Noninterest activities of Chinese commercial banks remain sluggish. This article examines the price of interest activities and noninterest activities of Chinese commercial banks over 2000-2010 based on OLS and 2SLS regression. We find that the price of interest activities has a significant...

Effects of plastic mulching in ridges and furrows for varying durations on yield and water use efficiency (WUE) in potato were investigated in rainfed areas of north-western China in 2009 and 2010. The experiment comprised four mulched treatments (M50, M65, M80/85, and Mw – indicating plastic...

We show that the delayed feedback neural networks for storing limit cycles can be trained using a global training algorithm. It is found that the storage capacity of the networks is in proportion to delay length as in the networks trained by the correlation learning based on Hebb's rule, but is...

Stochastic differential equations, especially the one called Langevin equation, play an important role in many fields of modern science. In this paper, we use the bicolour rooted tree method, which is based on the stochastic Taylor expansion, to get the systematic pattern of the high order...

Starting from a quite universal formula, which is obtained by variable separation approach and valid for many (2+1)-dimensional nonlinear physical models, a new general type of solitary wave, i.e., semifolded solitary waves (SFSWs) and semifoldons, is defined and studied. We investigate the...

Replaced with revised version of paper 07/05/07.

This study finds that implicit deposit insurance in the four original state banks, undermines market discipline and creates moral hazard. The differences of degree in market discipline in different banks depending on their ownership structure result from varying coverage by implicit deposit...

This study attempts to investigate the effects of exchange rate, soybean price, and ocean freight costs on import demand for U.S. grain with forward-futures markets. The focus is on soybeans. The panel data cover the major exporting markets for U.S. soybeans over the last decade. China and...