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The 2010 strikes demanding wage increases that swept through the eastern coastal regions of China expressed the lack of effective internal adjustment mechanisms of labor relations in Chinese enterprises. This paper points out that, due to China's market transition and imbalance of power between labor and capital, labor relations are "employer-led", whereas the government, based on the considerations of political stability and economic development, has been adopting the "power control" model to adjust labor relations. In general, the employment relationships have become the main form of labor relations in China, which is featured as "zero-sum" game, and "employer-led" imbalanced labor relations. ; Non UBC ; Unreviewed ; Faculty

Dynamic Provisioning for Community Services outlines a dynamic provisioning and maintenance mechanism in a running distributed system, e.g. the grid, which can be used to maximize the utilization of computing resources and user demands. The book includes a complete and reliable maintenance system solution for the large-scale distributed system and an interoperation mechanism for the grid middleware deployed in the United States, Europe, and China. The experiments and evaluations have all been practically implemented for ChinaGrid, and the best practices established can help readers to construct reliable distributed systems. ?This book is intended for researchers, developers, and graduate students in the fields of grid computing, service-oriented architecture and dynamic maintenance for large distributed systems.?Li Qi is an Associate Professor and the Deputy Director of the R&D Center for the Internet of Things at the Third Research Institute of Ministry of Public Security (TRIMPS), China. Hai Jin is a Professor and the Director of Department of Computer Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.

Semiparametric estimation of fixed-effects panel data varying coefficient models / Yiguo Sun, Raymond J. Carroll, Dingding Li -- Functional coefficient estimation with both categorical and continuous data / Liangjun Su, Ye Chen, Aman Ullah -- The evolution of the conditional joint distribution of life expectancy and per capita income growth / Thanasis Stengos, Brennan S. Thompson, Ximing Wu -- A nonparametric quantile analysis of growth and governance / Kim P. Huynh, David T. Jacho-Ch(c)Øavez -- Nonparametric estimation of production risk and risk preference functions / Subal C. Kumbhakar, Efthymios G. Tsionas -- Exponential series estimation of empirical copulas with application to financial returns / Chinman Chui, Ximing Wu -- Nonparametric estimation of multivariate CDF with categorical and continuous data / Gaosheng Ju, Rui Li, Zhongwen Liang -- Partial identification of the distribution of treatment effects and its confidence sets / Yanqin Fan, Sang Soo Park -- Higher order bias reduction of kernel density and density derivative estimation at boundary points / Peter Bearse, Paul Rilstone -- Nonparametric and semiparametric methods in R / Jeffrey S. Racine -- Some recent developments in nonparametric finance / Zongwu Cai, Yongmiao Hong -- Imposing economic constraints in nonparametric regression : survey, implementation, and extension / Daniel J. Henderson, Christopher F. Parmeter -- Functional form of the environmental Kuznets curve / Hector O. Zapata, Krishna P. Paudel -- Some recent developments on nonparametric econometrics / Zongwu Cai, Jingping Gu, Qi Li -- Cross-validated bandwidths and significance testing / Christopher F. Parmeter, Zhiyuan Zheng, Patrick McCann -- Introduction / Qi Li, Jeffrey S. Racine. - This Volume of Advances in Econometrics contains a selection of papers presented initially at the 7th Annual Advances in Econometrics Conference held on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge, Louisiana during November 14-16, 2008. The theme of the conference was 'Nonparametric Econometric Methods', and the papers selected for inclusion in this Volume span a range of nonparametric techniques including kernel smoothing, empirical copulas, series estimators, and smoothing splines along with a variety of semiparametric methods. The papers in this Volume cover topics of interest to those who wish to familiarize themselves with current nonparametric methodology. Many papers also identify areas deserving of future attention. There exist survey papers devoted to recent developments in nonparametric nance, constrained nonparametric regression, miparametric/nonparametric environmental econometrics and nonparametric models with non-stationary data. There exist theoretical papers dealing with novel approaches for partial identification of the distribution of treatment effects, xed effects semiparametric panel data models, functional coefficient models with time series data, exponential series estimators of empirical copulas, estimation of multivariate CDFs and bias-reduction methods for density estimation. There also exist a number of applications that analyze returns to education, the evolution of income and life expectancy, the role of governance in growth, farm production, city size and unemployment rates, derivative pricing, and environmental pollution and economic growth. In short, this Volume contains a range of theoretical developments, surveys, and applications that would be of interest to those who wish to keep abreast of some of the most important current developments in the field of nonparametric estimation

Semiparametric estimation of fixed-effects panel data varying coefficient models / Yiguo Sun, Raymond J. Carroll, Dingding Li -- Functional coefficient estimation with both categorical and continuous data / Liangjun Su, Ye Chen, Aman Ullah -- The evolution of the conditional joint distribution of life expectancy and per capita income growth / Thanasis Stengos, Brennan S. Thompson, Ximing Wu -- A nonparametric quantile analysis of growth and governance / Kim P. Huynh, David T. Jacho-Ch(c)Øavez -- Nonparametric estimation of production risk and risk preference functions / Subal C. Kumbhakar, Efthymios G. Tsionas -- Exponential series estimation of empirical copulas with application to financial returns / Chinman Chui, Ximing Wu -- Nonparametric estimation of multivariate CDF with categorical and continuous data / Gaosheng Ju, Rui Li, Zhongwen Liang -- Partial identification of the distribution of treatment effects and its confidence sets / Yanqin Fan, Sang Soo Park -- Higher order bias reduction of kernel density and density derivative estimation at boundary points / Peter Bearse, Paul Rilstone -- Nonparametric and semiparametric methods in R / Jeffrey S. Racine -- Some recent developments in nonparametric finance / Zongwu Cai, Yongmiao Hong -- Imposing economic constraints in nonparametric regression : survey, implementation, and extension / Daniel J. Henderson, Christopher F. Parmeter -- Functional form of the environmental Kuznets curve / Hector O. Zapata, Krishna P. Paudel -- Some recent developments on nonparametric econometrics / Zongwu Cai, Jingping Gu, Qi Li -- Cross-validated bandwidths and significance testing / Christopher F. Parmeter, Zhiyuan Zheng, Patrick McCann -- Introduction / Qi Li, Jeffrey S. Racine

International audience ; n the current global environmental problems, reducing CO2 emissions is an important goal and guide for countries all over the world in developing environmental and economic policies. It has become a global consensus to jointly promote greenhouse gas emission reduction. From 1970 to 2004, CO2 emissions increased yearly, accounting for 76% of the total emissions in 2004. According to the prediction of the International Energy Agency (IEA), the total global CO2 emission reached a record of 30 billion tons in 2010. In 2005, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) specially recommended Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology to achieve significant emission reduction of greenhouse gases. In 2007, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) identified CCS as one of the six ways to deal with global climate change. The global climate conference in Cancun in 2010 incorporated CCS into the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). The United States, Canada, the European Union, and other countries have taken CCS as an important part of future energy strategies and carbon emission reduction strategies and have formulated corresponding technology research plans that include Research and Development (R&D) and project demonstration. The NET-Zero Emissions (NZE) scenario proposed by the IEA for 2050 puts global CO2 capture at 1.7 gigatonnes per year in 2030 and 7.6 gigatonnes per year in 2050. Presently, CCS is a hot topic all around the world.