The RCS (Rankine cycle system) used to recover the WHE (waste heat energy) from engines has been regarded as one of the most potential ways of achieving higher efficiency. However, it is of great challenge to keep the RCS still in good performance under driving cycle. This paper tries to reveal...

Global manufacturing companies have some pressing needs to improve production visibility and decision-making performance by implementing effective production monitoring and scheduling. This paper proposes a radio frequency identification (RFID)-based intelligent decision support system...

A novel compressed air drying method using pressurized liquid desiccant is proposed in this paper. The compressed air drying system is consisted of a compressed air module, a pressurized liquid desiccant dehumidifier, a liquid desiccant regenerator working in an atmospheric pressure, and other...

This paper considers that upstream monopoly firm sets input price discrimination (IPD) or uniform input pricing (UIP) in the quality competition market. The marginal cost is related to product quality. We find: When overall quality is low, the upstream firm will give a lower...

In this paper, we examine the welfare effect of CSR executed by high-productivity firms, and find that capturing more profits is a crucial driving force for firms to do CSR. Under free entry of low-productivity non-CSR firms, more high-productivity firms doing CSR, or CSR firms increasing the...