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Comprehensive Dynamic and Static Panel Model with its Application in Super Efficiency System Network
This article comparatively studies the performance of sanitation system under Super-efficiency- system Data Envelopment Analysis technology. Since the Super-efficiency-system Data Envelopment Analysis technology has the advantages such as ranking for comparison. The empirical results indicate that the efficiency of sanitation system shows an earlier raised and later decreased state in the sample interval. And the efficiency of eastern area is much higher than that of middle area and western area. Based on the performance evaluation model, this paper explores comprehensive static and dynamic models to investigate further the effect between the economic and social factors and the sanitation system performance. Research indicates that the sanitation system performance do have dynamic effects. And fiscal centralization, building sanitation performance oriented financial transfer payment system, and increasing per capital income can improve the performance of sanitation system in China
Using interference for high fidelity quantum state transfer in optomechanics
We revisit the problem of using a mechanical resonator to perform the
transfer of a quantum state between two electromagnetic cavities (e.g. optical
and microwave). We show that this system possesses an effective mechanical dark
state which is immune to mechanical dissipation; utilizing this feature allows
highly efficient transfer of intra-cavity states, as well as of itinerant
photon states. We provide simple analytic expressions for the fidelity of
transferring both Gaussian and non-Gaussian states.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
Characterization of a new feather-degrading bacterium from Calotes versicolor feces
A total of 842 spore-forming strains were isolated from 221 animal feces samples, in which a new feather-degrading bacterium identified as Bacillus sp. 50-3 based on morphological, biochemical and 16S rDNA tests was isolated from Calotes versicolor (an agamid lizard) feces. The bacterium can degrade native feather completely at mild conditions and in much shorter time (36 h) when using chicken feather as the sole carbon and nitrogen source. It presented optimum growth and maximum keratinase activity (680±25 U/ml, 36 h) at 37°C and pH 7.0 in feather meal medium. The keratinase of Bacillus sp. 50-3 was active on feather keratin as substrate and presented optimum additive quantity of 1.0% (w/v). So the high efficiency of Bacillus sp. 50-3 on feather-degradation suggested its potential use in biotechnological processes, especially in decreasing the environment pollution.Keywords: Animal feces, Bacillus, chicken feathers, keratinase, optimum conditions
Observation on health quality of life before and after the injection of antiangiogenic drug in vitreous cavity to patients with wet age-related macular degeneration
AbstractObjectiveTo explore the vision related health quality-of-life before and after the injection of antiangiogenic drug in vitreous cavity to patients with wet-AMD.MethodsThe 2000 edition of Visual Functioning Questionnaire-25 issued by National Eye Institute is applied, and the VRQL evaluation is conducted on the initial diagnosed patients with wet-AMD before and after the injection of ranibizumab drugs in vitreous cavity.ResultsAmong the wet-AMD patients, patients with better distance visual acuity before the intravitreal injection get lower VFQ-25 score; while after the vitreous cavity injection, the VFQ-25 questionnaire score is related to the explanation and nursing of doctors and nurses towards patients, the better the nursing, the higher the score.ConclusionBefore vitreous cavity injection, the degree of distance visual acuity is an important factor affecting VRQL of wet-AMD patients, in addition, the explanation and nursing of doctors and nurses toward patients during pre-operation, intra-operation and post-operation of intravitreal injection are also the import factors affecting VROL
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The effect of mandatory regulation on corporate social responsibility reporting quality: evidence from China
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) disclosure has attracted attention from regulatory bodies and academics over the past few decades. Due to the unreliability resulted from CSR voluntary disclosure, an increasing number of researchers are calling for more government regulation on CSR disclosure. Based on 1830 standalone CSR reports disclosed by the Chinese-listed firms during 2009-2012, we examine the effect of mandatory regulation on CSR
reporting quality. We further hypothesize and test for the moderating effect of firm size and other characteristics on
the link between government regulation on CSR reporting quality. Our results suggest that government mandatory
regulation leads to an overall improvement in CSR reporting quality. We also find that this positive effect is greater
when firms are larger and have better financial performance, but less when firms are controlled by government. Our study provides a direct answer to the recent calling for mandatory disclosure on CSR reports, and helps to understand why recent studies of social disclosure regulation suggest that government interventions do not seem to resolve the problems that are generally attributed to voluntary disclosures. Our findings should be of interest to the academics,
regulators, and investors
Quantitative analysis of insulin-like growth factor 2 receptor and insulin-like growth factor binding proteins to identify control mechanisms for insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor phosphorylation
Experimental results for the determination of internalization rates for IGF1-IGF1R, IGF2-IGF1R, IGF2-IGF2R. (PDF 162Ă‚Â kb
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