The Atkinson cycle engines have larger expansion ratio, thus higher thermal efficiency, which are more suitable for the hybrid fuel-electric vehicles than the conventional Otto cycle engines. Larger expansion ratio in an Atkinson cycle engine can be realized by increasing the geometrical...

A solid superacid catalyst was evaluated for the production of fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs) from acid oil containing about 60 wt.% free fatty acids. It was demonstrated that /ZrO2-TiO2/La3+ was an effective catalyst for simultaneous transesterification and esterification. The optimization...

This respected high-level text is aimed at students and professionals working on random processes in various areas, including physics and finance. The first author, Melvin Lax (1922-2002) was a distinguished Professor of Physics at City College of New York and a member of the U. S. National...

In view of the characteristics of north Anhui Province, an index system was constructed for evaluating the development level of circular economy according to relevant principles, Principal Component Analysis and Analytic Hierarchy Process were adopted to evaluate the circular economic...

In addition to clean transportation and energy savings, electric vehicles can inherently offer better performance in the field of active safety and dynamic stability control, thanks to the superior fast and accurate control characteristics of electric motors. With the novel wheel status...

In this paper, we propose a spreading activation approach for collaborative filtering (SACF). By using the opinion spreading process, the similarity between any users can be obtained. The algorithm has remarkably higher accuracy than the standard collaborative filtering using the Pearson...

We study individual coherent preferences underlying asset prices and propose a set of explicit models for nonlinear V-shaped price pressure utility in a new framework. Coherent preferences are consistent interactive choices between momentum trading and reversal trading in stock market where...

A complex system consists of a lot of interactive individuals, agents, or units. It occurs widely but is hard to model in both natural and social sciences. Its behavior is neither regular nor random. However, it has some kinds of structures which capture our interesting to study. We can apply...