By means of an event study of stock market reactions to the announcement of the Olympic Games host cities, we find a significant and positive announcement effect of hosting the Summer Games, with a cumulative abnormal return of about 2% within a few days. We do not find any significant results for the Winter Games. Neither do we detect a significant impact when bidders lose the competition. Our...

Rice sheath blight (ShB), caused by the soilborne pathogen Rhizoctonia solani, annually causes severe losses in yield and quality in many rice production areas worldwide. Jasmine 85 is an indica cultivar that has proven to have a high level of resistance to this pathogen. The objective of this study was to determine the ability of controlled environment inoculation assays to detect ShB resistan...

by RobeRt Wood, MattheW Wyant, ChRistopheR s. bRetheRton, JasMine RéMillaRd, pavlos Kollias, JennifeR fletCheR, Jayson steMMleR, siMone de szoeKe, sandRa yuteR, MattheW MilleR, david MeCheM, GeoRGe tselioudis, J. ChRistine Chiu, Julian a. l. Mann, eWan J. o’ConnoR, Robin J. hoGan, Xiquan donG, MaRK MilleR, viRendRa Ghate, anne JeffeRson, qilonG Min, patRiCK Minnis, RabindRa paliKonda, bRuCe alb...

Population–based 3D genome structure analysis reveals driving forces in spatial genome organization Harianto Tjong, Wenyuan Li, Reza Kalhor, Chao Dai, Shengli Hao, Ke Gong, Yonggang Zhou, Haochen Li, Xianghong Jasmine Zhou, Mark A. Le Gros, Carolyn A. Larabell, Lin Chen, and Frank Alber Molecular and Computational Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, 10...

Rice pudding is an uncommon and unpopular dessert to Thais due to its rough texture and strong taste of egg. It generally composes of milk or skim milk, rice grain or flour, sugar, egg, and salt. Jasmine rice flour containing unique fragrance is a preferable choice to improve this product. A substitution of egg with jasmine rice flour in a developed rice pudding was carried out which the qualit...

BACKGROUND Glycemic index (GI) is intended to be a property of food but some reports are suggestive that GI is influenced by participant characteristics when glucose is used as a reference. OBJECTIVE To examine the influence of different reference foods on observed GI. DESIGN The GIs of five varieties of rice and a sugary beverage (LoGiCane™) were tested in 31 European and 32 Chinese partic...

by RobeRt Wood, MattheW Wyant, ChRistopheR s. bRetheRton, JasMine RéMillaRd, pavlos Kollias, JennifeR fletCheR, Jayson steMMleR, siMone de szoeKe, sandRa yuteR, MattheW MilleR, david MeCheM, GeoRGe tselioudis, J. ChRistine Chiu, Julian a. l. Mann, eWan J. o’ConnoR, Robin J. hoGan, Xiquan donG, MaRK MilleR, viRendRa Ghate, anne JeffeRson, qilonG Min, patRiCK Minnis, RabindRa paliKonda, bRuCe alb...