Précis: Effective utilization of comparative advantage as a result of cooperation between Guangdong Province and Hong Kong has supported the economic prosperity of both in recent years. Other Chinese coastal provinces, however, are far from tapping their potentials in this respect, especially...

This paper shows that the Zero-Information-Limit-Condition (ZILC) formulated by Nelson and Startz (2006) holds in the GARCH (1,1) model. As a result, the GARCH estimate tends to have too small a standard error relative to the true one when the ARCH parameter is small, even when sample size...

A new scheme of parameter perturbation is used to suppress the stable spiral waves, which generated in a class of excitable media. An appropriated parameter of the investigated model is modulated by a weak chaotic signal from the emanative Rőssler chaotic system. Therefore, the dynamics of the...

The idea of stealing cycles has been hyped for some years, boasting unlimited potential by tapping the computational power of millions of under utilized PCs connected to the Internet. Despite a few spectacular success stories (e.g. SETI@HOME), cycle-stealing is today not a widely used...

Different sleep stages are associated with distinct dynamical patterns in EEG signals. In this article, we explored the relationship between the sleep architecture and fractal dimension (FD) of sleep EEG. In particular, we applied the FD analysis to the sleep EEG of patients with obstructive...