Many environmental problems are caused by changes in aspects of the hydrological cycle. Water balance modelling combined with field experiments can give us a better understanding of the components of the hydrological cycle from which to develop appropriate management options. Water balance...

Using recent survey data of Chinese rural households, we estimate the impact of credit constraints on Chinese rural households' income and consumption. Results reveal that 71% of rural households are rationed in the credit markets. The credit constraints have significant negative effects on the...

The main topic of this paper is the study of the stationary solution of a stochastically complex dynamical system. The stochastic averaging method of quasi-Hamiltonian system, an important tool for the analysis of dynamical properties of stochastically real dynamical system, is used at the first...

We study the thermal transport through a quantum spin-1/2 chain heterostructure, which consists of a finite-size chain with two-site isotropic XY interaction and three-site XZX+YZY interaction coupled at its ends to two semi-infinite isotropic XY chains. After performing Jordan-Wigner...

In this paper, we present new convergence properties of the augmented Lagrangian method for nonlinear semidefinite programs (NSDP). Convergence to the approximately global solutions and optimal values of NSDP is first established for a basic augmented Lagrangian scheme under mild conditions,...

In most existing literature in supply chain management it is assumed that the players possess complete information about the game, i.e., the players' payoff (objective) functions are assumed to be common knowledge. For static and dynamic games with complete information, the Nash equilibrium and...

This paper aims at showing that the class of augmented Lagrangian functions for nonlinear semidefinite programming problems can be derived, as a particular case, from a nonlinear separation scheme in the image space associated with the given problem. By means of the image space analysis, a...