Imported capital goods, which embody skill-complementary technologies, can increase the supply of skills in developing countries. Focusing on China and using a shift-share design, we show that city-level capital goods import growth increases the local skill share and that both skill acquisition...

Imported capital goods, which embody skill-complementary technologies, can increase the supply of skills in developing countries. Focusing on China and using a shift-share design, we show that city-level capital goods import growth increases the local skill share and that both skill acquisition...

Collaboration technologies play an increasingly important role in student teamwork in universities. With the proliferation of collaboration systems on the market and the wide range of features they offer, choosing an appropriate system can be an overwhelming task for college students. In this...

The lack of effective faculty-student interaction has been identified as a main contributor to the high dropout rate in online education. For this paper, the authors conducted an empirical study using a social networking tool, specifically Facebook, to improve student-instructor communication...

A number of studies have shown that many factors influence the development of the tobacco companies. This article analyzes the market demand of the Chinese tobacco and efficiency evaluation about Yantai Tobacco Company in order to improve customer satisfaction, repeating purchase intention and...

Online services are now commonly deployed via cloud computing based on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). However, workload is not constant over time, so guaranteeing the quality of service (QoS) and resource cost-effectiveness,...