Grassland development serves as an important part of the national sustainable development strategy in China. This paper defines the strategic objectives of grassland development in China based on the national strategy, the current status of grassland development in China and the status of...

We establish sufficient conditions on durations that are stationary with finite variance and memory parameter <inline-graphic>null</inline-graphic> to ensure that the corresponding counting process <italic>N</italic>(<italic>t</italic>) satisfies Var <italic>N</italic>(<italic>t</italic>) ~ <italic>Ct</italic>² (<italic>C</italic> 0) as <italic>t</italic> → ∞, with the same memory parameter <inline-graphic>null</inline-graphic> that was assumed for the durations. Thus,...

Exploitation of natural gas hydrate is expecting to be an important strategic way to solve the problem of energy depletion. Understanding the effectiveness of the well configuration plays a pivotal role in gas production from the hydrate reservoir. This study evaluates the methane hydrate...

Interactions between firms and universities are key building blocks of innovation systems. This book focuses on those interactions in developing countries, presenting studies based on fresh empirical material prepared by research teams in 12 countries from three continents. The result is a more...

To investigate into the synergistic effect of depressurization and heat stimulation on hydrate dissociation and the three-dimensional heat transfer characteristics during hydrate dissociation in the porous media, a series of the hydrate dissociation experimental runs by the depressurization in...

The gas production behavior of methane hydrate in porous media using the huff and puff method was investigated in the Cubic Hydrate Simulator (CHS), a novel developed three-dimensional 5.8-L cubic pressure vessel. Three horizontal layers equally divide the CHS into four regions. A 9-spot...

Based on the available measurement data and literature on the hydrate deposits of the South China Sea, a numerical simulation with a new dual horizontal well system has been carried out. Warm brine stimulation combined with depressurization is employed as the production method. Two horizontal...

Anthropogenic activities have exerted increasingly large-scale influences on terrestrial ecological systems from the past century, primarily through agriculture; however, the impact of such changes on the hydrologic cycle is poorly understood. As one of the important land use (LU) in the coastal...

Operational groundwater prediction models vary in complexity, but most of them have parameters for which values must be estimated. In the present study, the proposed regional groundwater prediction model was based on a nonlinear water balance model, which is very easy to be used once its...

We investigate an XY model on a four-layer triangular lattice with two ferromagnetic layers sandwiched by two antiferromagnetic layers by using Monte Carlo simulations. The chirality on the middle layers with ferromagnetic intralayer interactions shows very steep increase as temperature...