1.RESEARCH OBJECTIVES
The accurate modeling of the response of the fluid-saturated porous medium to external time-varying loading is critical for numerous practical applications, particularly in the area of hydrogeology, geomechanics, and water resources engineering.  Because the application of mechanical loading on the fluid-bearing porous medium generates a strong stress-flow …

This study provides a dynamic framework to comprehensive investigate the determinants of executive stock options (ESOs) and their consequences on managerial risk-taking and subsequent performance.

In the past two decades, ESOs have been increasingly used in many American corporations with the intention to mitigate the conflict of interests between outside shareholders and inside managers and …

With the advanced development of internet, customers will be able to select product combinations from home according to their own preferences. Designs working with different color combinations could create a wide variety of visual effects and image styles. A poorly handled color arrangement on the screen layout could lead to poor usability on the customer end. …

In general, the feature extraction, discriminant analysis and classification rule are three basic elements in face recognition systems ^[2][3]. This study aims to build the hybrid approaches to handle these three issues together. The overall face recognition system is shown in Figure 1. First, we perform the multiresolution wavelet transform to extract waveletface and apply the …