Farmers’ Choice and Informal Credit Markets in China

Informal credit markets are very active in many developing countries including China. Informal financial associations have become a major channel of borrowing. Using data from the 2006 Rural Household Survey, this paper investigates farmers’ borrowings from both formal and informal sources with higher/lower interest, by looking into both demand and supply of loan. Consistent with the theory and previous studies, age follows an inverted U-shaped pattern in its relationship with the probability of borrowing from informal loan with higher interest. Our study shows that the impact of age disappears for the formal loan participation. In addition, high income and saving imply lower credit constraints. Moreover, household and county characteristics and financial conditions have a large and varying influence on farmers’ borrowing behavior.informal credit, financial constraints, China, Agricultural Finance, Community/Rural/Urban Development, International Development, Q12, C5, G21,

Sensitivity Analysis for Iceberg Geometry Shape in Ship-Iceberg Collision in View of Different Material Models

The increasing marine activities in Arctic area have brought growing interest in ship-iceberg collision study. The purpose of this paper is to study the iceberg geometry shape effect on the collision process. In order to estimate the sensitivity parameter, five different geometry iceberg models and two iceberg material models are adopted in the analysis. The FEM numerical simulation is used to predict the scenario and the related responses. The simulation results including energy dissipation and impact force are investigated and compared. It is shown that the collision process and energy dissipation are more sensitive to iceberg local shape than other factors when the elastic-plastic iceberg material model is applied. The blunt iceberg models act rigidly while the sharp ones crush easily during the simulation process. With respect to the crushable foam iceberg material model, the iceberg geometry has relatively small influence on the collision process. The spherical iceberg model shows the most rigidity for both iceberg material models and should be paid the most attention for ice-resist design for ships

Strong quantum nonlocality with genuine entanglement in an NN-qutrit system

In this paper, we construct genuinely multipartite entangled bases in $(\mathbb{C}^{3})^{\otimes N}$ for $N\geq3$, where every state is one-uniform state. By modifying this construction, we successfully obtain strongly nonlocal orthogonal genuinely entangled sets and strongly nonlocal orthogonal genuinely entangled bases, which provide an answer to the open problem raised by Halder $et~al.$ [\href{https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.040403} {Phy. Rev. Lett. \textbf{122}, 040403 (2019)}]. The strongly nonlocal orthogonal genuine entangled set we constructed in $(\mathbb{C}^{3})^{\otimes N}$ contains much fewer quantum states than all known ones. When $N>3$, our result answers the open question given by Wang $et~al$. [\href{https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.104.012424} {Phys. Rev. A \textbf{104}, 012424 (2021)}].Comment: 12 pages, 1 figur

Excitation functions of parameters extracted from three-source (net-)proton rapidity distributions in Au-Au and Pb-Pb collisions over an energy range from AGS to RHIC

Experimental results of the rapidity spectra of protons and net-protons (protons minus antiprotons) emitted in gold-gold (Au-Au) and lead-lead (Pb-Pb) collisions, measured by a few collaborations at the alternating gradient synchrotron (AGS), super proton synchrotron (SPS), and relativistic heavy ion collider (RHIC), are described by a three-source distribution. The values of the distribution width $\sigma_C$ and contribution ratio (relative contribution) $k_C$ of the central rapidity region, and the distribution width $\sigma_F$ and rapidity shift $\Delta y$ of the forward/backward rapidity regions, are then obtained. The excitation function of $\sigma_C$ increases generally with increase of the center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$. The excitation function of $\sigma_F$ shows a saturation at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=8.8$ GeV. The excitation function of $k_C$ shows a minimum at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=8.8$ GeV and a saturation at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}\approx 17$ GeV. The excitation function of $\Delta y$ increase monotonously with $\ln \sqrt{s_{NN}}$ in the considered energy range.Comment: 19 pages, 8 figures, The European Physical Journal A, accepte

High resolution object detection algorithm based on parallel

With the continuous development and improvement of the aviation information warfare system, target detection technology has also become a key part of the airborne system to perceive the environment. Traditional target detection technology is now difficult to meet the requirements of high precision and high real-time performance in airborne scenarios. With the continuous development of deep learning technology, neural network has become the latest method to deal with object detection task, which greatly improves its accuracy and processing efficiency. However, due to the different targets detected in airborne scenes, the scale of data needed to be processed by using neural networks to process target detection tasks also expands dramatically, and the computing resources provided by single chip are already difficult to meet the needs of target detection algorithm execution in airborne environment. This paper proposes a set of high-precision target detection algorithms based on parallelism, which greatly improves the precision and processing efficiency of the target detection algorithm in airborne scenarios

Bilayer Kagome Borophene with Multiple van Hove Singularities

The appearance of van Hove singularities near the Fermi level leads to prominent phenomena, including superconductivity, charge density wave, and ferromagnetism. Here a bilayer Kagome lattice with multiple van Hove singularities is designed and a novel borophene with such lattice (BK-borophene) is proposed by the first-principles calculations. BK-borophene, which is formed via three-center two-electron (3c-2e) sigma-type bonds, is predicted to be energetically, dynamically, thermodynamically, and mechanically stable. The electronic structure hosts both conventional and high-order van Hove singularities in one band. The conventional van Hove singularity resulting from the horse saddle is 0.065 eV lower than the Fermi level, while the high-order one resulting from the monkey saddle is 0.385 eV below the Fermi level. Both the singularities lead to the divergence of electronic density of states. Besides, the high-order singularity is just intersected to a Dirac-like cone, where the Fermi velocity can reach 1340000 m/s. The interaction between the two Kagome lattices is critical for the appearance of high-order van Hove singularities. The novel bilayer Kagome borophene with rich and intriguing electronic structure offers an unprecedented platform for studying correlation phenomena in quantum material systems and beyond

China's Role in the Rising of the South: Vision for 2030

This article examines China's major development contributions, looking at its wider impact on world development. In particular, the article examines the impact of China's development on the changing pattern between the North and South and the human development index. The factors and related regimes behind these phenomena are discussed and a conceptual model is constructed, providing a meta?analysis of the evolution of China's role, based on the structural interpretation of external impetus and barriers, as well as internal advantages and shortcomings. The authors' long?term projections show that the rise of the South, led by China, will be the most important shift in the world's landscape with respect to the development of the emerging world, perhaps leading other large developing economies to play a more prominent role in international development in the future, bringing common development, common prosperity and common progress to the world