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Clinical Epigenetics, 2019 Background DNA methylation has recently been identified as a mediator between in utero famine exposure and a range of metabolic and psychiatric traits. However, genome-wide analyses are scarce and cross-sectional analyses are hampered by many potential ...
Yujie He +9 more
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How does early-life famine experience influence household energy transition?
Heliyon, 2023 The transition of households towards cleaner energy is crucial for achieving sustainable development goals. However, the impacts and associated mechanisms of early-life experiences on household energy transition have not been considered.
Feiran Wang +4 more
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Commercial Applications of Microalgae [PDF]
, 2006 The first use of microalgae by humans dates back 2000 years to the Chinese, who used Nostoc to survive during famine. However, microalgal biotechnology only really began to develop in the middle of the last century.
Duran, Elie +3 more
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CEOs’ early famine experience, managerial discretion and corporate social responsibility
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 Corporate social responsibility (CSR) reflects entrepreneurs’ early life experiences in reality. Based on imprinting theory and upper echelons theory, this paper examines the impact of a CEO’s early famine experience on CSR, analyzes the moderating ...
Zhaocheng Xu
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How Chief Executive Officers’ first-hand experience of the Great Chinese Famine affects risk-taking?
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 To understand the influence of Chief Executive Officers’ (CEOs) early life experiences on their firms’ strategic decision-making, here we explore the impacts of CEOs’ experience of the Great Chinese Famine (1959–1961) on their cognitions and firm risk ...
Dayuan Li, Chen Huang, Ding Wang
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Journal of Diabetes Research, 2020 Background. Emerging studies have explored the association between the famine exposure during early life and the risk of the metabolic syndrome, and the results remain controversial. This meta-analysis was performed to summarize the famine effects on the
Lu-Lu Qin +4 more
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Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022 BackgroundAlthough the evidence was still limited, some studies suggested that childhood malnutrition might affect cardiac function and structure in adulthood.
Yu-qin Yan +5 more
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Aftershock: CEO Great Famine Experience and Stock Price Crash Risk
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 This study examines the effect of CEOs’ early-life traumatic experience on firm-specific stock price crash risk. Drawing on the idea of natural experiments, we take the Great Famine in China as an external traumatic event which cannot be selected or ...
Fang Cheng +4 more
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Great Chinese famine, corporate social responsibility and firm value
Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2023 We conceptualize that CEOs who endure traumatic experiences stemming from man-made disasters practice less corporate social responsibility. We exploit a natural experiment—the Great Chinese Famine—to empirically test this hypothesis. We find that (i) firms with CEOs who experienced the Great Chinese Famine score lower in corporate social responsibility
Xu, Cheng +4 more
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Annals of Human Biology, 2022 Background Over the past few decades, more studies have suggested that the age at menarche (AAM) has continued to decline. However, the AAM for women in resource-constrained areas is not clear. Moreover, the association between the Chinese famine and AAM
Xueyan Wu +10 more
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