This paper studied soil erodibility of slope farmland in Guizhou mountain areas by the plot runoff method, analysis and test. Results show that the variation coefficient of erodibility K value calculated according to formula introduced by Sharply is low and relatively stable and accurate, so it...

The Chinese food market is very large and represents a significant opportunity for overseas companies. If this opportunity is to be exploited, however, there is still a need to understand the Chinese consumer’s response to production by different countries of origin. The purpose of this paper...

Optical character recognition is an effective way for information input of paper media and skew detection of document images is a key stage of it. An algorithm for skew detection employing hierarchical projection is proposed in this paper. Projection histograms at various directions in a given...

Purpose: The tourist gaze remains a key concept in tourism research. The purpose of this paper is to comprehend the theoretical and empirical development of the tourist gaze notion and its contributions to tourism knowledge, identifying potential research directions by reviewing and analyzing...

This paper describes a comparative study about the issues in the current e-banking services among the young consumers between two nations: China vs. USA. As the attitude and usage of young consumers will be a good indicator for the trend of e-banking service in the future, and different cultures...

This study tries to answer the question: Do changes in pricing and allocation mechanisms significantly affect the Chinese initial public offering (IPO) market? Four separate pricing and allocation mechanisms for the Chinese IPO market, operating from 1995 to 2007, are examined. We find that as...