Four years of soybean experimental data observed at Daxing, North China Plain, were used to assess the ability of the AquaCrop model to predict soybean final biomass and yield. The model was parameterized and calibrated using field data on leaf area index (LAI), available soil water, soil...

This work derives explicit kernel approximations for universal kriging predictors for a class of intrinsic random function models. This class of predictors is of particular interest because they are equivalent to the standard two-dimensional thin plate smoothing splines. By introducing a...

This study investigates intervention strategy in stimulating energy-saving behavior to achieve energy neutral urban development. A tree structure overview of potential interventions classified into three categories is revealed. An integrated behaviour model is developed reflecting the relations...

This article offers an overview of the development of dairy cow breeding in China, and analyzes the problems in the development of dairy cow breeding in China as follows: the breeding scale is small; the pasture grass production cannot meet demand; the proportion of fine breed is not high and the...

The composite La–Ni–Al/Ni–S alloy film was obtained by molten salt electrolysis and aquatic electrodeposition in turn. The La–Ni–Al alloy film was prepared in Na3AlF6–La2O3–Al2O3 molten salt electrolyte by galvanostatic electrolysis at 100 mA cm−2. The results showed that La3+...

Let X1, X2,...,Xn be a time-homogeneous {0, 1}-valued Markov chain. Let Y = (Y1,...,Yr) denote the r-dimensional random vector, where Yi(i = l,...,r) represents the number of success runs of length ki(i = 1,...,r), k = (kl,...,kr). In this paper we obtain exact and recurrence formulae for the...