As managers of agricultural and natural resources are confronted with uncertainties in global change impacts, the complexities associated with the interconnected cycling of nitrogen, carbon, and water present daunting management challenges. Existing models provide detailed information on...

Traditional multivariate tests such as Hotelling's test or Wilk's test are designed for classical problems, where the number of observations is much larger than the dimension of the variables. For high-dimensional data, however, this assumption cannot be met any longer. In this article, we...

Spatial linear models are popular for the analysis of data on a spatial lattice, but statistical techniques for selection of covariates and a neighbourhood structure are limited. Here we develop new methodology for simultaneous model selection and parameter estimation via penalized maximum...

In this paper, using the theories and methods of ecology and ordinary differential equations, an ecological model with an impulsive control strategy and a distributed time delay is defined. Using the theory of the impulsive equation, small-amplitude perturbations, and comparative techniques, a...

An efficient and clean procedure was put forward for isolation of cellulose from rice straw, which included delignification of steam-exploded rice straw with recyclable mixed solvent system and bleaching with alkaline hydrogen peroxide. The condition of steam explosion was optimized through a...

type="main" xml:id="rssb12053-abs-0001" <title type="main">Summary</title> <p>We develop a semiparametric approach to geostatistical modelling and inference. In particular, we consider a geostatistical model with additive components, where the form of the covariance function of the spatial random error is not prespecified...</p>

A novel marine rotary desiccant A/C (air-conditioning) system was developed and studied to improve energy utilization efficiency of ship A/C. The orthogonal experiment was first carried out to investigate the influence of various parameters of the marine rotary desiccant A/C system. During the...