Grassland development serves as an important part of the national sustainable development strategy in China. This paper defines the strategic objectives of grassland development in China based on the national strategy, the current status of grassland development in China and the status of...

We combine a model of combined inter-spatial and inter-temporal trade between countries recently – used by Huang, Whalley and Zhang (2004) to analyze the merits of trade liberalization in services when goods trade is restricted – with a model of foreign exchange rationing due to Clarete and...

The procedure for biodiesel production directly from wet microalgae ( Chlorella vulgaris ) assisted by radio frequency (RF) heating was optimized in this study using response surface methodology (RSM). A three-variable, five-level central composite design (CCD) was employed to evaluate the...

We propose a new hypothesis-testing method for multipredictor regressions in small samples, where the dependent variable is regressed on lagged variables that are autoregressive. The new test is based on the augmented regression method (Amihud and Hurvich, ), which produces reduced-bias...