An Evolutionary Economic Geography Perspective on Types of Operation Development in West Lake, China

The types of operation play a key role in facilitating tourism consumption and economic development in a tourism destination. By adopting evolutionary economic geography theory, the paper analyzes the types of operation in West Lake Scenic Area from 1978 to 2013. First, an evolution process consisting of four stages is underpinned, and they are: the new establishment stage, the preliminary development stage, the speedup development stage, and the stabilized maturity stage. Specifically, the distinct characteristics associated with operation types are compared and evaluated at different stages throughout the process. The evolution trees are introduced to scrutinize types of operation development. The results of evolution trees demonstrate the substantial increase in both numbers and types. Second, by applying GIS spatial analysis, the paper also analyzes the spatial evolution characteristics on the types of operation, and the results unveil the co-existence of centripetal and centrifugal forces: the processes of spatial agglomeration and spatial dispersion. More specifically, we recognize the spatial process includes the emergence of node and concentration(1978–1995), the sparse distribution and intensity reduction(1996–2002), the patchy distribution and spatial agglomeration intensification(2003–2008), the dispersed distribution and core area agglomeration(2009–2013). Lastly, path dependence on resource endowment, government and market innovation, knowledge learning and spillover can reasonably explain the types of operation evolution. In conclusion, the evolutionary economic geography theories provide new theoretical and empirical perspectives for tourism policy analysis. At the same time, our comprehensive evidences impart more comprehensive insights and offer useful managerial and policy implications.

Application of uncertain type of AHP to condition assessment of cable-stayed bridges

In order to guarantee the safety service and life-span of long-span cable-stayed bridges, the uncertain type of analytic hierarchy process （AHP） method is adopted to access the bridge condition. The correlative theory and applied objects of uncertain type of AHP are introduced, and then the optimal transitive matrix method is chosen to calculate the interval number judgment matrix, which makes the weights of indices more reliable and accurate. Finally, with Harbin Songhua River Cable-Stayed Bridge as an example, an index system and an assessment model are proposed for the condition assessment of this bridge, and by using uncertain type of AHP, the weights of assessment indices are fixed and the final assessment results of the bridge are calculated, which proves the feasibility and practicability of this method. The application of this assessment method can provide the scientific basis for maintenance and management of long-span cable-stayed bridges.

Breeding of an F_1 Hybrid Cultivar Hangjiao Huangshuai by Space Mutation Breeding Technique

Hangjiao Huangshuai is a processing type yellow pepper F1 hybrid cultivar bred with the inbred line 032-1-2-1-1-H-H bred through space treatment as the female parent and 082-1-1-H-H free of space treatment as the male parent. The fruit is in the shape of long finger with few wrinkles and good gloss, and tastes very spicy .The fruit has a vertical diameter of 17.5 cm, a transverse diameter of 1.6 cm, a fresh thickness of 0,20 cm and a single fruit weight of 15.6 g. It is yellowishgreen in the early maturation stage and yellow in the late maturation stage. The cultivar exhibited high resistance to pepper blight, viral diseases and powdery mildew, and showed an average yield of 56 493,0 kg/hm^2. It could be generalized in Gansu, Ningxia, Liaoning and Zhejiang.

Microstructural Characteristics of Asphalt Concrete with Different Gradations by X-ray CT

The main objective of this paper is to evaluate the effects of asphalt concrete types on the microstructural characteristics at high-temperature. Suspend-dense structure and Skeleton-dense structure were selected to investigate the deformation of pavement at meso-scale. The internal microstructures of typical asphalt concretes, AC, SUP and SMA, were scanned by X-ray CT device, and microstructural changes before and after high-temperature damage were researched by digital image processing. Adaptive threshold segmentation algorithm（ATSA） based on image radius was developed and utilized to obtain the binary images of aggregates, air-voids and asphalt mastic. Then the shape and distribution of air-voids and aggregates were analyzed. The results show that the ATSA can distinguish the target and background effectively. Gradation and coarse aggregate size of asphalt mixtures have an obvious influence on the distribution of air-voids. The movements of aggregate particles are complex and aggregates with elliptic sharp show great rotation. The effect of gradation on microstructure during high-temperature damage promotes the research about the failure mechanism of asphalt concrete pavement.

SOME CHARACTERS OF A CLASS OF ORNSTEIN-UHLENBECK TYPE MARKOV PROCESSES WITH STABLE PROCESSES

This article concerns a class of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck type Markov processes and for which the level sets will be approached. By constructing a new class f processes, we shall obtain an inequality on the Hausdorff dimensions of the level sets for the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck type Markov processes. Based on this result, we finally verify that any two independent O-U.M.P with alpha-stable processes could collide with probability one.

Modeling stochastic mortality with O-U type processes

Modeling log-mortality rates on O-U type processes and forecasting life expectancies are explored using U.S. data. In the classic Lee-Carter model of mortality, the time trend and the age-specific pattern of mortality over age group are linear, this is not the feature of mortality model. To avoid this disadvantage, O-U type processes will be used to model the log-mortality in this paper. In fact, this model is an AR(1) process, but with a nonlinear time drift term.Based on the mortality data of America from Human Mortality database(HMD), mortality projection consistently indicates a preference for mortality with O-U type processes over those with the classical Lee-Carter model. By means of this model, the low bounds of mortality rates at every age are given. Therefore, lengthening of maximum life expectancies span is estimated in this paper.

DIMENSION RESULTS FORORNSTEIN-UHLENBECK TYPE MARKOVPROCESS

Let {X-t, t greater than or equal to 0} be an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck type Markov process with Levy process A(t), the authors consider the fractal properties of its ranges, give the upper and lower bounds of the Hausdorff dimensions of the ranges and the estimate of the dimensions of the level sets for the process. The existence of local times and occupation times of X-t are considered in some special situations.

Gyrosynchrotron Process of a Rare Large Type-Ⅳμ Burst Associated with Coronal Mass Ejection

A large Type Ⅳμ solar radio burst was observed at Yunnan observatory on December 16, 1988. The burst was associated by a coronal mass ejection (CME) with the radio signature of Type Ⅱ and Type Ⅳ bursts. On the basis of Beijing Huairou magnetogram of AR5278, power law distribution of electrons of the source region is calculated. It is suggested that the Type Ⅳμ burst associated with CME was due to the gyrosynchrotron radiation of high energy electrons trapped by magnetic field. Finally, some quantitative and qualitative explanations are proposed.

Empirical likelihood estimation of discretely sampled processes of OU type

This paper presents an empirical likelihood estimation procedure for parameters of the discretely sampled process of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck type. The proposed procedure is based on the condi- tional characteristic function, and the maximum empirical likelihood estimator is proved to be consistent and asymptotically normal. Moreover, this estimator is shown to be asymptotically efficient under some mild conditions. When the background driving Lévy process is of type A or B, we show that the intensity parameter can be exactly recovered, and we study the maximum empirical likelihood estimator with the plug-in estimated intensity parameter. Testing procedures based on the empirical likelihood ratio statistic are developed for parameters and for estimating equations, respectively. Finally, Monte Carlo simulations are conducted to demonstrate the performance of proposed estimators.

Variable selection via quantile regression with the process of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck type

Based on the data-cutoff method,we study quantile regression in linear models,where the noise process is of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck type with possible jumps.In single-level quantile regression,we allow the noise process to be heteroscedastic,while in composite quantile regression,we require that the noise process be homoscedastic so that the slopes are invariant across quantiles.Similar to the independent noise case,the proposed quantile estimators are root-n consistent and asymptotic normal.Furthermore,the adaptive least absolute shrinkage and selection operator(LASSO)is applied for the purpose of variable selection.As a result,the quantile estimators are consistent in variable selection,and the nonzero coefficient estimators enjoy the same asymptotic distribution as their counterparts under the true model.Extensive numerical simulations are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed approaches and foreign exchange rate data are analyzed for the illustration purpose.

A Two-Step Test for the Two-Sample Problem of Processes of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Type

The authors propose a two-step test for the two-sample problem of processes of OrnsteinUhlenbeck type. In the first step, the authors test the equality of correlation structures, based on the least square estimators of the correlation parameters, and the test statistic follows the standard normal distribution. If the null hypothesis is not rejected in the first step, the authors consider a second step to test the equality of marginal distributions, based on the weighted deviation of the empirical characteristic functions;the test statistic has a complicated asymptotic distribution, so that sequential bootstrap method is applied to reach a temporary decision. Simulation studies and real data analysis suggest that the proposed approach performs well in finite samples.

A Fluctuation Type Limit Theorem for Ji(?)ina Processes with Immigration

It is proved by the theory of semigroup that the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck type process with jumps can arise from the fluctuation limit of a sequence of Jirina processes with immigration under suitable moments conditions.

Preparation and properties of 0.5BiFeO_(3)-0.5PbFe_(0.5)Nb_(0.5)O_(3)ceramics and polycrystalline films

In this paper,we report the successful growth of 0.5BiFeO_(3)-0.5PbFe_(0.5)Nb_(0.5)O_(3)/SrTiO_(3)/Si(001)heterostructure using RFcathode sputtering in an oxygen atmosphere.The deposited films have been investigated by X-ray diffractometry and spectroscopic ellip-sometry(SE).0.5BiFeO_(3)-0.5PbFe_(0.5)Nb_(0.5)O_(3)films on silicon substrates with a strontium titanate buffer layer are single-phase,polycrystalline with a texture in the 001 direction.The unit cell parameters calculated in the tetragonal approximation were c=4.005±0.001Å;a=3.995±0.001Å.The presence in the films of small unit cell deformation arising from different unit cells parameters of the film and substrate is observed.Dielectric properties and capacitance-voltage characteristics have been measured.The ellipsometric parameters have been obtained.

ANALYSIS OF A CONTINUOUS TIME SM[K]/PH[K]/1/FCFS QUEUE:AGE PROCESS,SOJOURN TIMES,AND QUEUE LENGTHS

This paper studies a continuous time queueing system with multiple types of customers and a first-come-first-served service discipline. Customers arrive according to a semi-Markov arrival process and the service times of individual types of customers have PH-distributios. A GI/M/1 type Markov process for a generalized age process of batches of customers is constructed. The stationary distribution of the GI/M/1 type Markov process is found explicitly and, consequently, the distributions of the age of the batch in service, the total workload in the system, waiting times, and sojourn times of different batches and different types of customers are obtained. The paper gives the matrix representations of the PH-distributions of waiting times and sojourn times. Some results are obtained for the distributions of queue lengths at departure epochs and at an arbitrary time. These results can be used to analyze not only the queue length, but also the composition of the queue. Computational methods are developed for calculating steady state distributions related to the queue lengths, sojourn times, and waiting times.

The Functional Approach to the Teaching of Translation: A Case Study on Beiying and Its English Translations

This paper reports the attempt to apply the functional approach to the translation teaching practice that guides students in their study of Chinese essays and their English translations. The famed modern Chinese essay Belying and its three English translations were taken for case study from the perspective of Experiential Function in Systemic Functional Linguistics. A process type analysis of Beiying and its English translations was conducted, including analysis of texts, sample processes, distributions of process types in Beiying and analyses of similarities and differences in the distributions. Results are as follows： 1） The similarities between English and Chinese texts lie in the experiential world, which makes translation possible. The process types in the essay text are directly related to genre, and the material process predominates among the process types in essay texts. 2） The differences are that the percentage of the material process in the ST is higher than that in the three English translations, and this shows the characteristics of verb-prominence in Chinese and nominalization in English. 3） Cultural differences in translation are the root-cause of linguistic differences. These results from the case of practicing the functional approach to the teaching of translation can help students gain understanding of English translations of Beiying and can provide some inspiration for the teaching of Chinese-English essay translation and the related studies.