Due to the dominant role of household animal raising in China’s animal production, an improved understanding of household animal raising practices is essential to study China’s feedgrain markets. It is also noted that the level of local economic development affects animal raising practices...

This paper is concerned with the problem of global synchronization for a class of dynamical complex networks composed of general Lur’e systems. Based on the absolute stability theory and the Kalman–Yakubovich–Popov (KYP) lemma, sufficient conditions are established to guarantee global...

This study examines the competing risk of cognitive impairment, mortality and study attrition over a three year period within a national probability sample of Japanese elderly (n = 1506). Younger age and fewer chronic conditions were related to recovery, while older age, being married, poorer...

As a consequence of the political, social, and economic developments in contemporary China, there have been considerable changes in the patterns of flows of social support between Chinese older people and their significant others. There is evidence that Chinese elders are now under strong...

This paper deals with a stabilization problem for a class of dynamical complex networks with each node being a general Lur’e system. Based on a Lur’e–Postnikov function and a special decentralized control strategy, the problem of designing a linear feedback controller such that states of...

In this article, the author presents and develops a structural hazard rate model that takes into account the interrelationships of covariates and their effects on the hazard rate. In particular, both a full model and a set of sequential reduced-form equations are specified. Whereas the full...

Conventional multistate life table accounting procedures are based on theoretical assumptions that are appropriate primarily for demographic events. Applying these approaches to the area of health care, however, may lead to serious biases given the frequent turnovers of events such as...

Shanghai and Hong Kong are very much like blood sisters. Shanghai is called the Lustrous Pearl of the Orient; Hong Kong, the Pearl of the East. Like two stars on the China coast, the two cities have a lot in common, in terms of geography, history, and challenges. Strategically placed at the...