There are no book length treatments of spatial spillovers that provide theoretical and empirical analyses of this topic within different regions in the continent of Asia. As such, the primary objective of this book is to provide expansive studies of spatial spillovers and their salience by...

Following this introductory chapter which comprises Part I of the book, there are eleven chapters and each of these chapters—written by an expert or by a team of experts—discusses a particular research question or questions about rural-urban dichotomies and spatial development in Asia. For...

We have two objectives in this book. First, we bring together in one place, original research that sheds light on the myriad connections between disease, human health, and regional economic growth and development. Second, given the contemporary salience of Asia in world affairs, we concentrate...

As industry moves towards many-core chips, networks-on-chip(NoCs) are emerging as the scalable fabric for interconnectingthe cores. With power now the first-order design constraint, earlystageestimation of NoC power has become crucially important.ORION [29] was amongst the first NoC power models...

Recent advances in statistical understanding have focused fisheries research attention on addressing the theoretical and statistical issues encountered in standardizing catch-rate data. Similarly, the present study evaluates the performance of boosted regression trees (BRT), the product of...

The paper outlines an original thinking theory and its applications to economics. The author ascribes the flaws and divisiveness of economics mainly to the lack of a proper theory on how a person thinks. Human thoughts shall be entities, and thinking shall be behaviors, both featuring...

This paper introduces a highly original theory. What is human capital or knowledge theoretically? How do innovations happen? How could microeconomics integrate with macroeconomics? Where do institutions & organizations come from? How to define and endogenize money? How to synthesize...

This paper is a complementary explanation of the World Economics Association (WEA) 2019 “Going Online” conference paper “How Could Cognitive Revolution Happen To Economics? An Introduction to the Algorithm Framework Theory”.

Various“irrationalities” have always been deemed distinct from human reason or “rational thinking”. However, another long-standing view is that“irrationalities” are really some kinds of rationality that just need to be somehow proven. It would be most satisfactory if the proof could...

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