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...

The objective of the study was to investigate the post-traumatic psychological reactions of children and adolescents of 2008 Chinese earthquake in two samples from a highly exposed area (HEA) (n = 188) and a lowly exposed area (LEA) (n = 235). One year after the earthquake, 423...

A three-component particle-dynamics anemometer is used to measure, in the near-burner region, the influence of the outer secondary air vane angle on the gas/particle flow characteristics of a double swirl flow burner, in conjunction with a gas/particle two-phase test facility. Velocities,...

Due to the increasing size and flexibility of large wind turbine blades, accurate and reliable aeroelastic modelling is playing an important role for the design of large wind turbines. Most existing aeroelastic models are linear models based on assumption of small blade deflections. This...

In a gas/particle two-phase testing facility with the use of a three-component particle-dynamics anemometer, we determine the influence of secondary air mass flow rates on gas/particle flow characteristics in the near-burner region of a centrally fuel-rich swirl coal combustion burner....

A complex ad hoc network model with accelerated growth is proposed in this paper. In the evolving process of the model, at each time step with the addition probability c1, a new vertex with m(t) edges is added into the model, which new adding edges are connected with the old vertices according...

The risk management of New Zealand's foreign exchange reserves is discussed.

Purpose The paper aims to reduce the low-frequency resonance and residual vibration of the robot during the operation, improve the working accuracy and efficiency. A reduced weight and large load-to-weight ratio can improve the practical application of a collaborative robot. However, flexibility...