This study argued that food standards are endogenous and determined by the contest or balance among five relevant interest groups: industry, government, consumers (civil society), academia, and external influence. After a comprehensive review on the Maximum Residue Limit regulation system around...

Text-based password schemes have inherent security and usability problems, leading to the development of graphical password schemes. However, most of these alternate schemes are vulnerable to spyware attacks. We propose a new scheme, using CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing tests to...

This paper attempts to compare the impact of Chinese and US economic policy uncertainty (proxied by the EPU index) on the volatility of eleven major stock markets. Both daily data and monthly data are utilized in this empirical research. The analyses comprise two perspectives: one considers the...

A low-carbon innovation system is an important guarantee for achieving high-quality development goals. Under the regulation of the government, enterprises passively participate in low-carbon innovation, but excessive emissions occur from time to time. Aiming at the issue of corporate carbon...

1. Rising China and its integration with the changing world economy / Wei Xia and Liming Wang -- 2. Rising China : its strength and problems / Gregory C. Chow -- 3. Evolution after revolution : the Chinese 'claiming state' between history and textbook economics / Giuseppe Gabusi -- 4....

The concept of accessibility has long been theorized as a principal determinant of residential choice behavior. Research on this influence is extensive but the empirical results have been mixed, with some research suggesting that accessibility is becoming a relatively insignificant influence on...