Synthetic biology enabling technologies have been harnessed to create new diagnostic technologies. However, most strategies involve error-prone amplification steps and limitations of accuracy in RNA detection. Here, a cell-free synthetic biology-powered biosensing strategy, termed as SHARK ( S...

The thesis combs the existing legal provisions about rural housing land from the perspectives of use restriction, means restriction, subject restriction and mortgage prohibition, and finds out their defects, namely, weakening real right, confused knowledge about the integration of house property...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the evolution, implementation and effectiveness of the Pay Equity Act in Ontario, Canada. Given that this Act is considered by many as the world's most progressive equal pay for work of equal value legislation, there are important implications...

Admissibility of linear estimators of a regression coefficient in linear models with and without the assumption that the underlying distribution is normal is discussed under a balanced loss function. In the non-normal case, a necessary and sufficient condition is given for linear estimators to...

This study employs an unbiased dual machine learning approach to examine the correlation between corporate ownership and the cost of corporate debt. The findings reveal that private firms incur greater costs of debt. Additionally, during periods of monetary policy tightening, ownership...