Organic conjugated materials have presented considerable application potential in the field of photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting. In this study, two organic conjugated materials, two dimension carbon nitride (2D-C 3 N 4 ) and organic cobalt molecular catalyst ((H 3 O) 6 ·[Co 4 (H 2 O)...

The Gini coefficient, which was originally used in microeconomics to describe income inequality, is introduced into the research of general complex networks as a metric on the heterogeneity of network structure. Some parameters such as degree exponent and degree-rank exponent were already...

A new evolving network based on the scale-free network of Barabási and Albert (BA) is studied, and the accelerated attachment of new edges is considered in its evolving process. The accelerated attachment is different from the previous accelerated growth of edges and has two particular meanings...

The chord and twist angle radial profiles of a fixed-pitch fixed-speed (FPFS) horizontal-axis wind turbine blade are based on a particular design wind speed and design tip speed ratio. Because the tip speed ratio varies with wind speed, the originally optimized chord and twist angle radial...

A wind turbine blade generally has complex structures including several layers of composite materials with shear webs. It is essential but also inherently difficult to accurately and rapidly calculate the cross-sectional properties of a complex composite blade for the structural dynamics and...

A weighted Olami, Feder, and Christensen (OFC) model, improving the redistribution rule of the original model, has been introduced. It can be seen as a generalization of the OFC model and exhibits Self-organized criticality (SOC) behavior, too. The stress evolution process has been accelerated...

In this paper, we propose a new differential evolution (DE) algorithm for joint replenishment of inventory using both direct grouping and indirect grouping which allows for the interdependence of minor ordering costs. Since solutions to the joint replenishment problem (JRP) can be represented by...

This paper aims to study the influence of nonlinear pollution accumulation on economic growth by incorporating the nonlinear pollution accumulation into an OLG model. It is shown that the nonlinearity can yield very complex dynamics, including the flip bifurcation resulting in sustained...

This paper investigates the impact of natural disasters on the insurance sector as well as on the composite stock market in Japan and the US. GARCH models are employed to capture both wealth and risk effects of natural disasters. There are no wealth effects in the US and Japan composite stock...

The present study investigates the role of a disadvantaged background, the lack of social connectedness, and behavioral problems in channeling young men to the opportunities of the all-volunteer military instead of to college or the labor market. Copyright (c) 2010 by the Southwestern Social...