In China's steel industry, hot issues such as "merger and reorganization" and "zombie firms" are closely tied to firm exit. This paper studies the selection mechanism of steel firms from a perspective of advanced technology adoption. Intelligent manufacturing, as an advanced technology with...

Background: Planning for a possible influenza pandemic is an extremely high priority, as social and economic effects of an unmitigated pandemic would be devastating. Mathematical models can be used to explore different scenarios and provide insight into potential costs, benefits, and...

The high temperature deformation behavior of a X30CrMoN15-1 high-nitrogen stainless steel (HNSS) has been investigated using uniaxial compression test in the temperature range of 850–1250 °C and strain rate of 0.001–10 [[EQUATION]] . An Arrhenius-based hyperbolic sine equation was used to...

Utilizing the 3,567 A-share listed companies, this paper evaluates whether the Sino-US trade friction identified by the 301 tariff list impacts the Chinese stock market. We find that the 301 tariff list has a negative impact on the stock price in Chinese financial market by applying the...

Mixed-integer Gomory cuts have become an integral part of state-of-the-art software for solving mixed-integer linear programming problems. Therefore, improvements in the performance of these cutting planes can be of great practical value. In this paper, we present a simple and fast heuristic for...