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The quest for prosperity
How can developing countries grow their economies? Most answers to this question center on what the rich world should or shouldn't do for the poor world. InThe Quest for Prosperity, Justin Yifu Lin--the first non-Westerner to be chief economist of the World Bank--focuses on what developing nations can do to help themselves.
Since the end of the Second World War, prescriptions for economic growth have come and gone. Often motivated more by ideology than practicality, these blueprints have had mixed success on the ground. Drawing lessons from history, economic analysis, and practice, Lin examines how the countries that have succeeded in developing their own economies have actually done it. He shows that economic development is a process of continuous technological innovation, industrial upgrading, and structural change driven by how countries harness their land, labor, capital, and infrastructure. Countries need to identify and facilitate the development of those industries where they have a comparative advantage--where they can produce products most effectively--and use them as a basis for development. At the same time, states need to recognize the power of markets, limiting the role of government to allow firms to flourish and lead the process of technological innovation and industrial upgrading. By following this \"new structural economics\" framework, Lin shows how even the poorest nations can grow at eight percent or more continuously for several decades, significantly reduce poverty, and become middle- or even high-income countries in the span of one or two generations.
Interwoven with insights, observations, and stories from Lin's travels as chief economist of the World Bank and his reflections on China's rise, this book provides a road map and hope for those countries engaged in their own quest for prosperity.
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The Sampling and Caching Subsystem (SCS) for the Scientific Exploration of Jezero Crater by the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover
The Mars 2020 mission seeks to conduct a new scientific exploration on the surface of Mars. The
Perseverance
Rover will be sent to the surface of the Jezero Crater region to study its habitability, search for biosignatures of past life, acquire and cache samples for potential return, and prepare for possible human missions. To enable these objectives, an innovative Sampling and Caching Subsystem (SCS) has been developed and tested to allow the
Perseverance
Rover to acquire and cache rock core and regolith samples, prepare abraded rock surfaces, and support proximity science instruments.
The SCS consists of the Robotic Arm (RA), the Turret and Corer, and the Adaptive Caching Assembly (ACA). These elements reside and interact both inside and outside of the
Perseverance
Rover to enable surface interactions, sample transfer, and caching. The main body of the Turret consists of the Coring Drill (Corer) with a Launch Abrading Bit initially installed prior to launch. Mounted to the Turret main structure are two proximity science instruments, SHERLOC and PIXL, as well as the Gas Dust Removal Tool (gDRT) and the Facility Contact Sensor (FCS). These work together with the RA to provide the sample acquisition, abraded surface preparation, and proximity science functions. The ACA is a network of assemblies largely inside the front belly of the Rover, which combine to perform the sample handling and caching functions of the mission. The ACA primarily consists of the Bit Carousel, the Sample Handling Assembly (SHA), End Effector (EE), Sample Tubes and their Sample Tube Storage Assembly (STSA), Seals and their Dispenser, Volume, and Tube Assembly (DVT), the Sealing Station, the Vision Station, the Cover Parking Lot, and additional supporting hardware. These components attach to the Caching Component Mounting Deck (CCMD) that is integrated with the Rover interior. This work describes these major elements of the SCS, with an emphasis on the functionality required to perform the set of tasks and interactions required by the subsystem. Key considerations of contamination control and biological cleanliness throughout the development of these hardware elements are also discussed.
Additionally, aspects of testing and validating the functionality of the SCS are described. Early prototypes and tests matured the designs over several years and eventually led to the flight hardware and integrated testing in both Earth ambient and Mars-like environments. Multiple unique testbed venues were developed and used to enable testing from low-level mechanism operation through end-to-end sampling and caching interactions with the full subsystem and flight software. Various accomplishments from these testing efforts are highlighted. These past and ongoing tests support the successful preparations of the SCS on its pathway to operations on Mars.
Journal Article
Structural Change, Industrial Upgrading, and Middle-Income Trap
Motivated by several stylized facts about middle-income trap, we develop a simple multi-sector general equilibrium model of structural change and industrial upgrading. The model features the distinction between production service and consumption service and the input-output linkages between different sectors. We show that the role of production service is asymmetric at different levels of development. Whereas an underdeveloped sector of production service is not a binding obstacle for development (sometimes even beneficial) at an early stage of development, it becomes a key bottleneck when the economy reaches a middle-income status. To escape the middle-income trap, government intervention is needed to prevent premature de-industrialization and facilitate beneficial industrial upgrading. Moreover, it also requires a timely reduction of entry barrier to the production service and improvement in its productivity. These theoretical findings are shown to be consistent with the stylized facts and also useful to China. The analysis provides a justification for the government’s strategic use of industrial policies to avoid middle-income trap.
Journal Article
The Oxford handbook of structural transformation
The Oxford Handbook of Structural Transformation addresses the economics of structural transformation around the world. It deals with major themes, which include history and context, critical issues and concepts, methodological foundations, main theoretical approaches, policy issues, some illuminating country experiences of structural transformation, and important debates on the respective roles of the market and the state in that process.0The historical record provides a challenge for economists to understand the success of the rising economic powers (some of them initially considered unlikely candidates for prosperity) and the stagnation or decline of others. Five major questions emerge: 0* Why has so much divergence occurred among nations of the world since the Industrial Revolution, and particularly during the 20th century? 0* Why has the pattern changed recently with the emergence of a few developing economies (e.g. the multi-polar world), and can it be sustained? 0* What are the key drivers, strategies, and policies, to foster structural transformation in various different country contexts and in a constantly evolving global economy? 0* How could low- and middle-income countries avoid development traps and learn from past experiences whilst exploiting the new opportunities offered by the Fourth Industrial Revolution? 0* What is the role of various development stakeholders and other important players in facilitating sustained economic convergence among nations? 0.
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Efficacy of ketamine for initial control of acute agitation in the emergency department: A randomized study
Clinicians often encounter agitated patients, and current treatment options include benzodiazepines and antipsychotics. Ketamine rapidly induces dissociation, maintains cardiovascular stability, spontaneous respirations, and airway reflexes. There are no prospective, randomized studies comparing ketamine to other agents in the initial management of acute agitation in the Emergency Department (ED).
Determine the efficacy and safety of ketamine compared to parenteral haloperidol plus lorazepam for initial control of acute agitation.
This study was a prospective, single-institution, randomized, open-label, real world, standard of care pilot study. Adult patients with combative agitation were randomized to ketamine (4 mg/kg IM or 1 mg/kg IV) or haloperidol/lorazepam (haloperidol 5–10 mg IM or IV + lorazepam 1–2 mg IM or IV). The primary outcome was sedation within 5 min, and secondary outcomes included sedation within 15 min, time to sedation, and safety.
Ninety three patients were enrolled from January 15, 2018 to October 10, 2018. Significantly more patients who received ketamine compared to haloperidol/lorazepam were sedated within 5 min (22% vs 0%, p = 0.001) and 15 min (66% vs 7%, p < 0.001). The median time to sedation in patients who received ketamine compared to haloperidol/lorazepam was 15 vs 36 min respectively (p < 0.001). Patients who received ketamine experienced a significant, but transient tachycardia (p = 0.01) and hypertension (p = 0.01).
In patients with combative agitation, ketamine was significantly more effective than haloperidol/lorazepam for initial control of acute agitation, and was not associated with any significant adverse effects.
Journal Article
السعي إلى الرخاء : كيف تنطلق الاقتصادات النامية ؟
يتحدث هذا الكتاب عن أن التنمية الاقتصادية ليست معادلة صفرية تتنافس فيها الدول ضد بعضها بعضا ويخسر البعض لأن الآخرين يكسبون إنها عملية مستمرة من الاكتشاف والتطوير الصناعي والتكنولوجي هما المحرك الرئيسي فيها ويحدها فقط الخيال والإبداع الإنساني وهكذا، فإن هناك ما يدعونا لأن نأمل في استمرار تحسن مستويات المعيشة لكل البشر.
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A full-scale study of external circulation sludge bed (ECSB) system for anaerobic wastewater treatment in a whiskey distillery
Waste liquid streams from distillery were a hurdle in conventional wastewater treatment due to extreme high chemical oxygen demand (COD) and fluctuating feed conditions. A recently commissioned full-scale external circulation sludge bed (ECSB) was applied at a malt whiskey distillery in northeast Taiwan. Start-up of the new ECSB system, which has a total volume of 490 m
3
with diameter of 6.55 m (
ø
) and height of 15.9 m (
H
), was performed by gradual increasing influent flow rates from zero to the design value of 300 m
3
day
−1
in the first 90 days. In the subsequent 204 days, both influent flow rates (0–389 m
3
day
−1
) and COD concentrations (2.8–18.1 kg L
−1
) were highly fluctuated due to diverse batches from the distillery. However, effective bioremediation (COD removal 95.1 ± 2.4%) and biogas production (1195 ± 724 L day
−1
) were achieved in this system. Intensively, the Imhoff tests were carried out and shown the settled solids concentration by 0.5 ± 0.4 mL L
−1
, while size distributions of granular sludge were analyzed and observed by SEM-EDS. In addition, developments of the anaerobic systems (including lab, pilot, and full scale from the simplest reactor to the latest ECSB) applied in whiskey wastewater treatment were reviewed with their operational parameters for comparing performances of various anaerobic systems. In general, real-time monitoring and feasible operation strategies were critical to successfully run the system by producing clean energy simultaneously. It provides more economically attractive and sustainable-to-adopt ECSB not only an end-of-pipe process but also a bioresource technology.
Journal Article