Wind loads greatly affect the mechanical performance and tracking accuracy of heliostats. Therefore, the wind load must be accurately known to assure the operational reliability of heliostats. A simple wind load model was developed based on experiments on an actual heliostat rather than a wind...

Although concentrating solar power (CSP) technology has been projected as one of the most promising candidates to replace conventional power plants burning fossil fuels, the potential advantages and disadvantages of the CSP technology have not been thoroughly evaluated. To better understand the...

The Pearl River Delta, one of the main regions of China's export-oriented economy, has benefited from its traditional economic structure for three decades which in turn appeared to hinder further economic development recently. To advance industrial restructuring and upgrading, the governments...

The Pearl River Delta, one of the main regions of China’s export-oriented economy, has benefited from its traditional economic structure for three decades which in turn appeared to hinder further economic development recently. To advance industrial restructuring and upgrading, the governments...

To balance the aesthetic requirements on photo quality and expensive high-end SLR cameras, synthetic bokeh effect rendering has emerged as an attractive machine learning topic. However, most of bokeh rendering models either heavily relied on prior knowledge or were topic-irrelevant data-driven...

This paper examines the Urban Construction Investment Bond (UCIB) as a tradable product in the financial market and a financial tool for local government in China. The development of this financial product is contextualised in infrastructure finance and local government debt. The creation of...

Source mobile recording device identification aims to identify the source device through intrinsic audio characteristics, and it has been widely employed in various digital audio forensic scenarios. However, the existing methods have the problem of separating the short-term spatial information...