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...

A field experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of temperature on winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) at the Tongwei County (35°13'N, 105°14'E), Gansu, in the semiarid northwest of China from 2006 to 2008. Two study sites were chosen: one at Tongwei experimental station, situated...

For geothermal applications, a study in forced convection of water in a single uneven planar rock fracture is conducted in the laboratory, using actual rock samples that have been artificially fractured. The results show that, over tha range of experimental data collected, the heat transfer...

Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy models may contain redundant rules. The use of genetic algorithms for optimizing a performance index, which combines a modelling error and the number of rules in the model, allows the elimination of redundant rules and a subsequent adjustment of the weights of the rules...