The accurate assessment of drought and its monitoring is highly depending on the selection of appropriate indices. Despite the availability of countless drought indices, due to variability in environmental properties, a single universally drought index has not been presented yet. In this study,...

According to the relevant data in Jiangsu Province during the period 2000-2005, this article conducts comparative analysis of the course of rural urbanization and urban modernization using factor analysis method and principal component analysis method. The results show that the factors...

In the past few years, the Chinese government has promulgated in succession seven strategic emerging industries development plans, ten industrial development plans, Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone planning and the outline of the 12th five-year plan. The country has attached more and more...

Modified estimators for the contribution rates of population eigenvalues are given under an elliptically contoured distribution. These estimators decrease the bias of the classical estimator, i.e. the sample contribution rates. The improvement of the modified estimators over the classical...

Foreign market entry can play a very important role in a nation's economic prosperity. This study concentrates on the evaluation of specific characteristics of the export decision process and is focused on factors that stimulate firms to export or inhibit them from doing so. The analysis is...

Foreign market entry can play a very important role in a nation's economic prosperity. This study concentrates on the evaluation of specific characteristics of the export decision process and is focused on factors that stimulate firms to export or inhibit them from doing so. The analysis is...