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This study reviews the economic development strategies of the developing countries. Results indicate that savings, public investment, exporting, labor market competition, and government interventions were the commonly used economic development strategies for the four Asian tigers during the period from 1981 to 2005. Furthermore, China and India adopted strategies similar to that of the four Asian tigers. We also investigate which strategies are effective in spurring economic development. Results indicate that savings exerted the most significant influence on the economic development for all the countries studied except Singapore and India. Our findings suggest that the economic development strategies used by these more successful countries should be adopted by other developing countries in their quest for economic growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study chooses the core demonstration area of 'Bohai Barn' project as the study area, which is located in Wudi, Shandong Province. We first collected near-ground and multispectral images and surface soil salinity data using ADC portable multispectral camera and EC110 portable salinometer. Then three vegetation indices, namely NDVI, SAVI and GNDVI, were used to build 18 models respectively with the actual measured soil salinity. These models include linear function, exponential function, logarithmic function, exponentiation function, quadratic function and cubic function, from which the best estimation model for soil salinity estimation was selected and used for inverting and analyzing soil salinity status of the study area. Results indicated that all models mentioned above could effectively estimate soil salinity and models using SAVI as the dependent variable were more effective than the others. Among SAVI models, the linear model (Y = -0.524x + 0.663, n = 70) is the best, under which the test value of F is the highest as 141.347 at significance test level, estimated R2 0.797 with a 93.36% accuracy. Soil salinity of the study area is mainly around 2.5 per thousand - 3.5 per thousand, which gradually increases from southwest to northeast. The study has probed into soil salinity estimation methods based on near-ground and multispectral data, and will provide a quick and effective technical soil salinity estimation approach for coastal saline soil of the study area and the whole Yellow River Delta.

Temperature is a very important parameter in scientific research, production and life. Almost all the properties of materials are related to temperature. The precise measurement of the temperature is a very important task, so the temperature sensor is widely used as a core part in the temperature measuring instrument. A novel surface plasmon micro-ring sensor suitable for humidity sensing is presented in this paper. The sensor uses a multi-layered surface plasmon waveguide structure and choosing Polyimide (Polyimide, PI) as the moisture material. We get the transfer function of surface plasmon micro-ring sensor by using transfer matrix method. Refractive indexes of Polyimide and the multilayer waveguide structure change as environment relative humidity changes, thus leading to an obvious peak drift of output spectrum. The paper mainly discusses the influence of the changes of the refractive index of humidity-sensing parts on the output spectrum, and the transmission characteristics of multilayer waveguide structure. Through the finite element method and the theoretical simulation of Matlab, We can draw: When the length between the two coupling points of the U-shaped waveguide is an integer multiple of circumference of the micro-ring, an obvious drift in the horizontal direction appears, the free spectral range (FSR) doubled and the sensitivity is 0.0005 μm/%RH; When the external environment relative humidity RH changes from 10% to 100% RH, scatter is change between including (including 0.005 m to 0.005 m, compared to other humidity sensor, the Sensitivity of sensor improves 10~50 times and the transmission is very stable. Results show that the design of surface plasma micro ring sensors has better sensitivity, stable performance and can be used in the humidity measurement, achieving a high sensitivity in the sense of humidity when the wide range of filter frequency selection is taken into account, and providing a theoretical basis for the preparation of micro-optics.