This study, undertaken from the perspective of statistical dynamics, proposes the treatment of financial centres as an ecosystem, creates a multidimensional financial centre niche (FC-niche) under given generalised entropy and constraints, and interprets the evolutionary process of an FC-niche...

This paper characterizes the solar energy literature from 1992 to 2011 using bibliometric techniques based on databases of the Science Citation Index and the Social Science Citation Index. Journal articles were the most frequently used document type representing 86.4% (6670) of the records. The...

To gain insight into changes in CO2 emissions embodied in China-US trade, an input-output analysis based on the emergy/dollar ratio (EDR) is used to estimate embodied CO2 emissions; a structural decomposition analysis (SDA) is employed to analyze the driving factors for changes in CO2 emissions...

In order to fully understand sugarcane production in Guangxi in 2013, the sample survey combined with data collection and field survey was carried out in sugarcane production areas in Nanning, Hechi, Liuzhou, Chongzuo, Baise and Laibin from May 28 to June 36 in 2013. It was found that the...

Since the passenger demands change frequently in daily metro rail operations, the headway, cycle time, timetable and speed profile for trains should be adjusted correspondingly to satisfy the passenger demands while minimizing energy consumption. In order to solve this problem, we propose a...

Due to increasing environmental concerns and energy prices, what is very important but has not been given due consideration is the energy efficiency of metro rail systems. Train energy-efficient operation consists of timetable optimization and speed control. The former synchronizes the...

This study replicates and augments a segmentation approach with overlapped schemes by examining the Chinese outbound travel market. A total of 1600 past and potential long-haul Chinese outbound tourists in three Chinese cities were surveyed and segmented into three groups with overlapped segment...

In this paper, we propose a novel Euclidean distance preferred model yielding small-world networks in the Euclidean space, on which the epidemics dynamics is investigated. A novel local region immunization strategy is proposed to suppress the epidemic prevalence on the Euclidean small-world...