The Social and Cultural Factors for Institution-Care Pension in Urban China, With Chengdu City as an Example

Objective: Institution-care pension become an common choice. Background: With the development of economy, urbanization, and cultural diversification, the graying of Chinese society, is markedly increasing, during transitional period. Method: Using binary logistic regression, this paper analyzes the form, social and cultural factors, and influence mechanisms of institution-care pension, using Chengdu City as a case. Conclusion: Habit differences of old people and adult and worrying about being discriminated against are significant to institution-care pension of the old. Furthermore, considerate pension service, family members are not around, and reducing family conflicts might also affect the institution-care pension. Among them, habit differences of old people and adult have the most significant effect. Application: The institution-care pension in China is critical to the social well-being of senior citizens and the sustainable development of society, as well as to the formulation of related government policies

Structural Insights into Plant Cell Proliferation Disturbance by Agrobacterium Protein 6B

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Politeness Strategies of Chinese in A Talk Show “If You Are The One”

Based on discourse of a Chinese talk show, this study aims to test and verify Brown & Levinson’s (hereafter B&L) theory of politeness. Politeness is culture specific, and in this respect, the term of “face” provides more evidence. Adopting descriptive text analysis, this study analysed the transcriptions of a popular Chinese TV show If You Are the One on a rhetorical level in the context of Chinese culture. The present study reveals that politeness strategies are prevalent in If You Are the One, with the majority of them being positive politeness strategies, which contradict with B&L’s claim that people tend to select negative politeness as their preference, while bald on-record and off-record ones occurring rarely among the texts. The result shows that B&L’s politeness model provides us directions about the affecting elements of Chinese interaction on its validity. Under positive politeness, the author added three subcategories, namely speaking, “approbation of L”, “showing gratitude”, and “saving face for L”. The original typology presented by B&L may reflect a western cultural bias, but necessitating validation efforts for each culture is research worthy. Chinese peculiar culture contributes a lot to the result, which hints a further research in the future

How Does Targeted Poverty Alleviation Policy Influence Residents' Perceptions of Rural Living Conditions? A Study of 16 Villages in Gansu Province, Northwest China

Rural living conditions (RLCs) in China are influential on the overall development and stability of regions, particularly for populations in distant poverty-stricken villages. This paper takes 16 villages of Chedao town in Gansu province, Northwest China (NWC) as our case study. Using data from the Poverty Alleviation and Assistance (PAA) project launched by Lanzhou University in June 2017, and the perceptions of residents of Chedao, we pinpoint RLC changes in the targeted poverty alleviation (TPA) process. The three main results show that: (1) From the residents' perceptions, the impact of alleviation measures on RLC is mainly reflected in improved housing conditions, infrastructure, and public services. We find no significant effect on cultural conditions. However, eco-environmental conditions have obviously weakened. (2) Housing size, accessibility, distance to shops, and safe drinking water are the most significant factors in housing conditions, infrastructure, public services, and eco-environmental conditions, respectively. (3) Out of the different levels of rural poverty households (RPHs), severe rurality villages are more strongly aware of the positive changes in RLC than residents of mild rurality villages. Moreover, in residents' view, housing conditions are most improved in severe rurality villages, infrastructure is most improved in moderate rurality villages, and public services are most improved in mild rurality villages. Eco-environmental conditions worsen across all levels. Our findings shed light on the perceptions of residents on changes occurring in rural living conditions, and provide a basis for subsequent studies of RLC in Northwest China

The Strong Consistency of the Estimator of Fixed-Design Regression Model under Negatively Dependent Sequences

We study the strong consistency of estimator of fixed design regression model under negatively dependent sequences by using the classical Rosenthal-type inequality and the truncated method. As an application, the strong consistency for the nearest neighbor estimator is obtained

Regional Differences of the Driving Factors and Decoupling Effect of Carbon Emissions : Evidence from China\u27s Pollution-Intensive Industry

The completed decomposition model combined with the decoupling index is used to analyze the contribution of each factor which influences energy related CO2 emission in 15 regions over the period 2000-2012. The results show that the major factors that influence CO2 emission in areas are industrial output effect and energy intensity effect, followed by the industrial structure effect, while the energy structure and energy emission intensity have a smaller effect. Moreover, a reduction potential model is implemented in order to investigate the emission reduction potential of regions and sub-industrial sectors. It is found that although most governments showed great enthusiasm in promoting emission reduction, most regions present no decoupling effect. It indicates that emission reduction efforts have not always proven effective till now, therefore, most regions, including Beijing, have great energy saving and emission reduction potential

Gonad transcriptome analysis reveals the differences in gene expression related to sex-biased and reproduction of clam Cyclina sinensis

Sexual differentiation and gonad development are important biological processes for bivalve species. The clam Cyclina sinensis is an important cultured marine bivalve widely distributed along with the coastal areas of China. However, the information related to sexual determination/differentiation and gonadal development of C. sinensis almost has no reported. To study the molecular mechanisms of its sexual determination/differentiation and gonadal development, transcriptome analysis was performed in the gonad of C. sinensis, and the potential biological functions of reproduction-related gene were also investigated in this study. The results showed that 1 013 and 427 genes were differentially expressed in the ovary and testis, respectively. KEGG enrichment analysis showed that the DEGs in the gonad were significantly clustered in progesterone-mediated oocyte maturation, cell cycle and oocyte meiosis. Further analysis showed that 23 genes were mainly involved in sex determination/differentiation, including Dmrt1, Sox2/4/9, Foxl2, β-catenin and GATA-type zinc finger protein 1-like. Twenty key genes were mainly involved in the process of spermatogenesis, and five genes encode steroid biosynthesis and metabolism. Fifteen genes related to ovarian development were also identified in this study, such as Vitellogenin, MAM and LDL-receptor class A domain-containing protein 1 and Cell division cycle protein 20 homolog. Moreover, 50µg/L estradiol treatment significantly up-regulated the expression levels of CsVg in the ovary and hepatopancreas. These results highlight the genes involved in sexual determination/differentiation and gonadal development, which enhance our understanding for further studies of reproduction and breeding of C. sinensis and other marine bivalves