This article summarises the development and use of intelligence tests in China. Part one introduces the historical development of testing in China and notes Western intelligence tests which have been adapted for use in China, as well as those developed by Chinese psychologists. Part two reviews...

Motivated by SEC regulations requiring a majority of independent directors on corporate boards, we examine director informativeness and ability by observing the trading performance of independent directors who serve on multiple boards. As a proxy for informativeness, we find positive trading...

We examine the effect of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998 on analyst recommendations. We refer to these acts as the Reform, which addresses the safe harbor provision for forward-looking information. After controlling...

The paper tends to make an empirical analysis on the experimental site of new countryside construction of Xianhong in Hubei, pointing out mat the inner and outer dependence on routines of experimental construction. The paper also puts forward the beneficial policies, focusing on the agricultural...

A method based on fractal geometry is suggested to simulate the porous structure of calcined limestone, in which a model similar to the Menger sponge is employed for the porous calcine. The bulk fractal dimension is calculated on the basis of the experimentally obtained pore-size distribution...