Effects of hydrodynamics on soot formation in laminar opposed-jet diffusion flames

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Hydrodynamic suppression of soot emissions in laminar diffusion flames

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"The Provinces Elect Governments, Bangkok Overthrows Them": Urbanity, Class and Post-democracy in Thailand

Urban social movements are often associated with what are considered 'progressive' causes and most activists involved in such movements are inclined to describe themselves in such terms. The Thai coup of September 2006 poses problems for any such easy identification. Although executed by the military, on behalf of royalist interests, the coup was supported by an array of primarily Bangkok-based and middle-class groups, many of them associated with organisations such as NGOs and state enterprise unions. Although some of these groups claimed anti-neo-liberal political orientations, their support for the coup effectively placed them on the side of forces opposed to quasi-Keynesian policies and in favour of specific forms of neo-liberalism-at least for Thai villagers. This paper explores this development by focusing on the Bangkok/up-country and urban/rural divisions in Thai politics, which, although socially constructed, have taken on political substance, in part because of their grounding in regionally differentiated class structures.

The world price of exchange risk in the Pacific Basin equity markets

This paper investigates whether the foreign exchange risk is priced in the Pacific Basin equity markets. The test was performed in the conditional version which allows the world prices of market risk and exchange risk to vary over time. Being parsimonious, a principal component analysis is taken on these Pacific Basin interest rates to extract the common exchange rate factors. The results show that the international asset pricing model with exchange risk premia is better than the international asset pricing model without exchange risk premia to describe the Pacific Basin stock returns. This implies the world prices of exchange risk are present in the Pacific Basin equity markets.