基于信任成本的社员对合作社信任的影响研究

为提高社员对合作社的信任程度,运用因子分析法分析了社员对合作社信任成本的内容结构,然后运用结构方程模型从信任成本的角度分析了社员对合作社信任的影响。结果表明:信息成本、制度成本、心理成本和监督成本构成了社员对合作社的信任成本,其中心理成本对社员对合作社信任的影响最大,其次是监督成本和信息成本,制度成本影响最小。     

Genomics. Wellcome Trust backs genome computation

Last week the U.K.-based Wellcome Trust announced that it would spend $13 million over 5 years to fund hardware and software designed to analyze newly sequenced human DNA. Its support of a project called Ensembl reflects a growing appreciation of the importance of computers to interpret the human genome.     

Breakthrough of the year. It's all about me

Along with the flood of discoveries in human genetics, 2007 saw the birth of a new industry: personal genomics. But researchers worry that these services open up a Pandora's box of ethical issues.