In A Primer on Science Research in China, Alan Kotok describes
the Chinese research system, provides a few tips about preparing for the exchange experience, and offers a preview of what it's like to work in Chinese labs.
Not exact matches
Last week in London, for example, an analyst from a
research company with whose views I am usually in strong sympathy and who herself is very bearish on China's growth prospects, airily dismissed
Chinese debt concerns by pointing out that
Chinese government debt, even after adding back estimates of losses in the banking
system, is lower than that of the Japanese government, and because the government's debt burden has not been a problem in Japan it won't be a problem in China.
She chairs the Pacific Trade and Development (PAFTAD)
research network and has published in English and Mandarin on Asia's rise; the future of the Indian and
Chinese economies in the world economy; the
Chinese financial
system; and
Chinese innovation.
Furthermore, evaluation
systems in China should help to breed a collaborative
research culture by formally recognizing the intellectual contribution of each collaborator and encouraging not only cooperation between
Chinese researchers and institutions but also international collaboration.
There is an interesting saying that the laowai (foreign scientists) dig holes, but
Chinese investigators fill them with papers, which is because in the scientific
research system of China, the amount of papers is a key indicator of performance assessment of an investigator.
Kidder's
research suggests the
Chinese began building drainage / irrigation canals and bank / levee
systems along the lower reaches of the Yellow River about 2,900 - 2,700 years ago.
Among them is a
research project titled «formulation and application of a theoretical
system for
Chinese cigarettes,» nominated by the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (also known as the China National Tobacco Corporation).
«Our
research shows that the
Chinese educational
system stifles creativity and the critical thinking necessary to achieve innovative breakthroughs, too often hamstrings researchers with bureaucratic requirements, and rewards quantity over quality,» said Appelbaum.
The Harvard China Project is a
research program focused on China's atmospheric environment, energy
system, and economy, collaborating with researchers at
Chinese universities and across the schools of Harvard.
Susan Amara, USA - «Regulation of transporter function and trafficking by amphetamines, Structure - function relationships in excitatory amino acid transporters (EAATs), Modulation of dopamine transporters (DAT) by GPCRs, Genetics and functional analyses of human trace amine receptors» Tom I. Bonner, USA (Past Core Member)- Genomics, G protein coupled receptors Michel Bouvier, Canada - Molecular Pharmacology of G protein - Coupled Receptors; Molecular mechanisms controlling the selectivity and efficacy of GPCR signalling Thomas Burris, USA - Nuclear Receptor Pharmacology and Drug Discovery William A. Catterall, USA (Past Core Member)- The Molecular Basis of Electrical Excitability Steven Charlton, UK - Molecular Pharmacology and Drug Discovery Moses Chao, USA - Mechanisms of Neurotophin Receptor Signaling Mark Coles, UK - Cellular differentiation, human embryonic stem cells, stromal cells, haematopoietic stem cells, organogenesis, lymphoid microenvironments, develomental immunology Steven L. Colletti, USA Graham L Collingridge, UK Philippe Delerive, France - Metabolic
Research (diabetes, obesity, non-alcoholic fatty liver, cardio - vascular diseases, nuclear hormone receptor, GPCRs, kinases) Sir Colin T. Dollery, UK (Founder and Past Core Member) Richard M. Eglen, UK Stephen M. Foord, UK David Gloriam, Denmark - GPCRs, databases, computational drug design, orphan recetpors Gillian Gray, UK Debbie Hay, New Zealand - G protein - coupled receptors, peptide receptors, CGRP, Amylin, Adrenomedullin, Migraine, Diabetes / obesity Allyn C. Howlett, USA Franz Hofmann, Germany - Voltage dependent calcium channels and the positive inotropic effect of beta adrenergic stimulation; cardiovascular function of cGMP protein kinase Yu Huang, Hong Kong - Endothelial and Metabolic Dysfunction, and Novel Biomarkers in Diabetes, Hypertension, Dyslipidemia and Estrogen Deficiency, Endothelium - derived Contracting Factors in the Regulation of Vascular Tone, Adipose Tissue Regulation of Vascular Function in Obesity, Diabetes and Hypertension, Pharmacological Characterization of New Anti-diabetic and Anti-hypertensive Drugs, Hypotensive and antioxidant Actions of Biologically Active Components of Traditional
Chinese Herbs and Natural Plants including Polypehnols and Ginsenosides Adriaan P. IJzerman, The Netherlands - G protein - coupled receptors; allosteric modulation; binding kinetics Michael F Jarvis, USA - Purines and Purinergic Receptors and Voltage-gated ion channel (sodium and calcium) pharmacology Pain mechanisms
Research Reproducibility Bong - Kiun Kaang, Korea - G protein - coupled receptors; Glutamate receptors; Neuropsychiatric disorders Eamonn Kelly, Prof, UK - Molecular Pharmacology of G protein - coupled receptors, in particular opioid receptors, regulation of GPCRs by kinasis and arrestins Terry Kenakin, USA - Drug receptor pharmacodynamics, receptor theory Janos Kiss, Hungary - Neurodegenerative disorders, Alzheimer's disease Stefan Knapp, Germany - Rational design of highly selective inhibitors (so call chemical probes) targeting protein kinases as well as protein interaction inhibitors of the bromodomain family Andrew Knight, UK Chris Langmead, Australia - Drug discovery, GPCRs, neuroscience and analytical pharmacology Vincent Laudet, France (Past Core Member)- Evolution of the Nuclear Receptor / Ligand couple Margaret R. MacLean, UK - Serotonin, endothelin, estrogen, microRNAs and pulmonary hyperten Neil Marrion, UK - Calcium - activated potassium channels, neuronal excitability Fiona Marshall, UK - GPCR molecular pharmacology, structure and drug discovery Alistair Mathie, UK - Ion channel structure, function and regulation, pain and the nervous
system Ian McGrath, UK - Adrenoceptors; autonomic transmission; vascular pharmacology Graeme Milligan, UK - Structure, function and regulation of G protein - coupled receptors Richard Neubig, USA (Past Core Member)- G protein signaling; academic drug discovery Stefan Offermanns, Germany - G protein - coupled receptors, vascular / metabolic signaling Richard Olsen, USA - Structure and function of GABA - A receptors; mode of action of GABAergic drugs including general anesthetics and ethanol Jean - Philippe Pin, France (Past Core Member)- GPCR - mGLuR - GABAB - structure function relationship - pharmacology - biophysics Helgi Schiöth, Sweden David Searls, USA - Bioinformatics Graeme Semple, USA - GPCR Medicinal Chemistry Patrick M. Sexton, Australia - G protein - coupled receptors Roland Staal, USA - Microglia and neuroinflammation in neuropathic pain and neurological disorders Bart Staels, France - Nuclear receptor signaling in metabolic and cardiovascular diseases Katerina Tiligada, Greece - Immunopharmacology, histamine, histamine receptors, hypersensitivity, drug allergy, inflammation Georg Terstappen, Germany - Drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases with a focus on AD Mary Vore, USA - Activity and regulation of expression and function of the ATP - binding cassette (ABC) transporters
Acknowledgments: The
research was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Atmospheric Systems Research program and performed by Drs. Steven J. Ghan, Xiaohong Liu, and Mikhail Ovchinnikov of PNNL; Dr. Hayder Abdul - Razzak of Texas A&M University - Kingsville; Dr. Athanasios Nenes of Georgia Institute of Technology; Dr. Yi Ming of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory; Dr. Ben Shipway of United Kingdom Meteorology Office; Dr. Nicholas Meskhidze of North Carolina State University; Dr. Jun Xu of the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences; and Xiangjun Shi of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics Chinese Academy of S
research was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Atmospheric
Systems Research program and performed by Drs. Steven J. Ghan, Xiaohong Liu, and Mikhail Ovchinnikov of PNNL; Dr. Hayder Abdul - Razzak of Texas A&M University - Kingsville; Dr. Athanasios Nenes of Georgia Institute of Technology; Dr. Yi Ming of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory; Dr. Ben Shipway of United Kingdom Meteorology Office; Dr. Nicholas Meskhidze of North Carolina State University; Dr. Jun Xu of the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences; and Xiangjun Shi of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics Chinese Academy of S
Research program and performed by Drs. Steven J. Ghan, Xiaohong Liu, and Mikhail Ovchinnikov of PNNL; Dr. Hayder Abdul - Razzak of Texas A&M University - Kingsville; Dr. Athanasios Nenes of Georgia Institute of Technology; Dr. Yi Ming of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory; Dr. Ben Shipway of United Kingdom Meteorology Office; Dr. Nicholas Meskhidze of North Carolina State University; Dr. Jun Xu of the
Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences; and Xiangjun Shi of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics Chinese Academy of S
Research Academy of Environmental Sciences; and Xiangjun Shi of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics
Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Donor Funds Ed School
Research on Chinese Academic Stress Harvard Crimson, 5/6/15 «The China Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education has received a donation pledge of $ 100,000 to fund a research project focused on reducing academic stress in the Chinese school system
Research on
Chinese Academic Stress Harvard Crimson, 5/6/15 «The China Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education has received a donation pledge of $ 100,000 to fund a
research project focused on reducing academic stress in the Chinese school system
research project focused on reducing academic stress in the
Chinese school
system.»
Along with gaining insight into the hard work of the rice paddy, we learn there is something special about the
Chinese number
system: first, each word for a number is very short, and it seems memory of numbers — from
research Gladwell reports — is affected by the length of time it actually takes to sound out the number.
The China Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education has received a donation pledge of $ 100,000 to fund a
research project focused on reducing academic stress in the
Chinese school
system, and the first installment of this promise is already «in hand,» according to those involved in the project.
Huijun Wang and Mirong Song of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Atmospheric Physics and Radley Horton from the Columbia University Center for Climate
Systems Research also contributed to this work.
Chinese hackers infiltrate National
Research Council computer
systems forcing IT network shutdown, Calgary Herald
China University of Political Science and Law Press, a leading legal publisher in China, just published a bilingual (English and
Chinese) legal
research textbook based on West's Analysis of American Law / Key Number
System and WestlawNext.
The new station will house two
Chinese astronauts for up to a month, with further tests on life support
systems and «scientific
research.»
«To be sure, many Blockchain projects globally are still in their infancy, but the complexity of
Chinese bank legacy
systems could make it even tougher to apply the technology successfully,» said Zennon Kapron, founder of market
research firm Kapronasia.