We test for integration of financial markets in China during 1920-1933 using a new dataset domestic exchange rates. Our data concerns tael-denominated telegraphic transfers between Shanghai and nine other cities. find that Chinese markets, as measured by the efficiency silver-point arbitrage, were highly integrated among major commercial hubs north central China, but there was lower level more ...

Integration of complex socio-technical networks is the goal and challenge for today’s organization. Surprisingly, such a central term ‘integration’ is highly ambiguous and has multiply meanings. In this paper we expose the ambiguity of the term ‘integration’ and propose an interdisciplinary analytical perspective how integration activities can be analysed and explained. We conclude that further...

Digital computation is central to almost all scientific endeavors and has become integral university physics education. Students collect experimental data using digital devices, process spreadsheets graphical software, develop programming skills for modeling, simulation, computational work. Issues associated with the floating-point representation of numbers are rarely explored. In this article,...

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) innovates as it defines both the product as a central element to aggregate enterprise information and the lifecycle as a new time dimension for information integration and analysis. Because of its potential benefits to shorten innovation lead-times and to reduce costs, PLM has attracted a lot of attention at industry and at research. However, the current PLM i...

Feeding behavior is the most fundamental behavior in C. elegans. Our previous results have dissected the central integration circuit for the regulation of feeding, which integrates opposing sensory inputs and regulates feeding behavior in a nonlinear manner. However, the peripheral integration that acts downstream of the central integration circuit to modulate feeding remains largely unknown. H...

The status of Europe and East Asia in the transition of world order can be analyzed under different aspects. One of the most important criteria distinguishing the different strategies of European and East Asian countries is the attitude towards regional integration versus cooperation. While Europe simultaneously tries to deepen and enlarge the area of integration, East Asian countries try to pr...

The main issues about relation between climate and relief in the Romanian geomorphological literature follow three directions of research: the description of Pleistocene glacial and Pleistocene-Holocene periglacial landforms in the Carpathians; the direct analysis of climate?s role in landform development; the integration of separate works and findings in a synthetic morphodynamic system applic...

This study targets the behavior of shear buildings equipped with tuned liquid column dampers (TLCD) which attenuate dynamic load-induced vibrations. TLCDs are a passive damping system used in tall buildings. This kind of damper has proven to be very efficient, being an excellent alternative to mass dampers. A dynamic analysis of the structure-damper system was made using the software DynaPy, de...