Ground-source heat pump (GSHP) systems are helpful for reducing building-sector heating and cooling energy consumption. As the core part of the GSHP system, the underground heat exchanger has a large influence on the heat transfer performance (HTP) of the system. The ground temperature variation...

A Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) is a policy tool that sets a requirement for retail sellers of electricity to provide a minimum portion of their electricity sales from renewable resources. The RPS at state levels has become one of the most important policy incentives for stimulating clean...

The tobacco growers with the growing area of greater than or equal to 100 mu, have become an important subject of tobacco production in Weng'an County of Guizhou Province. Regulating and developing the production and business activities of large-scale tobacco growers, plays an important role in...

The vector assignment p-median problem (VAPMP) (Weaver and Church in Transp Sci 19(1):58–74, <CitationRef CitationID="CR37">1985</CitationRef>) was one of the first location-allocation models developed to handle split assignment of a demand to multiple facilities. The underlying construct of the VAPMP has been subsequently used in a...</citationref>

Objective of this work is to investigate the electrocatalytic efficiency using cyclic voltammetry, cathodic polarization and impedance spectroscopy techniques of the porous Ni3Al–Mo electrodes obtained by reactive synthesis of Ni, Al and Mo elemental powders. The kinetic parameters are...

The long-term stability and the effect of electrolysis on the corrosion behavior of porous Ni3Al–Mo electrode obtained by reactive synthesis of Ni, Al and Mo elemental powders for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) were investigated in 6 M KOH solution under −100 mA cm−2 current density...

We compare observed corporate cumulative default probabilities to those calculated using a stochastic model based on an extension of the work of Black and Cox and find that corporations default as if via diffusive dynamics. The model, based on a contingent-claims analysis of corporate capital...