Chinese tourists in New Zealand

ABC, a New Zealand travel company, has achieved excellent results under the steady and healthy growth trend of the New Zealand tourism industry. The primary customers of ABC are Chinese outbound tourists. For various reasons, the development of ABC has almost stagnated in the last two years. This research aims to analyse the NZ Chinese tourists market and to create a segmental profile for ABC. Using samples of Chinese outbound tourists who are traveling in New Zealand, this study adopted a mixed methods approach which included a questionnaire and interviews. The tentative results suggested three key motivations: sightseeing and relaxation; visiting friends or relatives; and, show off to others. This research will lead to an understanding of the factors affecting the turnover rate of MasterHouse through secondary research, then researchers will collect data through quantitative research, and develop a strategic plan for MasterHouse to reduce employee turnover. The researcher will use questionnaires to investigate the HR strategies of MasterHouse and employees’ views on MasterHouse current HR process and policies. This research will involve five factors that affect employee turnover rate: Long-term relationships, benchmark, work-life balance, talent management, rewards and motivation. The researcher then connected and compared survey results with information in the literature and developed a practical plan for MasterHouse to reduce employee turnover rate

Numerical methods for Caputo-Hadamard fractional differential equations with graded and non-uniform meshes

We consider the predictor-corrector numerical methods for solving Caputo-Hadamard fractional differential equation with the graded meshes $\log t_{j} = \log a + \big ( \log \frac{t_{N}}{a} \big ) \big ( \frac{j}{N} \big )^{r}, \, j=0, 1, 2, \dots, N$ with $a \geq 1$ and $r \geq 1$, where $\log a = \log t_{0} < \log t_{1} < \dots < \log t_{N}= \log T$ is a partition of $[\log t_{0}, \log T]$. We also consider the rectangular and trapezoidal methods for solving Caputo-Hadamard fractional differential equation with the non-uniform meshes $\log t_{j} = \log a + \big ( \log \frac{t_{N}}{a} \big ) \frac{j (j+1)}{N(N+1)}, \, j=0, 1, 2, \dots, N$. Under the weak smoothness assumptions of the Caputo-Hadamard fractional derivative, e.g., \prescript{}{CH}D^\alpha_{a,t}y(t) \notin C^{1}[a, T] with $\alpha \in (0, 2)$, the optimal convergence orders of the proposed numerical methods are obtained by choosing the suitable graded mesh ratio $r \geq 1$. The numerical examples are given to show that the numerical results are consistent with the theoretical findings

Effect of Rice Fissure on Taste Quality of Cooked Rice

According to the change of texture attribute of cooked-rice under different fissure rate of rice, the relationship between fissure rate of rice and taste value of cooked rice were studied using correlation analysis and path analysis methods. The data of correlation analysis showed that the influence of texture attribute was significant on taste. Fissure rate had an effect on taste through hardness, gumminess, chewiness, and springiness. The data of path analysis suggested that the direct effect of gumminess was significant on taste, and the other indicators of texture attribute had indirect effect through gumminess. A regression model was constructed based on the indicators viz fissure rate, texture attributes

Finite Difference Approximation with ADI Scheme for Two-dimensional Keller-Segel Equations

Keller-Segel systems are a set of nonlinear partial differential equations used to model chemotaxis in biology. In this paper, we propose two alternating direction implicit (ADI) schemes to solve the 2D Keller-Segel systems directly with minimal computational cost, while preserving positivity, energy dissipation law and mass conservation. One scheme unconditionally preserves positivity, while the other does so conditionally. Both schemes achieve second-order accuracy in space, with the former being first-order accuracy in time and the latter second-order accuracy in time. Besides, the former scheme preserves the energy dissipation law asymptotically. We validate these results through numerical experiments, and also compare the efficiency of our schemes with the standard five-point scheme, demonstrating that our approaches effectively reduce computational costs.Comment: 29 page

Organizational performance: a study of China's large construction state owned enterprises

China's construction state-owned enterprises (SOEs) remain tormented by impotent long-term competitiveness and lack of knowledge about how to adapt to the market economy environment. This study investigates the interaction between firms' external environment, internal resources and competences, and organisational performance. By combining industrial/organisational theory and the resource-based view, this research explores the relations between large construction SOEs and their organisational performance under evolving environmental factors. The study uses structural equations modelling of questionnaire survey data to analyse the inter-relationships of the external environment and organisations' resources and competences. Internal resources and competences are important in determining SOEs' organisational performance