Book review: Taiwan’s democracy challenged: the Chen Shui-bian years edited by Yun-han Chu, Larry Diamond and Kharis Templeman

In Taiwan’s Democracy Challenged: The Chen Shui-bian Years, editors Yun-han Chu, Larry Diamond and Kharis Templeman provide a reassessment of Taiwan’s political landscape between 2000 and 2008: the years in which Chen Shui-bian, Taiwan’s first non-Kuomintang president, was in office. This new systematic, impartial and evidence-based evaluation of Chen’s presidency is a must-read for students and scholars researching contemporary Taiwanese politics, finds M. Bob Kao

The Analytics of New Keynesian Phillips Curves

This paper introduces the reader into the apparatus behind the popularNew Keynesian Phillips (NKPC) curve. It derives several log-linear versionsof this curve and recursive formulations of the Calvo-Yun price staggeringmodel that is behind this curve. These formulations can be used for higher-orderapproximations of the NKPC or for implementations that use othernon-linear solution techniques, as, e.g., projection methods.inflation, New Keynesian Phillips curve, projection methods

Comment on "Single-mode excited entangled coherent states"

In Xu and Kuang (\textit{J. Phys. A: Math. Gen.} 39 (2006) L191), the authors claim that, for single-mode excited entangled coherent states $| \Psi_{\pm}(\alpha,m)>$, \textquotedblleft the photon excitations lead to the decrease of the concurrence in the strong field regime of $| \alpha | ^{2}$ and the concurrence tends to zero when $| \alpha | ^{2}\to \infty$". This is wrong.Comment: 4 apges, 2 figures, submitted to JPA 15 April 200