Fierce debate is ongoing in China concerning the appropriate role for the private sector in the current stage of reform and enterprise restructuring. There are many economists, both within China and without, who argue that China should now increase both the scale and pace of privatisation and...

This paper analyses the institutional constraints on China's transition to sustainability. Through the investigation of the ecological dimension of the sustainability in China, we argue that there is a vacuum of social consensus and public understanding resulting from unbridled meritocracy and...

This paper analyses the institutional constraints on China's transition to sustainability. Through the investigation of the ecological dimension of the sustainability in China, we argue that there is a vacuum of social consensus and public understanding resulting from unbridled meritocracy and...

La2O3 films were deposited on Si(100) substrates by ion beam assistant electron beam evaporation and were annealed at 450–900°C. Crystalline structure was found to change from amorphous structure to cubic and hexagonal structure with the rise in annealing temperature. The near infrared...

In this paper, we study the Sparre-Andersen dual risk model in which the times between positive gains are independently and identically distributed and have a generalized Erlang-n distribution. An important difference between this model and some other models such as the Erlang-n dual risk model...

Observed high-frequency financial prices can be considered as having two components, a true price and a market microstructure noise perturbation. It is an empirical regularity, coherent with classical market microstructure theories of price determination, that the second moment of market...

The Poly(vinylidene) fluoride (PVDF) thin films with a high content of β-phase were prepared by controlling heat-treatment temperature using casting from the poled solvents. The crystallite microstructure of thin films was depicted by the techniques of X-ray diffraction and FTIR. The results...

Effects of thermal expansion coefficient (CTE) mismatch on structure and electrical properties of TiO2 film deposited on Si substrate by ion beam assistant electron beam evaporation have been investigated. Because of a high CTE mismatch between TiO2 film and Si substrate, microcracks appeared in...