Study on Motivations and Cultivation of Cultural Industry Cluster in Jilin Province, China

Abstract Cultural industry is honored as one of the industries in the 21 st Century that has the greatest development prospect. With its innovativeness, competitiveness and value added, it has become the leading edge and high end among the emerging industries in the current world, and it has also become one of the characteristic industries that have the greatest development potential in transferring the economic growth mode, promoting swift and coordinated development of regional economy in the old industrial bases. Cultural industry is playing a more and more important role in development of regional economy. Cluster is an important feature of cultural industry and cluster development is an inexorable trend in development of cultural industry. Cultural industry in Jilin Province in recent years has been rapidly developed. Nevertheless, there still exist quite a lot of problems and drawbacks. Thus, Jilin Province should find out its own characteristic factors according to its local cultural characteristics and start out from improving cultural industry policy, constructing a cultural industry cluster pattern that has comparative advantages and local features, cultivating leading key cultural enterprises and balancing cultural industrial development of all cities so as to diminish gap between different areas and improving talent security system, do a good job in taking the path of cultural industry cluster development and form cluster scale effect

Direct and highly selective conversion of captured CO2 into methane through integrated carbon capture and utilization over dual functional materials

Excessive atmospheric CO2 emission is regarded as one of the main factors causing global climate change. Thus, there is an urgent need to explore the possibility of CO2 capture and converting the captured CO2 to fuels or value-added products. Recently, an integrated carbon capture and utilization (ICCU) process performed in a single reactor under isothermal conditions draws intensive attentions due to the reduction of energy requirement for sorbent regeneration. However, from literature, normally a low loading of sorbent in dual functional materials (DFMs) was applied resulting in a very low CO2 capture capacity and consequent low CH4 yield in the ICCU process. Herein, we demonstrate the intermediate-temperature DFMs using inexpensive high-capacity MgO sorbent. The synthesized DFMs are a physical mixture of sorbent and Ru/CeO2 catalyst by the mass ratio of 2:1 allowing simultaneous regeneration of sorbent and conversion of CO2 in a single reactor at 300 °C. During the 1st cycle of ICCU process, 10Ru/CeO2-MgO exhibits the best ICCU performance with the highest CH4 yield of 7.07 mmol g−1 and CO2 conversion of 89 %. However, after 10 cycles of ICCU process, 5Ru/CeO2-MgO exhibits the highest CH4 yield (3.36 mmol g−1) and CO2 conversion (79 %), which are much higher than that of 2.5Ru/CeO2-MgO (1.13 mmol g−1 and 39 %) and 10Ru/CeO2-MgO (2.31 mmol g−1 and 69 %). It is mainly attributed to that more oxygen vacancies are remained in 5Ru/CeO2-MgO resulted from the metal-support interaction

Aphrodisiac Use Associated with HIV Infection in Elderly Male Clients of Low-Cost Commercial Sex Venues in Guangxi, China: A Matched Case-Control Study

Background: Rising HIV infection rates have been observed among elderly people in Guangxi, China. Inexpensive aphrodisiacs are available for purchase in suburban and rural areas. This study aims to investigate the association between aphrodisiac use and increased HIV risk for middle-aged and elderly men in Guangxi. Methods: A matched case-control study of aphrodisiac use-associated HIV infection was performed among male subjects over 50 years old who were clients of low-cost commercial sex venues in Guangxi. The cases were defined as clients who were HIV-positive and two controls were selected for each case. The cases and the controls were matched on the visited sex venue, age (±3 years), number of years of purchasing sex (±3 years), and educational attainment. Subjects were interviewed and tested for HIV. Paired t-test or McNemar Chi-squared test were used to compare the characteristics between the cases and controls. A stepwise conditional logistic regression was used to identify risk factors associated with HIV infection. Findings: This study enrolled 103 cases and 206 controls. Aphrodisiac use (P = 0.02, odds ratio (OR) = 1.81, 95% CI = 1.08–3.04), never using condom during commercial sex encounter (P = 0.03, odds ratio (OR) = 1.82, 95% CI = 1.08–3.07), and lacking a stable partner (P = 0.03, odds ratio (OR) = 1.76, 95% CI = 1.05–2.98) were found to be risk factors for HIV infection among the study groups. For subjects reporting aphrodisiac use, the frequency of purchasing sex was positively correlated with the frequency of aphrodisiac use (r = 0.3; p = 0.02). Conclusions: Aphrodisiac use was significantly associated with increased HIV infection risk in men over 50 years old who purchased commercial sex in the suburban and rural areas of Guangxi. Further research and interventions should address the links between aphrodisiac use, commercial sex work, condom use, and increased HIV transmission

Integrated transcriptomics and metabolomics analyses of the effects of bagging treatment on carotenoid biosynthesis and regulation of Areca catechu L.

IntroductionFresh Aareca nut fruit for fresh fruit chewing commonly found in green or dark green hues. Despite its economic significance, there is currently insufficient research on the study of color and luster of areca. And the areca nut fruits after bagging showed obvious color change from green to tender yellow. In the study, we tried to explain this interesting variation in exocarp color.MethodsFruits were bagged (with a double-layered black interior and yellow exterior) 45 days after pollination and subsequently harvested 120 days after pollination. In this study, we examined the the chlorophyll and carotenoid content of pericarp exocarp, integrated transcriptomics and metabolomics to study the effects of bagging on the carotenoid pathway at the molecular level.ResultsIt was found that the chlorophyll and carotenoid content of bagged areca nut (YP) exocarp was significantly reduced. A total of 21 differentially expressed metabolites (DEMs) and 1784 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were screened by transcriptomics and metabolomics. Three key genes in the carotenoid biosynthesis pathway as candidate genes for qPCR validation by co-analysis, which suggested their role in the regulation of pathways related to crtB, crtZ and CYP707A.DiscussionWe described that light intensity may appear as a main factor influencing the noted shift from green to yellow and the ensuing reduction in carotenoid content after bagging

An analysis of farmers' perception of the new cooperative medical system in Liaoning Province, China

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Since 2003, the number of pilot areas of the New Rural Cooperative Medical System (NRCMS) has increased in rural China. And the major efforts have been concentrated on the enrollment of prospective members. In this study, we examined the satisfaction of the rural residents with the NRCMS as well as factors affecting their attitudes towards the NRCMS.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>The data for this study were collected from a survey involving twenty counties in Liaoning Province. Interviews and focus groups were conducted between 10^thJanuary and 20^thAugust 2008. A total of 2,780 people aged 18-72 were randomly selected and interviewed. Data were evaluated by nonparametric tests and ordinal regression models.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>71.6% of the study subjects were satisfied with the NRCMS. Single factor analysis showed that attitudes towards the NRCMS were influenced by gender, age, marital status, and self-rated health status. In the ordinal regression analysis, gender, age, and self-rated health status affect satisfaction (P < 0.05).</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>We found that a considerable proportion of farmers were satisfied with the NRCMS. Gender, age, and self-rated health status had significant effects on farmers' attitudes towards the NRCMS. The Chinese Central Government attempted to adopt active measures in the future to continuously improve the NRCMS, including initiating educational programs, building new medical facilities and increasing financial investment.</p

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The Phase-Dependent Regulation of Lux-Type Genes on the Spoilage Characteristics of <i>Hafnia alvei</i>

Hafnia alvei, a specific spoilage microorganism, has a strong capacity to destroy food protein and lead to spoilage. The aim of this study was to evaluate the phase-dependent regulation of lux-type genes on the spoilage characteristics of H. alvei H4. The auto-inducer synthase gene luxI and a regulatory gene luxR of the quorum sensing systems in H. alvei H4 were knocked out to construct the mutant phenotypes. On this basis, the research found that the luxI and luxR genes had a strong positive influence on not only flagella-dependent swimming ability and biofilm formation but also the production of putrescine and cadaverine. The luxR gene could downregulate putrescine production. The maximum accumulation of putrescine in wild type, ΔluxI, ΔluxR and ΔluxIR were detected at 24 h, reaching up to 695.23 mg/L, 683.02 mg/L, 776.30 mg/L and 724.12 mg/L, respectively. However, the luxI and luxR genes have a potential positive impact on the production of cadaverine. The maximum concentration of cadaverine produced by wild type, ΔluxI, ΔluxR and ΔluxIR were 252.7 mg/L, 194.5 mg/L, 175.1 mg/L and 154.2 mg/L at 72 h. Moreover, the self-organizing map analysis revealed the phase-dependent effects of two genes on spoilage properties. The luxI gene played a major role in the lag phase, while the luxR gene mainly acted in the exponential and stationary phases. Therefore, the paper provides valuable insights into the spoilage mechanisms of H. alvei H4