T his paper investigates the gain of bilateral trade between China and U.S. in manufacturing sectors when both countries play a role in asymmetric (biased) growth of  international trade. Our model includes a special case of Biased Growth Theory in international trade. We collected labor productivity, export and import data by using classification of manufacturing industries, for U.S...

We report further evidence for N(1900)P13 , a 2-star resonance which requires the symmetric three-quark model to reproduce its mass and quantum numbers. In diquark-quark models, the existence of the state is not expected. The evidence for the state is derived from an analysis of a large variety of photoand pion-induced reactions, in particular from the new CLAS measurements of double polarizati...

Lindsey and Brown (2002) proposed an intriguing explanation for the existence and geographical distribution of languages that lack a distinct word for the color blue. Many such languages include blue in a color term that also encompasses green, yielding a green-or-blue (‘‘grue’’) term. Others include blue in a color term that also encompasses dark colors such as black, yielding a black-or-blue ...

-The formation ofhydroxy-Al-interlayered montmorillonite was affected by complexing organic acids. Montmorillonite (<2.0 t~m) was aged for three months at an initial pH of 5.0 or 6.0 in A1C13 solutions containing citric or tannic acid at organic acid/A1 molar ratios from 0 to 1.0. The A1/clay ratio in the system was 900 meq AP+/100 g of montmorillonite. Ion-exchange experiments revealed that or...

Crime on the railways in Britain is an increasing concern for train operating companies, the British Transport Police (BTP), passengers, and local residents. Significantly, rail users consistently perceive their risks from crime to be considerably higher than official crime statistics indicate, having a negative affect on levels of patronage. This article presents an exploratory study of passen...

This paper focuses on the factors which influence collaborative learning in distance education. Distance education has been around for many years and the use of collaborative learning techniques in distance education is becoming increasingly popular. Several studies have demonstrated the superiority of collaborative learning over traditional modes of learning and it has been identified as a pot...

Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 199, “The Paleogene Equatorial Transect” (Sites 1215 through 1222), was designed to study the evolution of the equatorial Pacific current and wind system as the Earth went from maximum Cenozoic warmth to initial Antarctic glaciations. The drilling program was primarily devoted to a transect along 56to 57-Ma crust, old enough to capture the Paleocene/ Eocene boun...