This paper provides new estimates of capital inputs in the Chinese economy. Estimates are made for the total economy (1953-2003), for the industrial sector (1978-2003) and for the manufacturing sector (1985-2003). The estimates for industry and manufacturing are broken down by thirty regions. The main contribution of this paperlies in constructing hitherto unvailable estimates of capital inputs...

Every year, the United States was estimated to have suffered from billions of dollars of trade losses due to piracy and counterfeiting in China. While the Chinese undeniably have taken a free ride on the creative efforts of Western authors and inventors, greed alone does not explain the massive piracy and counterfeiting problems in the country. Instead, one needs to develop a better understandi...

This paper proposes a revised system of Old Chinese back vowels: *ɤ (之), *u (宵), *o (幽), *ɔ (侯) and *a (魚), which is purely monophthongal and may account for more related phenomena. There are such kinds of mixed rhymes in the Shijing: 之 and 幽, 宵 and 幽, 幽 and 侯. It is due to the sound similarity between the rhyme groups of each pair. The back vowels of Old Chinese widely experienced a raising-di...

The teacher evaluation is one important factor to influence the development and growth of teacher. Proper evaluation mode could stimulate teachers’ work enthusiasm and encourage them to advance continually. By the dissertations about the connotation, theoretical base, main characters and implementation process of the developmental teacher evaluation, the important meaning of the developmental t...

The purpose of the study was to examine the triangular theory of love in China and the United States. It was predicted that intimacy, passion, and commitment would increase in both cultures as the relationship becomes more serious. It was also predicted that intimacy and passion would be higher in romantic relationships in the US than in China, and that commitment would be higher in China than ...

Stakeholders argue that the information barrier is the major obstacle restricting firms from adopting Energy Efficiency Technologies (EETs) in Europe. The present work examines the processes of information gathering as regards to EETs and explores the factors affecting the level of acquired information by EET adopters. Empirical evidence is provided by a data set of Greek manufacturing firms wh...

We describe an overview of the NTCIR-12 Short Text Conversation (STC) task, which is a new pilot task of NTCIR-12. STC consists of two subtasks: a Chinese subtask using post-comment pairs crawled from Weibo, and a Japanese subtask providing the IDs of such pairs from Twitter. Thus, the main difference between the two subtasks lies in the sources and languages of the test collections. For the Ch...