there are much heterogeneity in the genetic variation of type 2 diabetes (t2d). the purpose of this study was to investigate the association of seven novel genetic loci identified in a recent genome-wide association studies (gwas) with t2d in chinese dong populations.a case-controlled study was performed in individuals of chinese dong nationality. the genotypes of pard3b (rs849230), loc729993 (...

We model two dimensions of bank globalization – bank nationality (a bank from the firm’s host nation, its home nation, or a third nation) and bank reach (a global, regional, or local bank) using a two-stage nested multinomial logit model. Our data set includes over 2,000 foreign affiliates of multinational corporations operating in 20 European nations. We find that these firms frequently use ho...

Personal names tend to have many variations differing from country to country. Though there exists a large amount of personal names on the Web, nationality prediction solely based on names has not been fully studied due to its difficulties in extracting subtle character level features. We propose a recurrent neural network based model which predicts nationalities of each name using automatic fe...

1. Introduction 2. Natural Law, the Human Right of Non-Discrimination and Intellectual Property Law (i) Natural Law and Intellectual Property Rights (ii) Human Rights and Intellectual Property Rights (a) International Law (aa) Non-discrimination (bb) Property rights (cc) Authors' moral and material interests (dd) Minimum standard of human rights under customary international law (b) Supranation...

the concept of right as one of the fundamental concepts of the law, policy and ethics, has been entered into legal discourse of iranian community. however, right is a contested concept, and any discussion of it requires theorizing. despite offering different views about the nature of right that can be categorized under two theories named will-based theory and utility-based theory, it seems that...

language learning strategies have been controversial ever since rubin’s (1975) landmark article more that 30 years ago. to this day, there is no consensus regarding exactly what a strategy is, which has impeded research initiatives and at times threatened the validity of research findings. the relationship between strategies and successful language learning has also been questioned. based on th...