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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
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.
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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.
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
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
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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)
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