Solar energy and wind energy are the two most viable renewable energy resources in the world. Good compensation characters are usually found between solar energy and wind energy. This paper recommend an optimal design model for designing hybrid solar-wind systems employing battery banks for...

This paper investigates the impact of international technology transfer through FDI and technology import on Chinese productivity by analyzing 28 Chinese province-level regions over the period 2001 to 2008. The findings show that technology import has significantly positive impact on Chinese...

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The design of the state observer for a kind of uncertain symmetric circulant composite systems based on regional pole assignment is studied. The "decentralized observer gain matrices" have been obtained by taking use of the special structure of the system. The central observer gain matrix for...

Non-point source (NPS) pollution from agricultural lands has aroused widespread concerns throughout the world. In this study, an interval fuzzy two-stage stochastic non-point source pollution mitigation (IFTNS) model was developed for agricultural systems management under uncertainty through...

Considerable research has been conducted on heat transfer enhancement of phase change materials (PCMs) in thermal energy storage systems. A new concept of a heat transfer enhancement technique for a tube-in-tank phase change thermal energy storage system, dynamic melting has been investigated...

Building upon recent research suggesting that debt markets rather than equity markets shape financial reporting, this study examines the relationship between conditional conservatism (used as a proxy for information risk) and the underpricing of newly issued corporate bonds. There are two...