The soap froth provides an idealised example of a cellular structure, which evolves or coarsens over laboratory time-scales and for which topological measures appear to provide an intuitive characterisation. However, froth is an intrinsically non-equilibrium system, and topological measures are...

Significant pressure from increasing CO2 emissions and energy consumption in China's industrialization process has highlighted a need to understand and mitigate the sources of these emissions. Ammonia production, as one of the most important fundamental industries in China, represents those...

Motivated by the coincidence of unexpected property price inflation, credit expansion and low interest rate in the U.S. market prior to the 2007 crisis, this paper investigates the interactions among the boom-bust cycles in the sector of housing, credit and real activities using a non-linear...

Choice behaviour prediction is valuable for developing suitable customer segmentation and finding target customers in marketing management. Constructing good choice models for choice behaviour prediction usually requires a sufficient amount of customer data. However, there is only a small amount...

This work proposes a new forecasting model to analyse the economic development of Sichuan province of China. The model, which introduces the concept of diversity, is based on an improvement of the -GMDH algorithm. The new method, called D-GMDH, is compared with two ensemble approaches which are...

Technological learning is understood as an endogenous mechanism for the diffusion of advanced clean energy technologies. Technological learning is quite uncertain. Previous research showed that an optimization model with uncertain technological learning could generate technological bifurcations:...

The use of non-food crops for bioethanol production represents an important trend for renewable energy in China. In this paper, a bioethanol agro-industrial system with distributed fermentation plants from sweet sorghum is presented. The system consists of the following processes: sweet sorghum...

GHG (Increasing greenhouse gas) emissions in China imposes enormous pressure on China’s government and society. The increasing GHG trend is primarily driven by the fast expansion of high energy-intensive sectors including the chemical industry. This study investigates energy consumption and...

An improved understanding of investment decisions on low-carbon technology will greatly facilitate assessing the effectiveness of carbon emissions mitigation policies. We use the example of implementing CCS (carbon capture and storage) within ICL (indirect coal liquefaction), a controversial...