The Asian financial crisis has precipitated significant changes in real exchange rates in the region that will substantially alter the volume and pattern of international trade. The crisis countries will increase their exports and, especially, reduce their imports. Japan, China, and the other non-crisis countries will experience more complex changes. The trade balances of the United States and Western Europe will deteriorate by about $40-50 billion as a result of the currency movements in Asia. This study, newly updated in August 1999, quantifies the impact of the currency changes on the individual countries in Asia, on the United States, on Europe and on other regions on a sector-by-sector basis. It analyzes the additional impact that might occur if China, thus far a relative bystander in the crisis, were to devalue its currency as well. It then examines potential trade policy responses to these developments including the risk of an upsurge in protectionist pressure in the United States.

Global Economic Effects of the Asian Currency Devaluations (Policy Analyses in International Economics)

Business & Money

Noland, Marcus

Robinson, Sherman

Liu, Li-Gang

Wang, Zhi

Economics

Peterson Institute for International Economics

Over the past half decade the prospect of significant economic liberalization has entered the public discourse in Taiwan and China. For the first time, both nations contemplate the possibility of essentially unlimited economic relations. What would improved relations between China and Taiwan mean for these two nations and the world? How should the US respond to further integration between these two countries--will it align with shifting Taiwanese views? Rosen and Wang provide a much-needed investigation of the implications of geo-economic and strategic economic deepening across the Taiwan Strait and make key policy recommendations that address greater integration. First, this new book evaluates the economic and political benefits of China-Taiwan rapprochement. Rosen and Wang begin by surveying current cross-strait relations to assess the consequences of maintaining the status quo, particularly for the Taiwanese economy, and the political value of reunification. The authors then explain why economic liberalization will boost the Taiwanese economy. This well-researched volume charts the dynamic effects of liberalization and the potential change in output, demand, and employment as economies redirect resources in economic and political sectors. To that end, Rosen and Wang conclude that liberalization presents a valuable opportunity for the most prominent players in this cross-strait relationship as well as other economies in the region.

The Implications of China-Taiwan Economic Liberalization (Policy Analyses in International Economics)

Rosen, Daniel

This brief presents new architecture and strategies for distribution of social video content. A primary framework for socially-aware video delivery and a thorough overview of the possible approaches is provided. The book identifies the unique characteristics of socially-aware video access and social content propagation, revealing the design and integration of individual modules that are aimed at enhancing user experience in the social network context. The change in video content generation, propagation, and consumption for online social networks, has significantly challenged the traditional video delivery paradigm. Given the massive amount of user-generated content shared in online social networks, users are now engaged as active participants in the social ecosystem rather than as passive receivers of media content. This revolution is being driven further by the deep penetration of 3G/4G wireless networks and smart mobile devices that are seamlessly integrated with online social networking and media-sharing services. Despite increasingly abundant bandwidth and computational resources, the ever-increasing volume of data created by user-generated video content--along with the boundless coverage of socialized sharing--presents unprecedented challenges. 

Social Video Content Delivery (SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Computers & Technology

Networking & Cloud Computing

Springer

Epoxy resins are organic polymer compounds containing two or more epoxy groups and the epoxy groups can be located at the end or middle of the molecular chain or in a ring structure. Due to the presence of these epoxy groups, the epoxy can be cured and cross-linked with various types of curing agents and can form insoluble, non-melting polymers with a three-dimensional network structure. Epoxy resins are a type of thermosetting resin with numerous applications; in addition to their use as adhesives, epoxy resins can also be used as coatings, melting plastics, casting plastics and fiber-reinforced resin matrix composite materials and are widely used in the mechanical, electronic, chemical, aerospace, automotive and construction sectors.

Epoxy resin: Synthesis, Modification and Application

Science & Math

Sun, Tao

Wu, Zhanjun

Chemistry

LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing

This book, which is one of the engineering financial series for the General Senior Schools, is divided into two chapters. The first chapter introduces and analyzes the cases of the engineering project investment decision-making, which includes the industrial construction project, the road engineering project, the electrical engineering project and the port engineering project. The emphasis is laid to different projects based on their characteristics. The second chapter introduces and analyzes the engineering project investment and financing cases, which includes the electronic engineering project, transport infrastructure project and other public engineering projects.

Case Analysis of Engineering Project Investment and Financing Decision-Making (Chinese Edition)

China Communications Press

Chess Starter

Beijing Yanshan Press

This book explains how to use a data-driven approach to design strategies for social media content delivery. It first introduces readers to how social information can be effectively gathered for big data analysis, which provides content delivery intelligence. Secondly, the book describes data-driven models to capture information diffusion in online social networks and social media content propagation and popularity, before presenting prediction models for social media content delivery. By addressing the resource allocation and content replication aspects of social media content delivery, the book presents the latest data-driven strategies. In closing, it outlines a number of potential research directions regarding social media content delivery.

Online Social Media Content Delivery: A Data-Driven Approach (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science)

Zhu, Wenwu

Yang, Shiqiang

Computer Science

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