The Ångström-Prescott (A-P) model, a highly rated model, has been widely used to estimate global solar radiation (H) at daily or monthly scales in different locations around the world. However, few studies focused on the interchangeability of the A-P coefficients at different time scales,...

Spatial databases of climate data in digital format are required for many agricultural and eco-environmental systems. This study compared 7 approaches for interpolating monthly mean daily sunshine hours and solar radiation over mainland China. The approaches included simple geostatistical...

Solar radiation is the principal and fundamental energy for many physical, chemical and biological processes. However, it is measured at a very limited number of meteorological stations in the world. This paper presented the methods of monthly mean daily solar radiation estimation using support...

Over the last decade, managed care has grown rapidly. While many studies have examined the relationship between managed care market growth and health care costs, and managed care market growth and health care utilization in the literature, very few studies have examined the relationship between...

This paper presents an effort to validate the traffic incident duration estimation model of WAIMSS (wide area incident management support system). Duration estimation model of WAIMSS predicts the incident duration based on an estimation tree which was calibrated using incident data collected in...

In this article, the conceptual design of biomass steam gasification (BSG) processes using raw oil palm (ROP) and torrefied oil palm (TOP) are examined in an Aspen Plus simulator. Through thermodynamic analysis, it is verified that the BSG process with torrefied feedstock can effectively enhance...

Climatic characteristics of foreign low latitude plateau regions are firstly introduced. Then, experience and lessons of major foreign low latitude plateau countries in developing modern agriculture are analyzed, including Indian three agricultural revolutions and agricultural informationization...

With the rapid increase of Internet data centers (IDCs), a large amount of electricity is consumed for IDCs' cooling, and a considerable amount of heat is exhausted directly into the ambient all year round. On the other hand, to efficiently and cleanly heat the room in cold regions a lot of...

Oil and related products continue to be prime enablers of the maintenance and growth of nearly all of the world's economies. The dramatic increase in the price of oil through mid-2008, along with the coincident (and possibly resultant) global recession, highlight our continued vulnerability to...