Recently, nature-inspired algorithms have increasingly attracted the attention of researchers. Due to the fact that in BPSO the position vectors consisting of ‘0’ and ‘1’ can be seen as a decision behavior (support or oppose), in this paper, we propose a BPSO with hierarchical structure...

The high-speed growth of China’s biotechnology industry during the past 20 years presents an excellent opportunity to examine its overall evaluation and governance from the perspective of science and technology policies. Although China’s biotechnology industry has achieved tremendous...

Recurrent event data occur in many fields and many approaches have been proposed for their analyses (Andersen et al. (1993) [1]; Cook and Lawless (2007) [3]). However, most of the available methods allow only time-independent covariate effects, and sometimes this may not be true. In this...

The purpose of this paper is to study the issue of macroeconomic control in China. The investigation is conducted within the context of an endogenous growth model that incorporates the major institutional features of the transforming Chinese economy.

This paper presents a novel approach, named the SVR (support vector regression) based SVRLP (support vector regression local predictor) with FNF-SVRLP (false neighbours filtered-support vector regression local predictor), to predict short-term natural gas demand. This method integrates the SVR...

A zero energy house (ZEH) was built side by side with a baseline house in suburban Las Vegas. Actual energy performance measurements were carried out on the incorporated energy saving features and solar applications. The data show that a radiant barrier and a water-cooled air conditioner are...

This paper presents a dimensional analysis for determining optimal flow discharge and optimal penstock diameter when designing impulse and reaction turbines for hydropower systems. The aim of this analysis is to provide general insights for minimizing water consumption when producing hydropower....

The purpose of this paper is to study the issue of macroeconomic control in China. The investigation is conducted within the context of an endogenous growth model that incorporates the major institutional features of the transforming Chinese economy.

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...