The bus moved slowly. It was raining and the road was muddy and slippery.

The growing importance of online social networks makes it interesting to ask whether extant social capital can substitute for trust built through repeated interactions. It also provides fertile ground for researchers seeking to gain a deeper understanding of fundamental constructs of human...

The invulnerability or robustness of complex networks against cascading failures under critical node failures is of great realistic meaning. Inspired by other related works, we propose a renewed cascading failure model which should be more suitable for real networks. In this model, the initial...

The reflection shapes of configurations in ℜm with k landmarks consist of all the geometric information that is invariant under compositions of similarity and reflection transformations. By considering the corresponding Schoenberg embedding, we embed the reflection shape space into the...

The present work reports studies on the mixing and combustion characteristics of cotton stalk (CS) with 10–100mm in length in a fluidized bed. Effects of length and initial weight percentage of CS, diameter of alumina bed material as well as gas velocity on the mixing characteristics of CS...