China has since the 1980s emerged as one of the world’s largest economies and the main emitter of carbon dioxide. Any attempt to combat global warming at the global level is therefore dependent on the future trajectory of Chinese emissions. In this paper we consider the effect of firm ownership on provincial emissions. The hypothesis is that private firms are economically more efficient than non-p

Hedonism and preferentialism are two popular theories about what has final value, i.e. is valuable for its own sake. The latter theory is customarily portrayed as the wider of these, in that it ascribes value to much more than pleasures, viz., to any object of a final preference. By examining the metaphysical underpinnings of these views, it is argued that a fundamental issue between these theorie

This paper aims to introduce and discuss a geometrically based model, the relative prominence model, which is inspired by Tversky's (1977) finding that a factor behind asymmetric similarity seems to be the "relative prominence". The model proposes that the experienced directed similarity from I to J is proportional to some symmetric similarity measure between I and J, and the quotient between the

Analog circuits are often specified using non-linear equations, which are difficult to analyze. Therefore, test generation and diagnosis are problematic issues in practice. In this paper we propose a new method for diagnosis of analog circuits that uses combined information from tests at different frequencies. By solving simultaneously the resulting equations (one for each test frequency), we get

En analys av kvinnors arbete på begravningsbyråer visar att de skillnader i arbetsuppgifter som finns beror på vilken övergripande strategi begravningsbyrån har. På byråer med "specialiseringens strategi" där uppgifterna fördelas enligt principen den som utför den bäst ska göra den, finns kvinnor och de utför vissa uppgifter, framför allt möter anhöriga. På byråer med "kontinuitetens strategi" där

This book is a linguistic study of Jahai, a language belonging to the Northern Aslian subgroup of the Aslian branch of the Mon-Khmer language family. The language is spoken by groups of foragers in the mountain rainforests of northern Peninsular Malaysia and southernmost Thailand, its total number of speakers estimated at around 1,000. This study describes the grammar of Jahai, including its phono

An extension to workload-based performance simulation approach is presented, which enables modelling applications using a UML tool and transforming them to SystemC with a code generator. Therefore partial reuse of existing UML application models is feasible, removing the need for separate workload modelling in SystemC. The UML to SystemC transformation is applied to a mobile video player case stud