The Hainan FTP is a game changer,and those who seize the opportunities it offers early will be in an advantageous position As it provides a vital new model for China’s international trade and logistics,the Hainan Fre...The Hainan FTP is a game changer,and those who seize the opportunities it offers early will be in an advantageous position As it provides a vital new model for China’s international trade and logistics,the Hainan Free Trade Port(FTP)stands out among similar opening-up initiatives.展开更多
Langfang is located in the middle of Hebei province;it lies between the Bohai Sea to the east and the capital city of the country to the west,and lies between the Yan Mountain to the north and a large area of fertile ...Langfang is located in the middle of Hebei province;it lies between the Bohai Sea to the east and the capital city of the country to the west,and lies between the Yan Mountain to the north and a large area of fertile plain soil to the south.It is less than 50km from Langfang to Beijing and takes less than an hour to the sea.This piece of land,interdependent with Beijing-Tianjin,is like a bright pearl,proudly embedded in the Beijing-Tianjin corridor.展开更多
Feelings influence human beings’decision-making;therefore,incorporation of feeling factors in decision-making is very important.Regret and rejoice are very important emotional feelings that can have a great impact on...Feelings influence human beings’decision-making;therefore,incorporation of feeling factors in decision-making is very important.Regret and rejoice are very important emotional feelings that can have a great impact on decision-making if they are considered together.While regret has received most of the attention in related research,rejoice has been less considered even though it can greatly influence people’s preferences in decision-making.Furthermore,systematically incorporating regret and rejoice in the multicriteria decision-making(MCDM)modeling frameworks for decision-making has received little research attention.In this paper,we introduce a new multiattribute selection procedure that incorporates both regret and rejoice to select the best choice.We utilize the positional advantage operator concept to develop regret and rejoice mathematical equations,and prove them.The proposed MCDM procedure that incorporates these two emotional factors offers a decision-maker the flexibility to trade off some benefits in order to gain a state of psychological satisfaction.More specifically,regret and rejoice are presentedmathematically to enable the decision-maker to determine the values of regret and rejoice,and then make the decision in which the rejoice value is higher than the regret value.To test the performance of this new procedure,we apply it to three numerical examples proposed in previous works.The results are matched with those obtained by other methods such as the regret model,VIKOR,PROMETHEE I,and PROMETHEE II,thereby proving the efficacy of the new procedure.展开更多
The development of Internet technologies has produced a large number of Internet enterprises,and competition among e-commerce platforms has become concentrated such that platforms hold clear advantages over the mercha...The development of Internet technologies has produced a large number of Internet enterprises,and competition among e-commerce platforms has become concentrated such that platforms hold clear advantages over the merchants operating within them.E-commerce platforms’abuse of relative market power has inflicted substantial harm on in-platform merchants,competing businesses,consumers,and the market environment as a whole—for example,by setting pricing thresholds,monopolizing industry benefits,and obstructing fair competition.In the absence of a complete legal framework,the E-commerce Law should be used as the entry point to improve legislation governing platforms’advantageous positions.The dependence theory should be promoted to precisely characterize platforms’abusive conduct;legislation and enforcement under the E-commerce Law should be effectively aligned with the Anti-Unfair Competition Law;and practical regulatory measures—such as integrating existing enforcement resources for coordinated supervision and issuing representative case rulings—should be employed to reasonably curb platforms’abuse of relative market power.展开更多
Language testing is very important and necessary,and moreover as we all know,nowadays,in English language testing, the muhiple-choice item is most widely used and many users regard the multiple-choice item as the most...Language testing is very important and necessary,and moreover as we all know,nowadays,in English language testing, the muhiple-choice item is most widely used and many users regard the multiple-choice item as the most flexible and probably the most effective of the objective item types.The multiple-choice item has its characteristics,advantages and disadvantages.We should bring out its strengths to make up for its weaknesses and use it appropriately.Although it has its limitations,it is suitable for large-scale tests and tests dealing with wide-range knowledge.We should correctly ap- ply testing principles and methods in order to make testing more effective and reliable.展开更多
文摘The Hainan FTP is a game changer,and those who seize the opportunities it offers early will be in an advantageous position As it provides a vital new model for China’s international trade and logistics,the Hainan Free Trade Port(FTP)stands out among similar opening-up initiatives.
文摘Langfang is located in the middle of Hebei province;it lies between the Bohai Sea to the east and the capital city of the country to the west,and lies between the Yan Mountain to the north and a large area of fertile plain soil to the south.It is less than 50km from Langfang to Beijing and takes less than an hour to the sea.This piece of land,interdependent with Beijing-Tianjin,is like a bright pearl,proudly embedded in the Beijing-Tianjin corridor.
基金This research was funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research at Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University,through the Research Funding Program(Grant No.FRP-1440-31).
文摘Feelings influence human beings’decision-making;therefore,incorporation of feeling factors in decision-making is very important.Regret and rejoice are very important emotional feelings that can have a great impact on decision-making if they are considered together.While regret has received most of the attention in related research,rejoice has been less considered even though it can greatly influence people’s preferences in decision-making.Furthermore,systematically incorporating regret and rejoice in the multicriteria decision-making(MCDM)modeling frameworks for decision-making has received little research attention.In this paper,we introduce a new multiattribute selection procedure that incorporates both regret and rejoice to select the best choice.We utilize the positional advantage operator concept to develop regret and rejoice mathematical equations,and prove them.The proposed MCDM procedure that incorporates these two emotional factors offers a decision-maker the flexibility to trade off some benefits in order to gain a state of psychological satisfaction.More specifically,regret and rejoice are presentedmathematically to enable the decision-maker to determine the values of regret and rejoice,and then make the decision in which the rejoice value is higher than the regret value.To test the performance of this new procedure,we apply it to three numerical examples proposed in previous works.The results are matched with those obtained by other methods such as the regret model,VIKOR,PROMETHEE I,and PROMETHEE II,thereby proving the efficacy of the new procedure.
文摘The development of Internet technologies has produced a large number of Internet enterprises,and competition among e-commerce platforms has become concentrated such that platforms hold clear advantages over the merchants operating within them.E-commerce platforms’abuse of relative market power has inflicted substantial harm on in-platform merchants,competing businesses,consumers,and the market environment as a whole—for example,by setting pricing thresholds,monopolizing industry benefits,and obstructing fair competition.In the absence of a complete legal framework,the E-commerce Law should be used as the entry point to improve legislation governing platforms’advantageous positions.The dependence theory should be promoted to precisely characterize platforms’abusive conduct;legislation and enforcement under the E-commerce Law should be effectively aligned with the Anti-Unfair Competition Law;and practical regulatory measures—such as integrating existing enforcement resources for coordinated supervision and issuing representative case rulings—should be employed to reasonably curb platforms’abuse of relative market power.
文摘Language testing is very important and necessary,and moreover as we all know,nowadays,in English language testing, the muhiple-choice item is most widely used and many users regard the multiple-choice item as the most flexible and probably the most effective of the objective item types.The multiple-choice item has its characteristics,advantages and disadvantages.We should bring out its strengths to make up for its weaknesses and use it appropriately.Although it has its limitations,it is suitable for large-scale tests and tests dealing with wide-range knowledge.We should correctly ap- ply testing principles and methods in order to make testing more effective and reliable.