This study aims to explore the patterns and trends of Internet news use in a Chinese metropolis, Shanghai. By analyzing news webpage browsing data from three selected months in 2009, 2010, and 2011, we seek to present some evidence other than self-report data, which were widely used in past...

China is one of the world's most sophisticated internet censoring countries. Internet users who wish to visit blocked websites will have to use circumvention tools to get around the Great Firewall, a censoring system inspecting, filtering, and blocking content online. Using a nationally...

Internet censorship has been attracting much attention from scholars and institutes, and several aspects have been studied, including IP blocking, keywords filtering and deletion in social media. However, although news is frequently subject to censorship, censorial practices in news websites...

Politics and economics are inextricably linked. This article argues that the economy has been an underdeveloped contextual variable capable of coordinating the process and consequences of political communication. A theoretical model connecting microindividual outcomes to macrosocial functioning...

The severe internet censorship implemented in China naturally raises substantial doubt about the potential democratic functions of the internet. This study presents some initial empirical evidence for internet use's impact on online opinion expression in Mainland China by analyzing three survey...

An assessment of biomass resources in Shanghai in 2005 has been conducted for the purpose of evaluating the potential quantities that can be used for energy. This analysis contains the estimation of biomass quantities potentially available in four categories: agricultural residues, forest and...

Technological process of a pilot plant of solid substrate fermentation of refining ethanol from sweet sorghum stalk was described. The techno-economic assessment of the pilot plant was carried out with cost and profit method. Results showed that ethanol yield was 90% and the spent residue of...

Bio-oil is a brown liquid product from biomass fast pyrolysis. The upgrading of bio-oil has been a hotspot due to its contribution to the application of bio-oil. The properties of bio-oil, research progress, advantages and disadvantages of upgrading techniques of bio-oil from biomass fast...

Research interest in the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass into energy and fuels through the pyrolysis process has increased significantly in the last decade as the necessity for a renewable source of carbon has become more evident. For optimal design of pyrolysis reactors, an understanding...