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Presents “CINDERELLA; FIN DE SIECLE” from the journal “Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, December 27, 1890” by Various.

Chapter 2 of the book "Competition Among Financial Centres in Asia-Pacific: Prospects, Benefits, Risks and Policy Challenges" is presented. It offers a look at the status of the financial industry in Hong Kong, China and other East Asian countries and how they deal with global competition. Information on the countries' cross-border banking activity is also presented.

Chapter 5 is concerned with characterising multipath phenomena. The concepts of slow and fast fading are introduced and this leads to a discussion of the nature of multipath propagation under static and dynamic conditions and the existence of Doppler shift. The chapter also covers: Models that have been suggested to explain the observed signal properties (with emphasis on a 3-dimensional approach based on scattering); Statistical expressions for various properties of the signal envelope and phase, including the correlation between the envelopes at spatially separated points; Rician fading; The properties of the signal received at a base station using antennas that are separated both horizontally and vertically; The magnetic field components of the electromagnetic field; Signal variability and the statistics of the mean signal and the fast and slow fading; Large-area statistics. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Every schoolchild knows that an Industrial Revolution in late eighteenth-century Britain was followed by massive, rapid, urbanisation; that technological change created a world in which people interacted with nature and each other through work in new ways, and therefore lived different kinds of lives in places of a sort previously unknown; that the innovation of powered machinery sucked the British population into factory towns at hitherto remote locations. These novitiate certainties are a stark contrast to the disagreements of expert historians about the nature of economic development and urban growth, and the ways in which they were related, in Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. There has been vigorous argument about what, exactly, the Industrial Revolution was ever since the term was first used. Recently, econometric analysis has even brought its very existence into question: whether the structure or growth trend of the British economy changed significantly before the 1840s is now hotly disputed. The high rates of urbanisation standing proudly in the statistical rubble created by this demolition job are not as incongruous as they might once have seemed. Complementary attacks on the idea that there was an Industrial Revolution in late eighteenth-century Britain, based on hypotheses about the processes of change rather than on trends in economic series, stress the continuing overweening significance of London through the eighteenth century, and are replacing Thomas Gradgrind's Coketown with Samuel Pickwick's Eatanswill as the fictional exemplar of provincial urban life. Rather than being a time when systems of industrial production were suddenly transformed in supply-driven economic development, the eighteenth century is now considered by some historians to have been a time of consumer revolution, when increasing commercial and landed wealth energised demand-led industrial (and other sectoral) growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]