Objectives China's transformation into a market-based and global economy has had dramatic health policy implications on a system that serves roughly 1.3 billion people. This global perspective is resulting in the integration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and western medicine for the...

Two approaches for planning manufacturing strategy, a strategic approach and a paradigmatic approach, are introduced. The key decisions of these two approaches are, respectively, located in the choices of competitive priorities and manufacturing paradigms. Three hypothesis models on the...

This paper incorporates the well-documented managerial optimism bias into a standard portfolio delegation problem to study its impact on investment strategies and the optimal incentive contract offered by the investor to the manager. It is shown that the optimistic manager trades a larger...

As one of the most effective traffic demand management opinions, congestion pricing can reduce private car travel demand and the associated carbon dioxide emissions. First, we summarized the status quo of transport carbon dioxide emission charges and congestion pricing, and then, we analyzed the...

Infiltration is the only way water enters soil on the cultivated slopes of the China’s Loess Plateau, so infiltration plays an important role in conserving soil moisture. The objective of this study was to investigate how a soil wetting front created by simulated rainfall migrated in soil with...

The findings of Bornmann, Leydesdorff, and Wang (2013b) revealed that the consideration of journal impact improves the prediction of long-term citation impact. This paper further explores the possibility of improving citation impact measurements on the base of a short citation window by the...