This paper analyses the growth of employment in China during the post reform period. It argues that the Chinese experience with export-led growth provides an excellent example of the phenomenon of a vent for surplus productive capacity provided by exports, identified by Adam Smith in the Wealth of Nations and elaborated by Hla Myint. The paper extends the Smith-Myint model of ‘vent-for-surplus’...

We investigate the structure of conformal C-spaces, a class of Riemmanian man-ifolds which naturally arises as a conformal generalisation of the Einstein condition. A basic question is when such a structure is closed, or equivalently locally conformally Cotton. In dimension 4 we obtain a full answer to this question and also investigate the incidence of the Bach condition on this class of metri...

An exhibition at the British Museum shows off some of the vast collection of objects collected by Henry Wellcome, marking the 150 anniversary of his birth. Wellcome was someone who recognized the importance of scientific research in developing new medicines and who established the first research laboratory linked to a UK pharmaceutical company. His pioneering activities have proved to be an eno...

In 2005, the TREC QA track had two separate tasks: the main task and the relationship task. To participate in TREC 2005 we employed two different QA systems. PowerAnswer-2 was used in the main task, whereas PALANTIR was used for the relationship questions. For the main task, new this year is the use of events as targets in addition to the nominal concepts used last year. Event targets ranged fr...

Acknowledgment I would like to thank my supervisor for constant willingness to discuss, and for his comments on a draft of this PhD thesis proposal. I thank Tony Kučera for his encouragement and fruitful collaboration. Warm thanks to Adriana for her understanding and also for reading drafts of this document. Finally, I want to thank Uni (the Etruscan goddess of the cosmos) for her condescension.

To the spirit of my Dad ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I'd like to acknowledge for professor Kamal Sarabandi's help, courage and support in last few years as my advisor. It was a great opportunity for me to work with him. I also wish to thank professor Tony England, professor Gabriel Rebeiz, and professor Wayne Stark for honoring me by being a member of my dissertation committee and their helpful comments...