At least 16.5 million people died of hunger in the Great Famine of China from 1959 to 1961. One direct reason is huge grain yield reduction. Here we show that massive sparrow slaughter which resulted in pest outbreaks is an important cause of grain yield reduction. The data we extracted from...

The effect of fuel lean/rich conditions (1:1, 1:2, 1:3, 1:4, 1:5 and 1:6) on the furnace core temperatures, carbon in fly ash and slag and NOx emissions was investigated in a 1 MW four-wall tangentially horizontal bias fired furnace for Yibin anthracite and Shenmu bituminous, respectively....

This paper studies whether individual investors have information advantage before earnings announcements on an emerging market using a unique data set of TWSE. Consistent with existing research on American market, it is surprising that pre-event individual investor trading is also positively...

Security market integration and spanning failures can arise from differential informational access or from administrative barriers to different types of investor, e.g. onshore versus offshore. However, where sufficient motivation exists, a parallel market could arise, where offshore investors...