China Marches West: Character List

Character list of Chinese terms in book China Marches West.

Managing A Changing Relationship: China's Japan Policy in the 1990s

This paper was prepared for the conference on "China into the twenty-first century: Strategic partner and...or peer competitor"

Fatigue damage in titanium graphite hybrid laminates

by Dennis Arthur Burianek.

Beyond the blue horizon : the role of industry in global environmental politics

by Joanne M. Kaufman.

A process-based cost estimating tool for ship structural designs

by John M. Barentine.

Corner Flows in Free Liquid Films

A lubrication-flow model for a free film in a corner is presented. The model, written in the hyperbolic coordinate system ξ = x² – y², η = 2xy, applies to films that are thin in the η direction. The lubrication approximation yields two coupled evolution equations for the film thickness and the velocity field which, to lowest order, describes plug flow in the hyperbolic coordinates. A free film in a corner evolving under surface tension and gravity is investigated. The rate of thinning of a free film is compared to that of a film evolving over a solid substrate. Viscous shear and normal stresses are both captured in the model and are computed for the entire flow domain. It is shown that normal stress dominates over shear stress in the far field, while shear stress dominates close to the corner.

Suppliers' Associations in the Japanese Automobile Industry

This paper analyzes the structure and functions of suppliers' associations (kyoryokukai) in the automobile industry in Japan. The bilateral assembler-supplier relationship has received much attention recently as a source of Japanese industrial competitiveness. However, this paper argues that the hitherto neglected area of inter-supplier coordination in technology diffusion is at least as important as the bilateral assembler-supplier relationship in accounting for the overall performance of the Japanese automotive industry. On the basis of company visits and a largescale survey of first-tier suppliers conducted by the author, the paper analyzes the reasons why suppliers' associations were established, why they continue to exist today, and their effects on economic performance.

Scattering and absorption by acoustic resonators

by Karl Uno Ingard.

Decreto rectoral No. 839 : Que es necesario modificar algunos artículos del Reglamento Académico Postgrados Médico Quirúrgicos, decreto rectoral número 809 del 10 de mayo de 2004

Que es necesario modificar algunos artículos del Reglamento Académico Postgrados Médico Quirúrgicos, decreto rectoral número 809 del 10 de mayo de 2004.

Ventajas competitivas ilegales, el desarrollo de la industria de drogas ilegales y el fracaso de las políticas contra las drogas en Afganistán y Colombia

En 1970 Colombia no era conocida por su producción de coca o drogas ilegales, y Afganistán era y había sido por mucho tiempo un productor menor de opio. De hecho, “en Afganistán el opio no había sido una cosecha ‘tradicional’ y antes de los años noventa solamente se había cultivado en pocos lugares de ese país. A diferencia de la mayoría de los países de la región, Afganistán tenía una ‘cultura de opio’ débil. Por consiguiente, el consumo de opio hasta hace poco ha sido relativamente bajo” (UNODC, 2002: 87-88). En esa época, ninguno de estos dos países era un productor importante de coca u opio, o un actor importante en los mercados internacionales de drogas ilícitas. Hoy, sin embargo, son los países dominantes en las dos ramas de origen vegetal más importantes de la industria ilegal: cocacocaína y amapola-opio-heroína. Así, Afganistán y Colombia producen respectivamente más del 70% de la heroína y la cocaína ilícitas en el mundo.