Recovering from unanticipated disasters is critical in today’s global market. This paper examines the effectiveness of popular recovery strategies used to address unpredictable disasters that derail supply chains. We create a formal model to portray dynamic operational performance among supply...

This article describes how understanding human mobility behavior is of great significance for predicting a broad range of socioeconomic phenomena in contemporary society. Although many studies have been conducted to uncover behavioral patterns of intra-urban and inter-urban human mobility, a...

Purpose: As the Chinese outbound travel market has become a paramount target for world tourism with significant growth potential, the purpose of this paper is to discuss the impact that the Chinese outbound travel market has on the European tourism industry. Design/methodology/approach: The...

The book offers a detailed introduction to contemporary Chinese culture industry development. It starts with an analysis of the historical aspects and the contextual background rooted in the Reform & Opening-up policy. The second part discusses the development from the perspective of reality and...

Currently, the variable-coefficient nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS)-typed models have attracted considerable attention in such fields as plasma physics, nonlinear optics, arterial mechanics and Bose-Einstein condensates. Motivated by the recent work of Tian et al. [Eur. Phys. J. B <Emphasis Type="Bold">47, 329 (2005)],...</emphasis>