The aim of this paper is to examine the long-run relationship between energy consumption and economic growth for 80 developing countries from 1990 to 2009. For this purpose, methods of panel unit root test, panel cointegration test and panel dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS) are applied....

In the debate over sustainable economic growth, two critical issues are elasticity of substitution and technical change. Due to entropy increasing law in MEI system, the elasticity of substitution between any two resources must decline to zero and the efficiency improvement of resources from...

As an organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the People's Daily (PD) has a critical influence on China's policies and economy. This study examines the impact of the PD on China's economic structural changes and industry environmental performance. To separate the 'PD...

State-owned (SO) enterprises are subject to more complex institutional pressures in host countries than private firms. These institutional pressures arise from a weak legitimacy of “state ownership” in some countries, which arises from a combination of ideological conflicts, perceived...

The United States witnessed substantial growth in manufacturing and urban populations during the last half of the 19th century. To date, no convincing evidence has been presented to explain the shift in population to urban areas. We find evidence that capital intensity, particularly new capital...

Most previous investigations on spatial Public Goods Game assume that individuals treat neighbors equivalently, which is in sharp contrast with realistic situations, where bias is ubiquitous. We construct a model to study how a selective investment mechanism affects the evolution of cooperation....

A numerical modeling study was performed to investigate the impacts of biodiesel blend ratio on the emission formation processes of a diesel engine. Simulations were conducted using 3-D CFD simulation software KIVA4 coupled with CHEMKIN II. The integrated chemical kinetics with 69 species and...

Time delay, accounting for constant incubation period or sojourn times in an infective state, widely exists in most biological systems like epidemiological models. However, the effect of time delay on spatial epidemic models is not well understood. In this paper, spatial pattern of an epidemic...

This paper firstly introduces current situations of buckwheat tea industry in Liangshan Prefecture, current situations of intellectual property right of buckwheat tea in whole China, and total flavonoid content in buckwheat tea. On the basis of these current situations, it analyzes drawbacks of...