Purpose - Starting from the theoretical mechanism of profit sharing between finance and the real economy, this paper reviews and analyzes the profitability of China's banking industry and makes a horizontal comparison with the banking industry of the United States, Japan, and Germany....

Against the background of current public policy of urban-rural coordinated development, a key land policy issue is how to deal with the conflict between urban expansion and farmland protection. By analyzing three major types of externality in urban-rural land use and the current trial of...

This study collected 274 soil samples and 188 soil-crop paired samples in moderately Cd contaminated farmland dominated by vegetables in suburbs of Yangtze River Delta. In addition, this study conducted field trials of soil amendment and cultivar selection using Luhao as the target crop. The...

The potential emergence of an ocean mining industry to exploit seafloor massive sulfides could present opportunities for oceanographic science to facilitate seafloor mineral development in ways that lessen environmental harms.

In this study, the heat distribution throughout the profile of unsaturated multilayered soil is determined using finite difference method while its thermal diffusivity varies with time and depth. First, the input parameters such as water content, dry density and sand content of the soil profile...