Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate factors affecting use of microcredit among farmers in Northern China. Design/methodology/approach: A two-stage Heckman model is used to estimate the effect of farmer and family characteristics and loan and lending environment on likelihood of...

The prevalence of electronic devices has propelled the tremendous growth of the semiconductor industry in the past half century. The manufacturing of semiconductor wafers is a long and delicate process, where defect points may occur and cause the failure of the entire circuit. As more advanced...

The exact dynamics of excitation in the generalized Aubry-André Harper model coupled with an Ohmic-type environment is discussed. In contrast to the common belief that localization will preserve the information of the initial state in the system against dissipation into the environment, our...