This article compares the systems of maintenance on or after divorce in Russia and China. Admittedly, we think that a recent amendment to the Marriage Law of China 2001 is significant in solving the practical problem of most divorced women who have no home in which to live. However, through this...

Kim Wheeler and his colleagues discuss how specific project initiatives have been designed and implemented to provide education on HIV/AIDS to Imams in Urumqi city. They argue that these initiatives have built Imams' capacity to provide counselling and pastoral support to individuals affected by...

Using China's 2000 census data, this paper conducts population projection under different fertility scenarios to gauge the likely trends in China's future population change. The range of fertility assumptions captures the uncertainty of current fertility estimates as well as the likely trends...

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Interaction effects have been consistently found important in explaining the variation in outcomes in many scientific research fields. Yet, in practice, variable selection including interactions is complicated due to the limited sample size, conflicting philosophies regarding model...

We assess whether a group of eight Asia-Pacific securitized real estate markets display similar volatility trend over the past 15 years, 1995–2009, using an econometric model that incorporates common volatility effects across the sample markets. The empirical results indicate the presence of...

The intraday pattern, long memory, and multifractal nature of the intertrade durations, which are defined as the waiting times between two consecutive transactions, are investigated based upon the limit order book data and order flows of 23 liquid Chinese stocks listed on the Shenzhen Stock...

In this paper, we discuss the portfolio selection problem with transaction costs under the assumption that there exist admissible errors on expected returns and risks of assets. We propose a new admissible efficient portfolio selection model and design an improved particle swarm optimization...