Research on the Influence of Environmental Regulation on Social Employment—An Empirical Analysis Based on the STR Model

Environmental regulation will affect social employment through corporate costs, technological innovation, industrial upgrading, and industrial transfer. To verify the effect of environmental regulation on social employment in different periods and under the intensity of environmental regulation, in this paper, environmental regulation is introduced as an influencing factor of social employment levels, based on China’s urban registration unemployment data from 1987 to 2017. A nonlinear smoothing autoregressive model is used to analyze the nonlinear long-term effect relationship between environmental regulation and social employment. The research results show that the relationship between environmental regulation and social employment does exhibit the characteristics of nonlinear transformation under different mechanisms, and the transformation speed is fast. The specific manifestation is that the environmental regulation has a restraining effect on social employment in the short term, and the environmental regulation has a promoting effect on social employment in the long term. Continued high-level environmental regulations will exacerbate the adverse impact of environmental regulations on social employment.

Download Full-text

Social Cognition in Rehabilitation Context: Different Evolution of Affective and Cognitive Theory of Mind in Mild Cognitive Impairment

Behavioural Neurology ◽

10.1155/2020/5204927 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2020 ◽

pp. 1-9 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Federica Rossetto ◽

Francesca Baglio ◽

Davide Massaro ◽

Margherita Alberoni ◽

Raffaello Nemni ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Impairment ◽

Social Skills ◽

Mild Cognitive Impairment ◽

Theory Of Mind ◽

Cognitive Theory ◽

Term Effect ◽

Home Based ◽

Long Term Effect ◽

High Level

Maintaining social skills such as Theory of Mind (ToM) competences is important to counteract the conversion into dementia in Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). Multidimensional nonpharmacological interventions demonstrated their potential in improving cognitive and behavioral abilities; however, little is known about the long-term effect of such interventions on social skills in people with MCI. The aim of this longitudinal study was to monitor ToM competences considering both cognitive and affective domains in an amnestic MCI (aMCI) sample involved in a home-based multistimulation treatment (MST@H). 30 aMCI subjects (M:F=15:15; mean age±SD=77.00±4.60) were enrolled, and three steps of evaluation with neuropsychological tests and ToM tasks have been implemented. 21 healthy controls (HC) were also included (M:F=9:12; mean age±SD=74.95±3.88) to characterize the aMCI sample regarding differences in ToM performance compared to HC at the baseline evaluation. Our results show that the aMCI group statistically significantly underperformed the HC group only in the advanced ToM tasks, confirming an initial decline of high-level ToM competences in this population. The longitudinal evaluation revealed time changes not only in some subcognitive domains of MoCA (memory and executive functions) but also in cognitive and affective ToM dimensions in aMCI subjects. Our findings suggest that cognitive and affective ToM can be considered useful outcome measures to test the long-term effect of treatment over time.

Download Full-text

Environmental Regulation for Transfer of Pollution-Intensive Industries: Evidence From Chinese Provinces

Frontiers in Energy Research ◽

10.3389/fenrg.2020.604005 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 ◽

Author(s):

Weiqing Li ◽

Huaping Sun ◽

Yunsu Du ◽

Ziyao Li ◽

Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary

Keyword(s):

Spatial Heterogeneity ◽

Environmental Regulation ◽

Economic Effect ◽

Clean Energy ◽

Industrial Sector ◽

Promoting Effect ◽

Industrial Transfer ◽

Theoretical Mechanism ◽

Threshold Regression Model ◽

The Impact

How environmental regulations affect the transfer of pollution-intensive industries is the core issue of balanced regional development and pollution reduction in China. This paper analyses the theoretical mechanism of the impact of environmental regulation on industrial transfer based on the distinction between formal environmental regulation and informal environmental regulation. To this aim, the paper selects panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2008 to 2018 and uses the fixed effect econometric model to test the impact of environmental regulation on the transfer of pollution-intensive industries, then uses a threshold regression model to study the threshold characteristics and spatial heterogeneity of environmental regulation on pollution-intensive industrial transfer. The results show a significant inverted U-shaped relationship between formal environmental regulation and the transfer of pollution-intensive industries. The increase of formal environmental regulation intensity affects restraining and then promoting the transfer out of pollution-intensive industries. The promoting effect also shows the characteristics of first increasing and then decreasing, verifying that there are threshold characteristics and spatial heterogeneity. Overall, informal environmental regulation promotes the transfer of pollution-intensive industries and shows the informal regulation’s economic effect. The paper then puts forward the corresponding policy suggestions, including utilizing clean energy-saving technologies in the industrial sector, which is incredibly significant to realize the coordinated development of environmental protection and economy.

Download Full-text

Growth and lifetime production of scottish blackface hill ewes in relation to the level of feeding during rearing

Animal Science ◽

10.1017/s0003356100011077 ◽

1972 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 343-349 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

R. G. Gunn

Keyword(s):

Live Weight ◽

Long Term Effect ◽

Nutritional Environment ◽

The Mean ◽

High Level ◽

Mature Size ◽

Female Sheep ◽

Positive Effect ◽

Different Levels

SUMMARYA study was made of the effects of different levels of nutrition between 3 and 6 months and between 6 and 12 months of age on subsequent growth to mature size, longevity and lifetime production of Scottish Blackface female sheep on a hill farm. Treatment differences between 3 and 6 months were small and resulted in only a 3 kg live-weight advantage for the animals receiving a high level of feeding. Treatment differences between 6 and 12 months were considerable and resulted in a mean 14 kg advantage for animals receiving a high level of feeding. Those animals remained significantly heavier until 42 months of age and significantly larger, as depicted by skeletal measurements, until 54 months of age.A high level of feeding between 3 and 6 months of age had no significant long-term effect on wool growth ewe survival or lifetime lamb production, whereas a high level of feeding between 6 and 12 months of age had a significant positive effect on the mean number of lambs born per ewe over five lamb crops. This effect was not maintained to weaning, due to an apparently greater lamb mortality. Treatment effects on ewe survival and on flock lifetime production, although considerable, were not statistically different.It is concluded that any advantages of improved feeding during rearing were largely lost through the inadequacy of the adult nutritional environment and only when the latter was not limiting would higher standards of rearing be justified.

Download Full-text

Vivid Imagers Are Better at Detecting Salient Changes

Journal of Individual Differences ◽

10.1027/1614-0001.27.4.218 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 27 (4) ◽

pp. 218-228 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Paul Rodway ◽

Karen Gillies ◽

Astrid Schepman

Keyword(s):

Individual Differences ◽

Change Detection ◽

Visual Imagery ◽

Detection Task ◽

Level Of Detail ◽

Detection Accuracy ◽

Change Detection Task ◽

Term Change ◽

High Level

This study examined whether individual differences in the vividness of visual imagery influenced performance on a novel long-term change detection task. Participants were presented with a sequence of pictures, with each picture and its title displayed for 17 s, and then presented with changed or unchanged versions of those pictures and asked to detect whether the picture had been changed. Cuing the retrieval of the picture's image, by presenting the picture's title before the arrival of the changed picture, facilitated change detection accuracy. This suggests that the retrieval of the picture's representation immunizes it against overwriting by the arrival of the changed picture. The high and low vividness participants did not differ in overall levels of change detection accuracy. However, in replication of Gur and Hilgard (1975) , high vividness participants were significantly more accurate at detecting salient changes to pictures compared to low vividness participants. The results suggest that vivid images are not characterised by a high level of detail and that vivid imagery enhances memory for the salient aspects of a scene but not all of the details of a scene. Possible causes of this difference, and how they may lead to an understanding of individual differences in change detection, are considered.

Download Full-text