CONSUMER ACCEPTANCE OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS

Results from an Ohio survey indicate that respondents are willing to pay a premium, ranging from 5% for non-GM vegetable oil to 28% for non-GM salmon. Estimated consumer willingness to pay for non-GM foods varies among demographic groups with female, those aged between 35 and 60, and non-White respondents willing to pay a higher premium than others.Consumer/Household Economics, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies,

From Matsu to Taiwan: An Initial Report of Migration, Kinship and Intimacy

The 13th Next-Generation Global Workshop第13回次世代グローバルワークショップテーマ: New Risks and Resilience in Asian Societies and the World 日程: 21-23 November, 2020 開催場所: ベトナム社会科学院(ハノイ)/Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences(No. 1 Lieu Giai street, Ba Dinh, Hanoi, Vietnam) ※Due to the COVID-19, the workshop will be held at ONLINE for overseas participants(not from Vietnam)/ONSITE for Vietnamese participants.This research focuses on a migrant family who had moved from the Matsu Islands to Taiwan's main island from 1970 to 1990. Five Matsu migrants from one family have participated in semi-structured interviews exploring their family history of migration and their individual development of relationships with family members and romantic partners. This study investigates their kinship networking utilizing the idea of chain migration, the intergenerational relationships between parents and children of the migrants' families, and the second-generation children's mate selection regarding migration background in Taiwan. This study's findings suggest that their Matsu kinship relationship has significant functions with regard to the family's movement, employment, and settlement in Taiwan. The family members needed their relatives' assistance in regard to information about transportation and job-seeking before migration. Later together they were able to share a house and food with more relatives, especially with those who came for work and not yet moved their home to Taiwan. As to the intergenerational relationship among the interviewed family members and their kin, the second-generation migrants have shown relatively strong responsibility to their parents with frequent visiting and warm bonding. They built their social relationships in Taiwan through education and employment. None of the interviewed children from the original family married to partners with the same Matsu background. With perspectives of family and migration studies, this research provides a preliminary analysis of Matsu migrants' kinship, family, and intimate relationships after migrating to Taiwan

Tunneling Qubit Operation on a Protected Josephson Junction Array

We discuss a protected quantum computation process based on a hexagon Josephson junction array. Qubits are encoded in the punctured array, which is topologically protected. The degeneracy is related to the number of holes. The topological degeneracy is lightly shifted by tuning the flux through specific hexagons. We also show how to perform single qubit operation and basic quantum gate operations in this system.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures. The published version in Phys. Rev., A81(2010)01232

Quantum correlations in topological quantum phase transitions

We study the quantum correlations in a 2D system that possesses a topological quantum phase transition. The quantumness of two-body correlations is measured by quantum discord. We calculate both the correlation of two local spins and that of an arbitrary spin with the rest of the lattice. It is notable that local spins are classically correlated, while the quantum correlation is hidden in the global lattice. This is different from other systems which are not topologically orderd. Moreover, the mutual information and global quantum discord show critical behavior in the topological quantum phase transition.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure