Projected Images of Major Chinese Outbound Destinations

This study aimed to explore the projected images of major outbound destinations based on popular travel magazines in China. Travel articles on Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and Taiwan from 2006 to 2008 were content analyzed. Japan was reported on most, and the projected images of the six destinations are dominated by leisure and recreation, and culture, history and art. Correspondence analysis was used to examine relationships between destinations and popular image attributes. The results showed that South Korea and Macau had distinct projected images, whereas Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Vietnam shared many similar image attributes. Practical implications for destination marketing organizations are provided

Process development and kinetic analysis of a protein-free hybridoma perfusion system

NRC publication: Ye

Filtration-Based Perfusion by Hybridoma Cultures in Protein-Free Medium: Reduction of Membrane Fouling my Medium Supplementation with DNase 1

NRC publication: Ye

GeneCrunch: Experiences on the SGI POWER CHALLENGEarray with Bioinformatics applications

Analyzing genomic data is a computationally intensive and complicated process in which scientists must typically choose among multiple databases and analysis methods and make expert judgements inspecting multiple results. GeneQuiz, an automated software system for large scale genome analysis developed at the EMBL/EBI, tackles this problem by using an automated, rigorous, rule-based system to select among the results of sequence analysis and database searches, builds informative annotation and aims at predicting the function of new genes. In a demonstration project more than 6000 proteins from the Baker’s yeast, for which the complete genomic sequence was completed in 1996, were analyzed on a Silicon Graphics POWERCHALLENGEarray with 64 processors (R8000 @90 MHz) so that the analysis could be completed in 3 days. The results of the analysis were published on two web servers as they were computed

A ‘powerful weapon’? Tax, avoidance, and the politics of celebrity shaming

In the years following the global financial crisis, the tax affairs of celebrities began to receive significant critical attention in the UK press. ‘Tax shaming’ has been welcomed as a significant weapon in the fight for tax justice: it is argued that in lieu of the government action needed to close loopholes in tax law, the threat of public condemnation serves to deter would-be tax avoiders. Focusing on news stories about celebrity tax avoiders, this article complicates this prevailing view of tax shaming. Drawing on cultural studies and cultural economy approaches, I argue that commentators have overlooked the forms of identification that tax shaming stories afford. Through a discussion of the discursive figure of the beleaguered ‘taxpayer’ in neoliberal culture, I propose that celebrity tax shaming consolidates identification with this subject position, deepening anti-tax sentiment. Stories that ostensibly ‘shame’ celebrities also support identification with the figure of the tax avoider, perpetuating fantasies of avoidance, evasion and escape. The article concludes that tax shaming contributes to the formation of emergent taxation imaginaries, animating politically salient conceptions of the ‘taxpayer’ and of avoidance that tend to promote logics of tax efficiency and minimization