For the case of the UK there are currently three ways of obtaining energy from sea areas, namely from wind, tides and waves. A methodology was developed to determine the future size of the offshore renewable industry based on the concept of employment factor, or the number of people required to...

To reduce the curse of dimensionality arising from nonparametric estimation procedures for multiple nonparametric regression, in this paper we suggest a simulation-based two-stage estimation. We first introduce a simulation-based method to decompose the multiple nonparametric regression into two...

Objective To examine the effect of supplemental health insurance for prescription drug coverage on health care utilization as measured by the number of visits to physicians in a setting with incomplete public insurance coverage.Methods A latent-class modeling approach is used to capture the...

Chen Y. P., Liu M. and Zhang Q. Development of financial intermediation and the dynamics of urban-rural disparity in China, 1978-1998, Regional Studies. This paper focuses on the impacts of financial intermediation development on the urban-rural income disparity (URID) in China. Using a...

We develop a non-linear Markov error correction approach to examine the general co-integration relation between the H- and A-prices of cross-listed Chinese stock issuers across the period January 1999 to March 2009. We unravel three important dimensions of this relation. These pertain to (i) the...

The dominant development strategy chosen by political elites of late industrializing world after WW II was import-substituting industrialization (ISI) strategy, which aimed at catching up with the world technical frontier by rapid industrialization. The nature of the colonial legacies and the...

Non-catalytic direct conversion of liquid natural gas (LNG) to syngas and ethylene using pulse discharge technology was firstly carried out under the temperature of liquid nitrogen and atmospheric pressure. The liquefaction of natural gas increased tremendously the collision frequency between...

In the present study, an integrated planning model was developed to find economically/environmentally optimized paths toward future smart electricity systems with high level penetration of intermittent renewable energy and new controllable electric devices at the supply and demand sides...

The main products of lignin degradation are phenolic compounds. It is meaningful to study the processes by which cyclohexane is produced from phenolic compounds via hydrodeoxygenation (HDO), because it could be used as fuel additives, chemical feedstock and solvent. In this work, support...