Economic Diplomacy of China in Africa

This study is about economic diplomacy of China in Africa. It describes development of China-Africa relations, their current form and examines, whether less democratic countries trade more with China than the democratic ones. The study is divided into four chapters. The first one defines economic diplomacy theoretically. The second one focuses on China-Africa relationship from its history up to establishing of Forum on China-Africa Cooperation. It also describes motives of China-Africa cooperation, stressing China's energy dependance. The third chapter describes development of China-Africa trade, Chinese foreign direct investments and development aid and pros and cons of China's presence in Africa. The last chapter examines relationship between level of democracy in african countries and their trade with China

Additional file 6: of Transcriptomic and proteomic analyses of core metabolism in Clostridium termitidis CT1112 during growth on α-cellulose, xylan, cellobiose and xylose

Expression values and Znet values of genes and gene products identified in C. termitidis cultured under various substrate conditions. Normalized proteomic Z-scores Pnet are represented as: (i) P0: xylose grown cells – cellobiose grown cells; (ii) P1: α-cellulose grown cells – cellobiose grown cells; and (iii) P2: xylan grown cells – cellobiose grown cells. Normalized transcriptomic Z-scores Rnet are represented as: (i) R0: xylose grown cells – cellobiose grown cells; (ii) R1: α-cellulose grown cells – cellobiose grown cells; and (iii) R2: xylan grown cells – cellobiose grown cells. For any protein or RNA transcripts, a negative value represents higher expression on cellobiose, while a positive value represents higher expression in any of the other corresponding substrate. Signal to Noise ratios (S/N) of individual genes under two comparing conditions are given. S/N0: xylose grown cells vs cellobiose grown cells; S/N1: α-cellulose grown cells – cellobiose grown cells; S/N2: xylan grown cells – cellobiose grown cells. Genes with a S/N value 2.8 or greater have a false discovery rate (FDR) 10 % or less. CB, Cellobiose; AC, α-cellulose; Numbers in brackets indicate biological replicate. (XLSX 817 kb