With the aim of understanding the usefulness of cross-country interactions and long memory dependencies in exchange rate return forecast, we propose, compare, and evaluate various neural network architectures. These architectures include the proposed deep latent factor (DLF) and deep prediction...

Southern Company has commissioned a 2 × 1 Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) facility in Kemper County, Mississippi. The plant demonstrated the Transport Integrated Gasification (TRIGTM) technology developed by Southern Company, KBR, and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). With a...

Fossil fuel subsidies reform has been intensively debated and promoted as a concrete step towards sustainable development, with anticipated benefits of reduced carbon emissions, saved public spending, and improved social distribution. But does this "triple-win" policy deliver what it promises?...

This paper uses a 10 years monitoring data set of 100 counties to examine the process,implementation and impacts of China’s Conversion of Cropland to Forests Program (CCFP). Atheoretical framework was constructed to explain the development of CCFG. We find that CCFGwas originate from economic...

Fossil fuel subsidies reform has been intensively debated and promoted as a concrete step towards sustainable development, with anticipated benefits of reduced carbon emissions, saved public spending, and improved social distribution. But does this "triple-win" policy deliver what it promises?...

In this paper, authors analyze the influences of non-tradable share reform on cash dividends in Chinese listed companies and find that the distribution intensity of cash dividends has been weakened in listed companies after the non-tradable share reform. The research shows that the non-tradable...

Ambient air pollution kills over four million people every year globally. Improving air quality presents a complex problem for governments as emissions are produced from a wide range of sources and tend to cross boundaries. To understand the challenge of transboundary air pollution transfer, we...

A heat-pulse (HP) sensor installed in a double-layered soil with the heating probe positioned at the layer interface violates the underlying assumption of soil homogeneity for the cylindrical perfect conductors (CPC) theory used to interpret the HP data. In this study, laboratory and numerical...

The effects of cropland slope, distance to surface water, farmers' risk attitudes, and farmers' nitrogen (N) fertilizer applications on potential N delivery to streams and costs of reducing N delivery were evaluated for a representative Virginia peanut-cotton farm. Target MOTAD and generalized...