Microcalorimetric study on expression of foreign genes in Bacillus thuringiensis

The thermogenic curves of the aerobic metabolism of the three strains of Bacillus thuringiensis B.t. A, B.t. B and B.t. C have been determined by using an LKB-2277 BioActivity Monitor. B.t. A was the host bacterium without foreign gene. B.t. B and B.t. C were constructed by transforming different foreign genes into the host B.t. A, respectively. B.t. B expressed erythromycin resistant gene, while B.t. C expressed both erythromycin resistant gene and tyrosinase gene. The heat flow rate of these strains is B.t. A> B.t. B >B.t. C. These results indicated that there is obvious interrelation between expression of foreign genes and heat flow rate of B.t. strains. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

On the gaps of the spectrum of volumes of trades

A pair of disjoint collections of k‐subsets (blocks) of a set V of cardinality v is called a t‐ trade or simply a t‐trade if every t‐subset of V is included in the same number of blocks of T₀ and T₁. The cardinality of T₀ is called the volume of the trade. Using the weight distribution of the Reed–Muller code, we prove the conjecture that for every i from 2 to t, there are no t‐trades of volume greater than and less than and derive restrictions on the t‐trade volumes that are less than .     

The “S” curve relationship between export diversity and economic size of countries

The highly detailed international trade data among all countries in the world during 1971-2000 shows that the kinds of export goods and the logarithmic GDP (gross domestic production) of a country have an S-shaped relationship. This indicates that all countries can be divided into three stages accordingly. First, the small economies always export very few kinds of products as we expect. Second, once the economic size magnitude (log(GDP)) of a country is beyond a threshold, its export diversity may increase dramatically. However, this is not the case for large economies because a ceiling on the export diversity is observed when their logarithmic GDPs are higher than another threshold. This pattern is very stable for different years although the concrete parameters of the fitting sigmoid functions may change with time. In addition, we also discussed other relationships such as import diversity with respect to logarithmic GDP, diversity of exporters with respect to the number of export goods etc.; all of these relationships show S-shaped or power law patterns which can be derived by the “S” curve relations. Although this paper does not explain the origin of the S-shaped curve, it may provide a basic empirical fact and insights for economic diversity.     

Review of recent advances in the preparation of organic polymer monoliths for liquid chromatography of large molecules

In recent years the use of monolithic polymers in separation science has greatly increased due to the advantages these materials present over particle-based stationary phases, such as their relative ease of preparation and good permeability. For these reasons, these materials present high potential as stationary phases for the separation and purification of large molecules such as proteins, peptides, nucleic acids and cells. An example of this is the wide range of commercial available polymer-based monolithic columns now present in the market.     

外商直接投资对国内投资挤入挤出效应的区制动态分析

本文以1999年到2013年的外商直接投资和国内投资的季度数据为基础,采用MS-VECM模型对我国外商直接投资与国内投资的区制状态、区制相关性以及转移概率进行了实证分析。结果表明,在整个样本期内,外商直接投资对我国的国内投资总体上存在挤入效应,但从动态时间路径上看,在经济运行的不同时期,外商直接投资对我国国内投资的影响并不一致,在1999年一季度至2005年三季度期间表现为对国内投资的挤出效应,而在2005年四季度至2013年四季度期间则表现为挤入效应     

基于滤波技术的首都旅游贸易发展趋势与周期研究

运用HP滤波技术,实证拟合了首都旅游贸易的发展趋势和周期.在对时间序列分离出趋势和周期之后,采用多项式拟合给出了趋势值的经验回归表达式,在此基础上,分析了剔除趋势后的贸易周期特征.研究表明,改革开放的前10年,首都旅游贸易的出口周期性表现并不明显;之后至今的20年,则呈现显著周期特征,周期长度大约5-7年,但这种周期变化也不具有稳定性.对比我国经济发展历程,首都旅游贸易出口周期与宏观经济增长周期高度一致,显示出其对宏观经济发展具有高度敏感性,因此必须重视宏观经济减速给首都旅游贸易带来的衰退影响.另外,重大事件对首都旅游贸易的影响也不容忽视.     

中国对外直接投资的贸易效应研究:基于对北美自贸区、欧盟、东盟投资的比较分析

中国对外贸易发展成熟、国际地位显著,但从长期看,其边际收益呈现递减趋势.而对外直接投资虽规模较小,且尚在起步阶段,但其发展速度快、市场潜力巨大.在拓展Anderson和Wincoop模型基础上,理论分析了对外直接投资与贸易之间的关系.然后通过建立计量模型,利用1995-2011年面板数据进行固定模型分析.由于中国对外直接投资的贸易效应存在明显的区域性,以北美自贸区、欧盟和东盟作为研究对象,实证检验了中国对外直接投资与贸易的关系,旨在考察中国对三种不同类型区域一体化组织投资的贸易效应差异.研究结果表明,从长期看,中国对北美自由贸易区、欧盟和东盟投资均具有明显的贸易创造效应.这种贸易创造效应的大小依次是东盟欧盟北美自贸区.     

On a class of singular stochastic control problems driven by Lévy noise

A class of singular stochastic control problems whose value functions satisfy an invariance property was studied by Lasry and Lions (2000). They have shown that, within this class, any singular control problem is equivalent to the corresponding standard stochastic control problem. The equivalence is in the sense that their value functions are equal. In this work, we clarify their idea and extend their work to allow Lévy type noise. In addition, for the purpose of application, we apply our result to an optimal trade execution problem studied by Lasry and Lions (2007).     

Stability of Markovian structure observed in high frequency foreign exchange data

Contrary to the common sense in economics and financial engineering, price fluctuations at very fine level of motion exhibit various evidences against the efficient market hypothesis. We attempt to investigate this issue by studying extensive amount of foreign currency exchange data for over five years at the finest level of resolution. We specifically focus on the proposed stability in binomial conditional probabilities originally found in much smaller examples of financial time series. In order to handle very large data, we have written an efficient program in C that automatically generates those conditional probabilities. It is found that the stability is maintained for extremely large time duration that covers almost the entire period. Based on the length of conditions for which the conditional probabilities are distinguishable each other, we identify the length of memory being less than 3 movements.     

The cycle structure of two rows in a random Latin square

Let L be chosen uniformly at random from among the latin squares of order n ≥ 4 and let r,s be arbitrary distinct rows of L. We study the distribution of σ_r,s, the permutation of the symbols of L which maps r to s. We show that for any constant c > 0, the following events hold with probability 1 ‐ o(1) as n → ∞: (i) σ_r,s has more than (log n)^1?c cycles, (ii) σ_r,s has fewer than 9 cycles, (iii) L has fewer than n^5/2 intercalates (latin subsquares of order 2). We also show that the probability that σ_r,s is an even permutation lies in an interval and the probability that it has a single cycle lies in [2n^‐2,2n^‐2/3]. Indeed, we show that almost all derangements have similar probability (within a factor of n^3/2) of occurring as σ_r,s as they do if chosen uniformly at random from among all derangements of {1,2,…,n}. We conjecture that σ_r,s shares the asymptotic distribution of a random derangement. Finally, we give computational data on the cycle structure of latin squares of orders n ≤ 11. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Random Struct. Alg., 2008