Measuring Technological Change through an Extended Structural Decomposition Analysis: An Application to EU-28 Primary Sectors (2010–2015)

This paper addresses the input–output structural decomposition for an economic analysis. The objective is to determine the causes of changes in production in these sectors with a particular focus on disaggregating the technological change by distribution factors associated with a specific normalization of the Leontief inverse. In calculating the net multipliers, an attempt was made to exclude each sectors’ own consumption in a satisfactory manner. However, the treatment of own consumption when introducing a time factor requires further investigation to avoid questionable measurements. An empirical application is presented regarding agriculture, forestry, and fishing sectors in six EU-28 countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain) over the 2010–2015 period. In general, a typical characteristic of primary sectors is the accumulation of a significant amount of their own consumption, facilitated by the design of their own symmetric accounting methods. Therefore, attention is focused on these sectors so as to reveal possible analysis techniques that will provide nuance or validate existing techniques.

Diversity of the genus \(\textit{Camellia}\) L. (Theaceae) in Lam Dong province

Through field survey and morphological research, this study has determined that the Camellia genus in Lam Dong province, Vietnam has a high diversity of morphological, distribution and taxa characteristics. The species of Camellia genus in Lam Dong province are mostly shrubs and small trees. The narrow oblong leaves are a very common and typical characteristic for Camellia in Lam Dong province. The flowers of the species of Camellia are diverse with four main colours is white, yellow, pink and purple. The fruits are globose, flattened globose, wrinkled or uneven edges. Especially, the obovoid fruit only occurs in Lam Dong province. Most of the species of Camellia genus in this province are endemic. The study has added ten species of the Camellia genus, brings the total of species of Camellia genus to Lam Dong province to between sixteen and twenty six. This is the first study to evaluate Camellia diversity in Lam Dong province. It is also the first complete statistics on the number of species of Camellia genus in Lam Dong province to confirm that this province is the second diversity centre of Camellia of Vietnam following the first centre in the North of Vietnam.

Bismuth vanadate: A versatile heterogeneous catalyst for photocatalytic functionalization of C(sp2)–H bonds

Bismuth vanadate (BiVO4) could be prepared by the hydrothermal kettle method. Herein, the synthesized BiVO4-180 is demonstrated to be a versatile and stable heterogeneous photocatalyst for a series of C(sp2)–H functionalization reactions under visible light irradiation at ambient conditions. A series of functionalized compounds such as tetrahydroquinolines, 3-arylmethyl indoles, α-aryl α-amino acid esters, and sulfurized/selenized/thiocyanated heterocycles were successfully synthesized in good yields (>70 examples, including modification of drugs and peptides). The BiVO4 photocatalyst has the advantages of being recyclable, low-cost, air-tolerant, and high efficiency, which is the typical characteristic of overcoming the shortcomings of homogeneous catalysts.

All-Flesh Tomato Regulated by Reduced Expression Dosage of AFF Through a Promoter SV Mutation

The formation of locule gel is an important process in tomato and a typical characteristic of berry fruit. In this study, we collected a tomato natural mutant that produces all-flesh fruits (AFF) in which the locule tissue remains in a solid state during fruit development. We built genetic populations to fine-map the causal gene of the AFF trait and identified the gene AFF (SlMBP3) as the locus conferring the locule gel formation. We determined the causal mutation as a 416-bp deletion that occurred in the promoter region of AFF and reduced its expression dosage. The 416-bp sequence is highly conserved among Solanaceae species, as well as within the tomato germplasm. Furthermore, with the BC6 NIL materials, we revealed that the reduced expression dosage of AFF did not impact the normal development of seeds but produced unique non-liquefied locule tissue, which was distinct from that of normal tomatoes in terms of metabolic components. We further revealed the importance of AFF gene in locule tissue liquefaction through combined analysis using mRNA-seq and metabolomics. Our findings provide clues to investigate fruit type differentiation in Solanaceae crops and also contribute to the application of the AFF gene in tomato breeding programs.

Perception of Contemporary Chinese Literature in Russia

This article attempts to comprehend the perception of contemporary Chinese literature in Russia. One of the main research areas of Russian Sinology focused on the study of Chinese literature is Chinese classical literature and modern literature. However, at the turn of the XX-XXI centuries, the interest for contemporary Chinese literature becomes more and more obvious. In recent years, the translation of contemporary Chinese literary works has been continuously developing. The most typical characteristic of contemporary Chinese literature in the interpretation of Russian sinologists is pluralism, which is understood as the simultaneous existence of various literary trends, ideologies, genres, etc. The author analyzes the main trends of reception in the research of Russian scientists and comes to the conclusion that the most interesting for sinologists is the problem of attention to “People” in contemporary Chinese literature, the problem of tradition and modernity, the works of Chinese women writers.

Case Report: Penetrating Thoracic Trauma by A Gunshot Involving the Heart

Firearm related mortality is not frequently encountered in a country like Nepal where there us a stringent law prohibiting buying, selling, carrying or storing of firearms. It is required to have a valid license to have a firearm in possession. Wounds produced by firearm have a typical characteristic the knowledge of which helps to identify the type of firearm used, range of fire, position of the victim and whether the manner of death was homicidal, suicidal or accidental. The present case is a first autopsy-based study from Nepal which discusses the wounds produced by firearm with interpretation of such findings for medicolegal purposes. The present case highlights a social problem where the victim, a psychiatric patient, had no access to prescription medication due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) related lockdown.

Characteristic of a Female Recidivist: Qualitative Empirical Analysis (View from Ukraine)

The article provides the characteristic of a female recidivist through a qualitative empirical analysis of socio-demographic, criminal-legal, and criminal-executive features of convicted women serving their sentences in the Chernihiv Correctional Institution No. 44 by conducting an anonymous survey of 123 female recidivists. The characteristic features inherent to female recidivists have been identified and generalized and, on this basis, a typical characteristic of such persons has been worked out based on the analysis of results of the survey of convicted women. This category is mostly represented by middle-aged people from 36 to 48 years. This person has a secondary or secondary special, vocational education, is unmarried, without stable socially useful ties, and the existing family ties have deteriorated after being sentenced to imprisonment, and by occupation she has a predominantly working specialty. She is serving a sentence of imprisonment for a term mainly from 2 to 5 years for middle grave crimes, has 3 to 4 convictions, which indicates her extensive criminal experience.

Integrating Community Interest and Neighbor Semantic for Microblog Recommendation

As a typical characteristic of microblog information, short text length makes a microblog recommendation hard for new users. Moreover, user cold start makes it difficult to explore accurately the interests of microblog users. Therefore, the authors proposed a microblog recommendation model that integrates both of the users' interest from their communities and the semantic from their neighbors' microblogs. Based on the Kullback-Leibler (KL) language model, the proposed model estimated an interest-based language model and a microblog-based language model. Specifically, the interest-based language model was estimated based on both of the user's word set of interest and that of their community interest. Meanwhile, the microblog-based language model was estimated by combining the word set of a microblog, the neighbor semantic, and the microblog set. Real data from Sina Weibo was crawled to evaluate recommendation performance. Results showed that the proposed model outperforms state-of-art models significantly.

DISTRIBUTION, CHARACTERISTIC AND BEHAVIOR OF Rhinocypha anisoptera SELYS, 1879 (ODONATA: ZYGOPTERA: CHLOROCYPHIDAE) IN EAST JAVA

Rhinocypha anisoptera is distributed in Sumatra and Java. In Java, this species was previously recorded from Mount Wilis, Mount Arjuno, Mount Welirang, Mount Kawi, Nongkojajar, Mount Tengger, Mount Semeru, Ijen Crater and Baju-kidul, with most recent encounter at Mount Kelud. Despite the vast encounter localities, there was lack of specimens collected to reveal its typical characteristic and behavior. This study confirmed the existence of R. anisoptera at most localities in East Java as reported in 1934 by Lieftinck, with additional new distribution in Mount Anjasmoro. R. anisoptera is typically characterized by dark coloration at the hind wing leaving transparent in the bases with metallic blue-tinged covering 4–5 % area in mid-section of the hindwing. Differ from other Chlorocyphidae, R. anisoptera perch on leaves more frequently compared to perching on twigs and rocks near waterways.