Western Political science cannot adequately address China’s development in the twenty-first century. The inadequacy is due to a general neglect of historical methods and an obsession with progressive views discipline. As result, study political culture torn away from Chinese history loses itself become another version modernization thesis. This article calls for application politics approach po...

Humanities scholars increasingly rely on digital archives for their research instead of time-consuming visits to physical archives. This shift in research method has the hidden cost of working with digitally processed historical documents: how much trust can a scholar place in noisy representations of source texts? In a series of interviews with historians about their use of digital archives, w...

This paper proposes a procedure for using a GARCH or exponentially weighted moving average model in conjunction with historical simulation when computing value at risk. It involves adjusting historical data on each market variable to reflect the difference between the historical volatility of the market variable and its current volatility. We compare the approach using nine years of daily data ...

This work presents an approach for the preventive conservation of historical constructions by means Historical Building Information Modelling (HBIM) strategies. To this end, methodology exploits latest advances in inspection protocols, digitalization tools -by novel back-pack mapping systems- as well wireless monitoring networks. All information is integrated HBIM environment using ad-hoc famil...

This paper examines the effects of strategic alliances on non-financial firms’ bank loan financing. We construct several measures to capture firms’ alliance activities using the frequency of alliance activities, the prominence of the alliance partner and the relative networking position in the overall alliance network. We find that firms with active alliance involvement experience a lower cost ...

This paper proposes a novel method for document enhancement. The method is based on the combination of two state-of-the-art filters through the construction of a mask. The mask is applied to a TV (Total Variation) regularized image where background noise has been reduced. The masked image is then filtered by NLmeans (Non Local Means) which reduces the noise in the text areas located by the mask...