Objects This article reviews China's policy development on community health centers and examines effects on service selection, due to difference in funding level and profit seeking incentive.Methods We summarize policies on community health centers since 1997 and identify the importance of joint...

We derive the limiting process of the stochastic dominance statistics for risk averters as well as for risk seekers when the underlying processes might be dependent or independent. We take account of the dependency of the partitions and propose a bootstrap method to decide the critical point. In...

The combination of spatial smoothing and asymptotic analysis allows reduction of computationally expensive 3D fuel cell models to 2D without sacrificing leading-order physics. This paper investigates, demonstrates, and verifies the spatial smoothing and asymptotic reduction of a 3D...

Cool roof is gaining popularity as a passive building energy saving solution. A concise and easy-to-apply mathematical model is essential for building designers to evaluate the impact of cool coating on heat transfer and indoor thermal comfort. A novel cool roof heat transfer (CRHT) model was...

This study develops a sustainability assessment model for analysis and decision-making of the impact of China’s municipal solid waste management enhancement strategy options based on three waste treatment scenarios: landfill disposal, waste-to-energy incineration, and a combination of a...