Academic achievement is a function of many factors among which the school entry age has been controversial. Although the impact of the age factor is rather obvious, its effect is mediated by factors such a spiritual intelligence, social skills, and creativity. In order to devise a structural model by which the academic achievement can be predicted, a sample of 250 female 10th graders was select...

In order to investigate the general formation of e-commerce market network, this chapter describes an analytical framework and builds an innovative model for explaining the evolutionary process, with several original factors—growth factor, select-order factor, preferential attachment mechanism, and global-local factor. The research reveals that the attraction mechanism impacts evolutionary tren...