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...

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...

This paper reviews the branch of literature that applies models developed in international trade theory (Microeconomics) to explain phenomena found in international finance (Macroeconomics). Among all international trade models, the New New Trade Theory with productivity heterogeneity across...

Following Jeske's (2006) decentralized international risk sharing arrangement where residents have access to international capital markets, this paper studies the presence of resident default risk on borrowing happened between domestic agents, in addition to default risk on private debt...

A comprehensive mathematical model of the performance of the cathode-supported solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) with syngas fuel is presented. The model couples the intricate interdependency between the ionic conduction, electronic conduction, gas transport, the electrochemical reaction processes in...

This article reviews the development of psychological counselling in China. It consists of three parts: counselling in ancient China, counselling in China today, and counselling in the future. Counselling ideas can be traced back to ancient China, 2,500 years ago, but Western counselling...