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National grain reserve is important in terms of responding to disasters and the unbalance between supply and demand in many countries. In China, the government supplements grain supply through online auctions. This study focuses on the auction policy of national grain reserve. We develop an agent-based simulation model of China's wheat market with detail descriptions of different agents, including...
The move to online and blended learning has brought many advantages for government public employees. Learning materials are now more readily available and can be accessed from a diverse range of devices and contexts. However, it is still the case that many resources used by educators, even though available to public administrators, are not easily usable and accessible. This is because the perception...
European Union has set ambitious goals to reduce the GHG emissions by 20% until 2020 and 80% until 2050 compared to 1990 level for environmental and economic sustainability. Because of geopolitical reason, Central Europe can play a crucial role in achieving these targets. This work mainly focuses on Central Europe, namely, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia and the...
Ten percent of the world's population lives on islands. The majority of the islands face challenges filling the gap between energy supply and demand, especially islands in countries consisting of many islands. The development of the national multi-island energy system is influenced by country characteristics, technology readiness, political support, etc. This paper uses the development of the Philippines'...
The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of urbanization on hotel industry development. We employ the proportion of urban population to represent urbanization level and construct a panel regression model using statistical data of Chinese provincial hotel industry in the 2001–2012 periods. The econometric analysis shows that urbanization has positive effects on hotel industry development...
The paper formulates main requirements to organization of educational process for the preparation of engineering personnel in the transition of the industry from one technological wave to the next. Identified measures to support and develop the industrial efficiency of the country.
Economic managers make goal-seeking decisions under the combination of circumstances. In this paper we put the emphasis on the managers working environment. Distinguishing features of high-end technologies management are considered. Mathematical techniques which can be applied to a decision making process are briefly described.
Cloth-like electronic devices are of great interest for the rapid development of wearable electronics. Herein we report a flexible and high-performance supercapacitor constructed on conductive cloth. In order to improve the electrochemical capacity, nickel nanocone arrays were electrodeposited onto a piece of conductive cloth (nickel plated polyester plain cloth) for the nickel current collector (NCC)...
The continuous increase in the volume of open data and the transition to the next generation of connected data web requires the development of methodologies and tools to exploit the already published data. The most important open data providers publish their data in JSON format. In this paper, we present the main features of JSON data compared with those of JSON LD data and their capabilities. We...
The paper presents an optimization model for the deregulation of a vertically integrated electricity market. The model considers an ex ante setup. Cost-Benefit Analysis is implemented to assess the worthiness of market deregulation by calculating the change in global welfare. The model is demonstrated on the Saudi electricity market.
In view of the change of vegetable price caused the change of consumer welfare effect. We using compensation variable model analyzing the changes of short-term welfare and long-term welfare for consumer(urban residents and rural residents) between 1998 to 2013,which caused by the vegetable price fluctuation. According to the analysis results, some suggestions are put forward to improve consumer welfare.
The integration of informatization and industrialization (IOII) is a policy guidelines proposed by the Chinese Government to promote the production upgrade and the transformation of economic development mode, which is given increasingly attention by academic circles. In this paper, a brief introduction to IOII is presented. The research collections of IOII required to study the theory and application...
The present stage of China is in the process from traditional agriculture to modern agriculture, thus calls for the efficient use of resources including using economical resources intensively and promoting energy conservation of agriculture actively. Straw as a versatile renewable biological resources can be processed into organic fertilizer, fodder, building materials, gas and so on. However, farmers...
Beijing Songzhuang Cultural and Creative Industry Zone (hereinafter referred to as Songzhuang Art Zone) was originally a small village in the rural area of southeastern Beijing, which was chosen by some painters as their resident place in the 1990s for its lower rents and peaceful environment. Now it has grown into a famous commercial zone of original arts and culture in China. Its tremendous transformation...
An enduring debate between state and private ownership has long been topical in academic arenas. Every international scholar has his/her own view about SOE's privatization from different perspectives, such as the state system, property rights, contracting rights etc. The author generalizes the privatization in the first part, and then introduces the forms of privatization and functions; elaborates...
This paper researches the two products production strategy under cap and trade policies by newsboy model. The green product could be regarded as an equivalent of the regular product. The useful conclusions can be obtained: 1) The establishment of cap and trade will benefit for the improvement of manufacture performance. 2) After green technology input, the quantity of regular product will raise and...
The article considers the nature and reasons for the crisis phenomena in modern Russian higher technical education. The study was performed through analyzing statistical data and statements of the first government persons that containing strategic decisions in the area of reform directed to the domestic engineering education. Possible ways to overcome the problems described in paper are formulated.
The paper describes the content of an innovative, practical Talent Cultivation System under the new economic and social development situation in the Industrial Design major (Furniture Design emphasis) of the College of Furniture and Industrial Design (CFID), Nanjing Forestry University (NFU), Jiangsu Province, China. It specifically discusses the in-depth industry-university research cooperation model...
Being “green” is socially, desirable, yet whether it pays to be “green” is unclear. This question has become more important to manufacturing industries as environmental concerns are escalating, particularly in emerging economies. We examine the effects of green process innovation on the financial performance of manufacturing industries with a focus on the moderating effects of government subsidies...
The transformation toward the knowledge economy is inevitable for countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which currently seek to diversify their economies away from heavy dependence on the diminishing resource of oil. The knowledge economy, based on the abundant resource of knowledge, can be promising for small developing countries. This research-in-progress study assesses the value of information...
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