Is Abusive Supervision the Last Straw? The Buffering Role of Construal Level in the Association of Abusive Supervision With Withdrawal.

Drawing on the theory of cognitive-affective processing system and that of construal level, we propose a moderated mediation model illustrating the relationship among abusive supervision, shame, construal level, and work withdrawal. We tested this model with a two-source time-lagged survey of 387 employees from 129 work teams in central and East China. Results revealed that abusive supervision had a positive association with the emotion of shame and supported the mediating role of shame linking abusive supervision to work withdrawal.

A Random Forest Method for Identifying the Effectiveness of Innovation Factor Allocation.

This paper makes a new attempt to identify the effectiveness of innovation factor allocation with a random forest method. This method avoids the evaluation bias of the relative effectiveness caused by the noneffective selection of production frontier in the nonparametric DEA method. It does not refer to other optimal subjects but shifts the focus to the judgment of its own effectiveness.

Evolutionary Overview of Land Consolidation Based on Bibliometric Analysis in Web of Science from 2000 to 2020.

Land consolidation is widely used as a powerful tool for land use management in many countries. In order to objectively reveal the current research status in the field of land consolidation, this paper uses the Bibliometrix and Biblioshiny software packages, and VOSviewer to analyze the literature in the field of land consolidation in the last 20 years of the Web of Science Core Collection Database. The results show that: (1) In the past two decades, the annual publication of papers on land consolidation rose.

Carbon Transfer Decision Model Based on LMDI Method.

Establishing a coordinated governance mechanism for regional carbon emissions is an essential way to achieve carbon peak and carbon neutrality, while the study of interprovincial carbon emissions transfer is one of the important foundations of regional carbon emissions coordinated governance research. Based on the multiregional input-output (MRIO) model, this study calculated the carbon emissions from both the producers' perspective and the consumers' perspective and analyzed the interprovincial net carbon emissions transfer decision. Furthermore, the logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI) method was adopted to decompose the factors that affect the province's net carbon emissions into technological effect, structural effect, input-output effect, and scale effect.

Spatial analysis of carbon dioxide emissions from producer services: an empirical analysis based on panel data from China.

This study focuses on producer services based on data from 30 provinces in China from 2005 to 2018. The spatial panel STIRPAT-Durbin model was used to analyze the spatiotemporal evolution characteristics and spatial effects of CO emissions. The empirical results reveal four key findings.

The impact of local government debt on urban environmental pollution and its mechanism: Evidence from China.

As an important financial means for governments to improve the quality of economic development, government debt greatly affects the quality of local environmental governance. Based on a theoretical mechanism analysis that uses the pollutant emissions panel data and new caliber urban investment bond data of 273 cities in China, this paper empirically tests the impact of local government debt on urban emission reduction and the mechanism that drives this impact. We find that local government debt significantly promotes urban emissions reduction, and as urban pollution becomes more aggravated, this promoting effect has a dynamic path, first strengthening and then weakening.

Curcumin alleviates lipopolysaccharides-induced inflammation and apoptosis in vascular smooth muscle cells via inhibition of the NF-κB and JNK signaling pathways.

Curcumin plays an important role in inflammation regulation. This study aimed to investigate the effect of curcumin on vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) inflammation induced by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and its mechanism. VSMCs were treated with different concentrations of curcumin (0, 50, 100 and 150 μg/mL).

[Responses of aquatic vegetation coverage to interannual variations of water level in different hydrologically connected sub-lakes of Poyang Lake, China].

The variation of water level is the main environmental factor controlling the growth of aquatic vegetation. It is of significance to understand its influences on aquatic vegetation coverage in sub-lakes under different hydrolo-gical control modes. Taking the free connected sub-lake Bang Lake and locally controlled sub-lake Dahuchi Lake of Poyang Lake as a case and based on remote sensing cloud computing platform of the Google Earth Engine (GEE), we used the pixel binary model to estimate aquatic vegetation coverage from 2000 to 2019, and analyzed the temporal and spatial differentiation characteristics, and the variation trend was simulated by combining the method of Sen+M-K.

Assessing the impact of public transfer payments on the vulnerability of rural households to healthcare poverty in China.

Background: China completed the task of eliminating absolute poverty, following the 18th National Congress. However, after 2020, rural poverty in China has entered a new stage that is characterised by transformational secondary poverty and relative poverty; thus, the poverty vulnerable group is the new target group. Public transfer payments play a vital role in reducing the vulnerability of rural households to healthcare poverty.

Molybdenum and Cadmium Co-induce Pyroptosis via Inhibiting Nrf2-Mediated Antioxidant Defense Response in the Brain of Ducks.

Excess molybdenum (Mo) and cadmium (Cd) are harmful to animals, but the neurotoxic mechanism co-induced by Mo and Cd is unclear. To estimate the effects of Mo and Cd co-exposure on pyroptosis by nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2)-mediated antioxidant defense response in duck brains, 40 healthy 7-day-old ducks were randomly assigned to 4 groups and fed diet supplemented with Mo or/and Cd for 16 weeks, respectively. Results showed that Mo or/and Cd markedly increased Mo and Cd contents; decreased iron (Fe), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), and selenium (Se) contents, elevated malondialdehyde (MDA) content; and decreased total-antioxidant capacity (T-AOC), total-superoxide dismutase (T-SOD), glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px), and catalase (CAT) activities accompanied by pathological damage in brain.

Understanding Agri-Food Traceability System User Intention in Respond to COVID-19 Pandemic: The Comparisons of Three Models.

Scientists believed the outbreak of COVID-19 could be linked to the consumption of wild animals, so food safety and hygiene have become the top concerns of the public. An agri-food traceability system becomes very important in this context because it can help the government to trace back the entire production and delivery process in case of food safety concerns. The traceability system is a complicated digitalized system because it integrates information and logistics systems.

The performance of Islamic versus conventional stocks during the COVID-19 shock: Evidence from firm-level data.

In this study, we extend the recently heated debate that compares the performance of Shariah compliant equities with their non-Shariah compliant counterparts especially during the Covid-19 shock. Unlike the existing literature, which uses stock market index level data to reach controversial conclusions, we use firm-level stock returns data to find robust evidence that Shariah compliant stocks outperformed their conventional counterparts during the Covid-19 market meltdown. More specifically, we find that the prices of Shariah compliant stocks reacted to the increase in Coronavirus confirmed cases and government social distancing measures with lower negative returns than the prices of non-Shariah compliant stocks.

Multiparty Evolutionary Game Strategy for Green Technology Innovation Under Market Orientation and Pandemics.

Building a market-oriented green technology innovation system is important for China's green development. In this system, the government, enterprises, and consumers promote green innovation. Given this backdrop, this study constructs an evolutionary game model that combines the government, enterprises and consumers to analyse their evolution trend of strategy by simulating theoretical analyses.

Benefits and costs of campaign-style environmental implementation: evidence from China's central environmental protection inspection system.

Campaign-style environmental implementation (CEI) is widely exerted in environmental protection, while its benefits and costs are controversial. We take advantage of the Central Environmental Protection Inspection (CEPI) System-a latest and distinguished form of CEI launched by China in 2016, as a quasi-natural experiment, to compare the benefits and costs of CEI based on water pollution effect estimates. Our results based on the annual panel data from 500 cities during 2009-2018 show that CEPI significantly reduced water pollution by an average of 20.

Cadmium and molybdenum co-induce pyroptosis and apoptosis the PTEN/PI3K/AKT axis in the livers of Shaoxing ducks ().

Cadmium (Cd) and excessive molybdenum (Mo) have adverse impacts on animals. However, the hepatotoxicity co-induced by Cd and Mo in ducks has not been fully elucidated. In order to explore the impacts of Cd and Mo co-exposure on pyroptosis and apoptosis by the PTEN/PI3K/AKT pathway in the livers of ducks, 40 healthy 7-day-old Shaoxing ducks () were randomly assigned into 4 groups, and Cd or/and Mo were added to the basic diet per kilogram (kg): control group (0 mg Mo and 0 mg Cd), Mo group (100 mg Mo), Cd group (4 mg Cd), and Mo + Cd group (100 mg Mo and 4 mg Cd), with 16 weeks feed management.

Modeling Dependent Structure Among Micro-Economics Variables Through in Pakistan.

A great fluctuations in oil price due to COVID-19 has been observed worldwide. Expertise of complicated relationships among economic indicators has considerable significance for consumers, specialists and strategy producers the same. This exploration work is devoted to investigating the impact of oil price fluctuations due to corona virus pandemic on inflation rate, interest rate and industrial production during lock-down using recent monthly data of Pakistan economic system starting from 2008-01 to 2020-04.

How Work-Family Conflict and Work-Family Facilitation Affect Employee Innovation: A Moderated Mediation Model of Emotions and Work Flexibility.

This paper aims to verify the effects of work-family conflict and work-family facilitation on employee innovation in the digital era. Based on resource conservation theory, this study regards the work-family relationship as a conditional resource. Employees who are in a state of lack of resources caused by work-family conflict will maintain existing resources by avoiding the consumption of further resources to perform innovation activities; employees who are in a state of sufficient resources are more willing to invest existing resources to obtain more resources.

Involvement of calcium homeostasis and unfolded protein response in autophagy co-induced by molybdenum and cadmium in duck (Anas platyrhyncha) brain.

Excess molybdenum (Mo) and cadmium (Cd) are harmful to animals, but neurotoxicity caused by Mo and Cd co-exposure in ducks is yet unknown. To assess joint impacts of Mo and Cd on autophagy via calcium homeostasis and unfolded protein response (UPR) in duck brain, 40 healthy 7-day-old ducks (Anas platyrhyncha) were assigned to 4 groups at random and fed diets supplemented with different doses of Mo or/and Cd for 16 weeks, respectively. Brain tissues were excised for experiment.

Attribution Model of Travel Intention to Internet Celebrity Spots: A Systematic Exploration Based on Psychological Perspective.

Previous studies have shown that the empathy process is the main driving factor that triggers tourists' intention to visit Internet celebrity spots. However, the academic community has not yet formed a unified understanding of the concrete mechanism. Based on this, this study combines the connotations of meme theory and empathy theory and applies Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to empirically analyze 340 valid samples of Internet celebrity spots visitors to explore the influence mechanism of attributional factors on travel intention.

Spatial spillover effects of urbanization on carbon emissions in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration, China.

To achieve a win-win situation for both urbanization and carbon emissions reduction from a spatiotemporal perspective, we need to identify the salient links between urbanization and carbon emissions in different dimensions. Using 2008-2018 panel data on the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration, this paper constructs a Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence, and Technology (STIRPAT) model based on four dimensions of urbanization: population, economy, land, and ecology. Additionally, it uses a whole group of variables for reference, constructs a Spatial Durbin model (SDM) to estimate the spatial effect, and empirically investigates the spatial dependence of carbon emissions and the influence of various driving factors.

Spatial-Temporal Pattern and Evolution Trend of the Cultivated Land Use Eco-Efficiency in the National Pilot Zone for Ecological Conservation in China.

The cultivated land use eco-efficiency (CLUE) is an important indicator to evaluate ecological civilization construction in China. Research on the spatial-temporal pattern and evolution trend of the CLUE can help to assess the level of ecological civilization construction and reveal associated demonstration and driving effects on surrounding areas. Based on the perspective of the CLUE, this paper obtains cultivated land use data pertaining to National Pilot Zones for Ecological Conservation in China and neighboring provinces from 2008 to 2018.

Internet Rumors During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Dynamics of Topics and Public Psychologies.

The capturing of social opinions, especially rumors, is a crucial issue in digital public health. With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the discussions of related topics have increased exponentially in social media, with a large number of rumors on the Internet, which highly impede the harmony and sustainable development of society. As human health has never suffered a threat of this magnitude since the Internet era, past studies have lacked in-depth analysis of rumors regarding such a globally sweeping pandemic.

In vivo assessment of molybdenum and cadmium co-induce nephrotoxicity via causing calcium homeostasis disorder and autophagy in ducks (Anas platyrhyncha).

Excess molybdenum (Mo) and cadmium (Cd) are widespread environmental and industrial metal pollutants. To evaluate the combined effects of Mo and Cd on calcium homeostasis and autophagy in duck kidneys. 160 healthy 7-day-old ducks (Anas platyrhyncha) were randomized into 4 groups and given to a basic diet, adding various doses of Mo or/and Cd for 16 weeks.

Avoiding panic during pandemics: COVID-19 and tourism-related businesses.

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought devastating impacts of an unprecedented scale to tourism-related businesses due to governments instituting mobility restrictions and business closures worldwide. In this research, we present the results of a survey involving 1212 tourism-related businesses in Jiangxi province, China, in late February 2020. The survey covered various topics, including (1) self-evaluated effects of COVID-19, (2) business responses, (3) social responsibility behavior, and (4) anticipated government policies.

Optimal lockdowns for COVID-19 pandemics: Analyzing the efficiency of sanitary policies in Europe.

Two main nonpharmaceutical policy strategies have been used in Europe in response to the COVID-19 epidemic: one aimed at natural herd immunity and the other at avoiding saturation of hospital capacity by crushing the curve. The two strategies lead to different results in terms of the number of lives saved on the one hand and production loss on the other hand. Using a susceptible-infected-recovered-dead model, we investigate and compare these two strategies.