Social cost studies report that alcohol use and misuse impose a great economic burden on society, and over half of the total economic costs are estimated to be due to the loss of work productivity. Controversy remains, however, as to the magnitude and direction of the effects of alcohol...

Purpose Intelligent manufacturing has attracted extensive attention from national strategy, academic research and enterprises' practices. The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of intelligent manufacturing on performance in manufacturing firms. Moreover, how intelligent...

Based on the GTEM chamber for the equivalent height detection method of UHF partial discharge tester, this paper simulates the electric field at the top of the GTEM window. The results show that the electric field strength changes significantly along the position of the top fenestration axis....

This article describes how under the influence of traps and trap ranges in size, final moisture content in oil production and changes in the reservoir is very large. Due to this, thin and dispersed oil concentration, facies changes and oil complexes, and strong segmentation, results in poor...

This paper investigates the impact of international technology transfer through FDI and technology import on Chinese productivity by analyzing 28 Chinese province-level regions over the period 2001 to 2008. The findings show that technology import has significantly positive impact on Chinese...

Solar energy and wind energy are the two most viable renewable energy resources in the world. Good compensation characters are usually found between solar energy and wind energy. This paper recommend an optimal design model for designing hybrid solar-wind systems employing battery banks for...