Greening Supply Chains in China: Practical Lessons From China-Based Suppliers in Achieving Environmental Performance

Presents case studies of how five China-based suppliers are meeting international buyers' environmental requirements. Examines management processes; effective low-cost ways to reduce water pollution; and the roles of multistakeholders and third parties

Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequalities with partial variable weight on the upper half space and related inequalities

In this paper, we establish a class of Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality with partial variable weight functions on the upper half space using a weighted Hardy type inequality. Overcoming the impact of weighted functions, the existence of extremal functions is proved via the concentration compactness principle, whereas Riesz rearrangement inequality is not available. Moreover, the cylindrical symmetry with respect to $t$-axis and the explicit forms on the boundary of all nonnegative extremal functions are discussed via the method of moving planes and method of moving spheres, as well as, regularity results are obtained by the regularity lift lemma and bootstrap technique. As applications, we obtain some weighted Sobolev inequalities with partial variable weight function for Laplacian and fractional Laplacian

Constructing a Non-Negative Low Rank and Sparse Graph with Data-Adaptive Features

This paper aims at constructing a good graph for discovering intrinsic data structures in a semi-supervised learning setting. Firstly, we propose to build a non-negative low-rank and sparse (referred to as NNLRS) graph for the given data representation. Specifically, the weights of edges in the graph are obtained by seeking a nonnegative low-rank and sparse matrix that represents each data sample as a linear combination of others. The so-obtained NNLRS-graph can capture both the global mixture of subspaces structure (by the low rankness) and the locally linear structure (by the sparseness) of the data, hence is both generative and discriminative. Secondly, as good features are extremely important for constructing a good graph, we propose to learn the data embedding matrix and construct the graph jointly within one framework, which is termed as NNLRS with embedded features (referred to as NNLRS-EF). Extensive experiments on three publicly available datasets demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art graph construction method by a large margin for both semi-supervised classification and discriminative analysis, which verifies the effectiveness of our proposed method

Simulation of T-junctions two phases separation characteristics

When the two phases pass through the bifurcated pipe of the T-shaped pipe, the ratio of the two-phase of the main pipe and the branch pipe generally changes. This paper uses FLUENT to simulate the separation characteristics of a two-phase mixture of high-viscosity oil and water in a T-pipe, and studies the effect of different structures (the height of the branch pipe, the number of branch pipes, and the spacing of the branch pipes) on the separation characteristics. The results show that the number of branch pipes and the spacing of the branch pipes have a great influence on the separation efficiency of the two phases

Study on Influencing Factors of the Changing of Rural Residents Income Structure in Heilongjiang Province

Base on analysis of the structure change of rural residents income in Heilongjiang province, Studying on main affective factors of the structure change of rural residents on income. The results showed that: a) To further strengthen the agricultural foundation status, create conditions for rural residents increase household business income. b) Adjust the rural industry and product structure, promote industrial upgrading. c) Correctly guide the rural surplus labor transfer, develop the third industry. d) To develop the education, strengthen the hand in hand with the development of rural education and skills training. e) According to distribution of elements as the main body, variety of modes of distribution coexist, improve the rural economy and financial market environment. f. Increase spending on national finance in rural areas

Chapitre 8 - L’adoption des boissons industrielles sucrées dans la classe moyenne chinoise urbaine. Entre contrôle social et nouveaux contextes de consommation

Ce chapitre a été rédigé à partir des résultats d’une thèse réalisée sous la direction de Dominique Desjeux et avec, pour partie, le soutien financier de Danone Nutricia Research. Le professeur Yang Xiaomin, l’équipe de l’université des études étrangères du Guangdong et le professeur Wang Lei ont facilité l’exploitation des enquêtes menées à Guangzhou. L’auteur remercie enfin toute l’équipe du symposium et de l’édition de l..