China’s industrial sector has faced large increases in raw material prices, and wages have also risen significantly. This paper aims at analyzing and quantifying the impact of the cost pressures on the profitability of industry, as well as the way that China’s industry has responded to the pressures. By combining information from the input output table and time series from the enterprise survey...

The notions of input and output decoupling zeros are extended to a linear periodic discretetime system. The ordered sets of structural indices are also analyzed for these notions and for the notions of invariant zero, transmission zero, eigenvalue and pole of such a system. For any non-zero zero, eigenvalue and pole, the corresponding ordered set of structural indices is timeinvariant. The inpu...

Introduction: Intravenous general anesthetic agents are among the most important and widely used anesthetic drugs in the clinical practice. Many pharmacological studies have shown that potentiation of GABA and glycine on their receptors is the most plausible mechanism. Nevertheless, there is limited information on the effects of co-administration of two or more of these agents. However, expe...

We provide a new sequential predictors approach for the exponential stabilization of linear time-varying systems. Our method circumvents the problem of constructing and estimating distributed terms in the control laws, and allows arbitrarily large input delay bounds, pointwise time-varying input delays, and uncertainties. Instead of using distributed terms, our approach to handling longer delay...

The Task System and Item Architecture (TSIA) is a model for transparent application execution. In many real-world projects, a TSIA provides a simple application with a transparent reliable, distributed, heterogeneous, adaptive, dynamic, real-time, parallel, secure or other execution. TSIA is suitable for many applications, not just for the simple applications served to date. This presentation s...