Asset Valuation -- Finance and its Fundamental Problems -- Discounting and Bond Valuation -- Stock and Equity Valuation: Where Discounting Does Not Work -- Asset Pricing -- Option Pricing and Valuation of Contingent Cash Flow -- Certainty Equivalent, Risk Premium and Asset Pricing -- Debt/Loan...

Purpose Dynamic technologies have revolutionized human socio-economic activities, including health care, higher education, business and improved customer service in academic sectors. Leveraging the latest technology leads to high productivity, confidence, improved management skills, satisfactory...

This study assessed household CO2 emissions (related to the consumption of necessary and luxury goods and services) of peasants and herdsmen households in arid-alpine regions in Gansu, Qinghai and Ningxia provinces, China. We also explored whether agriculture types, family income and family size...

China implemented the Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP) during 2001–2010, which led to the conversion of millions of hectares of marginal croplands to forests across 25 provinces involving 124million people and costing the government 233billionYuan. The objective of this study was to...