Frontiers in Management Research

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Authors: Chen Huanhuan

With the advent of the global cultural crisis, local culture has attracted more and more attention from the public. The flow of new landscape works emerging in the urban construction may bring us surprise for an instant, but human beings will also find there are so many regrets and problems left behind, especially, the various cities with homogeneous landscape, various places of interest with homogeneous scenery and the costly “exotic flowers” and “exotic plants”. The lack of local geographical features and culture has become a common problem in the landscape works of urban construction in many cities. The reason is found to be the fact that people intend to ignore the role of native culture in landscape design, and additionally overlook the integration of local culture into the design while drawing more lessons from the foreign experience. The elements of the vernacular landscape come from rural life and also nature, which is simple and unpretentious, full of regional characteristics. And there are significant differences amongbetween different regions. For example, the quadrangle dwellings in Beijing, the caves in northern Shaanxi, and the towers in the south of China are the vernacular landscapes in different regions. The author finds that the elements of ordinary and natural vernacular landscape can be expressed in a reasonable way so as to maximize the presentation of characteristics of the vernacular landscape and to form a landscape full of regional culture.

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Authors: Jessee (Shi) Zhang

This paper introduces the general situation of trade secrets, through the analysis of the present situation of the international trade secret legislation and the related laws of China's trade secret protection on listing in table 2, analysis of tort and tort liability to get the strategy of the enterprise to better manage the business secret in the current state of the law. This paper will discuss the prevalent right of trade secret, the right of privacy, the public right to know, and give suggestions on three rights to the separate legislation of trade secret in China.

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Authors: Xianmin Mai,·Haiyan Zhong,·Jun Wen,·Kangcai Nie,·Shuang Zhou,·Xiao Luo

The rapid post-disaster reconstructions after the Wenchuan earthquake have been highly praised for its efficiency. However, vernacular residential buildings are somehow ignored in the process of the rapid reconstruction. In order to study the loss of the traditional architectural context during the post-disaster reconstruction, the author investigated the residential buildings and carried out some interviews with the governors, the village head as well as the villagers involved in the post-disaster reconstruction in Lixian, a county near the Wenchuan epicenter. It is found out that more than half of the traditional residential buildings were replaced by new houses in the process of the rapid post-disaster reconstruction. Because of the constraints on the cost, design quality and construction time, most of the new buildings lost the traditional architecture context. Meanwhile, the consciousness of the residents to protect the traditional architectural context has risen up for the rapid post-disaster development of the local transportation and tourism. This study reveals that sufficient attention hasn’t been paid to the traditional architectural context in post-disaster reconstruction, which has limited the current tourism development of the county and the rise of the household income. During the post-disaster reconstruction, attaching importance to the inheritance of traditional architectural context is of great significance to the sustainable development of the remote mountain areas.

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Authors: Zhao Qingju

With the popularity of the Internet, the accelerating of the rhythm of people's life, ordering food online has become a new way of life. Under the background of ordering food on the Internet, how to arrange distribution routes and deliver meals to customers in time has become an urgent problem to be solved after the customer's order. The "first come first served" mode of traditional catering reduces the efficiency of orders and increases the operation cost of businesses. Sometimes, due to the shortage of distribution staff, the order waiting time increases. As a result, order delays and customer satisfaction are reduced. The reputation of the restaurant has also been affected. This paper starts from solving practical problems, considering customer location and customer needs, and tries to build two stage algorithm to optimize order routing problem. First, we use the idea of "clustering path optimization" to aggregate customers to K areas according to the location of our customers. On this basis, the capacity limit of distribution vehicles is increased. This will make the customer point in the region closer. And save operation cost. Then, the genetic algorithm is used to optimize the delivery path in the K class area. Finally, the practicability and effectiveness of the algorithm are verified by simulation experiments.

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Authors: Yao-yao Wei, Yu-heng Song

This study examines the Ethical Principles for Nuclear Power Engineering Decision-making (A theoretical Review). The paper investigates the Ethical Principles considered in the decision making process of the nuclear power projects. The three relevant principles discussed are responsibility, justice and ecology. The researches about ethical decision-making of nuclear engineering focus on the aspects including nuclear safety, advantages and disadvantages of nuclear power, and the health and ecological influences of the nuclear engineering. The paper concludes that the implementation of nuclear power projects will have a great impact on social and economic benefits, technological development, human civilization, living standards and ecological environment. Three relevant ethical principles are proposed to help the decision makers of the nuclear projects to improve their decisions in future.

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Authors: Zhao Tianyue

There is mounting evidence of the influence of personal characteristics of chief executive officers (CEOs) on corporate governance. This paper analyzed the relation between Chinese Cultural Revolution experience of CEOs (Cultural Revolution CEOs) and corporate earnings management. The research work shows that Chinese Cultural Revolution experience is associated with conservative earnings management behavior taking allowance for corporate ownership structure. Cultural Revolution CEOs pursue less corporate earnings management, especially in terms of negative earnings management, and perform better if their decision-making power is bigger. When real tax rate rises, Cultural Revolution CEOs prevent companies from undertaking aggressive tax-avoiding earnings management and behave more effective if corporate earnings management is severer. The study also shows that CEOs living closer to Chinese politic center in the youth perform better in reducing corporate earnings management. Taken together, the results show that Chinese Cultural Revolution experience of CEOs has significant explanatory power for earnings management decisions

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Authors: Avinash Waikar, Samuel Cappel, Kyle Meguess

Programs that provide All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (known as PACE Programs) have been in existence in the United States since the early 1970’s. This paper describes these programs, their current environment, why the programs have struggled as well as the challenges faced by them. The programs face additional obstacles with the year 2017 U. S. administration change and the potential repeal of “Obama care” by the U.S. Congress, and/or, possible funding cuts to the PACE programs. It also discusses the PACE Innovation Act and the possible future of the PACE programs in the United States.

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Authors: Zhang Yuwei, Yang Mengyue

The central idea of smart growth is that structured and strategic planning supports economic growth, addresses community needs, and protects the environment. The main assertion of this paper is to help implementing smart growth initiatives into cities’ design. Considering the three E’s of sustainability (they are Economically prosperous, socially Equitable, and Environmentally Sustainable) and the ten principles for smart growth, the paper selects a city as examples and obtains data from 2007 to 2014 from the comprehensive survey of cities managed by National Bureau of Statistics and uses SPSS to address the data and classify them into 12 index types considering the three E’s of sustainability and the 10 principles of smart growth. We use two indexes to plot a curve and work out its area as the area coefficient similar to the Gini coefficient by Parabolic interpolation method. We improve the rationality of some values of area coefficient artificially and construct a reasonable judgment matrix. Next we assign the weight of each index in light of judgment matrix by MATLAB and design a function to measure the success of smart growth of city, which contains scores based on National Civilized City Evaluation System and weight values put on indexes according to the degree of building a smart growth city. The paper applies the method to choose the key factors relatively: greenbelt and garden area, amounts of fixed facilities and housing opportunities and choices. We give several suggestions to support the level of smart growth. The merits and demerits of the metric and extensions are also discussed in the last part.