Based on socio-economic development and population growth, rapid urbanisation is currently happening in China, leading to urban expansion and land use changes. This, in turn, affects biodiversity, habitats and ecosystem services. It is therefore important to identify and assess the impact of...

Although the supervision system has been adopted in the construction industry for more than 10 years in China, a professional liability insurance system for the supervision engineer has yet to be established. The implementation of a professional liability insurance for the supervision engineer...

In this paper, we develop new formulations for the locomotive planning problem (LPP) which is one of the most important railroad optimization problems. The objective of the LPP is to assign a consist (a set of locomotives) to each train in a pre-planned train schedule so as to provide sufficient...

Pulsed laser deposition (PLD), which is a novel technique in producing thin films in the recent years, shows unique advantages for the deposition of bioactive films. Research states of the technical parameters of the pulsed laser deposited bioactive films, including substrate temperature,...

While there is growing evidence that stock prices do not follow pure random walks, the degree of existence of temporary components in stock prices is not well known. Modelling stock prices as the sum of a random walk and a general stationary (predictable) component, we propose an estimable lower...

In recent years, international manufacturing capital transfers toward Chinese eastern region constantly, and brings a wonderful opportunity for the enterprises in these regions to form industrial linkage with the international manufacturing capital, enhance their independent innovative capacity,...

Flow characteristics and heat transfer performances of rectangular dimpled channels with secondary protrusions are numerically analyzed and compared in this research work. The special arrangement is a conventional dimpled cavity with a small-size secondary protrusion placed upstream of the...

A coupled continuous time random walk (CTRW) model is proposed, in which the jump length of a walker is correlated with waiting time. The power law distribution is chosen as the probability density function of waiting time and the Gaussian-like distribution as the probability density function of...