With the concern for the market of food safety, abundant researches on consumer's WTP for organic food have been carried out. With meta-analysis, this paper aims to confirm whether diverge estimates from various researches are relaible and to explore the sources of heterogenicity in terms of...

Solar-driven interfacial evaporation has emerged as an efficient and sustainable way to generate freshwater from seawater to address the crisis of drinkable water. Though rational designs of photothermal materials and structures are essential to the interfacial solar vaporization process, the...

In this paper, the authors use the concept of the population ROC curve to build analytic models of ROC curves. Information about the population properties can be used to gain greater accuracy of estimation relative to the non-parametric methods currently in vogue. If used properly this is...

The purpose of this paper is to use UK pension funds asset allocation information to model the risk attitude of the representative UK pension fund investor. Unlike the previous literature on loss aversion, we find that UK pension funds display risk aversion with respect to gains and to losses....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to establish a paint deposition pattern model applied to robotic air spray painting in order to achieve the accuracy and uniformity of paint film thickness on free‐form surface. Design/methodology/approach – The paper opts for an exploratory study...

The severe soil erosion in the Chinese Loess Plateau has resulted in a considerable wastage of surface runoff (floodwater) in flood season due to high sediment concentration in runoff. To address the water scarcity problem, it is a viable solution to utilize the floodwater. A maximum grade...

A hybrid evolutionary search algorithm is developed to optimize the classical single-criterion operation of multi-reservoir systems. The proposed improved genetic algorithm-simulated annealing (IGA-SA) which combines genetic algorithms (GAs) and the simulated annealing (SA) is a new global...

Purpose – The paper aims to establish a causal relationship model that helps to realize how consumer involvement with the cause moderates the effect of company-cause fit on consumers’ corporate associations, and how their corporate associations regarding a company’s social responsibility...