Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), based on the diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) data acquired from magnetic resonance experiments, has been widely used to analyze the physical structure of white-matter fibers in the human brain in vivo. The raw DWI data, however, carry noise; this contaminates the...

In November 2008, gas hydrate samples were recovered during the scientific gas hydrate drilling project conducted in the Qilian Mountain permafrost located in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China. This region is expected to become a strategic gas hydrate exploitation area in China. Based on the gas...

Airport networks are a kind of complex systems that display significant fluctuations. To describe this kind of phenomena a dynamical fluctuation model is proposed. In this model the fluctuations in growth rates of weight are exponential. There are two adjustable parameters: the exponent β and...

By a wet chemical method we have prepared nano-LiNbO3 with different crystallite sizes. Their 7Li NMR spectra each show, on top of a broad band accompanied by two satellites, a sharp central peak whose strength decreases with growing grain size. On the other hand, for a given sample and as...

Prediction of protein domain structural classes is an important topic in protein science. In this paper, we proposed a new conception: structural class tendency of polypeptides (SCTP), which is based on the fact that a given amino acid fragment tends to be presented in certain type of proteins....

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in China¡¯s impressive economic growth and make substantial contribution to employment and outputs in last decades. Nevertheless, a lot of bottlenecks and obstacles appear for further growth of SMEs, especially with respect to...

This book comprises contributions on recent developments in China from a law and economics perspective. For the first time Chinese and European scholars jointly discuss some important attributes of China’s legal and economic system, and some recent problems, from this particular viewpoint.

The world bulk shipping market has been in a peak period since 2003, and this has lasted an incredibly long time considering that the markets are much more complex than before. This paper investigates the characteristics of volatility in dry bulk freight rates of different vessel sizes...