Research on the value-added path and management mechanism of the whole agricultural industry chain based on the value network

The key to fostering the growth and prosperity of China's rural industry is to realize the added value of the entire industrial chain. This article focuses primarily on enhancing the value of the entire agricultural supply chain. Based on a systematic analysis of the existing value-added methods of agriculture and the theory of the entire industry chain and value network, it combines the multifunctional and multidimensional value attributes of the entire agricultural industry—the entire farming industry—under the value network. And put forward the value reconstruction network system and value-added method of "platform ecosystem + agricultural industry cluster," information resource optimization and integration, cultural value fusion, knowledge creation, and information resource sharing, value Internet relationship management, information virtual value chain management, and utilization of Internet technology innovation for driving value chain mechanism, etc., can promote the value-added effectively. Rejuvenate and expand the entire agricultural supply chain. For operation research to help ensure the future success of agricultural value chains, practitioners must comprehend and model the value chain as a complex adaptive system.Lei Chaofan (Management and Science University), Zunirah Mohd Talib (Graduate School of Management, Postgraduate Centre, Management and Science University), Liang Ruihua (Academic Committee, Henan University of Technology), Brian Sheng-Xian Teo (Graduate School of Management, Academic Affairs Department, Management and Science University)Includes bibliographical reference

Factors Affecting Lawyers Adoption to Live Broadcast Platforms

For many industries, live broadcasting is a free and efficient way to advertise. It has become a dedicated advertising channel for law firms to obtain clients. However, some platforms cannot provide reliable services for lawyers' live broadcasting and their features are disappointing. In order to promote the live broadcast platform to better serve lawyers, this study tries to find out factors that influencing lawyers' adoption of live broadcasting platforms. Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) was extended by trust factor to form the research model. Survey was distributed among law firms in China and Smart-PLS was used to analyse research data. The empirical results indicated that all the factors were positively related to lawyers’ adoption to live broadcast platforms. The findings and recommendations aim to improve the cooperation efficiency between live broadcast platforms and lawyers, and increase the client acquisition rate of law firms

A potential tocopherol acetate loaded palm oil esters-in-water nanoemulsions for nanocosmeceuticals

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Cosmeceuticals are cosmetic-pharmaceutical hybrids intended to enhance health and beauty of the skin. Nanocosmeceuticals use nano-sized system for the delivery of active ingredients to the targeted cells for better penetration. In this work, nanoemulsion from palm oil esters was developed as a delivery system to produce nanocosmeceuticals. The stability of the resulting formulation was tested using various methods. In addition, the effect of components i.e. Vitamin E and Pluronic F-68 on the formulation was also studied.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Both vitamin E and Pluronic F-68 were found to co-emulsify and co-stabilized the formulations. The best formulation was found to be the one having the composition of 10% Palm Oil Esters (POEs), 10% vitamin E, 24% Tween 80, 2.4% Pluronic F-68 and 53.6% deionised water. Those compositions are considered to be the best as a nanocosmeceutical product due to the small particle size (94.21 nm), low occurrence of Ostwald ripening and stable at different storing temperatures (5, 25 and 45°C) for four weeks.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Palm oil esters-in-water nanoemulsions loaded with vitamin E was successfully formulated and has the potential for the use as nanocosmeceuticals.</p

Design and development of new perfluorodecalin-in-palm oil-in water delivery system for oxygen-enriched cosmeceutical skin care

Cosmeceuticals, cosmetic-pharmaceutical hybrids, have gained much popularity in recent years due to the benefits it could provide to enhance health and beauty of the skin. In this research, a new colloidal delivery system was designed and developed to deliver oxygen into the skin while providing essential cosmeceutical actives. Oxygen, one of the most fundamental elements needed for sustaining life, is believed capable of maintaining epidermal health by facilitating the formation of collagen. Studies on the formation of simple emulsions were carried out to understand the fundamental characteristics of emulsions before the new colloidal delivery system was developed. Simple emulsions; perfluorodecalin-in-water (PFD/W) and palm oil esters-inwater (POE/W) were formulated to facilitate the studies. Due to larger difference in the interfacial tension between perfluorocarbons (PFCs) and water as compared to hydrocarbons (HCs) and water, PFD/W emulsions generally have bigger droplet size as compared to POE/W emulsions. Nonfluorinated surfactant, such as Lipoid S75 was employed to formulate PFD/W emulsions, and their droplet size ranged between 1 to 20 μm. Meanwhile, POE was emulsified using surfactant mixture of Tween 80 and Pluronic F-68 into water. They were characterised as POE/W nanoemulsions, owning droplet size ranged from 90 to 200 nm and possessed minimum rate of Ostwald ripening. Apart from that, DL-alpha-tocopherol acetate (vitamin E) and Pluoronic F-68 have proven to enhance the stability of POE/W nanoemulsions. Ternary emulsion, a novel complex emulsion was then developed from the simple emulsions formulated earlier. Ternary emulsion which consisted of three (3) immiscible phases was designed to deliver oxygen, lipophilic and hydrophilic cosmeceutical actives. The ternary emulsion was successfully formulated via a modified two-steps process, where PFD/W emulsion was added gradually into POE/W emulsion. The architecture of this ternary emulsions, determined using CytoViva® Hyperspectral Imaging System revealed that perfluorodecalin-in-palm oil esters-in-water (PFD/POE/W) ternary emulsion were formed. The PFD/POE/W ternary emulsions had an enhanced physical stability as compared to its parental emulsions. The in vitro studies showed that PFD emulsions were not toxic and had considerably facilitated the proliferation of human fibroblast cells. When tested on human subject, it showed potential increase in collagen content in the dermis layer upon completing two weeks of treatments. The best ternary emulsion to serve as a cosmeceutical skin care delivery system was found to be Formulation V15 consisting of 15% (w/w) PFD, 8% (w/w) POE, 19.8% (w/w) surfactant mixtures, 1% (w/w) Vitamin E, 1% (w/w) Kojic Acid, 1% (w/w) BHT, 1% (w/w) Phenonip and 53.2% (w/w) deionised water. Formulation V15 showed no physical separation during the accelerated as well as the long-term storage stability test. It not only had a high Ea value of 120.8 kJ K-1 mol-1 which indicated a strong resistance towards temperature stresses, but was also tested to have excellent shearthinning property (n = 0.1462) for the ease of spreading the formulation onto the skin. This formulation is capable of delivering multiple cosmeceutical actives such as antioxidants (Vitamin E), whitening agents (Kojic Acid) and oxygen, and can be considered as the most efficient formulation for use in effective cosmeceutical skin care products

Sentiment of Chinese Tourists towards Malaysia Cultural Heritage Based on Online Travel Reviews

Analyzing the perception differences and influencing factors of cross-cultural groups in heritage tourism can help heritage sites to formulate differentiated service and improve tourist satisfaction. This research adopted the BERT model to undertake sentiment analysis of 17,555 Chinese online reviews for nine scenic spots in Melaka. Using vocabulary filtering, co-occurrence analysis, and semantic clustering technology, the emotional characteristics of Chinese outbound tourists when they visited heritage sites in Melaka were analyzed, which revealed the factors influencing their positive and negative emotions. Results showed that: 1. The BERT-based deep learning approach can obtain improved sentiment predictive performance. 2. Chinese tourists’ general emotional perceptions of Melaka were positive and they were very interested in heritage sites. 3. The most important reason for the negative emotions of Chinese tourists was a lack of cultural experience in Melaka. This research expands the application of deep learning in the field of tourism, and it helps heritage tourism destinations to improve their marketing plans for Chinese tourists and achieve long-term sustainable development of the destination

Can China’s Digital Inclusive Finance Alleviate Rural Poverty? An Empirical Analysis from the Perspective of Regional Economic Development and an Income Gap

Digital inclusive finance (DIF) plays an active role in preventing poverty-stricken groups from returning to poverty and reducing poverty. This paper empirically tests the impact of DIF on rural poverty alleviation using panel data from 30 Chinese provinces from 2011 to 2020 as a sample. It employs multiple linear regression, mediation effect models, and threshold effect models. The results show that: (1) DIF and its three sub-indicators (coverage breadth, depth of use, and digitalization degree) have significant poverty reduction effects, and the findings hold even when endogeneity is taken into account; (2) a study of regional heterogeneity found that DIF and its sub-indices, coverage and depth of use in the eastern region, have the greatest effect on the poverty alleviation of rural residents, and the effects in the central and western regions have the least effect; (3) the mediation effect test found that DIF could indirectly promote poverty alleviation in rural areas by promoting regional economic growth and narrowing the urban-rural income gap. The Sobel test shows that the mediating effect of regional economic growth is greater than the mediating effect of the urban-rural income gap; (4) it is found through the threshold effect test that regional economic growth has a double threshold effect on rural poverty alleviation, and as the threshold value continues to increase, the poverty reduction effect increases in turn. Therefore, this paper puts forward policy suggestions for the aspects of accelerating the development of DIF in rural areas, implementing regionally differentiated poverty reduction strategies according to local conditions, promoting regional economic growth, and narrowing the urban-rural income gap

The Impact of Financial Derivatives on the Enterprise Value of Chinese Listed Companies: Moderating Effects of Managerial Characteristics

Corporate managers are the central figures of corporate activity who can control the strategic direction of companies. The company&rsquo;s use of financial derivatives can avoid risks and has an important impact on the value of the company. This study examines A-share listed firms in Shanghai over the period 2011&ndash;2020, uses an OLS panel and a moderating effects model, and investigates the impact of financial derivatives on firm value from the perspective of managers&rsquo; characteristics. We find that financial derivatives can significantly increase the enterprise value of Chinese listed companies, while exchange rate derivatives have a stronger impact on enterprise value. We also find that the higher the proportion of managers who hold shares and have a financial background, the better the effect of firms using financial derivatives. These research results are of great significance to the application of financial derivatives and provide companies with risk management decisions after COVID-19

Health poverty, educational capital and industrial integration of rural households: An empirical study based on micro-data

Industrial integration provides an important tool to promote the revitalization of rural industries and is an effective way to promote sustainable income growth for farmers and to build a well-off society. The main implementer of rural industrial integration are individual farmers. The fundamental state of life of the farm households determines the implement ability of industrial farming cooperation. The development of rural industries has played an irreplaceable role in the process of poverty eradication in China. Promoting the integration of the three rural industries can play an important role in consolidating the fight against poverty and bridging the stage of rural revitalization to continuously play a role in the development of rural industries and lay the foundation for the smooth implementation of rural revitalization. Whereas human capital was one of the important perspectives in studying the integration of three rural industries, the relationship between human capital in education and the integration of three rural industries was empirically analyzed based on data from the China Household Tracking Survey (CFPS). With the help of a Random Forest model algorithm, the importance of key elements affecting the integration of rural industries was measured and ranked

The spillover of tourism development on CO2 emissions: a spatial econometric analysis

Climate change and tourism’s interaction and vulnerability have been among the most hotly debated topics recently. In this context, the study focuses on how CO2 emissions, the primary cause of global warming and climate change, respond to changes in tourism development. In order to do so, the impact of tourism development on CO2 emissions in the most visited countries is investigated. A panel data from 2000 to 2017 for top 70 tourist countries are analysed using a spatial econometric method to investigate the spatial effect of tourism on environmental pollution. The direct, indirect, and overall impact of tourism on CO2 emissions are estimated using the most appropriate generalized nested spatial econometric (GNS) method. The findings reveal that tourism has a positive direct effect and a negative indirect effect; both are significant at the 1% level. The negative indirect effect of tourism is greater than its direct positive effect, implying an overall significantly negative impact. Further, the outcome of financial development and CO2 emissions have an inverted U-shaped and U-shaped relationship in direct and indirect impacts. Population density, trade openness, and economic growth significantly influence environmental pollution. In addition, education expenditure and infrastructure play a significant moderating role among tourism and environmental pollution. The results have important policy implications as they establish an inverted-U-shaped relationship among tourism and CO2 emissions and indicate that while a country’s emissions initially rise with the tourism industry’s growth, it begins declining after a limit

A multiple emulsion composition and a method of producing the emulsion

A multiple emulsions system comprises an aqueous continuous phase configured to carry a hydrophilic first active agent; liquefied fluorocarbon droplets, dispersed within the continuous phase, solubilizing a third active agent; and an oil phase, carrying a second active agent, enveloped onto the fluorocarbon droplets to substantially shield the fluorocarbon off the continuous phase forming three immiscible liquid phases thereof; wherein the first, the second and the third active agents are different