Recent years have witnessed the rapid growth of China’s imports and exports of manufactures, as well as critical changes in its terms of trade. This study compares trends in China’s price indices for exports and imports between 1993 and 2000. It also examines the terms of trade for China’s...

In this article, the density profiles in the totally asymmetric simple exclusion processes (TASEPs) with both Langmuir kinetics and the local inhomogeneity, have been investigated by Monte Carlo simulations and a mean-field theory. The model is relevant for the understanding of the biological...

Demand for plastic products in China is increasing rapidly. Yet China has neither the productive capacity to keep pace with demand, nor the management systems to adequately deal with the increasing burden of plastic waste. These problems highlight the potential role for recycling in the...