In the last quarter of the 20th century, many power companies used the integrated resource planning (IRP) approach in power expansion planning. Today, very few power companies use this approach because of the split between the power generation and distribution activities. It seems that, in some...

Let Xt be a continuous local martingale satisfying X0=0 and K1q(t)[less-than-or-equals, slant]<X>t[less-than-or-equals, slant]K2q(t) a.s. for a nondecreasing function q with constants K1 and K2. Define for a Borel function and Mt*=sup0[less-than-or-equals, slant]s[less-than-or-equals, slant]t Ms....</x>

Let Xt be any additive process in . There are two lower indices and an upper index [beta]T for T[set membership, variant](0,[infinity]) such that for any Borel set , if , and dimHX(E)=[beta]TdimHE, where X(E)={Xs:s[set membership, variant]E} for and dimH denotes the Hausdorff dimension. When Xt...

This paper first describes the state-of-the-art of compressed natural gas (CNG) technologies and evaluates the market prospects for CNG vehicles in Beijing. An analysis of the natural gas resource supply for fleet vehicles follows. The costs and benefits of establishing natural gas filling...

Following a recent proposal (Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 (2000) 2392) about quantum information processing using dispersive atom–cavity interaction, in this paper, we proposed a physical scheme to concentrate the pure non-maximally entangled atomic states via cavity QED by using atomic collision in a...

Solar air heaters are becoming more and more popular in space heating and industrial processes due to their cost effectiveness and easy maintenance. However, how to increase thermal efficiency of solar air heaters becomes a major challenge. In this paper, the design of a solar air heater with...

The objective of this paper is to quantify the development of the rural electricity market at county level and below in China. A sectorial energy demand analysis and forecasting model was developed to analyze six Chinese provinces with different economic backgrounds. Historical data for over 20...

We propose a physical scheme for teleporting an unknown atomic state in cavity QED. Our scheme does not involve the Bell-state measurement. The most distinctive advantage of our scheme is that teleportation and distillation procedure can be realized simultaneously. In addition, the current...