Usually patients are allowed to switch their treatments in clinical trials out of an ethical consideration. This complicates the modeling of the trial, as well as the analyzing process of the collected data. For group-parallel clinical trials which contain two groups (one is the test and the...

To examine the effect of foreign direct investment, this paper compares the post-acquisition performance changes of foreign- and domestic-acquired firms in China. Unlike previous studies, we investigate the purified effect of foreign ownership by using domestic-acquired firms as the control...

Non-isothermal crystallization of aqueous nanofluids in the presence of two types of high aspect-ratio carbon nano-additives, i.e., carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs), was characterized by means of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). A parametric investigation was...

China implemented a package of policies during the 11th Five-Year Plan (2006–2010) to improve industrial energy efficiency. This assessment provides a methodology that establishes a causal relationship between policy implementation and energy conservation effects. To enhance the confidence in...

In this study, a novel dual-nozzle ejector enhanced vapor-compression cycle (DEVC) for solar assisted air-source heat pump systems is proposed. In DEVC, the use of the dual-nozzle ejector for recovering the expansion losses is a very promising approach to improve the cycle performance. A...

EVRCs (ejector-expansion vapor-compression refrigeration cycles) applied in domestic refrigerator-freezers have been concerned duo to their potentials of improving cycle performance. However, the previously presented EVRCs with various cycle configurations are still limited to favorable...

Since 2007, gross domestic product (GDP) growth in China's inland provinces has exceeded that of the affluent coastal provinces. Concurrently, they have also been given more lenient energy intensity reduction targets to provide latitude for continued growth. The regional unevenness of economic...

In this article we extend the results derived for scan statistics in Wang and Glaz (2014) for independent normal observations. We investigate the performance of two approximations for the distribution of fixed window scan statistics for time series models. An R algorithm for computing...

TiO2 nanorod films with diverse and evolutionary morphologies are synthesized by controllable hydrothermal method under mild conditions. The as-prepared nanorod films are well characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy. Results demonstrate that...

This paper investigated the impacts of oil price shocks on China׳s fundamental industries. In order to analyze the reactions of different industries to oil price shocks, we focused on four fundamental industries: grains, metals, petrochemicals and oil fats. We separated the oil price shocks...