In this paper we characterize the extent of economic integration between Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan (HKMT). We do not find, for the period of 1999 – 2003, consistent evidence that economic activity on the part of HKMT-funded companies contributed to productivity growth in Guangdong domestic manufacturing firms. Furthermore, HKMT-funded companies were less active than Guangdong dome...

In this paper we search for pollution haven consistent evidence within China. Using a province level data set and three different measures of environmental stringency, we investigate whether inward foreign direct investment (FDI) is attracted to those regions with relatively low environmental regulations. Our results are consistent with pollution haven seeking behaviour by foreign investors. In...

This paper analyzes the evolution of Chinese urban income distribution across space and time in post-reform era. Our results suggest no evidence on income convergence across cities during the period 1984-2003. We find that cities with comparable income level are likely to be co-located in the same region; further, cities tend to mirror the mobility of their counterparts located in the same prov...

In this paper, we introduce a novel graph-based method to classify the regions with similar climate in local area. We refer our proposed as graph partition based (GPBM). Our attempts overcome shortcomings of current state-of-the-art methods literature. It has no limit on number variables that can be used and also preserves nature data. To illustrate capability algorithm, benchmark its performan...

abstract in recent years, dust storm in western part of iran, especially fars province, caused various problems for people. the aim of this research is the identification of circulation patterns producing dust storms over fars province. for this purpose, firstly the code number 6 of current weather at 12 gmt belongs to 8 synoptic stations during the statistical period of 1992-2003 has been extr...

Andrenosoma lottae Mortelmans sp. nov. is described based on males and females from Fars province, Iran. Pictures of the habitus are provided, together with details male terminalia to facilitate species identification. The status violacea discussed hereby put forward as a inquirenda.http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2E6AB0F2-7227-4BDA-BA1C-3BA032B7A84D

Due to complexity of biomedical problems, adaptive and intelligent knowledge discovery and data mining systems are highly needed to help humans to understand the inherent mechanism of diseases. For biomedical classification problems, typically it is impossible to build a perfect classifier with 100% prediction accuracy. Hence a more realistic target is to build an effective Decision Support Sys...