By using HS classification, the author has divided total agricultural products into 24 categories. The paper calculated the G-L intra-industry trade index, Br¨¹lhart marginal intra-industry trade index, and Thom & McDowell marginal industry trade index for each type of agricultural products...

This research examines the extent to which and the path through which privacy concerns may trigger negative consequences in Social Networking Sites (SNS). Contradicting conventional wisdom that privacy concerns could severely impede the adoption and diffusion of online social networking, the...

Is emission intensity of carbon dioxide (CO2) spatially correlated? What determines the CO2 intensity at a provincial level? More importantly, what climate and economic policy decisions should the China’s central and local governments make to reduce the CO2 intensity and prevent the...

With increased understanding of the relationships between economic behavior, the real estate sector and individual businessesí real estate finance decisions, lease negotiations and the requirements of flexibility are expected to intensify. This has increased the importance of understanding...

The structure of China’s current governance bears prominent features of fiscal decentralization. The supply of healthcare resources in China has clearly witnessed slower growth in the last two decades during which the fiscal decentralization process has taken place. Using China’s provincial...

Grasslands play important roles on all continents in ecosystem service and livestock production systems. With increasing human and livestock population, significant challenges are faced in providing safe and high quality animal and herbage products from grasslands in China. The family ranch is...

The consumption of milk in China has been increasing over past two decades. Currently, China does not produce enough milk to meet this increase in demand. Consequently a large volume of milk is imported. In this study, import demand for milk in China is explored using demand systems approach...

Multiscale entropy (MSE) is an effective method to measure the complexity of signals from complex systems, which has been applied to various fields successfully. However, MSE may yield an inaccurate estimate of entropy and induce undefined entropy as the coarse-graining procedure reduces the...