Taking the city of Xiamen, China, as an example, we used thermal infrared remote sensing to detect thermal pollution, and examined its relationship to energy consumption and the industrial economy. Monthly changes in 2002 and dynamics throughout the period of rapid urbanization (1987–2007) are...

In this article, the lead--lag relationship in freight rates between spot and forward markets and between spot and time charter (TC) markets was investigated. A hybrid forecasting method for spot freight rates was proposed based on the price discovery functions of the freight forward agreement...

In this research, the presidential election cycle hypothesis is evaluated within the context of the turn-of-the-month effect found in stock returns. Copyright (c) 2004 by the Southwestern Social Science Association.