Fusarium wilt, Phytophthora root rot, and Anthracnose crown rot of strawberry are three infectious diseases that cause growth retardation and even death in strawberry plants. Because these diseases seriously harm the commercial strawberry industry, it is critically important to quickly identify...

By matching monthly iron ore import prices with steel sales price data, this study examines the impact of abolishing the exclusive license of importing iron ore on cost pass-through in the Chinese steel supply chain. We model intermediaries’ role in alleviating market uncertainties. Contrary...

This article explores the impact of language proficiency on international trade by using panel data analysis. To do so, we construct a time-variant test-score-based measure of common language. Controlling for the standard gravity model variables, we find strong empirical evidence that English...

This paper attempts to investigate whether high-tech product export causes more technology spillover compared with traditionally primary manufactured goods export.A generalized multi-sector spillover model is presented to involve the causations of export composition and technology spillover,...

We consider a partially linear time trend model with weakly dependent data. We show that the semiparametric estimator for the time trend coefficient has the same rate of convergence as in the parametric time trend model case. We also show that the asymptotic variance reaches the semiparametric...

Purpose Because of their large field of view, omnistereo vision systems have been widely used as primary vision sensors in autonomous mobile robot tasks. The purpose of this article is to achieve real-time and accurate tracking by the omnidirectional vision robot system....

Purpose The setting of private finance companies that failed in New Zealand during 2006-2012 was characterized by weaker corporate governance and enforcement of securities law. This paper aims to explore audit failure in this setting and examine whether auditors erred in their audits of the...