This paper employs a structural innovation model to study the effects of relatedness on the process of indigenous innovation in China. Specifically, I rely on a measure of product relatedness to proxy for interconnections among co-located firms to study the effects of relatedness on firm’s innovation investments, innovation output and productivity, respectively. The results show that relatednes...

Kin selection theory predicts that organisms should behave favourably toward their relatives, if the benefits of such behaviour, devaluated by relatedness, are larger than its costs. Under good environmental conditions, the costs of kin-biased behaviour are likely to be low, and kin-biased behaviour may lead to better average performance of related than non-related individuals. However, under p...

There are many methods having different approaches for assessing similarity and relatedness and they are used in many application areas, including web service discovery, invocation and composition, word sense disambiguation, information retrieval, ontology alignment and merging, document clustering, and short answer grading. These methods can be categorized as path-based, information content-ba...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations across world implemented mandatory work-from-home policy. The policy had a detrimental impact on work engagement of employees as there was prolonged dependence ICT-mediated communication for all interactions. In response, to implement ICT-driven interventions address problem dwindling levels. view enhancing intervention effectiveness, this research ex...

Nature relatedness refers to individual differences in subjective connectedness with the natural environment. We aimed cross-culturally validate Relatedness scale and examine links between nature wellbeing. also tested whether spirituality or self-transcendent emotions such as gratitude mediate relationship University student participants (N = 798) from four countries (Hungary, India, South Kor...

Case-control association studies are widely used in the search for genetic variants that contribute to human diseases. It has long been known that such studies may suffer from high rates of false positives if there is unrecognized population structure. It is perhaps less widely appreciated that so-called "cryptic relatedness" (i.e., kinship among the cases or controls that is not known to the i...

Increased memory for emotional stimuli is a well-documented phenomenon. Emotional arousal during the encoding of a stimulus is one mediator of this memory enhancement. Other variables such as semantic relatedness also play a role in the enhanced memory for emotional stimuli, especially for verbal stimuli. Research has not addressed the contributions of emotional arousal, indexed by self-report ...

Inferring relatedness from genomic data is an essential component of genetic association studies, population genetics, forensics, and genealogy. While numerous methods exist for inferring relatedness, thorough evaluation of these approaches in real data has been lacking. Here, we report an assessment of 12 state-of-the-art pairwise relatedness inference methods using a data set with 2485 indivi...

In group-living species, the degree of relatedness among group members often governs the extent of reproductive sharing, cooperation and conflict within a group. Kinship among group members can be shaped by the presence and location of neighbouring groups, as these provide dispersal or mating opportunities that can dilute kinship among current group members. Here, we assessed how within-group r...

Unlike in most pathogens, multiple-strain (polygenomic) infections of P. falciparum are frequently composed of genetic siblings. These genetic siblings are the result of sexual reproduction and can coinfect the same host when cotransmitted by the same mosquito. The degree with which coinfecting strains are related varies among infections and populations. Because sexual recombination occurs with...