Technological Capability Building in the Automotive Industry: Comparing China with South Korea

Why has China developed a huge automotive market without building up autonomous technological capability? While comparing China with South Korea’s experience, we argue that this phenomenon has to be understood in the context of a misleading and ineffective policy regime and a fragmented political structure, which in turn are associated with a disincentive market environment (sizable but unsophisticated demand) and China’s ongoing systemic restructuring that has so far been oriented toward management fragmentation. Keywords: China versus Korea; automotive industry; technological capabilit

Joint Venture Ongoing Negotiation: Approaches, Relational Antecedents, and Influence of National Culture

Business Administratio

Comparative Study on Sealing Technology of Gas Drainage Borehole in Soft Coal Seam

This paper discusses four kinds of hole sealing technologies for gas drainage in soft coal seam, which are polyurethane hole sealing, cement mortar hole sealing, full-length screen pipe hole sealing and pipe direct connection technology. Through the observation of negative pressure loss, the sealing effect of four sealing technologies is analyzed, the polyurethane sealing effect is poor, the cement mortar, the full-length screen pipe combined with cement mortar and the direct connection technology of pipe are good; through the observation of gas concentration, the gas drainage effect of four sealing technologies is analyzed, the polyurethane sealing technology is the worst, and the direct connection technology of pipe is the worst. The gas drainage effect is the best; according to the sealing effect and gas drainage effect, the traditional polyurethane and cement mortar sealing technology cannot meet the gas drainage demand of the soft coal seam. In the case of slow drilling deformation, the full-length screen pipe sealing technology can be used. In the case of rapid drilling deformation, the direct connection of pipe sealing technology should be used

Nucleic Acid Encoding Human REV1 Protein

The present invention relates to a human cDNA homologous to the yeast REV1 gene. The sequence of human REV1 (hREV1) gene is described

Over-expression of an S-domain receptor-like kinase extracellular domain improves panicle architecture and grain yield in rice.

The S-domain receptor kinase (SRK) comprises a highly polymorphic subfamily of receptor-like kinases (RLKs) originally found to be involved in the self-incompatibility response in Brassica. Although several members have been identified to play roles in developmental control and disease responses, the correlation between SRKs and yield components in rice is still unclear. The utility of transgenic expression of a dominant negative form of SRK, OsLSK1 (Large spike S-domain receptor like Kinase 1), is reported here for the improvement of grain yield components in rice. OsLSK1 was highly expressed in nodes of rice and is a plasma membrane protein. The expression of OsLSK1 responded to the exogenous application of growth hormones, to abiotic stresses, and its extracellular domain could form homodimers or heterodimers with other related SRKs. Over-expression of a truncated version of OsLSK1 (including the extracellular and transmembrane domain of OsLSK1 without the intracellular kinase domain) increased plant height and improve yield components, including primary branches per panicle and grains per primary branch, resulting in about a 55.8% increase of the total grain yield per plot (10 plants). Transcriptional analysis indicated that several key genes involved in the GA biosynthetic and signalling pathway were up-regulated in transgenic plants. However, full-length cDNA over-expression and RNAi of OsLSK1 transgenic plants did not exhibit a detectable visual phenotype and possible reasons for this were discussed. These results indicate that OsLSK1 may act redundantly with its homologues to affect yield traits in rice and manipulation of OsLSK1 by the dominant negative method is a practicable strategy to improve grain yield in rice and other crops