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This book demonstrates how a radical version of physicalism (No-Self Physicalism) can offer an internally coherent and comprehensive philosophical worldview. It first argues that a coherent physicalist should explicitly treat a cognitive subject merely as a physical thing and should not vaguely assume an amorphous or even soul-like subject or self. This approach forces the physicalist to re-examine traditional core philosophical notions such as truth, analyticity, modality, apriority because our traditional understandings of them appear to be predicated on a cognitive subject that is not literally just a physical thing. In turn, working on the assumption that a cognitive subject is itself completely physical, namely a neural network-based robot programmed by evolution (hence the term No-Self), the book proposes physicalistic theories on conceptual representation, truth, analyticity, modality, the nature of mathematics, epistemic justification, knowledge, apriority and intuition, as well as a physicalistic ontology. These are meant to show that this No-Self Physicalism, perhaps the most minimalistic and radical version of physicalism proposed to date, can accommodate many aspects that have traditionally interested philosophers. Given its refreshingly radical approach and painstakingly developed content, the book is of interest to anyone who is seeking a coherent philosophical worldview in this age of science.

"Mobile sources contribute large percentages of each pollutant, but technology is not yet available to measure and tax emissions from each vehicle. We build a behavioral model of household choices about vehicles and miles traveled. The ideal-but-unavailable emissions tax would encourage drivers to abate emissions through many behaviors, some of which involve market transactions that can be observed for feasible market incentives (such as a gas tax, subsidy to new cars, or tax by vehicle type). Our model can calculate behavioral effects of each such price and thus calculate car choices, miles, and emissions.A nested logit structure is used to model discrete choices among different vehicle bundles. We also consider continuous choices of miles driven and the age of each vehicle. We propose a consistent estimation method for both discrete and continuous demands in one step, to capture the interactive effects of simultaneous decisions. Results are compared with those of the traditional sequential estimation procedure"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site

Since Sri Lanka and the People's Republic of China established diplomatic relations in the 1950s, China has become an important partner of Sri Lanka in the latter's cause of maintaining national independence and development. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka has been an important political and diplomatic partner for China in the Third World. Since Chinese president Xi Jinping proposed the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013, Sri Lanka has become a new investment hot spot due to its location as a hub of the proposed 21st-Centrury Maritime Silk Road. This article provides views identifying the opportunities and potential challenges for Sino–Sri Lankan relations under the framework of China's 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road initiative. (Asian Perspect/GIGA)

Intro -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I: Pandect -- Chapter 1: Background -- 1.1 Research Background -- 1.2 Survey Program -- 1.2.1 Research Objective -- 1.2.2 Research Design -- 1.2.3 Research Content -- 1.2.4 Research Scope -- 1.2.5 Organizational Structure -- 1.2.5.1 Research Group Members -- 1.2.5.2 Research Hospital Contact Officers -- 1.2.6 Technological Roadmap (Fig.1.3) -- 1.2.7 Conducting the Investigation -- 1.2.7.1 The First Stage (February 2013 to April 2013): Preparation and Preliminary Design -- 1.2.7.2 The Second Stage (April 2013 to May 2013): Pre-investigation -- 1.2.7.3 The Third Stage (June 2013 to July 2013): Survey -- 1.3 Investigation Results -- References -- Chapter 2: Review of Chinese Public Hospital Reform -- 2.1 Overview of Chinese Public Hospital Reform -- 2.2 Practical Measures -- 2.2.1 Separation of Government Functions from Those of Institutions -- 2.2.2 Separation of Management from Operations -- 2.2.3 Separation of Prescriptions from Dispensing of Drugs -- 2.2.4 Separation of the For-profit and Nonprofit Nature of Hospitals -- 2.3 Evaluation -- 2.3.1 Progress -- 2.3.2 Problems -- References -- Chapter 3: Basic Information Survey for Large Public Hospital Reform -- 3.1 Basic Information on Medical Staff -- 3.1.1 General Information -- 3.1.1.1 Gender -- 3.1.1.2 Age -- 3.1.1.3 Position -- 3.1.1.4 Title -- 3.1.1.5 Education Level -- 3.1.1.6 Department -- 3.1.2 Economic Situation -- 3.1.2.1 Monthly Income -- 3.1.2.2 Expected Monthly Income -- 3.1.2.3 Monthly Household Expenditure Per Capita -- 3.2 Basic Information on Patients -- 3.2.1 General Information -- 3.2.1.1 Gender -- 3.2.1.2 Age -- 3.2.1.3 Marriage -- 3.2.1.4 Occupation -- 3.2.1.5 Education Level -- 3.2.2 Economic Situation -- 3.2.2.1 Monthly Income -- 3.2.2.2 Yearly Medical Expenditures -- 3.3 Summary -- 3.3.1 Basic Information of Medical Staff.