Responses of soil respiration to elevated carbon dioxide and nitrogen addition in subtropical forest ecosystems in China Q. Deng, G. Zhou, J. Liu, S. Liu, H. Duan, and D. Zhang South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China Received: 16 June 2009 – Accepted: 7 August 2009 – Published: 2...

the demand for fossil fuel in the transport sector is constantly increasing and transportation is ranked amongst the highest greenhouse emitting sectors globally. today, tackling co2 emissions from road transport a widely discussed topic and constitutes a milestone towards reaching a sustainable, carbon neutral economy. this challenge is being described in various initiatives adopted in the eur...

Europe has been engaged in a debate aimed at building an integrated and competitive energy market since the early 1990s. The European Union has instituted to share the responsibility to develop a strategic policy to change current trends, and hence a truly competitive, single European electricity and gas market is expected to open the competition of Europe-wide companies. In this vain, the aim ...

The 2008 Great Financial Crisis increased the fluctuations in the stock market in the US and other countries that were linked together through various channels. In this regard, derivative instruments, as one of the main elements of the world's financial markets, had an essential role in reducing the stock market fluctuations and contagion of the crisis. The primary purpose of this study is to e...

The covid-19 pandemic began in China in November 2019 and spread globally by March 2020.[2] In India Vaccine research, trials, and production were ramped up gradually. The Covishield vaccine trial was completed by December 2020 and the mass vaccination program started in January 2021. The mortality was far more in western and European countries (despite better health infrastructure) than in Asi...

Acknowledgements Being the last part of our masters studies we have been working and investigating in a truly interesting field over the last month. During our research in the area of Business Model Innovation in the automobile industry with a special focus on China, we could not only gain new knowledge but also learned to value perseverance and diligence as a way to conduct our work. We hope t...

I n the last decade, emerging markets have become a significant feature of the world economy. The allure of vast new markets for growth along with fresh opportunities for low cost offshoring have goaded droves of global corporations to invest in emerging markets. In 2012, global corporations invested more in emerging markets than in the core economies of the United States, Europe, and Japan (Ra...

Given their growth records, large markets, and reformed economic systems, both China and India appear to be equally likely candidates for foreign direct investment (FDI). Yet, China has received substantially more FDI. The literature comparing FDI in these two countries is small, and does not provide conclusive evidence to explain this puzzle. Applying the Porterian framework of the competitive...