in the present study, pistachio production and trade and influential factors on its exports in iran and the usa are compared the the .using the annual data from 1970 to 2011; this study aimed to analyze the effects of pistachio price and the effects of food security. moreover, the relationship between exchange rate and pistachio export in the iranian economy was analyzed through examining a non...

Background Ageing has become a serious challenge in Hong Kong and globally. It has serious implications for health expenditure, which accounts for nearly 20% of overall government expenditure. Here we assess the contribution of ageing and related factors to hospitalisation days in Hong Kong. We used hospital discharge data from all publicly funded hospitals in Hong Kong between 2001 and 2012.  ...

Clean development mechanism (CDM) is encountering many uncertainties due to the coming end of the commitment period and critically suggested reformation. As the largest participant in the CDM market, China shoulders the biggest proportion of market risk. Among the studies on CDM in China, few have focused upon the legal aspect of CDM, which is crucial in defending developers’ interests. To fill...

The recent handover of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) brought Hong Kong worldwide attention and scrutiny. In the run up to the handover, the international media prominently featured stories about Hong Kong’s freewheeling capitalism and the stability created by its administrative institutions. Lost in the media attention was the role of nonprofit organizations and the voluntar...

raisin is the second major export item in iranian agricultural section after pistachio. in this study, effects of exchange rate fluctuations were investigated on quantity and price of exported raisin. therefore, data of 1970 to 2008 were reviewed by time series analysis and estimated by auto-regressive distributed lag model (ardl). results show the absence of a long-term relationship between ex...

english is an important language in hong kong, an international city located on the southern coast of the people’s republic of china that, for over 150 years to 1997, was a british colony. this paper describes and analyses changes in teaching methodologies in the english language curriculum formally proposed for hong kong junior secondary schools from 1975 to the present day, to study how the c...

We use a controlled laboratory setting to experimentally examine the role of auditing and market-based-governance in restraining managerial expropriation and inaccurate financial reporting. Managerial expropriation is broadly defined as the enabling of all actions that opportunistically transfer wealth from investors to managers through understatement of realizable income. Similarly, auditing i...

Since the enactment of the Antiquities and Monuments Ordinance in 1971 and the establishment of Antiquities and Monuments Office in 1976, the Hong Kong Government has set up several institutions with particular ordinances and schemes for Heritage Conservation. With the set-up of government initiatives, yet the protection of physical and cultural heritage is still limited due to the ambiguity of...