9,320 research outputs found
Github_repository_Account-Huiying123_Populus_speciation
No full textThis archive contains an archive version from the Huiying Shang's GitHub repository (https://github.com/Huiying123/Populus_speciation). This archive contains all the scripts (perl, R, and bash) and programs to reproduce the work done by Huiying Shang et al. 2021 ("Conserved drivers of genomic landscapes of differentiation across Populus divergence gradient", BioRxiv, available here).
The programs and related analysis are sorted in that order:
population_snp_calling
01.kinship
02.structure
03.fastEPRR
04.angsd
05.sweepfinder
06.treemix
07.fd
08.LD
In each folder, you will find the scripts, which are also sorted in ascending order of numbers. Do not hesitate to report us the potential issue:[email protected];[email protected]. Before reporting us a potential error, please test the program alone in order to exclude a problem during the compiling/installation of the software.non
Does corruption relieve foreign investors of the burden of taxes and capital controls?
No full textIn a sample of fourteen source countries making bilateral investments in forty five countries, the author finds that taxes, capital controls, and corruption, all have large, statistically significant negative effects on foreign investment. Moreover, there is no robust support in the data for the"efficient grease"hypothesis - that corruption helps attract foreign investment by reducing firms'tax burden and the irritant of capital controls.International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Capital Markets and Capital Flows,Decentralization,Fiscal&Monetary Policy,Economic Theory&Research,Economic Theory&Research,International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Governance Indicators,National Governance,Capital Flows
Inhibition of histone deacetylase 3 via RGFP966 facilitates unusually accurate cue memory for excitatory and inhibitory cue-reward associations
No full textEpigenetic mechanisms are key for regulating long-term memory (LTM) and are known to exert control on memory formation in multiple systems of the adult brain, including the sensory cortex. One epigenetic mechanism is chromatin modification by histone acetylation. Blocking the action of histone de-acetylases (HDACs) that normally negatively regulate LTM usually by repressing transcription, has been shown to enable memory formation. Indeed, HDAC inhibition appears to facilitate memory by altering the dynamics of gene expression events for consolidation, however less understood is how molecular-level consolidation processes alter subsequent memory for enhanced storage or retrieval. Here we used a sensory perspective to investigate from a behavioral-level whether the characteristics of memory formed with HDAC inhibitors are different from naturally-formed memory. One possibility is that HDAC-inhibition enables memory to form with greater sensory detail than normal. Because the auditory system undergoes learning-induced remodeling that provides substrates for sound-specific LTM, we aimed to identify behavioral effects of HDAC-inhibition on memory for specific sound features using a standard model of auditory associative cue-reward learning. We found that three systemic post-training treatments of an HDAC3-inhibitor (RGPF966, Abcam Inc.) in rats in the early phase of training facilitated auditory discriminative learning, and increased the specificity for acoustic frequency formed in memory of both excitatory (CS+) and inhibitory (CS-) associations for at least 2 weeks. The findings support that epigenetic mechanisms act on the sensory acuity and precision of memory, which can be revealed by studying the sensory aspects of long-term associative memory formation with HDAC inhibitors
Domestic Institutions and the Bypass Effect of Financial Globalization
No full textThis paper proposes a simple model to study the relationship between domestic institutions - financial system, corporate governance, and property rights protection - and patterns of international capital flows. It studies conditions under which financial globalization can be a substitute for reforms of domestic financial system. Inefficient financial system and poor corporate governance in a country may be completely bypassed by two-way capital flows in which domestic savings leave the country in the form of financial capital outflows but domestic investment takes place via inward foreign direct investment. While financial globalization always improves the welfare of a developed country with a good financial system, its effect is ambiguous for a developing country with an inefficient financial sector/poor corporate governance. However, the net effect for a developing country is more likely to be positive, the stronger its property rights protection. This is consistent with the observation that developed countries are often more enthusiastic about capital account liberalization around the world than many developing countries. A noteworthy feature of this theory is that financial and property rights institutions can have different effects on capital flows.
Service Offshoring and Productivity: Evidence from the United States
No full textThe practice of sourcing service inputs from overseas suppliers has been growing in response to new technologies that have made it possible to trade in some business and computing services that were previously considered non-tradable. This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000. It finds that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 10 percent of labor productivity growth during this period. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the magnitude is smaller accounting for approximately 5 percent of productivity growth.
A New Trend in the "National Studies Fever" of the Post-May Fourth Era The Establishment of National Studies Departments in Universities and Its Outcomes
No full textThe establishment of departments of national studies in Chinese universities was the result of the "national studies fever" in the post May Fourth era as a discipline interacting with the development of higher education in the country. These departments became gathering places for scholars from all disciplines to defend and promote traditional cultural values. They differed in what they focused on in their respective missions; some concentrated on language and literature, others on history and philosophy, as well as language and literature. Obviously, the establishment of these departments did not fit the historical period of the time. Their fate of disintegration was hence expected. However, the disappearance of national studies departments does not indicate the disappearance of national studies as a discipline, as many of the topics of investigation in the field have since been reincarnated in the research programs of departments of language and literature, history, and philosophy. Besides, a look back at the rise and fall of national studies departments reveals that the influence of the May Fourth movement on higher education was more limited than has hitherto been assumed.http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000283622900002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=8e1609b174ce4e31116a60747a720701HistoryAsian StudiesA&HCI0ARTICLE46-194
Ritual or lethal? Bronze weapons in late Shang China
No full textLarge-scale bronze production is one of the most salient features of late Shang China (c.1200–1050 BC). Copper-alloy weapons were cast in extraordinary quantities and varieties as shown by the rich burial assemblages known from the period. However, their practical usages are not yet well-understood, and scholars speculate whether the weapons were functional implements or symbolic/prestige items. The chapter discusses the first wear analysis ever undertaken on Chinese Shang weaponry. The analysis has revealed a number of marks, which shed light on the manufacturing process, use, deposition and post-recovery alterations of the weapons. It has also challenged traditional typological classification of Shang weapons and argues for a holistic approach to weapon studies in Chinese archaeology
Liberation As Affirmation: The Religiosity of Zhuangzi And Nietzsche
No full textIn this book, author Ge Ling Shang provides a systematic comparison of original texts by Zhuangzi (fourth century BCE) and Nietzsche (1846–1900), under the rubric of religiosity, to challenge those who have customarily relegated both thinkers to relativism, nihilism, escapism, pessimism, or anti-religion. Shang closely examines Zhuangzi’s and Nietzsche’s respective critiques of metaphysics, morals, language, knowledge, and humanity in general and proposes a conception of the philosophical outlooks of Zhuangzi and Nietzsche as complementary. In the creative and vital spirit of Nietzsche, as in the tranquil and inward spirit of Zhuangzi, Shang argues that a surprisingly similar vision and aspiration toward human liberation and freedom exists—one in which spiritual transformation is possible by religiously affirming life in this world as sacred and divine.https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/philosophy_books/1000/thumbnail.jp
Review of \u3ci\u3eYoung People Leaving State Care in China\u3c/i\u3e. Xiaoyuan Shang and Karen R. Fisher. Reviewed by Mingyang Zheng.
No full textReview of:
Xiaoyuan Shang and Karen R. Fisher, Young People Leaving State Care in China. Policy Press at the University of Bristol (2017), 264 pages, $120.00 (hardcover)
Do Loss Firms Abuse R&D Investments?
No full text盈餘虧損頻率與研究發展投資均逐年上升，但虧損與研究發展投資的關係尚未被完全釐清。本研究以公司行為理論說明虧損公司增加研究發展投資的動機，另以展望理論分析虧損公司的風險偏好，並分析虧損對研究發展投資決策與此類投資決策對未來盈餘的影響。研究結果發現，相較於獲利公司，虧損公司有較多的研究發展投資，與公司行為理論相符。虧損公司的研究發展投資，並隨虧損擴大而增加，符合展望理論。換言之，展望動機是"虧損所誘發的研究發展投資"的重要因素。從未來盈餘績效來看，研究結果顯示展望動機所誘發的研究發展投資與未來盈餘成負向關聯，而高品質的財務報導能減少虧損公司過度投資(研究發展計劃)，進而紓緩因展望動機所誘發的無效率研究發展投資。Both the frequency of negative earnings and R&D investment have been increasing. However, the relation between these two variables has not been fully explored. This study uses the behavioral theory of firm to explain loss firms'' motivation to increase R&D and prospect theory to analyze loss firms'' risk attitudes in terms of their R&D decision and the future financial performance of the loss-induced R&D. Results show that negative earnings induce firms to invest more in R&D, consistent with the behavioral theory. Further, R&D investment increases as firms'' earnings become more negative, as proposed by the prospect theory. In other words, the prospect incentive is a critical factor of the “loss-induced” R&D. As regarding future operating performance, results indicate that prospect-based R&D is negatively associated with future earnings, and I further find that higher financial reporting quality curbs such unproductive activities by reducing loss firms'' overinvestment in R&D
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