Essays on Miao

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) are prearranged sections in bacterial as well as archaeal genomes, which form part of an adaptive immune system against phages —viruses that infect bacteria but not humans. CRISPR and CRISPR-associated (Cas) systems have been rapidly emerging as an alternative genomic editing tool to ZFNs (zinc-fingernuclease) and TALENs (Transcription activator-like effector nucleases). In the article, “Targeted mutagenesis in rice using CRISPR-Cas system,” the author applies CRISPR/Cas system in rice (Miao, et al.). The author investigates whether the CRISPR/Cas technology can create double standard breaks (DSB) in rice callus. The successful application of CRISPR/Cas ...

INTRODUCTION

Economical and industrial development are two of the most important elements on the evolutional way for any country and nationality. However, it often happens so that people discover something new and hurl themselves into using it before making throughout estimations of potential risks and hazards. This is especially common if such newly discovered entity (an invention, or mineral, or a way to dig out minerals – this could be anything) is capable of making large sums of money: then there is no particular doubt of this entity becoming incredibly popular and exploited to the extent of being overused. To top ...

Q. 1: The article discusses the role of a sales manager in the relationship selling process. This is achieving by exploring the five critical components that entail management of the relationship selling process. The performance of a salesperson is examined in the article based on the perspective of the manager and the salesperson. Role perceptions and motivation are termed as the key elements in management of salespersons in an organization. The recruitment and selection of a sales force in an organization is investigated in one section of the article where the objectives of sales training and various training techniques ...

Entrepreneurial Intentions and Moral Disengagement among Business Students

This study evaluates the relationship between entrepreneurial decision making and moral disengagement among business students with the objective of assessing how far students are willing to compromise on ethical values to achieve financial gains and self fulfillment. This study is expected to contribute substantially to the existing literature on entrepreneurial intentions and ethical decision making by getting an insight into the organizational behavior of would be entrepreneurs. Instances of ethical aberrations by high ranking officials from companies like Enron and Goldman Sach, who were business graduates from reputed institutes prompted Cory, S.N. (2015, 2) to undertake a research to ...

Over the years the PRC existence, the country's banking system passed a difficult and contradictory path of development, reflecting the peculiarities of the economic policy pursued by the state at a particular stage. In the late 70-ies of the last century in China economic and social reform was launched in order to create a model of “socialism with Chinese specifics” which would combine the primacy of market principles and effective macro control of the administering state agencies. In the process of creation of this model, an important role is given to China's banking system, as it is an institution, ...

1. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM(S) The problem that was indicated in the case study was the obstacles that the company faced during creation of new entity. This entity was created with the merger of ATK and EDS but with this merger, there were a lot of critiques and questions that were raised as both the organizations had totally different background and were operating in different market as well. It is important for the organizations to carefully analyze and evaluate the different factors and elements before taking a decision of merger or acquisition. If the organization is able to manage ...