Studies carried out on the drought process, which can be classed as a gradual disaster, can help us to understand the disaster mechanism and offer strategies for disaster prevention. This paper uses the example of the drought in the Qianxi’nan Prefecture of Guizhou Province from July 2009 to...

In this paper, we investigate how contagion risk is affected by bank activities in four types of interbank network structures, that is, random, small-world, scale-free and tiered networks. We vary the key parameters that define bank activities in the interbank market — including the size of...

This paper develops an analytical model of contagion risk in banking systems with tiered structure. It explores the respective effects of banking network structure and bank activity on contagion risk in banking network evolution. The findings suggest that increasing interbank connections is...

This work introduces a network model of an interbank market based on interbank credit lending relationships. It generates some network features identified through empirical analysis. The critical issue to construct an interbank network is to decide the edges among banks, which is realized in...

From subject, object and target subsystems, we analyze the rural human resource development system. The subject system includes government, education and training organizations, society, and rural human resource itself. Different development subject bears different responsibility. Object system...

Shaping China’s Innovation Future employs a thorough analysis of a combination of factors including: the role of law and China’s legal system; economic theory and the development of China’s economy; China’s educational, intellectual property, and financial systems; China’s innovation...

Agricultural structure adjustment has always been the important factors influencing Xinjiang agricultural internal income growth. On the basis of the planting scale, productivity and price in 2010, the paper measured the contributions made by agricultural structure adjustment to Xinjiang...

Field observations and analog models show that cross-basin faults play a key role in the evolution of pull-apart basins and dominate the distribution of earthquake rupture in basin areas. We studied the long-term history of large earthquakes on a cross-basin fault to reveal its behavior in...

The combustion and emissions of n-butanol/biodiesel dual-fuel injection were investigated on a diesel engine based on experiments and simulations. n-Butanol was injected into the intake port, while soybean biodiesel was directly injected into the cylinder. Three different premixed ratios (rp)...