The bicycle is constantly being updated in order to meet market needs, the developing trend of bicycle shifting gear has changed from manual shifting fashion into automatic shift fashion. In this paper, a systematic approach is proposed to synthesize the design concept of the three-speed automatic speed changer. In this paper, we accord to the design concepts of planetary gear trains with two d...

Tobias Schuh,1 Timofey Balashov,2 Toshio Miyamachi,1 Shih-Yu Wu,3 Chein-Cheng Kuo,3 Arthur Ernst,4 Jürgen Henk,4 and Wulf Wulfhekel1 1Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Physikalisches Institut, Wolfgang-Gaede Str. 1, D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany 2Centre d’Investigacions en Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN-CSIC), E-08193 Barcelona, Spain 3Department of Physics, National Sun Yat-sen University, Ka...

Vol. XLVI (April 2009), 247–259 247 © 2009, American Marketing Association ISSN: 0022-2437 (print), 1547-7193 (electronic) *Keith Wilcox is a doctoral candidate in Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), and Sankar Sen is Professor of Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), Baruch College, City University of New York. Hyeong Min Kim is Assistant Professor of Marketing, Carey B...

This paper argues for the necessity and potential of introducing Schumpeter’s understanding of economic development as structural change into Amartya Sen’s peopleoriented development as freedom approach. Sen and other authors on social choice, human development and inequality have effectively promoted – through the United Nations Development Programme that the expansion of human agency, well-be...

In “Global Health Justice and Governance,” Jennifer Prah Ruger (2012) presents a compelling framework for evaluating and reforming the standing global health system. The framework is in many ways an extension of Ruger’s health capability paradigm and work on domestic health governance, most fully articulated in her recent book Health and Social Justice (2009), to the global order. The two compo...

BACKGROUND Shift work disrupts the circadian rhythm and may cause menstruation disorders. This study assessed the impact of shift work on menstrual cycle in a population of Chinese nurses. METHODS Questionnaires on menstrual characteristics and shift schedules were sent to female nurses of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University (FAHSYSU) and Guanghua Hospital of Stomatology (...

Philip Pettit (2001) has suggested that there are parallels between his republican account of freedom and Amartya Sen’s (1970) account of freedom as decisive preference. In this paper, I discuss these parallels from a social-choice-theoretic perspective. I sketch a formalization of republican freedom, and argue that republican freedom is formally very similar to freedom as defined in Sen’s “min...

There can be little doubt that Rational Choice Theory (RCT) with its emphasis on the 'instrumentally rational' individual as the foundation of the political process has significantly enhanced the scope of political science. This paper details many of the areas of political science in which our understanding of events has been significantly enhanced by the application of RCT. But, in the end, RC...

Hepatitis viruses (HAV, HBV, HCV, HDV and HEV) are attributed to a wide spectrum of acute and chronic liver diseases, including carcinomas. Worldwide, >250 million become chronically infected by HBV and ~150 million by HCV every year. Though, new hepatotropic viruses, such as HGV, GBV, TTV and SENV are identified in chronic liver diseases, thousands still suffer of unknown etiology. Despite a p...

Hong Kong, Singapore and the East Asian Crisis: How Important were Trade Spillovers? Ramkishen S. Rajan and Rahul Sen The literature on the East Asian crisis has concentrated almost exclusively on the five crisishit economies of Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines (Asia-5). Relatively scant attention has been paid to Hong Kong and Singapore, both of which also suffered from...