Yunnan University lists 10 major scientific achievements in 2018

9. A research finding made by a Yunnan University (YNU) biology research team was reported in the international journal, Nature Communications, on Oct26. 

The main research team was led by Cindy Q. Tang, working at the university’s Institute of Ecology and Geobotany, in partnership with domestic and foreign research teams. 

The title of their finding is: Identifying long-term stable refugia for relict plant species in East Asia. 

The authors are Cindy Q. Tang, Tetsuya Matsui, Haruka Ohashi, Yi-Fei Dong, Arata Momohara, Sonia Herrando-Moraira, Shenhua Qian, Yongchuan Yang, Masahiko Ohsawa, Hong Truong Luu, Paul J. Grote, Pavel V. Krestov, Ben LePage, Marinus Werger, Kevin Robertson, Carsten Hobohm, Chong-Yun Wang, Ming-Chun Peng, Xi Chen, Huan-Chong Wang, Wen-Hua Su, Rui Zhou, Shuaifeng Li, Long-Yuan He, Kai Yan, Ming-Yuan Zhu, Jun Hu, Ruo-Han Yang, Wang-Jun Li, Mizuki Tomita, Zhao-Lu Wu, Hai-Zhong Yan, Guang-Fei Zhang, Hai He, Si-Rong Yi, Hede Gong, Kun Song, Ding Song, Xiao-Shuang Li, Zhi-Ying Zhang, Peng-Bin Han, Li-Qin Shen, Diao-Shun Huang, Kang Luo and Jordi López-Pujo.

The article can be found at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-06837-3.

An article published in Nature Communications on Oct 26 reports on a research finding by a Yunnan University (YNU) research team led by Cindy Q. Tang. Tang’s team worked in partnership with various domestic and foreign research teams and achieved a major research finding. [Photo/ynu.edu.cn]

10. A research finding in new media communication by a Yunnan University (YNU) academic was recently reported in the renowned journal Information Development. 

Li Li, a lecturer from YNU’s School of Journalism, was the paper’s first author and corresponding author, in partnership with Trisha T. C. Lin, a teacher from the National Chengchi University in Taiwan. The first corresponding organization is YNU’s School of Journalism.  

Titled “Examining how dependence on smartphones at work relates to Chinese employees’ workplace social capital, job performance, and smartphone addiction,” 

The paper reveals that smartphone addiction is more likely to be related to using smartphones to acquire information than to communicate.  

Information Development is a renowned journal in information communication. It is dedicated to publishing significant findings in the area of new media studies.