The Southern California Twin Register was initiated in 1984 at the University of Southern California, and continues to grow. This paper provides an update of the register since it was described in the 2002 special issue of this journal. The register has expanded considerably in the past four...

The carbon based microwave absorption materials are considered as new generation absorbers owing to their lightweight, thin-thickness and good electronic conductivity. The challenge to develop excellent carbon absorbers is to decrease its skin effect and improve its impedance matching behavior....

As China has rapidly emerged as one of the world’s largest investors abroad, there has been a hectic debate in the literature on whether its emergence as a major foreign investor may have undermined the importance of western industrialised economies, including those in the Organisation for...