Made in China vs. Made by Chinese: Global Identities of Chinese Business

Irish Consumers’ Perception of Chinese Brands and How to Improve the “made in China” Image

The Chinese government launched the “going abroad” policy in 2001 to encourage Chinese companies to invest and create Chinese brands in international markets. However, the perceptions of Chinese brands among Western consumers have been shown to be consistently low, especially amongst European consumers. This research aims to investigate the Irish consumers’ perception of Chinese brands and how ...

Made in China: ERP Post-Implementation Performance in the Chinese Manufacturing Industry

To gain competitive advantages in the global market, many Chinese manufacturing firms have invested heavily in implementing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Evidence shows however that ERP post-implementation performance has varied significantly between firms. This paper aims to investigate such variances in performance in the Chinese manufacturing context, particularly at a plant le...

NEPHROPATHY CAUSED BY CHINESE HERBS IN IRAN

DNA replication in Chinese hamster ovary cells made permeable to nucleotides by tween-80 treatment

We have developed a method for permeabilizing CHO cells to nucleotides under conditions which allow most cells to remain viable. Permeabilized cells can carry out ATP-dependent, semiconservative synthesis of DNA. The data are consistent with the continuation of DNA synthesis in those cells in S phase at the time of treatment, possibly limited to completion of replicon synthesis without new init...

Mainland Chinese Students’ Shifting Perceptions of Chinese-English Code-Mixing in Macao

As a former Portuguese colony, Macao is the only region in China where Cantonese, a variety of Chinese, and English, an international language, are enjoying de facto official statuses, with Putonghua being a quasi-official language and Portuguese being another official language. Recently, with an increasing number of Mainland Chinese students crossing the border to pursue their tertiar...