The Australian financial system is undergoing a period of rapid change driven by the introduction of new technologies, changes in regulation and the emergence of new competitive forces. Consumers of financial services are being faced with an array of new products and charges as individual financial institutions respond to these challenges. Some consumers in smaller regional centres have experie...

Measuring personality is a complex task. Besides difficult content-based problems there are some psychometric issues to be met, i. e. socially desirable answering tendencies. The present study uses simulation-based objective personality measurement to meet these psychometric issues. Computer-based “guard” and “stray” scenars are developed and tested in two samples of Special Forces applicants r...

In in the last 60 or so years, global rabbit industry has been growing steadily. This paper studies meat trade by focusing on growth and regional pattern. First, productionand structure are introduced, as basis of trade. Then, is studied detail, including growth, structural changes, comparative advantages competitiveness major countries. Finally, a gravity model built to test factors affecting ...

The past decade of innovation in the retailing industry has formed a general framework for regional China. Such achievement is result reckless efforts and nature business. This paper focuses on future based motivation behind existing network proposes suggestions terms market positioning, competitiveness, alliance, technical support.

We present results from an independent analysis of friction that more generally addresses all crystalline materials by an extension of coincident site lattice theory and dislocation drag. Calculations for graphitic friction are carried out and agree in magnitude with experimental friction forces. More interestingly, static, dynamic and anisotropic friction forces, incommensurability effects and...

Undoubtedly, during the post-Cold War era, the fields of political competition changed and with the change in the political geography of the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus and Central Asia, as the Soviet Union collapsed and new countries emerged, the field of competition for a change in power balance not only expanded but took on a new form. Economic benefits, diversification of fossil fuels and new...

Diversity of regional industry is regarded as a key factor for regional development, as it has a positive relationship with economic stability, which attracts population. This paper focuses on how the spatial imbalance of industrial diversity contributes to the population change caused by inter-regional migration. This paper introduces a spatial interaction model for the Geographic Information ...

We hypothesized that local contact forces between the pericardium and the heart cause regional variation in pericardial deformation during the cardiac cycle, reflecting volume changes of the underlying cardiac chambers. To test this, we measured regional pericardial area over the right atrium (RA) and right ventricle (RV) with orthogonal pairs of sonomicrometers in six open-chest dogs. At a lef...

This entry emphasises the fact that, considered as a whole, models of regional development afford analyses of a range of centripetal and centrifugal forces, and that relative development depends on the relative weight of these two sets of forces. It also emphasises the fact that regional development is dialectical/cumulative in character as consequences are causes and causes are consequences: w...

A multitude of factors; tremendous urbanization after the economic reforms of 1978, particularly the open door policy, foreign direct investment, industrialization in the last two decades and globalization have shaken the dynamics of Chinese cityscape, especially in the coastal areas. Level of urbanization is expected to reach 50 percent of the total population, which was less than 20 percent i...