Trading Strategies: Earning More in Investment

Gold and bitcoin are not new to us, but with limited cash and time, given only the past stream of the daily price of gold and bitcoin, it is a kind of new problem for us to develop a certain model and determine the best strategy to get the most return. Here, our team members analyzed the data provided and finally made a unified system of models to predict the price and evaluate the risk and return in our act of investment, and we name this series of models and measurements as CTP Model. This is a model which can determine and describe what transaction should the trader make each day and what is the certain maximum return he will get under different risk levels

Is there life? Is there spirit? Debating belief and being a good Christian in Watchman Nee’s ‘Little Flock’ : Religions

Funding: This research was funded by the Shanghai Social Science Innovation Research Base, for ‘Research on Transitional Sociology with Chinese Characteristics’.Christian, especially Protestant, identity is often framed through the lens of belief, particularly belief understood as an interior orientation. Through an examination of the non-denominational Protestant group, the ‘Little Flock’, founded by Watchman Nee in the early 20th century, we trace enduring aspects of Little Flock theology in contemporary Chinese Protestant practice. In particular, we attend to conceptions of and debates surrounding belief and how to determine the quality of one’s faith—whether or not one might be considered not just a Christian, but a ‘good’ one.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe

El paisaje lingüístico chino-español en la ciudad de Valencia y su aplicación a la enseñanza de ELE a los sinohablantes

La presencia de los signos escritos en diferentes idiomas forma una parte imprescindible de nuestra vida cotidiana. Desde los rótulos comerciales hasta los carteles publicitarios que se encuentran por los espacios públicos, todo eso se ha convertido en un paisaje especial de las ciudades. El concepto Linguistic Landscape fue planteado por los dos investigadores Landry y Bourhis en 1997, el cual se traduce al español como “Paisaje Lingüístico”. Según ellos, los signos dentro del paisaje lingüístico se encargan de dos funciones principales, la función informativa y la simbólica. Debido a dichas funciones, no solo los contenidos lingüísticos sino también los otros elementos se suelen considerar en los estudios del paisaje lingüístico. Al ser una nueva orientación dentro del campo sociolingüístico, este fenómeno ha llamado la atención de los investigadores por todo el mundo, quienes lo analizan y lo aplican tanto al ámbito lingüístico como al ámbito social, económico, político, etc. Entre todas las aplicaciones del paisaje lingüístico, se destaca su utilización en el campo pedagógico y didáctico, lo cual ha sido una nueva dinámica para mejorar la enseñanza de idiomas. Teniendo en cuenta los diversos estudios realizados acerca del paisaje lingüístico y focalizados en una variedad de idiomas aparecidos en los signos, y también los aspectos inexplorados de las actuales investigaciones, esta tesis ha concentrado en lograr dos objetivos a través del análisis sobre el paisaje lingüístico. En primer lugar, se trata de mostrar el paisaje lingüístico chino-español en Valencia de España al investigar principalmente los signos monolingües chinos, bilingües chino-españoles y los signos monolingües españoles creados por los inmigrantes chinos resididos en Valencia, con el fin de revelar la situación lingüística de este grupo minoritario. En segundo lugar, se utilizan los signos del paisaje lingüístico como recursos y materiales relevantes para la enseñanza de español dirigida a los aprendices sinohablanates al aprovechar los descubrimientos obtenidos del paisaje lingüístico chino-español sobre las dificultades lingüísticas del grupo chino frente al aprendizaje del español. Con el cumplimiento de los dos objetivos principales, esta tesis pone de manifiesto que los inmigrantes chinos están bien integrados a la sociedad española, y a través de los signos creados por este grupo se puede observar que los sinohablantes están enfrente de dificultades lingüísticas del español tanto en el campo ortográfico y fonético-fonológico, como en el campo morfosintáctico y semántico. Además, la tesis ha demostrado que es realizable y significativo utilizar los signos del paisaje lingüístico en el aula de ELE y ha aportado propuestas diseñadas específicamente para los aprendices sinohablantes con diferentes niveles de español.The presence of signs written in different languages forms an essential part of our daily life. From the commercial signs to the advertising posters that are found in public spaces, all this has become a special landscape of the cities. The concept “Linguistic Landscape” was proposed by Landry and Bourhis in 1997, and has been translated into Spanish as Paisaje lingüístico. According to the two researchers, the signs in the area of the linguistic landscape have two main functions, the informative function and the symbolic function. Due to these functions, not only the linguistic contents but also the other elements are usually considered in the studies of linguistic landscape. As a new orientation within the sociolinguistic field, this phenomenon has attracted the attention of researchers from all over the world. They have analyzed and applied it both to the linguistic field and to the social, economic, political field, etc. Among all the applications of the linguistic landscape, it is necessary to point out its use in the pedagogical and didactic field, in which the signs of the linguistic landscape can be a new dynamic to improve the teaching of languages. Taking into account the various studies about the linguistic landscape which focused on a variety of languages appeared in the signs, and also the unexplored aspects of the current researches, this thesis has focused on achieving two objectives through the analysis of the linguistic landscape. First of all, it presents the Chinese-Spanish linguistic landscape in Valencia of Spain by investigating the Chinese monolingual signs, Chinese-Spanish bilingual signs and Spanish monolingual signs created by Chinese immigrants that resided in Valencia, in order to reveal the linguistic situation of this minority group. Secondly, signs of the linguistic landscape are used as relevant resources and materials for the teaching of Spanish to the Chinese learners by taking advantage of the discoveries about the linguistic difficulties that have the Chinese group when they learn Spanish. With the fulfillment of the two main objectives, this thesis reach the conclusion that the Chinese immigrants in Valencia are well integrated into the Spanish society, and through the signs created by this group it can be seen that the Chinese learners face a series of linguistic difficulties of Spanish both in the orthographic and phonetic-phonological field, as in the morphologic-syntactic and semantic field. In addition, this thesis has also proved that it is realizable and meaningful to use the signs of the linguistic landscape in the classroom of Spanish through the contribution of various proposals specifically designed for the Chinese learners with different levels of Spanish

El paisaje lingüístico: una nueva herramienta para la enseñanza de E/LE

El paisaje lingüístico se suele investigar dentro del campo sociolingüístico. A pesar de que han aparecido algunos estudios significativos en los que se aborda la relación relevante entre el paisaje lingüístico y la pedagogía o la didáctica, y a que algunos investigadores pioneros en el ámbito hispánico empiezan a utilizarlo como una herramienta nueva para la enseñanza de E/LE, esta orientación sigue siendo novedosa y se mantiene prácticamente inexplorada. El objetivo principal de este artículo consiste en introducir el concepto del paisaje lingüístico, realizar un repaso retrospectivo a su aplicación en la enseñanza del español, y plantear propuestas didácticas junto con un modelo detallado para demostrar que la inserción del paisaje lingüístico español puede ser una nueva dinámica para la clase de E/LE, y que los nuevos materiales de distintas modalidades consiguen fortalecer el estudio del español y ayudar a formar el aprendizaje incidental fuera del aula

Cytosine Modifications and Distinct Functions of TET1 on Tumorigenesis

Vast emerging evidences are linking the base modifications and gene expression involved in essential metabolic pathways. Among the base modification markers extensively studied, 5-methylcytosine (5mC) and its oxidative derivatives (5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5-hmC), 5-formylcytosine (5-fC), and 5-carboxylcytosine (5-caC)) dynamically occur in DNA and RNA and have been acknowledged as the important epigenetic markers involved in regulation of cellular biological processes. The modification of C has been characterized biochemically, molecularly, and phenotypically, including elucidation of its methyltransferase complexes (writer), demethylases (eraser), 10-11 translocation proteins (TETs), and direct interaction proteins (readers). The levels and the landscapes of these epigenetic markers in the epitranscriptomes and epigenomes are precisely and dynamically regulated by the fine-tuned coordination of the writers and erasers in accordance with stages of the growth, development, and reproduction as naturally programmed during the life span. In mammalian genome, the TET family is consisted of three members, including TET1, TET2, and TET3. The link between aberrant modifications and diseases, such as cancers, neurodegenerative disorders, and heart diseases, has been appreciated. This review article will highlight the research advances in the writers and erasers for the modifications of cytosine in genome, as well as the dual function of TET1 in tumorigenesis as a tumor suppressor and a promoter. Additionally, the future research directions are addressed