Energy poverty, especially in rural areas, has become a central focus of scholarly and policy discussions. However, there is a significant gap in understanding the impact of religious beliefs on this phenomenon. This paper aims to fill this gap by utilizing household survey data from the China...

Childhood and adolescence overweight and obesity have implications for both health consequences and economic burden. Although it has been an emerging public health problem for primary school children in rural China and the importance of the diet–health link has been stressed for many years,...

Fuzzy mathematics comprehensive evaluation method is used to evaluate the geological environment suitability of rural urbanization in Qingdao City, China. A total of 5 first-level evaluation factors are selected, including environmental geological condition, geological resources, engineering...

ABSTRACT. It is of considerable scientific and technological importance to enhance the thermal conductivity ( k ) of polymers for the application in thermal management. In this work, we study the thermal transport in amorphous/low-crystalized polyimide (PI) composite fibers (crystallinity lower...

In 2014, the Chinese government issued the “Guiding Opinions on Further Deepening the Reform of the Household Registration System”. The urban hukou system in megacities, with urban populations above 5 million, remained under strict control. The restrictions on urban hukou in medium-sized...

Currently, regional water demand is mainly predicted by prediction models and according to actual water demand time series. However, regional water demand is affected by many factors, and the existing methods neglect dynamic mutual-restriction relation of various water demand influencing factors...

Purpose: Given the fact that the income disparity has become extremely severe in rural China, the purpose of this paper is to examine heterogeneity in food consumption among various income classes and to investigate the impact of changes in income distribution patterns on food demand in rural...

Previous literature has demonstrated that low-income people are more likely to settle for poor health choices in developed countries. By using income as a budget constraint and signal for future wellbeing in a life-course utility model, we examine the association amongst income and overweight....

The number of recent publications on food loss and waste, and policy initiatives of governments and international organizations indicate the high priority of this topic. With this in mind, the methodology to measure food loss and waste has important implications for policy recommendations. The...