In a six-year program started in 2014 July, the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic
Survey (eBOSS) will conduct novel cosmological observations using the BOSS spectrograph …

One of the key issues facing public healthcare is the global trend of an increasingly ageing
society which continues to present policy makers and caregivers with formidable healthcare …

Organic/inorganic composite materials have been extensively studied for a long time. When
inorganic phases in organic/inorganic composites become nanosized, they are called …

In infants born to hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg)–positive mothers, failure after passive–active
immunization still occurs. The role of maternal hepatitis B DNA level and other risk …

The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys (http://legacysurvey. org/) are a combination of three public
projects (the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey, the Beijing–Arizona Sky Survey, and …

We consider the problem of model selection and estimation in situations where the number
of parameters diverges with the sample size. When the dimension is high, an ideal method …

We use a panel data set of 46 countries over the 1970–1989 period to investigate the relationship
between fiscal decentralization and economic growth. We find a negative relationship …

… Zou for critical readings of the manuscript. This work was supported by grants from the
National 863 Project (2012AA10A308 and 2011AA100104), the International S&T Cooperation …

In a simple model of endogenous growth with spending by different levels of government,
we demonstrate how fiscal decentralization affects the long-run growth rate of the economy. …

Triboelectrification is a well-known phenomenon that commonly occurs in nature and in our
lives at any time and any place. Although each and every material exhibits triboelectrification…