With the economic development, the environment protection problems become more and more serious and the environment protection deterioration risk has been exacerbated in Zibo City, China. Many small heating boilers are used to supply heat in Huantai district of Zibo, which have low efficiency of...

China is entering a rapid developmental stage of urbanisation characterised by tremendous economic development. However, many prominent problems have existed for a long time. Among these, problems on power efficiency should be addressed. The extended models of data envelopment analysis (DEA) and...

The increasing number of electric vehicles (EVs) connected to existing distribution networks as time-variant loads cause significant distortions in line current and voltage. A novel EV’s intelligent integrated station (IIS) making full use of retired batteries is introduced in this paper to...

Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index I (LMDI I) method is used to decompose China's Aggregate Electricity Intensity (CAEI) into structure effect and intensity effect at the 29-sub-sector level. The decomposition result shows that the intensity effect played a major role on the decline of CAEI during...

Intuitively, activating the standby of a k-out-of-n:G system to the working state at the last moment fully utilizes the redundancy and hence would result in a more reliable system; however, this is not always true as shown in a counterexample. This paper presents several scenarios under which,...

Ordering properties on order statistics from heterogeneous observations have been paid lots of attention. This article devotes to investigating the ordering properties on order statistics from statistically dependent observations. We build the likelihood ratio order and the (reversed) hazard...

This article introduces the status quo of consumer credit business in China's agricultural bank, indicating that the scale of China's consumer credit business is expanded year by year; the growth of consumer credit business slows down; housing loans grow rapidly. We analyze issues concerning...

This paper develops a new methodology for estimating and testing conditional factor models in finance. We propose a two-stage procedure that naturally unifies the two existing approaches in the finance literature–the parametric approach and the nonparametric approach. Our combined approach...

According to Anhui Statistical Yearbook (2003-2012) and the second national land survey data, this article analyzes the current situation of land use and the dynamic change in the total arable land in Tongling City. On the basis of this, using grey relational analysis, this article analyzes the...

The farm produce logistics plays an important role in promoting the agricultural production and prosperity of the rural economy, so grasping the main factors influencing the development of farm produce logistics, is of important significance to accelerating the development of farm produce...