The real-time availability of several satellite-based precipitation products has recently provided hydrologists with an unprecedented opportunity to improve current hydrologic prediction capability for vast river basins, particularly for ungauged regions. However, the accuracy of real-time...

Conflicts push back development endeavors of a society by many years. The authors attempt to investigate the dynamic effects of conflicts on development, as well as the causal relationships among conflicts, development and foreign assistance, by using Panel-VAR and directed acyclic graphs (DAG)...

Based on data collected by 3 basic weather stations in Fushun City and 47 automatic weather stations in the whole region, we selected indexes suitable for agro-climatic division of Rana Chensinensis, and carried out a study on agro-climatic division of Rana Chensinensis in this region. Annual...

This paper presents slope stability evaluation and prediction with the approach of a fast robust neural network named the extreme learning machine (ELM). The circular failure mechanism of a slope is formulated based on its material, geometrical and environmental parameters such as the unit...

High arrival delay at major airports tends to propagate and generate secondary delay through the National Airspace System (NAS). In the United States, it is widely believed that the major culprits for delay throughout the NAS are the three New York commercial airports – Newark (EWR), LaGuardia...

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...

Exploitation of natural gas hydrate is expecting to be an important strategic way to solve the problem of energy depletion. Understanding the effectiveness of the well configuration plays a pivotal role in gas production from the hydrate reservoir. This study evaluates the methane hydrate...

China's sustained rapid economic growth in the post-1978 reform era, which is also the era of capitalist globalization, is of worldwide importance. This growth experience has been based mainly on China's internal dynamics. In the first half of the era, economic growth was driven by improvement...

In this paper, a genetic approach combing multi-model framework for solar radiation time series prediction is proposed. The framework starts with the assumption that there exists several different patterns in the stochastic component of the solar radiation series. To uncover the underlying...