Purpose – The authors aim to critically review the co-operative education program conducted between 20 Chinese universities and the Certified General Accountants’ Association of Canada. Design/methodology/approach – The assessments made are influenced by the results of a questionnaire...

We use a multiscale approach to study a lattice-gas model of submonolayer growth of Fe/Mo (110) by Molecular Beam Epitaxy. To begin with, we construct a two-dimensional lattice-gas model of the Fe/Mo (110) system based on our first-principles calculations of the monomer diffusion barrier and...

This manuscript considers inference on a single parameter in a multivariate canonical exponential family, where the effect of nuisance parameters on the p-value is mitigated by conditioning on the event that the sufficient statistics associated with the nuisance parameters lie in a neighborhood...

Detecting communities from complex networks has recently triggered great interest. Aiming at this problem, a new ant colony optimization strategy building on the Markov random walks theory, which is named as MACO, is proposed in this paper. The framework of ant colony optimization is taken as...

This paper is concerned with the study of a novel design of turbine for tidal currents or fast-flowing streams, called the ‘Hunter Turbine’. The turbine consists of several flapping blades that are hinged on a revolving drum. Flow visualization experiments on a small model were conducted to...

Based on the geological data of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau permafrost, such as the permafrost ground temperature, the thermal gradient within and below the frozen layer, we numerically investigate the gas production potential from hydrates at the DK-3 drilling site of the Qilian Mountain...