The Study of Innovation and Technology in China (SITC) is a project of the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. SITC Policy Briefs provide analysis and recommendations based on the work of project participants. Author's views are their own. Summary T his policy brief examines how innovation takes place within the Chinese defense research, development, and acqui...

Wildlife managers tasked with understanding habitat and resource selection at the population level attempt to characterize patterns in nature that aid inform conservation. Resource functions (RSFs), such as discrete choice analyses, are standard convention effects of attributes on patterns. These tools invaluable for wildlife management conservation have proven successful numerous studies. Howe...

Based on linear regression, a novel method called reconstructive discriminant analysis (RDA) is developed for feature extraction and dimensionality reduction (DR). RDA is induced from linear Regression classification (LRC). LRC assumes each class lies on a linear subspace and finds the nearest subspace for a given sample. But the original space cannot guarantee that the given sample matches its...

The mechanism of bacterial community assembly has been the hot spot in field microbial ecology and it is difficult to quantitatively estimate influences different ecological processes. Here, a total 23 pairs planktonic sedimentary samples were collected from five lakes Wuhan, China. significant higher ?-diversity (p < 0.001) ?-diversity communities observed sediment than those water. Some ph...

cDNA representational difference analysis (cDNA-RDA) is a polymerase-chain-reaction-coupled subtractive and kinetic enrichment procedure for the isolation of differentially expressed genes. In this study, the technique was used to isolate novel genes specifically expressed in pancreatic cancer. cDNA-RDA was done on cDNA reverse transcribed from a poly(A)+ mRNA pool made from 10 cancer tissues (...