Quasi-Classical Semantics for Expressive Description Logics ⋆ (2010)
Xiaowang Zhang, Guilin Qi, Yue Ma, Zuoquan Lin
Abstract. Inconsistency handling in expressive description logics is an important problem because inconsistency may naturally occur in an open world. In this paper, we first present the...
Yang, Jiyong, Luo, Yanping, Li, Jingyun, Ma, Yue, Hu, Changqin, Jin, Shaohong, ...
Background The categories of recognized transferable quinolone resistance determinants have been increasing sharply. The rapid horizontal transfer of these quinolone resistance genes has caused...
Paraconsistent Query Answering Over DL-Lite Ontologies (2009)
Liping Zhou, Houkuan Huang, Guilin Qi, Yue Ma, Zhisheng Huang, Youli Qu
Consistent query answering over description logic-based ontologies is an important topic in ontology engineering as it can provide meaningful answers to queries posed over inconsistent ontologies....
Paraconsistent Reasoning for Expressive and Tractable Description Logics ⋆ (2009)
Yue Ma, Pascal Hitzler, Zuoquan Lin
Abstract. Four-valued description logic has been proposed to reason with description logic based inconsistent knowledge bases, mainly ALC. This approach has a distinct advantage that it can be...
Virtual prototyping AADL architectures in a polychronous model of computation ∗ (2009)
Yue Ma, Jean-pierre Talpin, Thierry Gautier
While synchrony and asynchrony are two distinct concepts of concurrency theory, effective and formally defined embedded system design methodologies usually mix the best from both synchronous and...
Ontologies étendues pour l'annotation sé́mantique (2009)
Ma, Yue, Audibert, Laurent, Nazarenko, Adeline
This article tries to formalize the process of semantically annotating a text with respect to an ontology. The semantic annotation puts fragments of a text in correspondence with the elements of an...
Ontologies étendues pour l'annotation sé́mantique (2009)
Ma, Yue, Audibert, Laurent, Nazarenko, Adeline
This article tries to formalize the process of semantically annotating a text with respect to an ontology. The semantic annotation puts fragments of a text in correspondence with the elements of an...
Characterization of Salmonella enterica isolates from infants and toddlers in Wuhan, China (2009)
Cui, Shenghui, Li, Jingyun, Sun, Ziyong, Hu, Changqin, Jin, Shaohong, Li, Fengqin, ...
Background Extended-spectrum cephalosporins and fluoroquinolones are important antimicrobials for treating invasive salmonellosis, and emerging resistance to these antimicrobials is of paramount...
Cui, Shenghui, Li, Jingyun, Hu, Changqin, Jin, Shaohong, Li, Fengqin, Guo, Yunchang, ...
Objectives The objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonization in livestock and related workers in four Chinese provinces...
Détection des contradictions dans les annotations sémantiques (2009)
L'annotation sémantique a pour objectif d'apporter au texte une représentation explicite de son interprétation sémantique. Dans un précédent article, nous avons proposé d'étendre les...
An Anytime Algorithm for Computing Inconsistency Measurement (2009)
Ma, Yue, Qi, Guilin, Xiao, Guohui, Hitzler, Pascal, Lin, Zuoquan
Measuring inconsistency degrees of inconsistent knowledge bases is an important problem as it provides context information for facilitating inconsistency handling. Many methods have been proposed to...
Paraconsistent reasoning for OWL 2 (2009)
A four-valued description logic has been proposed to reason with description logic based inconsistent knowledge bases. This approach has a distinct advantage that it can be implemented by invoking...
Quasi-Classical Semantics for Expressive Description Logics (2009)
Zhang, Xiaowang, Qi, Guilin, Ma, Yue, Lin, Zuoquan
Inconsistency handling in expressive description logics is an important problem because inconsistency may naturally occur in an open world. In this paper, we first present the quasi-classical...
Measuring Inconsistency in DL-Lite Ontologies (2009)
Zhou, Liping, Huang, Houkuan, Qi, Guilin, Ma, Yue, Huang, Zhisheng, Qu, Youli
Measuring Inconsistency in ontologies is an important topic in ontology engineering as it can provide extra information for dealing with inconsistency. Many approaches have been proposed to deal with...
Détection des contradictions dans les annotations sémantiques (2009)
L'annotation sémantique a pour objectif d'apporter au texte une représentation explicite de son interprétation sémantique. Dans un précédent article, nous avons proposé d'étendre les...
An Anytime Algorithm for Computing Inconsistency Measurement (2009)
Ma, Yue, Qi, Guilin, Xiao, Guohui, Hitzler, Pascal, Lin, Zuoquan
Measuring inconsistency degrees of inconsistent knowledge bases is an important problem as it provides context information for facilitating inconsistency handling. Many methods have been proposed to...
Paraconsistent reasoning for OWL 2 (2009)
A four-valued description logic has been proposed to reason with description logic based inconsistent knowledge bases. This approach has a distinct advantage that it can be implemented by invoking...
Quasi-Classical Semantics for Expressive Description Logics (2009)
Zhang, Xiaowang, Qi, Guilin, Ma, Yue, Lin, Zuoquan
Inconsistency handling in expressive description logics is an important problem because inconsistency may naturally occur in an open world. In this paper, we first present the quasi-classical...
Measuring Inconsistency in DL-Lite Ontologies (2009)
Zhou, Liping, Huang, Houkuan, Qi, Guilin, Ma, Yue, Huang, Zhisheng, Qu, Youli
Measuring Inconsistency in ontologies is an important topic in ontology engineering as it can provide extra information for dealing with inconsistency. Many approaches have been proposed to deal with...
Background: Resistin level is high in patients with severe acute pancreatitis (SAP), and resistin is expected to be a new marker for evaluating the severity of acute pancreatitis.Objective: To...
Détection des contradictions dans les annotations sémantiques (2009)
L'annotation sémantique a pour objectif d'apporter au texte une représentation explicite de son interprétation sémantique. Dans un précédent article, nous avons proposé d'étendre les...
An Anytime Algorithm for Computing Inconsistency Measurement (2009)
Ma, Yue, Qi, Guilin, Xiao, Guohui, Hitzler, Pascal, Lin, Zuoquan
Measuring inconsistency degrees of inconsistent knowledge bases is an important problem as it provides context information for facilitating inconsistency handling. Many methods have been proposed to...
Paraconsistent reasoning for OWL 2 (2009)
A four-valued description logic has been proposed to reason with description logic based inconsistent knowledge bases. This approach has a distinct advantage that it can be implemented by invoking...
Quasi-Classical Semantics for Expressive Description Logics (2009)
Zhang, Xiaowang, Qi, Guilin, Ma, Yue, Lin, Zuoquan
Inconsistency handling in expressive description logics is an important problem because inconsistency may naturally occur in an open world. In this paper, we first present the quasi-classical...
Measuring Inconsistency in DL-Lite Ontologies (2009)
Zhou, Liping, Huang, Houkuan, Qi, Guilin, Ma, Yue, Huang, Zhisheng, Qu, Youli
Measuring Inconsistency in ontologies is an important topic in ontology engineering as it can provide extra information for dealing with inconsistency. Many approaches have been proposed to deal with...
Ontologies étendues pour l'annotation sé́mantique (2009)
Ma, Yue, Audibert, Laurent, Nazarenko, Adeline
This article tries to formalize the process of semantically annotating a text with respect to an ontology. The semantic annotation puts fragments of a text in correspondence with the elements of an...
Détection des contradictions dans les annotations sémantiques (2009)
L'annotation sémantique a pour objectif d'apporter au texte une représentation explicite de son interprétation sémantique. Dans un précédent article, nous avons proposé d'étendre les...
An Anytime Algorithm for Computing Inconsistency Measurement (2009)
Ma, Yue, Qi, Guilin, Xiao, Guohui, Hitzler, Pascal, Lin, Zuoquan
Measuring inconsistency degrees of inconsistent knowledge bases is an important problem as it provides context information for facilitating inconsistency handling. Many methods have been proposed to...
Paraconsistent reasoning for OWL 2 (2009)
A four-valued description logic has been proposed to reason with description logic based inconsistent knowledge bases. This approach has a distinct advantage that it can be implemented by invoking...
Quasi-Classical Semantics for Expressive Description Logics (2009)
Zhang, Xiaowang, Qi, Guilin, Ma, Yue, Lin, Zuoquan
Inconsistency handling in expressive description logics is an important problem because inconsistency may naturally occur in an open world. In this paper, we first present the quasi-classical...
Measuring Inconsistency in DL-Lite Ontologies (2009)
Zhou, Liping, Huang, Houkuan, Qi, Guilin, Ma, Yue, Huang, Zhisheng, Qu, Youli
Measuring Inconsistency in ontologies is an important topic in ontology engineering as it can provide extra information for dealing with inconsistency. Many approaches have been proposed to deal with...
Ontologies étendues pour l'annotation sé́mantique (2009)
Ma, Yue, Audibert, Laurent, Nazarenko, Adeline
This article tries to formalize the process of semantically annotating a text with respect to an ontology. The semantic annotation puts fragments of a text in correspondence with the elements of an...
Wage-Hours Contracts, Overtime Working and Premium Pay (2008)
This paper offers a contract-based theory to explain the determination of standard hours, overtime hours and overtime premium pay. We expand on the wage contract literature that emphasises the role...
Self-Sustained Collective Oscillation Generated in an Array of Non-Oscillatory Cells (2008)
Oscillations represent a ubiquitous phenomenon in biological systems. The conventional models of biological periodic oscillations are usually proposed as interconnecting transcriptional feedback...
Price Convergence and Market Integration in China (2008)
Fan, Simon C., Ma, Yue, Wei, Xiangdong
Whether China has successfully transformed from a formally centrally-controlled economy to a market economy is an issue of immense interest and considerable debate. The current study complements the...
A New Model for Global Multiple Alignment of Whole Genome Sequences (2008)
We propose a new anchor-based model for global multiple alignment of whole genome sequences. The model includes three main phases. Firstly, an enhanced suffix array method is employed to find...
An Algorithm for Computing Inconsistency Measurement by Paraconsistent Semantics ⋆ (2008)
Yue Ma, Guilin Qi, Pascal Hitzler, Zuoquan Lin
Abstract. Measuring inconsistency in knowledgebases has been recognized as an important problem in many research areas. Most of approaches proposed to measure inconsistency are based on...
Four-Valued Semantics for Default Logic ⋆ (2008)
Abstract. Reiter’s default logic suffers the triviality, that is, a single contradiction in the premise of a default theory leads to the only trivial extension which everything follows from. In...
Virtual prototyping AADL architectures in a polychronous model of computation (2008)
Ma, Yue, Talpin, Jean-Pierre, Gautier, Thierry
While synchrony and asynchrony are two distinct concepts of concurrency theory, effective and formally defined embedded system design methodologies usually mix the best from both synchronous and...
Virtual prototyping AADL architectures in a polychronous model of computation (2008)
Ma, Yue, Talpin, Jean-Pierre, Gautier, Thierry
While synchrony and asynchrony are two distinct concepts of concurrency theory, effective and formally defined embedded system design methodologies usually mix the best from both synchronous and...
Abstract — In this paper, chaos in a current-mode controlled boost converter is studied. Firstly, the existence of chaos is proven theoretically in this system. The proof consists of showing that...
A Subtle Link in Switched Dynamical Systems: Saddle-Node Bifurcation Meets Border Collision (2008)
Yue Ma, Chi K. Tse, Takuji Kousaka, Hiroshi Kawakami
Abstract — Switched dynamical systems are known to exhibit border collision, in which a particular operation is terminated and a new operation is assumed as one or more parameters are varied. In...
Yue Ma, Chi K. Tse, Senior Member, Takuji Kousaka, Hiroshi Kawakami
Abstract—Switched dynamical systems are known to exhibit border collision, in which a particular operation is terminated and a new operation is assumed as one or more parameters are varied. In this...
Paraconsistent Resolution for Four-valued Description Logics ⋆ (2008)
Yue Ma, Pascal Hitzler, Zuoquan Lin
Abstract. In this paper, we propose an approach to translating any ALC ontology (possible inconsistent) into a logically consistent set of disjunctive datalog rules. We achieve this in two steps:...
An Algorithm for Computing Inconsistency Measurement by Paraconsistent Semantics ⋆ (2008)
Yue Ma, Guilin Qi, Pascal Hitzler, Zuoquan Lin
Abstract. Measuring inconsistency in knowledge bases has been recognized as an important problem in many research areas. Most of approaches proposed for measuring inconsistency are based on...
Virtual prototyping AADL architectures in a polychronous model of computation (2008)
Ma, Yue, Talpin, Jean-Pierre, Gautier, Thierry
While synchrony and asynchrony are two distinct concepts of concurrency theory, effective and formally defined embedded system design methodologies usually mix the best from both synchronous and...
Virtual prototyping AADL architectures in a polychronous model of computation (2008)
Ma, Yue, Talpin, Jean-Pierre, Gautier, Thierry
While synchrony and asynchrony are two distinct concepts of concurrency theory, effective and formally defined embedded system design methodologies usually mix the best from both synchronous and...
Wages, Hours and Human Capital Over the Life Cycle (2008)
We investigate wage-hours contracts within a four-period rent sharing model that incorporates asymmetric information. Distinctions are made among (a) an investment period, (b) a period in which the...
Virtual prototyping AADL architectures in a polychronous model of computation (2008)
Ma, Yue, Talpin, Jean-Pierre, Gautier, Thierry
While synchrony and asynchrony are two distinct concepts of concurrency theory, effective and formally defined embedded system design methodologies usually mix the best from both synchronous and...
Virtual prototyping AADL architectures in a polychronous model of computation (2008)
Ma, Yue, Talpin, Jean-Pierre, Gautier, Thierry
While synchrony and asynchrony are two distinct concepts of concurrency theory, effective and formally defined embedded system design methodologies usually mix the best from both synchronous and...
Xiaoming Li, Yue Ma, Dr Yue Ma
by
* The authors are grateful for useful comments from an anonymous referee, Professors (2007)
Yue Ma, Dr Yue Ma, Anthony Clunies Ross, James H Love, Robert Hine, David Watkins, ...
China, and to test empirically various country-specific and industry-specific hypotheses concerning the determinants of vertical and horizonal intra-industry trade between China and her major trading...
Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is characterized by a minority of Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg (HRS) cells in a polymorphous cellular background. The presence of these very abundant inflammatory cells suggest...
Yue Ma, Guilin Qi, Pascal Hitzler, Zuoquan Lin
Abstract. In this paper, we present an approach for measuring inconsistency in a knowledge base. We first define the degree of inconsistency using a four-valued semantics for the description logic...
Yue Ma, Guilin Qi, Pascal Hitzler, Zuoquan Lin
Abstract. In this paper, we propose an approach for measuring inconsistency in inconsistent ontologies. We first define the degree of inconsistency of an inconsistent ontology using a four-valued...
Z.: Algorithms for paraconsistent reasoning with OWL (2007)
Yue Ma, Pascal Hitzler, Zuoquan Lin
Abstract. In an open, constantly changing and collaborative environment like the forthcoming Semantic Web, it is reasonable to expect that knowledge sources will contain noise and inaccuracies....
Yue Ma, Guilin Qi, Pascal Hitzler, Zuoquan Lin
Abstract. In this paper, we present an approach for measuring inconsistency in a knowledge base. We first define the degree of inconsistency using a four-valued semantics for the description logic...
Yue Ma, Guilin Qi, Pascal Hitzler, Zuoquan Lin
Abstract. In this paper, we propose an approach for measuring inconsistency in inconsistent ontologies. We first define the degree of inconsistency of an inconsistent ontology using a four-valued...
Cataloging a photographic album and presenting it on the web : Chinese portraits and views / (2006)
Ma, Yue., Ryerson University., George Eastman House.
"Based on the research of a Chinese photographic album in the George Eastman House (GEH) collections...[this] project involves cataloging the album using The Museum System (TMS) and presenting it...
Tunable polarizability stationary phase / (2006)
Thesis (M.S.)--University of Rhode Island, 2006.
Thin, thinner, thinnest: an evolutionary vision of crystalline silicon technology (2006)
Beaucarne, Guy ; JFA; CORA, Agostinelli, Guido, Carnel, Lodewijk; U0043825 ;, Choulat, Patrick, Dekkers, Harold, Depauw, Valérie; U0047188 ;, ...
Z.: Inferring with inconsistent OWL DL ontology: A multi-valued logic approach (2006)
Yue Ma, Zuoquan Lin, Zhangang Lin
Abstract. Web ontology language OWL DL has two-valued model theory semantics so that ontologies expressed by it become trivial when contradictions occur. Based on classical description logic SHOIN...
Paraconsistent Reasoning with OWL – Algorithms and the ParOWL (2006)
Yue Ma, Pascal Hitzler, Zuoquan Lin
Abstract. In an open, constantly changing and collaborative environment like the forthcoming Semantic Web, it is reasonable to expect that knowledge sources will contain noise and inaccuracies....
GENERAL CONSIDERATION FOR MODELING AND BIFURCATION ANALYSIS OF SWITCHED DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS (2005)
Yue Ma, Hiroshi Kawakami, Chi K. Tse
In much of the previous study of switched dynamical systems, it has been assumed that switching occurs at a common border between two regions in the same space as the system trajectory crosses the...
A data mining approach for production cost estimation in a product data management system / (2005)
"Supervisor, Dr. Chen Chun-Hsien."
Emotion-Related Regulation: An Emerging Construct (2004)
Eisenberg, Nancy., Champion, Claire., Ma, Yue.
Merrill-Palmer Quarterly - Volume 50, Number 3, July 2004
NULL
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2004.
After its demise in 1976, the Cultural Revolution has been conventionally portrayed as an era of political persecution, a "cultural desert," an ascetic regime, and a decade of total chaos. Contested...
Yue Ma, Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang, Margherita Zanasi, Avron Boretz, Qing Zhang, Ban Wang
version of the following dissertation:
Bifurcation analysis of switched dynamical systems with periodically moving borders (2004)
Yue Ma, Hiroshi Kawakami, Chi. K Tse
This paper describes a method for analyzing the bifurcation phenomena in switched dynamical systems whose switching borders are varying periodically with time. The type of systems under study covers...
In this letter, chaos in a current-mode controlled boost converter is studied. Firstly, the existence of chaos is proven theoretically in this system. The proof consists of showing that the dynamics...
Analysis of bifurcation in switched dynamical systems with periodically moving borders (2004)
This paper describes a global method for analyzing the bifurcation phenomena in switched dynamical systems whose switching borders are varying periodically with time. The type of systems under study...
Bifurcation analysis of switched dynamical systems with periodically moving borders (2004)
Yue Ma, Hiroshi Kawakami, Chi K. Tse, Senior Member
Abstract—This paper describes a method for analyzing the bifurcation phenomena in switched dynamical systems whose switching borders are varying periodically with time. The type of systems under...
Thesis (M.S.)--Bemidji State University, 2003.
High-resolution cryo-scanning electron microscopy of latex film formation / (2002)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Minnesota, 2002.
Multicellular organisms develop from a single cell. The developmental program takes a fertilized egg through cell division, differentiation and morphogensis, to produce the adult. These processes are...
Multicellular organisms develop from a single cell. The developmental program takes a fertilized egg through cell division, differentiation and morphogensis, to produce the adult. These processes are...
The information content of interim report in A-share market of China /--Ma Yue. (2000)
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000.
Yue Ma, James J. Han, Kishor S. Trivedi
Call admission control algorithms that reduce dropped calls in CDMA cellular systems are discussed in this paper. The capacity of a CDMA system is confined by interference of users from both inside...
Composite performance and availability analysis in wireless communications systems / (1999)
Ma, Yue., Duke University. Dept. Of Computer Science.
Typescript.
Reliability analysis for phased-mission systems /--by Yue Ma. (1998)
Ma, Yue., Duke University.--Dept. Of Computer Science.
Typescript.
Flotation of schoenite from Great Salt Lake brines /--by Yue Ma. (1997)
Thesis (M.S.)--Dept. of Metallurgical Engineering, University of Utah, 1997.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - Newark, 1993.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - Newark, 1993.
Estimating Firm Behavior under Rationing: a Panel Data Study of the Chinese Manufacturing Industry
Yue Ma, Shu Kam Lee, Hing Lin Chan
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impacts of rationing on firm behavior. A virtual price approach is adopted to derive the rationed elasticities of variable input demands and output...
Money and price relationship in China
This paper investigates the effectiveness monetary policy by Granger causality tests in the two regimes of inflation and deflation, respectively. The surplus lag rolling estimation is applied to deal...
The Forward Premium Puzzle Revisited
The forward premium is a notoriously poor predictor of exchange rate movements. This failure must reflect deviations from risk neutrality and/or rational expectations. In addition, a mechanism is...
FOREMAN-PECK, JAMES, HALLETT, ANDREW HUGHES, MA, YUE
Simulated optimum tariff policies to achieve plausible government targets show objective reasons for the failure of international trade cooperation during the Slump of 1929 to 1933. For the largest...
This paper examines and compares the costs of noncooperative (i.e., national) fiscal policies in a monetary union, with the costs of assigning monetary policy to price stability and fiscal policy to...
Why Do Firms Pay an Overtime Premium?
We develop a rationale for the payment by firms of a wage premium on marginal, or overtime, weekly hours. We examine wage-hours contracts within the framework of a two-period specific human capital...
Financial Reforms and Regional Investment Conflicts in China: A Game-Theoretic Analysis.
In the transition from a command to a market economy, macroeconomic stabilization poses a grave problem facing the reform governments. A distinct feature of China's economic fluctuations in the...
Policy Measurement for the Dynamic Linear Model with Expectations Variables: A Multiplier Approach.
To estimate the economic policy effects of per unit policy change the conventional policy multipliers, as a measure of policy effects can be easily calculated from the traditional dynamic econometric...
This paper extends a matrix inverse result of M. L. Higgins (1994) and presents a new unified double length regression method to calculate the two-step generalized least squares estimators of two...
The Single Currency and Labour Market Flexibility: A Necessary Partnership?
Hughes Hallett, Andrew J, Ma, Yue, Demertzis, Maria
This paper examines the macroeconomic consequences of rigidities in the European labour markets, and shows that attempts to impose a single monetary regime on economies with different structures can...
Incomplete financial market and the sequence of international trade liberalization
In this paper, an incomplete financial market model was built to illustrate the impacts of the market incompleteness on the benefits of trade liberalization. Particularly, it will focus on the...
Equity Valuation in Mainland China and Hong Kong: The Chinese A-H Share Premium
Zhijun Zhao, Yue Ma, Yuhui Liu
This paper studies the links between fundamental value and market price of the companies listed in both mainland A-share and Hong Kong H-share markets. As the valuation model has been inadequately...
Intrinsic bubbles revisited: evidence from nonlinear cointegration and forecasting
This paper offers strong further empirical evidence to support the intrinsic bubble model of stock prices, developed by Froot and Obstfeld (American Economic Review, 1991), in two ways. First, our...
Wages, Hours and Human Capital over the Live Cycle
We investigate wage-hours contracts within a four-period rent sharing model that incorporates asymmetric information. Distinctions are made among (a) an investment period, (b) a period in which the...
Economic and monetary reunification in Germany has proved to be more expensive than previously thought--and not jus t for the Germans. If a "Mezzogiorno problem" of continuing fiscal transfers to the...
Artis, Michael J, Bladen-Hovell, Robin, Ma, Yue
There is a well-established methodology for measuring the effects of economic policy in a model that is `causal' or backward-looking. In this paper a complementary methodology is described for the...
East Germany, West Germany, and their Mezzogiorno Problem: An Empirical Investigation
Hughes Hallett, Andrew, Ma, Yue
Economic and monetary reunification in Germany has proved to be more expensive than previously thought - and not just for the Germans. If a `Mezzogiorno' problem of continuing fiscal transfers to the...
Unification and the Policy Predicament in Germany
Hughes Hallett, Andrew, Ma, Yue, Mélitz, Jacques
We argue that wages have increased so far ahead of labour productivity in East Germany as to produce a problem that will continue to hound German policy-makers for the next two decades. Despite rapid...
Economic Cooperation within Europe: Lessons from the Monetary Arrangements in the 1990s
Hughes Hallett, Andrew, Ma, Yue
The early 1990s marked a distinction between the EMS as a vehicle for creating monetary stability and the EMS as a vehicle for moving towards monetary union. We model that distinction by contrasting...
J. H. Love, J. Scouller, R. Vickerman, S. Dunlop, J. Fairley, J. N. Marshall, ...
European Competitiveness, K. S. Hughes (Ed), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993. xi+293 pp. £29.95 (hbk). ISBN 0 521 43443 2. Transport and Communications Innovation in Europe, G....
Artis, Michael J, Bladen-Hovell, Robin, Ma, Yue
In this paper, the authors present a methodology for measuring the effects of economic policy where expectations are forward-looking. The methodology is then applied to the National Institute model,...
Hot Money Inflows and Renminbi Revaluation Pressure
Despite a series of revaluations, which started in July 2005, hot money has been sporadically sneaking into China in anticipation of further revaluations of the renminbi. In this paper we build a...
YUE MA, Y. Y. KUEH, RAYMOND C. W. NG
Based on a small, open-economy IS-LM prototype model, this paper examines the sources of macroeconomic instabilities in Hong Kong and Singapore operating under two different currency board...
Bootstrapping statistical inferences of decomposition methods for gender earnings differentials
Applying the standard bootstrapping technique with corrections for heteroskedasticity for a sample of the 1997 Urban Household Survey in China, the present article attempts to test (1) whether the...
A Currency Board Model of Hong Kong
Yue Ma, Guy Meredith, Matthew S. Yiu
The need for a deeper understanding of the operation of Hong Kong's currency board arrangements was highlighted during the Asian financial crisis in 1998. A model-based approach built on hypothetical...
Balance of Payments Surplus and Renminbi Revaluation Pressure
Based on a simple theoretical exchange rate model, this paper shows how persistent balance of payments surpluses build up appreciation pressure on a fixed exchange regime in a partially-open economy...
Zhi-Jun Zhao, Yue Ma, Yak-yeow Kueh, Shu-ki Tsang, Matthew S. Yiu, Shucheng Liu
Since the beginning of 1990s, the credit balance of the banking system in mainland China has experienced a big swing from negative to positive. The balance has continued to expand up to now. It seems...
The Full Convertibility of Renminbi: Sequencing and Influence
Shucheng Liu, Zhijun Zhao, Yue Ma, Matthew S. Yiu, Yak-yeow Kueh, Shu-ki Tsang
This paper examines the issue of achieving full convertibility for the Chinese currency, Renminbi (RMB), and its impact on the economies of both mainland China and Hong Kong. It focuses on the...
Domino Effects Within a Housing Market: The Transmission of House Price Changes Across Quality Tiers
Housing, Homeownership, Ripple effect, Downpayment, Price dynamics, Equity effects, Public housing, Privatization, Domino effect, E32, H30, R21, R31,
Wage-Hours Contracts, Overtime Working and Premium Pay
This paper offers a contract-based theory to explain the determination of standard hours, overtime hours and overtime premium pay. We expand on the wage contract literature that emphasises the role...
Wage-Hours Contracts, Overtime Working and Premium Pay
This paper offers a contract-based theory to explain the determination of standard hours, overtime hours and overtime premium pay. We expand on the wage contract literature that emphasises the role...
Local authority provision versus club provision
The main purpose of this paper is to distinguish clearly between local authorities and clubs and to consider the circumstances in which individual consumers would prefer to have services provided by...
Local authority size in theory and practice
In this paper we develop a model for local authority size that is based on the approach towards local government reform that was used by the UK governments in the 1970s and the 1990s. To do so, we...
Ciprofloxacin-Resistant Salmonella enterica Serotype Typhimurium, China
Cui, Shenghui, Li, Jingyun, Sun, Ziyong, Hu, Changqin, Jin, Shaohong, Guo, Yunchang, ...
We characterized 44 Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium isolates from Tongji Hospital outpatients in Wuhan, China, May 2002–October 2005. All 31 ciprofloxacin-resistant isolates were also...
External Shocks, Balance Sheet Contagion, and Speculative Attack on the Pegged Exchange Rate System
A simple monetary model is built to illustrate that the pegged exchange rate system will collapse under an unstable external environment via the balance sheet contagion and the "boiling frog" effect,...
Corporate governance and firm efficiency: evidence from China's publicly listed firms
This paper applies a two-stage, double bootstrapping data envelope analysis approach to investigate whether and to what extent various distinctive corporate governance practices affect productive...
Wages, Hours and Human Capital over the Live Cycle
In this paper the authors investigate wage-hours contracts within a four-period rent sharing model that incorporates asymmetric information. Distinctions are made among (a) an investment period, (b)...
Wages, Hours and Human Capital Over the Life Cycle
We investigate wage-hours contracts within a four-period rent sharing model that incorporates asymmetric information. Distinctions aremade among (a) an investment period, (b) a period in which the...
Corporate governance and firm efficiency: evidence from China's publicly listed firms
The above article (DOI: 10.1002|mde.1447) was published online in Early View on 29 October 2008. Printing errors were subsequently identified in the article. Page 1: There should be no affiliation...
Sun, Wenjia, Chen, Hongbin, Liu, Yudong, Zhao, Chunjiang, Nichols, Wright W., Chen, Minjun, ...
The prevalence of heterogeneous vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (hVISA) among 1,012 vancomycin-susceptible methicillin (meticillin)-resistant S. aureus isolates collected from 14 cities...
Wages, Hours and Human Capital Over the Life Cycle
We investigate wage-hours contracts within a four-period rent sharing model that incorporates asymmetric information. Distinctions aremade among (a) an investment period, (b) a period in which the...