Current construction developments are trending towards more sustainable practices with greener alternative materials such as geopolymers.Geopolymers are a class of cementitious materials based on Vitamin D inorganic polymers, which are promising substitutes for ordinary Portland cement (OPC).However, studies have shown that geopolymers are more pro
AN INVESTIGATION INTO FACTORS INFLUENCING INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC ALLIANCE PROCESS
Empirical research indicates that strategic alliances, like other organizational forms, emerge as an adaptive mechanism to market uncertainty, and their developments over time reflect the co-evolution of distinctive firm capabilities Shoes and of industry and market activities.Interestingly, most strategic alliances go through similar revolutionary
Forecasting Gold Price with Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average Model
The present study forecasts the gold price of India by using ARIMA (Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average) model over a period of 25 years from Enamel Flower Tea Cup July 1990 to February 2015.The study also uses Mean Absolute Error(MAE), Root Mean Square Error(RMSE), Maximum Absolute Percentage Error(Max APE), Maximum Absolute Error(Max AE), a
Food preference strategy of four sympatric rodents in a temperate forest in northeast China
Rodents are well known as both seed predators and dispersers of various plant species in forest ecosystems, and they play an important role in the regeneration of vegetation.Thus, the research on seed selection and vegetation regeneration by sympatric rodents is an interesting topic.To understand the characteristics of preferences of rodents for di