Resumo Com esta investigação, foi abordado o papel que Hong Kong tem desempenhado a longo prazo como centro financeiro internacional proeminente na Grande China e o impacto do rápido crescimento de Xangai em Hong Kong. A partir de uma abordagem abrangente da ciência política e econômica, ao invés de análises e projeções, é pouco provável que Xangai transcenda ou substitua Hong Kong como um centro financeiro internacional na região, de acordo com esta investigação. Apesar de Xangai ter feito grandes esforços para a revitalização do setor financeiro, Hong Kong manterá nos próximos anos seu status atual. Tendo em conta as diferenças das suas estruturas industriais e do posicionamento dos governos central e regional, essas duas cidades não vão necessariamente tornar-se rivais, podendo ser parceiras para se complementarem e servir as duas regiões distantes. De acordo com a investigação, a integração entre a economia de Hong Kong e a do interior da China é essencial para aumentar sua competitividade, ao passo que as reformas de políticas de Hong Kong também são propícias para manter sua vantagem estratégica em relação a Xangai.

Abstract This research discusses Hong Kong’s long-run role as a preeminent international finance centre in the greater China with a view of Shanghai’s rapid growth. Using a synthesis approach of politics and economics, rather than pure economic analysis and forecasting, it is argued Shanghai is not likely to overtake/replace Hong Kong as an international finance hub in the region. Hong Kong will still keep its position in many years to come even if Shanghai has made enormous efforts to rebuild its financial industry. Due to their diverging industry structure, sheer size of the country, and most importantly different positioning by the central and local governments, the two cities are not necessarily rivals, but can actually be complementary partners, serving two non-overlapping hinterlands. This research also asserts that Hong Kong’s integration with the mainland economy is essential for its increasing competitiveness, while putting emphasis on policy reform for Hong Kong to maintain a strategic advantage over Shanghai.

OBJECTIVES: To introduce a new laparoscopic splenectomy (LS) approach. METHODS: Sixteen patients underwent LS with general anaesthesia and carbon dioxide pneumoperitoneum. The details of the surgery are as follows: 1. The omentum was incised along the greater curvature and retracted as much as possible to expose the pancreatic body and tail. 2. The right arteriovenous root in the gastric omentum was ligated to sufficiently expose the pancreatic body and tail. 3. The pancreatic capsula was opened along the inferior margin of the pancreatic tail, elevated and separated until the superior margin of the pancreas was grasped. The entire splenic pedicle was retracted using a string. The branching blood vessels in the splenic hilus were ligated using clamps and separated. The splenogastric and splenophrenic ligaments were transected proximally using an ultrasonic knife, and the thick short gastric blood vessels were clamped. This procedure allows complete exposure of the area above the pancreatic tail where the splenic hilus is located. The splenoportal vasculature was suspended using a 7-0 silk suture to easily manipulate this tissue. The splenic portal vessels were dissected using an ultrasonic knife, and the portal vessels were isolated individually using vascular clamps and transected. The splenogastric and lienorenal ligaments were also transected. The spleen was then placed into a bag, and the surgical port was slightly enlarged. Finally, the spleen was sectioned for removal. RESULTS: Fifteen surgeries were successfully performed from March 2015 to January 2016. One patient underwent laparotomy. No patients developed postoperative intra-abdominal haemorrhage or infection. One patient developed subcutaneous emphysema, and one developed a wound infection. No deaths occurred. CONCLUSIONS: Active exposure of the area dorsal to the pancreatic tail is a safe and simple splenectomy method.

South Asian monsoon occurs in most parts of the Indian subcontinent including Pakistan, India and Bangladesh during the period June to September of every year. These winds rich in moisture are forced to lift by the Himalayas causing extreme precipitation in different parts of the subcontinent, especially in Pakistan. The aim of this study is to explore the characteristics of atmospheric energy conversion and distribution during the heavy rainfall in Sindh, Pakistan for the period August-September 2011. The results show that when the energy value is greater than or equal to seven, the atmosphere jumps from stable to unstable. Under the influence of atmospheric circulations and terrain conditions, the kinetic energy is blocked by the mountains and is continuously converted into potential energy inside rainfall system. The peak phase of energy persisting for a considerable amount of time can lead to heavy rainfall. Moisture of this heavy rainfall mainly comes from the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal.

El monzón del sudeste asiático se presenta todos los años de junio a septiembre en la mayor parte del subcontinente indio, lo cual incluye a Paquistán, la India y Bangladesh. Estos vientos ricos en humedad son forzados a elevarse por la cordillera del Himalaya, lo que ocasiona precipitación extrema en varias partes del subcontinente, especialmente en Paquistán. El objetivo de este estudio es analizar las características y distribución de la conversión de energía atmosférica durante la intensa precipitación registrada en Sindh, Paquistán, durante el periodo agosto-septiembre de 2011. Los resultados muestran que la atmósfera cambia de estable a inestable cuando el valor de la energía es igual o mayor a siete. Bajo la influencia de las circulaciones atmosféricas y las condiciones del terreno, la energía cinética es bloqueada por las montañas y convertida de manera continua en energía potencial dentro del sistema de precipitación. Cuando la fase de energía máxima persiste por un tiempo considerable, puede ocasionar precipitaciones intensas cuya humedad procede principalmente del Mar Arábico y la bahía de Bengala.

The update summary as defined for the DUC2007 new task aims to capture evolving information of a single topic over time. It delivers focused information to a user who has already read a set of older documents covering the same topic. This paper presents a novel manifold-ranking frame based on iterative feedback mechanism to this summary task. The topic set is extended by using the summarization of previous timeslices and the first sentences of documents in current timeslice. Iterative feedback mechanism is applied to model the dynamically evolving characteristic and represent the relay propagation of information in temporally evolving data. Modified manifold-ranking process also can naturally make use of both the relationships among all the sentences in the documents and relationships between the topic and the sentences. The ranking score for each sentence obtained in the manifold-ranking process denotes the importance of sentence biased towards topic, and then the greedy algorithm is employed to rerank the sentences for removing the redundant information. The summary is produced by choosing the sentences with high ranking score. Experiments on dataset of DUC2007 update task demonstrate the encouraging performance of the proposed approach.

There has been increasing interest over past decade in exploring the possibility of using new biotechinology to produce new products and to improve the old productive process. The researches and applications of genetic engineering, cell fusion, mutagenesis, cell and enzyme immobilization in enzyme, antibiotic, vitamine, steroid, amino acid, organic acid, solvent, food and brewage industries is reviewed.