An empirical research on relationship between economic growth and atmospheric pollution in China-Based on the panel data analysis approach

The aim of this thesis is to research the relationship between economic growth and atmospheric pollution in China based on Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis. Three atmospheric pollutants are mainly tested in this research including industrial sulphur dioxide, industrial dust and industrial soot. Based on provincial economic and environmental data over 1991-2010, panel approach is applied to study the possible relationship. The result of unit root tests and cointegration test show that there exists the long-run cointegrating relationship between the emission of two pollutants and per capita GDP. According to the panel estimation results from OLS estimator, the relationship between emission and per capita GDP is inverse N-shaped. However, dust-GDP relation can be considered as inverted U-shaped for the reason that per capita GDP of left turning point is too small (314 Yuan)

A New Health Informatics Course: A Funded Collaboration

Information access is considered critical to the public health workforce, which involves informatics, communication, analytic assessment, and health education (NN/LM Public Health Training Workgroup, 2004). Information-oriented outreach to the public health workforce is challenging to libraries because the public health workforce is made up of diverse health professions and public health personnel are not aware if key information resources are available to them (Cogdill, 2007). The National Library of Medicine (NLM) funded information outreach to the public health workforce projects in different periods of time, which altogether reflect challenges of providing public health professionals with access to electronic health information resources and the importance of establishing partnerships with public health agencies and institutions

The IMLS Minority Scholarship Initiative

The IMLS Minority Scholarship Initiative at the University of Southern Mississippi’s School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) is a three-year (2009-2012) project to increase the number of underrepresented minority librarians in the state. Southern Miss SLIS (Xinyu Yu, Principle Investigator) and University Libraries (Ann Branton, Co-Principle Investigator) have partnered with the Mississippi Library Association (MLA) and the Mississippi Library Commission (MLC) for the recruitment of students and professional mentoring. Through targeted recruiting of minority undergraduates in Mississippi\u27s universities and colleges, the project awarded IMLS-funded scholarships to support 10 students earning a master\u27s degree in librarianship

Rail, rivers, road or air : which infrastructure promotes growth in China?

We examine the relationship between growth in transportation and economic output across Chinese provinces from 2005-2014. Panel GMM methods evaluate the impact of changes in air, conventional rail, HSR, roads, and waterways turnover volume on provincial output growth. GMM estimates demonstrate that rail and roads significantly affect economic growth; rail’s impact is particularly significant and its estimates are economically large for agriculture and manufacturing output. In contrast, air, HSR and water usage do not contribute to economic growth. Impulse responses indicate that rail and roads considerably affect GDP growth across China, and there is bi-causality between transportation and economic growth. Cost-benefit analysis highlights that the benefit of roads, and particularly rail, outweigh the costs of infrastructure spending.peer-reviewe