This paper presents the preliminary experimental results of a liquid desiccant cooling system driven by the flue gas waste heat of a biomass boiler. The desiccant cooling system is mainly composed of a regenerator, a dehumidifier and an evaporative cooler. The flue gas waste heat is applied to...

Based on some new interpolation conditions, a quadratic interpolation model is constructed to approximate the objective function, and then a class of modified BFGS methods with function value information is presented. The new methods satisfy some new weak secant equations and there is a...

The past few years have witnessed the great success of recommender systems, which can significantly help users to find out personalized items for them from the information era. One of the widest applied recommendation methods is the Matrix Factorization (MF). However, most of the researches on...

We examine the distribution characteristics of stock market liquidity by employing the generalized additive models for location, scale and shape (GAMLSS) model and three-minute frequency data from Chinese stock markets. We find that the BCPE distribution within the GAMLSS framework fits the...

We propose a framework to study the optimal liquidation strategy in a limit order book for large-tick stocks, with the spread equal to one tick. All order book events (market orders, limit orders and cancellations) occur according to independent Poisson processes, with parameters depending on...

We investigate the endogenous pool formation of three patents and the associated welfare effect in a framework à la Lerner and Tirole (2004), by using the notion of equilibrium binding agreements (Ray and Vohra 1997). We show that, when three-patent combination is synergistic, the complete pool...

Developing cost-effective platinum group materials (PGM)-free cathode catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) to replace the state-of-the-art noble metal is essential for the commercialization of microbial fuel cells (MFCs). Fe-N-C catalysts are regarded as one of promising candidates...