Globalization is a pervasive influence on industrialization in the developing world. As the embodiment of technological progress and more open markets, it offers huge productive benefits to developing countries. However, its effects are very uneven. It is driving a growing wedge between the (relatively few) successful countries and the (large mass of) others. The wedge is not a temporary one, a...

Large deformation finite element analysis has been carried out to investigate the stress-strain fields ahead of a growing crack for compact tension (a/W=0.5) and three-point bend (a/W=0.1 and 0.5) specimens under plane stress condition. The crack growth is controlled by the experimental J-integral resistance curves measured by Sun et al. The results indicate that the distributions of opening st...

We prove a number of results on the geometric complexity of special Lagrangian (SLG) T -cones in C. Every SLG T -cone has a fundamental integer invariant, its spectral curve genus. We prove that the spectral curve genus of an SLG T -cone gives a lower bound for its geometric complexity, i.e. the area, the stability index and the Legendrian index of any SLG T -cone are all bounded below by expli...