This paper categorizes the multiple-faced roles of the government in technology standardization in the catching-up contexts. It presents a case that China has developed a third generation (3G) of mobile system, TD-SCDMA, and deployed it in the Chinese market. The authors attribute the success of...

This paper tries to explore the interaction of institutional arrangement, technological innovation and application evolution underlying the impressive growth of China’s computing infrastructure. Drawing upon the actor-network theory, we construct a framework to explain how the elements...

In this paper, the feasibility of generating electricity from EGS (enhanced geothermal systems) by oilfield produced water circulating through reservoir stimulated by staged fracturing technology for horizontal wells is investigated based on the geological data of Xujiaweizi area, located in the...

This paper presents a new method to estimate the fractional differencing parameters in the SARFIMA model. A technique of split cosine bell tapering is suggested to improve the EGPH method. The simulation study shows that the optimal split proportion and bandwidth for the EGPH with split cosine...

Purpose – Informal credit markets are very active in many developing countries, including China. Informal financial associations have become a major channel of borrowing. Using data from the 2006 Rural Household Survey, the purpose of this paper is to investigate farmers' borrowing choices...

Internet banking as a key component of e-finance has gained research attention. However, the research on developing countries is lacking. This paper investigates the factors that influence the consumer adoption of internet banking in Nigeria. The results show that the currently relevant factors...

Internet banking as a key component of e-finance has gained research attention. However, the research on developing countries is lacking. This paper investigates the factors that influence the consumer adoption of internet banking in Nigeria. The results show that the currently relevant factors...

This paper examines the telecommunications reform in China from a macro perspective. It describes the progress of Chinese telecommunications reform, and investigates macro level changes that have affected the transformation process. Two key issues are addressed: reform in the regulatory regime,...

This paper offers a rare insight into the reality of the mobile telecommunications market transformation in Pakistan. Our analytical framework treats the mobile telecommunications market as a complex socio-technical system. Specifically, we define the telecommunications market as being composed...

We prove that the expected lifetime of the conditioned diffusions associated with some elliptic operators degenerating at the boundary of a C2 domain is finite.