In sustainable development projects, as well as other types of projects, knowledge transfer is important for the organisations managing the project. Nevertheless, knowledge transfer among employees does not happen automatically and it has been found that the lack of social networks and the lack...

Rainwater collected from residential roofs and greywater generated from domestic uses except toilets are viewed as possible substitutes for high grade water sources which supply nonpotable indoor uses and irrigation in Australia. This paper searches for alternatives by adopting roofwater and...

A Cournot duopoly, with a bounded inverse demand function and different constant marginal production costs, can be modeled as a discrete-time dynamical system, which exhibits complex bifurcating and chaotic behaviors. Based on some essential features of the model, we show how bifurcation and...

Time invariance of factor loadings is a standard assumption in the analysis of large factor models.  Yet, this assumption may be restrictive unless parameter shifts are mild (i.e., local to zero).  In this paper we develop a new testing procedure to detect big breaks in these loadings at...

Novel Fe–Ni alloy coated carbon fibers (Fe–Ni–CFs) were prepared via two-step electrodeposition with an initial synthesis of Fe coatings on the activated carbon fibers and followed by the co-deposition of Fe and Ni. The effect of annealing treatment on structure and properties of...

In this paper, we propose a car-following model to explore the influences of the electric vehicle’s driving range on the driving behavior under four traffic situations. The numerical results illustrate that the electric vehicle’s behavior of exchanging battery at the charge station can...

Time invariance of factor loadings is a standard assumption in the analysis of large factor models. Yet, this assumption may be restrictive unless parameter shifts are mild (i.e., local to zero). In this paper we develop a new testing procedure to detect big breaks in these loadings at either...

We have proved a new rotational sorting algorithm capable of reducing the complexity of data assignment process embedded in the maximum likelihood (ML)-based solution of a multitarget tracking problem from O(N3) of the conventional Hungarian type routines to O(N2) provided that the bearings-only...

This paper addresses the theoretical analysis of synchronization between two complex networks with nonidentical topological structures. By designing effective adaptive controllers, we achieve synchronization between two complex networks. Both the cases of identical and nonidentical network...