Impact of Financial Development and Foreign Direct Investment on Investment Allocation Efficiency in China : An Evidence Based the Industrial Panel Data

Using China’s provincial panel data set containing 17 industries from 2006 to 2012, we assess the effect of financial development and foreign direct investment (FDI) on the allocation of China’s industrial investment, based on two investment allocation efficiency indicators, the industrial sales elasticity of total fixed assets and the industrial value added elasticity of total fixed assets, respectively. When using the sales elasticity of total fixed assets to indicate investment allocation efficieng, we find that FDI and stock market activities had negative effects while investment allocation efficiency was spurred by domestic bank loan whose impact was largely reduced by FDI, and loan to the private sector had a mild influence on investment allocation efficiency. Contradictory results are obtained by using industrial value added elasticity of total fixed assets as the indicator of the investment allocation efficiency, which could be attributed to the fact that China\u27s FDI was below the minimum threshold value to fully promote the optimization of domestic bank loan but reached that for loans to the private sector. Furthermore, stock market has a positive effect on investment allocation efficiency and barely any crowding out effect on FDI. Therefore, policy-makers should carefully consider the economic condition, the development plan and location when choosing the optimal investment scheme, and gradually switch the sales-driven investment strategy to that aiming at increasing industrial value-added

N′-(3,5-Dibromo-2-hy­droxy­benzyl­idene)-4-nitro­benzohydrazide methanol monosolvate

The title compound, C14H9Br2N3O4·CH4O, was obtained as the product of the reaction of 3,5-dibromo­salicyl­aldehyde with 4-nitro­benzohydrazide in methanol. The benzohydrazide mol­ecule is nearly planar, with a maximum deviation of 0.126 (2) Å. The mean planes of the two benzene rings make a dihedral angle of 9.3 (3)°. Intra­molecular O—H⋯N and O—H⋯Br inter­actions are observed in the benzohydrazide mol­ecule. In the crystal, pairs of adjacent benzohydrazide mol­ecules are linked by two methanol mol­ecules through inter­molecular O—H⋯O and N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds, forming a dimer

Ethyl 3-{[(3-methyl­anilino)(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)methyl­idene]amino}-1-benzofuran-2-carboxyl­ate

The crystal structure of the title compound, C21H19N5O3, is stabilized by inter­molecular N—H⋯N and C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds. The mol­ecule contains a planar [maximum deviations = −0.026 (1) and 0.027 (2) Å] benzofuran ring system, which forms dihedral angles of 78.75 (8) and 39.78 (7)° with the benzene and triazole rings, respectively

Vector Approximate Message Passing based Channel Estimation for MIMO-OFDM Underwater Acoustic Communications

Accurate channel estimation is critical to the performance of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) underwater acoustic (UWA) communications, especially under multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) scenarios. In this paper, we explore Vector Approximate Message Passing (VAMP) coupled with Expected Maximum (EM) to obtain channel estimation (CE) for MIMO OFDM UWA communications. The EM-VAMP-CE scheme is developed by employing a Bernoulli-Gaussian (BG) prior distribution for the channel impulse response, and hyperparameters of the BG prior distribution are learned via the EM algorithm. Performance of the EM-VAMP-CE is evaluated through both synthesized data and real data collected in two at-sea UWA communication experiments. It is shown the EM-VAMP-CE achieves better performance-complexity tradeoff compared with existing channel estimation methods.Comment: Journal:IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering(Date of Submission:2022-06-25

Hepatoprotective Effects of Total Triterpenoids and Total Flavonoids from Vitis vinifera L against Immunological Liver Injury in Mice

Suosuo grape (the fruits of Vitis vinifera L) has been used for prevention and treatment of liver diseases in Uighur folk medicine in China besides its edible value. In this study, the hepatoprotective effects of total triterpenoids (VTT) and total flavonoids (VTF) from Suosuo grape were evaluated in Bacille-Calmette-Guerin- (BCG-) plus-lipopolysaccharide- (LPS-) induced immunological liver injury (ILI) in mice. Various dose groups (50, 150, and 300 mg/kg) of VTT and VTF alleviated the degree of liver injury of ILI mice, effectively reduced the BCG/LPS-induced elevated liver index and spleen index, hepatic nitric oxide (NO), and malondialdehyde (MDA) content, increased liver homogenate alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) levels, and restored hepatic superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity in ILI mice. VTT and VTF also significantly inhibited intrahepatic expression of Th1 cytokines (IFN-γ and IL-2) in ILI mice and increased intrahepatic expression of Th2 cytokines (IL-4 and IL-10). Moreover, the increased Bax/Bcl-2 ratio was significantly downregulated by VTT and VTF in liver tissue of ILI mice. These results are comparable to those of biphenyl dicarboxylate (DDB, the reference hepatoprotective agent) and suggest that VTT and VTF play a protective role against immunological liver injury, which may have important implications for our understanding of the immunoregulatory mechanisms of this plant

The impact of electronic health records on risk management of information systems in Australian residential aged care homes

To obtain indications of the influence of electronic health records (EHR) in managing risks and meeting information system accreditation standard in Australian residential aged care (RAC) homes. The hypothesis to be tested is that the RAC homes using EHR have better performance in meeting information system standards in aged care accreditation than their counterparts only using paper records for information management. Content analysis of aged care accreditation reports from the Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency produced between April 2011 and December 2013. Items identified included types of information systems, compliance with accreditation standards, and indicators of failure to meet an expected outcome for information systems. The Chi-square test was used to identify difference between the RAC homes that used EHR systems and those that used paper records in not meeting aged care accreditation standards. 1,031 (37.4%) of 2,754 RAC homes had adopted EHR systems. Although the proportion of homes that met all accreditation standards was significantly higher for those with EHR than for homes with paper records, only 13 RAC homes did not meet one or more expected outcomes. 12 used paper records and nine of these failed the expected outcome for information systems. The overall contribution of EHR to meeting aged care accreditation standard in Australia was very small. Risk indicators for not meeting information system standard were no access to accurate and appropriate information, failure in monitoring mechanisms, not reporting clinical incidents, insufficient recording of residents\u27 clinical changes, not providing accurate care plans, and communication processes failure. The study has provided indications that use of EHR provides small, yet significant advantages for RAC homes in Australia in managing risks for information management and in meeting accreditation requirements. The implication of the study for introducing technology innovation in RAC in Australia is discussed