prices of rice, crude oil, wheat, corn and soybean in China, using monthly price data over the period of January 1998 to December 2013. Employing an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds test, we explore the cointegration...

Online rating data is ubiquitous on existing popular E-commerce websites such as Amazon, Yelp etc., which influences deeply the following customer choices about products used by E-businessman. Collaborative filtering recommender systems (CFRSs) play crucial role in rating systems. Since CFRSs...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the causal relationship between the prices of rice, crude oil, wheat, corn and soybean in China and estimate the long-run and short-run price relationships. Design/methodology/approach – Using monthly price date over the period of January...