Bacillus licheniformis Heshi-B2 was isolated from fermented rice bran in Heshiko, a food produced by aging salted mackerel with fresh rice bran. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of B. licheniformis Heshi-B2, originating from a Heshiko sample from Fukui Prefecture, Japan.

Economic theories show that the direction and magnitude of the fluctuations of economic variables depend on the type and magnitude of the shocks they are faced with. Various reasons are noted for fluctuations in demands for imports, including productivity shocks. Accordingly, this research was aimed at identifying the effects of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) shocks of the agricultural sector ...

The share of Chinese manufacturing imports in U.S. consumption has increased eight-fold between 1993 and 2011, from 1 to over 8 percent. While the literature has documented the pro-competitive price effect of the rising Chinese import competition on U.S. industries, I provide new empirical evidence for a quantitatively larger, indirect effect: for the average manufacturing industry, the increas...

Defatted rice bran was treated with subcritical water between 120 and 240°C. The extraction temperature af fected the total carbohydrate and protein contents of the extracts. In the tested temperature range, the total carbohydrate and protein contents were the highest at 180°C and 210°C. The DPPH radical scavenging activity of the extracts increased with increasing extraction temperature up to ...

According to Reuters news, Chinese buy rice imported from Japan at the price of 1500 RMB (1$=6.33 RMB) for 5 kg (It is more than 10 times the price for the Chinese local rice). It reflects a worrying presence of heavy metals and other tox-ins in China (1). Rice is a major staple food of the Chinese. There is an old Chinese saying " Min Yi Shi Wei Tian " which means hunger breeds dis-contentment...

The world food and financial crises threaten to undermine the real incomes of urban consumers in eastern and southern Africa. This study investigates patterns in staple food prices, wage rates, and marketing margins for urban consumers in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia between 1993 and 2009. There is high correlation among wage rate series for various government and private sector catego...

In the 1980’s and 1990’s many African countries liberalised their trade policy, although since the mid 1990s there are countries that did not alter tariffs. This allows us to analyse the effects of trade liberalisation on the change in imports using Difference-inDifferences techniques that allow us to evaluate the impact on imports of trade liberalisation at the general and sector-specific leve...

One of the primary benefits of international trade in a low-income context is the presumed ability, through trade, to access higher levels of technology through imports. Despite this, very little research has been done on international trade in a low-income (as opposed to middle-income) context, and even less concretely exploring the role of imports, largely because of the paucity of data avail...

It is known that rich households purchase goods of higher prices and quality than the poor ones. In this paper, we show that this difference is systematically related to the variation in access to imports across states within the U.S. Specifically, we investigate to what degree imports affect the differences in prices of durables purchased by households across income distribution. Our identific...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the outbreak of locust plague in Pakistan have severely impacted grain production trade South Asia, thereby posing serious threats to global security. This study formulated a comprehensive analysis crop yield restrictions consequent combined impact with GTAP model quantitatively simulated characteristics mechanisms changes patterns major crops (paddy rice wheat) Asia. ...