There is an increasing wealth of multivariate spatial and multivariate spatio-temporal data appearing. For such data, an important part of model building is an assessment of the properties of the underlying covariance function describing variable, spatial and temporal correlations. In this...

In order to curb anthropogenic carbon emissions and achieve the carbon intensity reduction target in China, it is crucial to shed light on influencing factors of carbon emissions at the city level. This paper selects Tianjin, one of the largest economic centers in northern China, as a study...

Purpose This paper explores the effectiveness of using blockchain technology to solve financial constraints faced by small- and medium-sized suppliers in a capital-constrained supply chain. Design/methodology/approach To characterize the impact of blockchain on credit period and enterprise...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to design a special automatic redundant robot painting system (RRPS), which can automatically navigate and paint in the long non-regular duct. Design/methodology/approach – The RRPS is designed with three subsystems: a redundant robot, a spraying system...

Purpose The purposes of this paper are to review the progress of and conclude the trend for paint thickness simulation for painting robot trajectory planning. Design/methodology/approach This paper compares the explicit function-based method and computational fluid dynamics (CFD)-based method...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop and empirically test a conceptual framework to analyze how inter-organizational knowledge sharing facilitates enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from a 2014 survey on 283 Chinese...

Our proposed local vector autoregressive (LVAR) model has time-varying parameters that allow it to be safely used in both stationary and non-stationary situations. The estimation is conducted over an interval of local homogeneity where the parameters are approximately constant. The local...

The outbreak of Yantze vole (Microtus fortis) population in Dongting Lake region is closely related to the evolvement of lake beaches, because the deposition of lake sediments results in the expansion of lake beaches, which provides the possibility of the increase of the vole’s...