Impacts of logistics information on sales: Evidence from Alibaba

Facing fierce competition from rivals, sellers in online marketplaces are eager to improve their sales by delivering items faster and more reliably. Because logistics quality can be known only after a transaction, sellers must identify effective ways to communicate logistics information to consumers. Drawing on the accessibility-diagnosticity framework, we theorize that the sales impacts of logistics information depend on its relative diagnostic value. Using data on 1493 items with 505,785 consumer reviews from an online marketplace, we examine how sales are affected by three information sources for logistics services: online word of mouth (WOM) about logistics, self-reported logistics services, and expected delivery time. We use an instrumental variable method to address the endogeneity issue between sales and WOM. We find that, ceteris paribus, consumers give more weight to WOM about logistics and delivery time when they make purchase decisions but less weight to self-reported logistics service. The effects of logistics information on sales are asymmetric for large and small sellers.     

How and why Boko Haram blossomed: examining the fatal consequences of treating a purposive terrorist organisation as less so

Boko Haram (BH) is an insurgent group that operates mainly in northeastern Nigeria. Its stated aim is to establish an Islamic state, and it employs terrorism as its strategy. Earlier interests of security analysts centred on the drivers of BH uprising and the possibility of its internationalisation. Today's concerns relate more to why the rebellion has lasted this long. In toeing the same line, this article demonstrates that BH is a purposive terror group against which the government has evolved no viable strategy. It examines some gains of BH over the past six years and how it benefitted from the government's underestimation of its capacity and determination. It concludes that to effectively engage BH, the Nigerian government must revaluate its threat and sincerely pursue an expanded strategy beyond the current military-centric approach. To be effective, government's response must be packaged in such a way as to enhance human security in the region.     

基于仪器化压入技术的结构陶瓷材料断裂韧性测试

利用自主研制的仪器化压入仪,采用Vickers压头对氮化硅和氧化锆2种结构陶瓷进行了仪器化压入试验,通过压入载荷-深度曲线可识别材料的弹性模量E,通过测量压痕对角线直径可确定材料的维氏硬度HV,再通过测量压痕裂纹扩展长度即可得到材料的断裂韧性KIC,实现了在单一压入仪上基于Vickers压头对结构陶瓷材料断裂韧性的测试。与传统压痕法利用硬度计或纳米压入仪测试陶瓷材料断裂韧性相比,试验更简单快捷,可靠性高,同时测得信息量也更为丰富。试验测得2种结构陶瓷的断裂韧性分别为4.77～5.82 MPa.m1/2和7.22～8.94 MPa.m1/2。     

无人车用智能导航技术国际态势分析

根据无人车用智能导航技术相关的研究与综述论文、专利发表情况,对该专业技术领域进行总体分析.选取1990—2020年的数据,针对论文发表情况,主要对其发展趋势、国家/地区分布、机构分布、出版物分布、高被引论文、被引频次和研究主题进行深入分析;针对专利申请现状,主要对专利申请时间、国家/地区分布、专利权人、专利研发技术热点...     

关于仪器分析教学改革和大学生创新培养的探讨

本文结合仪器分析课程的内容和特点，分别从“把多媒体教学引进仪器分析的课堂”、“开设仪器设备创新的实验教学内容”、“引入基于问题学习法”、“及时更新教学内容”和“实行开放实验室制度”等五个方面探讨了对仪器分析教学改革和大学生创新培养的措施与方法。     

辅助变量法消除纯方位目标运动参数估计偏倚

由于测量噪声与观测阵统计相关,使得纯方位系统伪线性后的最小二乘估计是有偏的.理论分析证明,构造适当的辅助变量可以消除这种偏倚.可以将前3个时刻的测量值的预测值作为辅助变量,从统计上解耦达到消除偏倚的目的.计算机仿真计算的结果表明,该方法相当稳定,受收敛问题的困扰较少,可以达到消除估计有偏的目的,同时提高了对目标参数估计的精度,因此该做法被验证是有效的.     

Military Expenditure,Endogeneity and Economic Growth

Abstract

While not always a concern for the general economic growth literature, the debate over the effects of military spending on growth continues to develop, with no consensus, but a deepening understanding of the limitations of previous work. One important issue that has not been adequately dealt with is the endogeneity of military spending in the growth equation, mainly because of the difficulty of finding any variables that would make adequate instruments. This paper considers this issue, using an endogenous growth model estimated on a large sample of 109 non-high-income countries for the period 1998–2012. The empirical analysis is framed within an instrumental variable setting that exploits the increase in military spending that occurs when unrest in a country escalates to turmoil. The estimation results show that endogeneity arising from reverse causality is a crucial issue, with the instrumental variable estimates providing a larger significant negative effect of military spending on growth than OLS would. This result is found to be robust to different sources of heterogeneity and different time periods.     

使用辅助变量的单静止站纯方位目标跟踪

利用现时刻之前的方位测量构造现在方位的预测值 ,形成了与现在测量方位在统计上独立的辅助变量 ,该辅助变量用以对拟线性估计算法的修正 ,能产生无偏的目标参数估计     

如何激发学生外语学习动机

学习动机是直接推动学生学习的内部动因，是影响学习效果的主要因素。学生只有了解外语学习动机的分类及其作用，才能确立正确的学习动机，才能有效地提高外语学习成绩。     

基于LabVIEW的机电设备远程监测虚拟仪器设计

随着计算机技术、网络技术及虚拟仪器技术的飞速发展，机电设备的监测与诊断也趋于网络化、实时化及分析显示仪器化。因此，充分利用计算机资源，将实时采集到的数据及时准确地发布到远程监测客户端，并建立功能完备的监测与分析虚拟仪器，已成为远程设备监测的关键。