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Shuai Zhang, Heng Wang, Yan Pan, Yun Shao, Tao Zhang, Wei Huang, Yang Li and Bingjie Xu
Dual-polarization division multiplexing (DPDM) is considered to be a potential method to boost the secure key rate (SKR) of the continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) system. In this article, we propose a pilot alternately assisted local l...
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David Massegur, Declan Clifford, Andrea Da Ronch, Riccardo Lombardi and Marco Panzeri
Determining the aero-icing characteristics is key for safety assurance in aviation, but it may be a computationally expensive task. This work presents a framework for the development of low-dimensional models for application to aerofoil icing. The framew...
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Furong Chen, Yuyuan Yi and Yifu Zhao
This study examines the role of social capital, at both individual and community levels, in promoting farmers? participation in providing rural public goods in China. Based on the survey data of 622 farmers from 82 villages across Hebei, Shaanxi, Jiangsu...
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Manuel Vargas-Yáñez, Elena Tel, Marta Marcos, Francina Moya, Enrique Ballesteros, Cristina Alonso and M. Carmen García-Martínez
We present an attempt to estimate the long-term changes in Relative Sea Level (RSL), in addition to the different factors contributing to such trends on a local and regional scale, using a statistical linear model. The time series analysis corresponded t...
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Xuan Jin, Yang Yang, Xiaomei Cao and Jinshui Wu
The variable-area pintle injector has unique geometry and spray characteristics compared to traditional coaxial injectors, and is advantageous for weight lightening and deep throttling of liquid rocket engines. To obtain an accurate prediction of the spr...
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Fahad Ahmed, Ho Huu Loc, Edward Park, Muhammad Hassan and Panuwat Joyklad
Floods are among the major natural disasters that cause loss of life and economic damage worldwide. Floods damage homes, crops, roads, and basic infrastructure, forcing people to migrate from high flood-risk areas. However, due to a lack of information a...
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Matteo Gentilucci and Gilberto Pambianchi
The reconstruction of daily precipitation data is a much-debated topic of great practical use, especially when weather stations have missing data. Missing data are particularly numerous if rain gauges are poorly maintained by their owner institutions and...
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Yali Gong, Huan Xie, Yanmin Jin and Xiaohua Tong
In recent years, the availability of multi-temporal global land-cover datasets has meant that they have become a key data source for evaluating land cover in many applications. Due to the high data volume of the multi-temporal land-cover datasets, probab...
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Zhangliang Ding, Jianrong Zhu, Bingrui Chen and Daoyang Bao
The balance between the need of improving horizontal resolution in simulating local small-scale ocean processes and computational costs makes it desirable to refine model mesh locally. A three-dimensional, two-way nesting unstructured quadrilateral grid,...
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Youri Geurkink, Jan Boone, Steven Verstockt and Jan G. Bourgois
This study aimed to identify the strongest predictive variables of winning and losing in the highest Belgian soccer division. A predictive machine learning model based on a broad range of variables (n = 100) was constructed, using a dataset consisting of...
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