Can Performance of Indigenous Factors Influence Growth and Globalisation?"

This paper employs a total of thirty four openness factors and indigenous factors to construct two indicators for 62 world economies for the period 1998-2002. While most globalization studies concentrated on openness factors, regression estimates and simulation studies show that sound performance in indigenous factors are crucial to an economy’s growth and globalization. Empirical evidence shows that an optimal performance in indigenous factors can be identified, and that successful globalized economies are equipped with strong performance in their indigenous factors.Globalization; indigenous factors; openess; world economies

A Web-based flood forecasting system for Shuangpai region

Author name used in this publication: K. W. ChauAuthor name used in this publication: Chun-Tian Cheng2005-2006 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journalAccepted ManuscriptPublishe

Comparison of several flood forecasting models in Yangtze River

Author name used in this publication: K. W. Chau2005-2006 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journalAccepted ManuscriptPublishe

Predicting monthly streamflow using data-driven models coupled with data-preprocessing techniques

Author name used in this publication: K. W. Chau2009-2010 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journalAccepted ManuscriptPublishe

Suppression of pulse splitting in two-core optical fibers with Kerr nonlinearity

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Switching of ultrashort pulses in nonlinear high-birefringence two-core optical fibers

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River stage prediction based on a distributed support vector regression

Author name used in this publication: K. W. Chau2008-2009 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journalAccepted ManuscriptPublishe

Variability and uncertainty in empirical ground-motion prediction for probabilistic hazard and risk analyses

© The Author(s) 2015.The terms aleatory variability and epistemic uncertainty mean different things to people who routinely use them within the fields of seismic hazard and risk analysis. This state is not helped by the repetition of loosely framed generic definitions that actually inaccurate. The present paper takes a closer look at the components of total uncertainty that contribute to ground-motion modelling in hazard and risk applications. The sources and nature of uncertainty are discussed and it is shown that the common approach to deciding what should be included within hazard and risk integrals and what should be pushed into logic tree formulations warrants reconsideration. In addition, it is shown that current approaches to the generation of random fields of ground motions for spatial risk analyses are incorrect and a more appropriate framework is presented

Enhanced photocatalytic activity of Ce??-TiO?for 2-mercaptobenzothiazole degradation in aqueous suspension for odour control

Author name used in this publication: F. B. LiAuthor name used in this publication: X. Z. Li2004-2005 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journalAccepted ManuscriptPublishe

Modulation instabilities in birefringent two-core optical fibers

Previous studies of the modulation instability (MI) of continuous waves (CWs) in a two-core fibre (TCF) did not consider effects caused by co-propagation of the two polarized modes in a TCF that possesses birefringence, such as cross-phase modulation (XPM), polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) and polarization-dependent coupling (PDC) between the cores. This paper reports an analysis of these effects on the MI by considering a linear-birefringence TCF and a circular-birefringence TCF, which feature different XPM coefficients. The analysis focuses on the MI of the asymmetric CW states in the TCFs, which have no counterparts in single-core fibres. We find that the asymmetric CW state exists when its total power exceeds a threshold (minimum) value, which is sensitive to the value of the XPM coefficient. We consider, in particular, a class of asymmetric CW states that admit analytical solutions. In the anomalous dispersion regime, without taking the PMD and PDC into account, the MI gain spectra of the birefringent TCF, if scaled by the threshold power, are almost identical to those of the zero-birefringence TCF. However, in the normal dispersion regime, the power-scaled MI gain spectra of the birefringent TCFs are distinctly different from their zero-birefringence counterparts, and the difference is particularly significant for the circular-birefringence TCF, which takes a larger XPM coefficient. On the other hand, the PMD and PDC only exert weak effects on the MI gain spectra. We also simulate the nonlinear evolution of the MI of the CW inputs in the TCFs and obtain good agreement with the analytical solutions.postprin