Choi (2009) offers a useful demonstration that Li and Resnick’s (2003) analysis of the effect of regime type on foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows is vulnerable to the impact of outliers. However, his first remedial method of controlling for outliers with a dummy variable leads to qualitatively the same findings of Li and Resnick. His second remedial method, a robust regression estimator, ...

OBJECTIVE to characterize the profiles of families in the area covered by a Primary Health Center and to identify those in a vulnerable situation. METHOD this is an epidemiological, observational, cross-sectional and quantitative study. 320 home visits were made, defined by a random sample of the areas covered by the Urban Center 1 in the city of São Sebastião, in Brazil's Federal District. A...

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) research has shown that corticospinal excitability is facilitated during the observation of human movement. However, the relationship between corticospinal excitability and participants' visual attention during action observation is rarely considered. Nineteen participants took part in four conditions: (i) a static hand condition, involving observation of...

Studies of foreign direct investment (FDI) distribution in the US is voluminous but such studies on a developing country are rare. We fill the void by analyzing the spatial and temporal variation in FDI among China’s 30 provinces. We believe this is the first study of its kind. Other than some “standard” results, our pooled regression finds that the cumulative FDI has a negative impact on the n...

This paper empirically examines the extent to which the FDI – trade relationship is affected by host-country heterogeneities associated with the development (income) and market servicing roles of Japanese FDI host countries. Using the counts and values of Japanese aggregate FDI and trade flows into more than 100 geographically and developmentally diverse countries, it is shown that Japanese FDI...

In this paper we re-examine the regional determinants of FDI in China using both total FDI flows, and FDI flows disaggregated by entry mode. Building on both the FDI location and entry mode choice literatures, we argue for the existence of mode-specific location advantages, and test for their existence. We first specify and estimate a location model of aggregate FDI flows to Chinese regions. Us...

In a global context foreign direct investment (FDI) and migration substitute one another in the matching process between workers and firms. However, as labor flows can lead to the formation of business networks, migration can actually facilitate FDI in the long-run. We first present a stylized model for a small open economy illustrating these offsetting effects. We then use U.S. data on bilater...

This paper considers the best sensor configuration and fault accommodation problem for inertial navigation systems which use seven inertial sensors such as gyroscopes and accelerometers. We prove that when six inertial sensors are used, the isolation of a double fault cannot be achieved for some combinations of fault magnitudes, whereas when seven inertial sensors are used, the isolation of any...

Foreign direct investment has contributed significantly to Chinese economic development. Yet the geographic distribution of FDI is quite uneven. Compared with the inward FDI in the eastern and mid regions of China, the Western region has attracted less FDI. FDI is fuelling much of the rapid economic leap of the developed regions of China and the significant inequity grows further. There are man...

This paper focuses on the development of a suitable Fault Detection and Isolation (FDI) strategy for application to a system of inter-connected and distributed systems, as a basis for a fault-tolerant Network Control System (NCS) problem. The work follows a recent study showing that a hierarchical decentralized control system architecture may be suitable for fault-tolerant control (FTC) of a ne...