Labour reallocation and total factor productivity growth in China by You, Kefei, Sarantis, Nicholas

“…This paper carries out an empirical investigation of the contribution of labour reallocation, which can produce efficiency gains over and above those associated with technical progress, to total factor productivity in China during the pre-reform and post-reform periods. …”
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A limping West sees a confident China by Chandan, Sukant

“…This paper is a commentary on China post the Beijing Olympics and its economic self-confidence. …”
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The road to Epidaurus is like the road to creation: tapping the urban archive by Beswick, Katie, Hawkins, Harriet, Kohlmaier, Joseph

Snake-like soft robot using 2-chambers actuator by Abdulrab, Hakim Q.A., Mohd Nordin, Ili Najaa Aimi, Muhammad Razif, Muhammad Rusydi, Faudzi, Ahmad Athif

“…Many researchers have been working on snake-like robots due to their flexibility, safety and dexterity. …”
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سونمي : قصص من ماليزيا (Sunami : qasas min Malaziya) by El-Nagar, Hassan Abdelrazig

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Malamih min al-Bayan An-Nabawiy: Dirasah Ta'siliyyah by Mansour, Saad eldin

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Framed to be open: exploring the strategies of planning university campus in China by Ho, Jason, Anderson, Charles, Zakariya, Khalilah

“…In the quest for modernization, China has embarked upon the construction of new university campuses. …”
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Malaysia-China in the 21st century: Prosperity through cooperation by Abu Bakar, Nur Barizah

“…This paper discusses the bilateral relations between two nations namely China and Malaysia particularly in the areas of politics, economics and culture. …”
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China's political and economic activities in Africa: development and environmental concerns by Shuriye, Abdi Omar

“…In recent years, China's rapid economic growth and increasing political clout have significantly accelerated the country's involvement in African. …”
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The competing interactions on a Cayley tree-like lattice: pentagonal chandelier by Uguz, Selman, Ganikhodjaev, Nasir, Akin, Hasan, Temir, Seyit

“…. � = �1) using a generalization of the Cayley tree-like lattice approximation. We study the phase diagrams for the Ising model on a Cayley tree-like lattice, a new lattice type called pentagonal chandelier, with competing nearest- -neighbor interactions J1, prolonged next-nearest-neighbor interactions Jp and one-level next-nearest-neighbor senary interactions J(6)l1 . …”
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Tree-like queries in OWL 2 QL: succinctness and complexity results by Bienvenu, Meghyn, Kikot, Stanislav, Podolskii, Vladimir

“…Our first contribution is to clarify the worst-case size of positive existential (PE), non-recursive Datalog (NDL), and first-order (FO) rewritings for various classes of tree-like conjunctive queries, ranging from linear queries to bounded treewidth queries. …”
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Ammonia detection in water with balloon-like plastic optical fiber sensor by Che Abd Rashid, Nurfatihah, Cholan, Noran Azizan Cholan, Kim Gaik Tay, Kim Gaik Tay, Mat Daud, Azra Munirah, Jaharudin, Nurul Atika Nabila, Sulaiman, Nazrah Ilyana, Ngajikin, Nor Hafizah

“…The sensor head is formed by bending an unclad fiber optic sensor into a balloon-like structure. The bending radius of the balloon-like bent fiber optic sensor is varied from 1.0 to 2.5 cm. …”
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Ammonia detection in water with balloon-like plastic optical fiber sensor by Nurfatihah Che Abd Rashid, Nurfatihah Che Abd Rashid, Noran Azizan Cholan, Noran Azizan Cholan, Kim Gaik Tay, Kim Gaik Tay, Azra Munirah Mat Daud, Azra Munirah Mat Daud, Nurul Atika Nabila Jaharudin, Nurul Atika Nabila Jaharudin, Nazrah Ilyana Sulaiman, Nazrah Ilyana Sulaiman, Nor Hafizah Ngajikin, Nor Hafizah Ngajikin

“…The sensor head is formed by bending an unclad fiber optic sensor into a balloon-like structure. The bending radius of the balloon-like bent fiber optic sensor is varied from 1.0 to 2.5 cm. …”
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Navigating the impact of globalization on bank efficiency in China: panacea or Pandora’s Box? by Sufian, Fadzlan, Habibullah, Muzafar Shah

“…The empirical findings suggest that liberalization (restrictions) of the capital account exerts a negative (positive) influence on bank efficiency levels in China.…”
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International capital markets structure, preferences and puzzles: the US-China case by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Donadelli, Michael, Varani, Alessia

“…In this paper, we show that instead a two country-two good model with recursive preferences, international complete markets and correlated long-run innovations can address all five puzzles for a relatively large range of parameter values, specifically in the case of the US and China. Therefore, in contrast to other IBC models, its performance does not rely on any financial market imperfections.…”
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Quality assurance plan for China collection 2.0 aerosol datasets by She, Lu, Xue, Yong, Guang, Jie, He, Xingwei, Li, Chi

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Role of China in Africa : three case studies of Angola, Ethiopia and Zambia by Tootoonchian, Soodabeh, Noohi, Sepideh

“…Therefore, this paper will focus on three examples of China’s development ‘partnerships’: Angola, Ethiopia and Zambia. …”
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The equilibrium real effective exchange rate of China : a NATREX approach by You, Kefei, Sarantis, Nicholas

“…In this paper we examine the determinants of China’s equilibrium real effective exchange rate and investigate the misalignments in the Renminbi. …”
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The value and meaning of temporality and Its relationship to identity in Kunming City, China by Gao, Yun, Temple, Nicholas

“…This chapter highlights the changing relationships between the city and its modes of representation through an examination of the historical transformations of Kunming, a city on the southwest border of China. Our intention is to introduce particular characteristics of urban space in Kunming as the basis for a more detailed examination of the historical differences between Western and Chinese perspectives of temporality in building, which will be explored in a forthcoming book, and how these differences are manifested in the changing social contexts of the city. …”
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Drag analysis of an aircraft wing model and without bird feather like winglet by Hossain, Altab, Rahman, Mohammed Ataur, Iqbal, A.K.M. Parvez, Ariffin, Muhidin, M., Mazian

“…The model of the rectangular wing with bird feather like winglet has been fabricated using polystyrene before design using CATIA P3 V5R13 software and finally fabricated in wood. …”
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