We investigate the similarity of the country endowments of the newly industrialized East Asian countries (NICs) and their major developed trading partners since the 1960s. In particular, we analyze their factor endowments in the years 1965, 1977, and 1990, using the lens condition of Deardorff (1994). Because of the similarity of endowments of the NICs and their developed-country trading partne...

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Inter-institutional cooperation is becoming the norm for innovations putting at centre stage of research inquiry the organisational knowledge for establishing, coordinating and innovating through cooperation. Case study evidence depicts the development of systematic processes for partner identification and management of cooperative agreements. Researchers recognising potential partners would pe...

This paper provides a uni…ed framework to study how capital adjustment costs and uncertainty a¤ect investment dynamics and capital accumulation. It considers an ongoing …rm with stochastic downward sloping demand curve and facing three possible forms of adjustment costs: complete or partial irreversibility, …xed costs of undertaking any investment and the traditional quadratic adjustment costs....

In this paper, we describe an algorithm for solving systems of linear Diophantine equations based on a generalization of an algorithm for solving one equation due to Fortenbacher 3]. It can solve a system as a whole, or be used incrementally when the system is a sequential accumulation of several subsystems. The proof of termination of the algorithm is diicult, whereas the proofs of completenes...

Story-processing systems have to deal, or avoid dealing, with INFERENCE CONTROL ''6' Ii, 13. when designing one such system 2, we were greatly helped by the "(ERC)RC" expression for connotation I. Our system is specialised in multi-faceted descriptions of characters (not, however , in the most difficult problems of beliefs about beliefs 4 and 8): here we present another aspect of the story char...

distribution and mobility of nine mineral elements (k, ca, na, mg, fe, zn, cu, se, and cr) in cultured gentiana rigescens and its root zone soil were determined by atomic absorption spectroscopy. g. rigescens materials were planted under tea and white papaya trees in yun county and yongde of lincang area in yunnan province of china. the results showed that g. rigescens and its soil were high in...