A5101644130- GABA and Rice Research
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Risk and Portfolio Optimization
- Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement
- Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
- Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design
- Semiconductor materials and devices
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Statistical Methods and Inference
- Stochastic processes and financial applications
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Probability and Risk Models
- Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research
- Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
- Global Health Care Issues
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials
China National Rice Research Institute
2014-2025
Middle East Institute
2024
Hanover College
2024
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
2024
Shenzhen University
2024
Liechtenstein Institute
2024
Hudson Institute
2024
The University of Melbourne
2024
Changshu Institute of Technology
2023
Peking University
2009-2022
Winter Heating or Clean Air? Unintended Impacts of China's Huai River Policy by Douglas Almond, Yuyu Chen, Michael Greenstone and Hongbin Li. Published in volume 99, issue 2, pages 184-90 American Economic Review, May 2009
Abstract Protecting the environment during economic growth is a challenge facing every country. This paper focuses on two regulatory measures that China has adopted to incentivize air quality improvement: publishing daily pollution index (API) for major cities since 2000 and linking API performance evaluations of local governments. In particular, defines day with an at or below 100 as blue sky day. Starting in 2003, city least 80% days calendar year (among other criteria) qualified “national...
We report results from a large, randomized field to study how access formal microinsurance affects production and economic development. induce exogenous variation in insurance coverage at the village level by randomly assigning performance incentives animal husbandry worker who is responsible for signing farmers up insurance. find that promoting greater adoption of significantly increases farmers' sow production, this effect seems persist longer run; moreover, increase response does not seem...
Abstract We study how ownership affects productivity in the context of China's privatization state‐owned enterprises (SOEs). Its true impact remains unclear and controversial, partly because government selectively privatized or liquidated nonperforming SOEs. To address this selection problem, we augment Gandhi–Navarro–Rivers nonparametric production function to incorporate endogenous changes. Results suggest private firms are 53% more productive than SOEs on average, but benefits take...
Grain size is one of key agronomic traits associated with grain yield and quality. Both major quantitative trait loci GS3 GL3.1 play a predominant role in negative regulation size. In this study, CRISPR/Cas9-mediated multiplex genome editing system was used to simultaneously edit typical japonica rice Nipponbare. T1 generation, we found that gs3 formed slender lower chalkiness percentage, while gs3gl3.1 produced larger higher percentage. terms other traits, flag leaf size, number both...
We report results from a large randomized natural field experiment conducted in southwestern China the context of insurance for sows. Our study sheds light on two important questions about microinsurance. First, how does access to formal affect farmers' production decisions? Second, what explains low takeup rate insurance, despite substantial premium subsidy government? find that providing significantly increases tendency raise argue this finding also suggests farmers are not previously...
Protecting the environment during economic growth is a challenge facing every country.This paper focuses on two regulatory measures that China has adopted to incentivize air quality improvement: publishing daily pollution index (API) for major cities since 2000 and linking API performance evaluations of local governments.In particular, defines day with an at or below 100 as blue sky day.Starting in 2003, city least 80% days calendar year (among other criteria) qualified "national...
A minor QTL for heading date located on the long arm of rice chromosome 1 was delimitated to a 95.0-kb region using near isogenic lines with sequential segregating regions. Heading and grain yield are two key factors determining commercial potential variety. In this study, populations regions were developed used mapping date, qHd1. total 18 in six advanced generations through BC2F6 BC2F11 derived from single BC2F3 plant indica cross Zhenshan 97 (ZS97)///ZS97//ZS97/Milyang 46. The flanked by...
Rice is a pivotal cereal crop that provides the staple food for more than half of world's population. Along with improvements in standard living, people not only pay attention to grain yield but also quality. Chalkiness one most important index In this study, qPGWC-1, QTL controlling percentage grains chalkiness, was mapped an interval physical distance about 139Kb on chromosome 1 by residual heterozygous line method. qPGWC-1 incomplete dominant and additive effect plays major role...
Abstract Background Plant cell walls are the main physical barrier encountered by pathogens colonizing plant tissues. Alteration of wall integrity (CWI) can activate specific defenses impairing proteins involved in biosynthesis, degradation and remodeling, or damage due to biotic abiotic stress. Polygalacturonase (PG) depolymerize pectin hydrolysis, thereby altering composition structures activating defense. Although many studies CWI have been reported, mechanism how PGs regulate immune...
Diversification is generally regarded as an efficient tool to reduce portfolio risks. In “An unexpected stochastic dominance: Pareto distributions, dependence, and diversification,” Chen, Embrechts, Wang showed that the weighted average of independent identically distributed (i.i.d.) random variables with infinite mean larger than one such variable in sense first-order dominance, thus diversification is, surprisingly, worse no diversification. The relation implies superadditivity...
The rate of stigma exsertion is an important trait in rice breeding because the efficiency hybrid seed production can be improved by increasing percentage stigmas that exsert. In this study, we developed a near isogenic line (NIL) from two parents, XieqingzaoB (XQZB) and Zhonghoi9308 (ZH9308), which have high low rates order. our previous employed 75 chromosome segment substitution lines (CSSLs) analyzed quantitative loci (QTLs) for their influence on rate. single gene QTL (qSE11), located...
Does culture, and in particular religion, exert an independent causal effect on long-term economic growth, or do culture religion merely reflect the latter? We explore this issue by studying case of Protestantism China during late nineteenth early twentieth centuries. Combining county-level data Protestant presence 1920 socioeconomic indicators 2000, we find that spread has generated significant positive effects educational development, health care outcomes. To better understand whether...
In clinical practice, it is difficult to monitor the repeating relapse in patients who have been suffering from systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The underlying etiology remains largely unknown.Aiming understand pathogenesis of SLE, a detailed study was conducted. Renal tubular cells-derived iPSCs were successfully obtained urine SLE and healthy controls. With purpose identify simultaneous expression profiling microRNA, mRNA protein, Illumina HiSeq™ 2000 System iTRAQ-coupled 2D LC-MS/MS...
Anisotropic strain relaxation and the resulting degree of polarization electronic transition in nonpolar a-plane GaN using one- two-step growth are studied. By growth, a slower coalescence longer roughening-recovery process lead to larger anisotropic relaxation, less striated surface, lower densities basal stacking fault (BSF) prismatic (PSF). It is suggested that in-plane strains, surface striation, BSF PSF a-GaN consequences rate coalescence, period process, relaxation. In addition, mode...
Abstract A variety of genetic techniques have been devised to determine cell lineage relationships during tissue development. Some these systems monitor lineages spatially and/or temporally without regard gene expression by the cells, whereas others correlate with under study. The GAL4 Technique for Real-time and Clonal Expression (G-TRACE) system allows rapid, fluorescent protein-based visualization both current past patterns is therefore amenable genome-wide expression-based screens. Here...
We study the optimal decisions of agents who aim to minimize their risks by allocating positions over extremely heavy-tailed (i.e., infinite-mean) and possibly dependent losses. The loss distributions our focus are super-Pareto which include class Pareto distributions. For a portfolio losses, non-diversification is preferred decision makers equipped with well-defined monotone risk measures. phenomenon that diversification not beneficial in presence losses further illustrated an equilibrium...