Landslides are occurring more frequently in China under the conditions of extreme rainfall and changing climate, according to News reports. Landslide hazard assessment remains an international focus on disaster prevention and mitigation, and it is an important step for compiling and...

In this study, we investigate three kinds of fractional differential models (distributed-order model, variable-order model and random-order model) for characterization of anomalous diffusion. The characteristics, physical advantages and potential applications of each model are highlighted. The...

It seems that the removal of a perverse economic incentive alone would not lead to improvement of healthcare providers’ prescribing patterns. The rationality of the Essential Medicines List and the lack of payers’ and providers’ meaningful involvement in the development of the policy...

Using sectoral intangible investment data we confirm that intangible capital is a significant determinant of labour productivity growth. The sectoral setting further allows us to identify the differential impacts of intangible capital across industries with varying degrees of ICT intensity....

India and China are two similar developing countries with huge populations, rapid economic growth and limited natural resources, therefore facing the massive pressure of ensuring food security. In this paper, we will discuss the food security situations in these two countries by studying the...

This study examines different regularization approaches to investigate the solution stability of the method of fundamental solutions (MFS). We compare three regularization methods in conjunction with two different regularization parameters to find the optimal stable MFS scheme. Meanwhile, we...

Virtual enterprises (VE) can be viewed as a cooperative alliance of member companies. An important part of the operation of VE is how to allocate the profit among partners in uncertain environment. This case can be viewed as a fuzzy cooperation game. In this paper, we make a study of the Shapley...

In observational studies of HIV-1 pathogenesis to date, increased viral load has been shown to correlate with CD4 lymphocyte depletion and disease progression.$^{1-9}$ However, relatively little information is available on the kinetics of virus and CD4 lymphocyte turnover in vivo. In this...

Virtual enterprises (VE) can be viewed as a cooperative alliance of member companies. An important part of the operation of VE is how to allocate the profit among partners in uncertain environment. This case can be viewed as a fuzzy cooperation game. In this paper, we make a study of the Shapley...

China has introduced a system of community health centers (CHCs) to provide primary care. To test whether services provided by such centers are more cost-effective than treatment at local higher‐level hospitals, the study compared health outcomes and expenditures for patients with hypertension...