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The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• The economic rationale

• The UK experience

• Lessons from the US

• Summary

• References

• Appendix

The following sections are included:

• Profile of UK North Sea oil production

• Factors influencing changes in North Sea oil production

• The impact of fiscal reform

• The impact of cost-saving new technology

• Comparing the fiscal and technology effects

• Impact of new technology on established fields

Each story has its game soundtrack. The game soundtrack could make a game, a drama being more attractive for people, which is a bridge between people and stories. In recent years, Taiwan has been committed to the development of the digital content industry. While in the eight areas of said industry, the animation industry is one of the key development projects and it has become a unique art in the film industry. Although the animated short film is not a compressed version of the feature film, its narrative bias is also very different from the feature film, but they also tell stories through images, which is a significant role for important industrial upgrading and marketing. In the digital content industry, how to make good use of body language to accurately convey the concept of the story and the emotion of the role is the key to improve the competence of the industry. However, at present, it lacks systematic research to understand. Thus, this study uses Tom and Jerry’s animated short film as the reference to realize animation production by a large number of data collection and a variety of technical support and to explore how successful animated short films convey the story through actions.

In 2014, Shanghai Husi Food Company Ltd. (Husi) was found guilty of supplying reprocessed and expired meat to their western fast food clients operating all over China. The company lied about production and expiration dates and provided false guarantees about the storage life of their products. Many Western fast food clients such as McDonalds and Starbucks were affected by the scandal. The case discusses the scandal, whistleblowing, and food safety issues in the People’s Republic of China.

Taobao is an online platform on which users can sell their products within China and all over the world. Many Chinese villagers use this opportunity and produce products to be sold on the platform. The problem is that they ignore international Intellectual Property Rights and produce and sell products that resemble brand products from all over the world. The case discusses the developments of the so-called Taobao Villages, the protection of property rights in China and foreign manufacturers’ responses to these challenges.

In August 2007, waters from an adjacent river flooded some of the tunnels of the Zhangzhuang mine near the city of Xintai. 172 miners were trapped in the mine and died. The flooding was caused by heavy rain and not by problems within the mine and was labeled as a natural disaster. Since China had just introduced a new set of regulations mandating payment of 200,000 yuan to the families of workers killed in industrial accidents, the question of whether the incident was a natural disaster or an industrial accident became significant for the families of the workers killed. The case discusses this incident and presents questions on labor safety, corporate responsibility and the current situation of mine workers in China.

This case describes how a Chinese entrepreneur started a business by buying up discarded vaccines and reselling them to hospitals and clinics. The entrepreneur, Pang Hongwei, was convicted once, but could still continue her activities very quickly turning it into a multi-million dollar business. Only in 2016 did the Chinese authorities put an end to this and arrest more than 300 business people and government officials involved. The case discusses the scandal and asks what responsible entrepreneurship is.

A summary is given of some of the developments in the elastic scattering and production processes at high energies. First, Professor Yang's geometrical model of hadronic and nuclear collisions is reviewed. When there was some preliminary experimental evidence that the total cross section for proton–proton collision might not approach a constant at very high energies, theoretical studies were initiated to determine the high-energy asymptotic behavior in relativistic quantum gauge theory. With this starting point, the successive stages of development are:

I. Theoretical prediction of increasing total cross sections;

II. Development of phenomenology and quantitative predictions that were verified experimentally afterwards; and

III. Theory and phenomenology of production processes, especially that of the Higgs particle, at the Large Hadron Collider.

Since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is still being built, the last topic is at an early stage of development, and unexpected results may be forthcoming.

The first synthetic actinide element, neptunium, was discovered in 1940. The last element of the actinide series, lawrencium, was created for the first time in 1961. These and the nine other intervening elements have added a new dimension to science, technology, industry, medicine, and politics in an extraordinarily short period of time. Each synthetic actinide element from atomic number 93 to atomic number 98 (with the exception of berkelium, atomic number 97) can now be manufactured in essentially any desired quantity, a truly remarkable achievement.

In the last two decades, a variety of bioactive particle filled polymer systems were developed for tissue replacement. In this investigation, hydroxyapatite (HA) reinforced polysulphone (PSU) composites were manufactured and evaluated for potential medical applications. HA was produced in-house by reacting calcium hydroxide with phosphoric acid in appropriate proportions. The precipitates were subsequently spray dried to form HA powder. Characterization of the HA included X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis, scanning electron microscopic (SEM) examination and particle size analysis. HA/PSU composites containing up to 40vol% of HA have been produced. The composite production consisted of drying, compounding in a mixer, compression moulding into thick plates, and machining. Evaluation techniques used included themogravimetric analysis (TGA), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), HA particle distribution examination and rheological analysis. TGA verified volume percentages of HA in the composites. DSC showed that the glass transition temperature (T_g) of the PSU was not affected by the incorporation of HA. Rheological tests indicated that unfilled PSU and the composites exhibited pseudoplastic flow behaviour.

A bioactive composite material consisting of hydroxyapatite (HA) ceramic particles and high density polyethylene (HDPE) has been developed in recent years for hard tissue replacement. In this investigation, HA/HDPE composites were produced and characterised, with the rheological behaviour of both filled and unfilled polyethylene being studied in detail. The composite powders, with the HA volume percentage of up to 30% were produced by a manufacturing process which consisted of compounding and milling. A weight driven capillary rheometer was used for the rheological tests. Parameters that were studied included viscosity, shear rate, shear stress, temperature, die swell and extrudate distortion. Both filled and unfilled HDPE exhibited discontinuity in the shear rate curves, which is believed to have been caused by the extensive entanglement network in the HDPE matrix. The HDPE and HA/HDPE melts showed pseudoplasticity. Melt viscosity increased as the HA content increased in the composites. Extrudate distortion and die swell were reduced significantly in the presence of HA particles.

The response of ecosystem to agricultural development can have good understanding of land use, the regional ecological environment change and maintaining the ecological balance, which has the vital significance to improve the utilization rate of land and agricultural development to promote the sustainable development of regional social economy. Advice and suggestions were given involving the climate change tendency in the country and problems in agricultural development. Proposals for carrying out cooperation in agriculture between the two sides were put forward.

Production is an essential notion for theory of mechanism, and to clarify its meaning brings about lots of difficulties. This article argues for an event-property theory which characterizes production as a particular property of event. That theory may provide a prospective solution for those difficulties.