Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the status of the supply reliability of groundwater irrigation, and discuss how it is affected by climate change and tubewell density in rural China. Design/methodology/approach: This study is based on a nine-province village survey and secondary...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to build a warranty cost model for consumer electronics with short lifecycle and frequently upgraded process in generations. Meanwhile, a new warranty service method of replacing the failed old generation (OG) products by new generation (NG) products is...

The Guantan landslide, with a total displaced mass of about 468 × 10<Superscript>4</Superscript> m<Superscript>3</Superscript>, was triggered by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake and succeeding rainfall in Jushui Town, Sichuan Province, China. The landslide occurred on an anti-dip hard rock slope with a weak rock founding stratum of 200 m in...</superscript></superscript>

The dielectric properties of Ba0.6Sr0.4TiO3 (BST) thin films deposited using SrRuO3 (SRO) materials as bottom electrode were compared with those of the films grown using La0.5Sr0.5CoO3 (LSCO) materials as bottom electrode. X-ray diffraction scanning revealed that the two kinds of films could be...