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The Cultural Hybridity of Chineseness
Authors: Gibbs Levi S.
Published: November 2021

This article looks at three contemporary novels where songs sung by rural women from the border region of northern Shaanxi Province evoke cultural and temporal hybridities, fusing social continuity with the threat and promise of change. The novels alternately portray untamed others—ranging from a Xiongnu soldier to a mountain bride to a country girl—as invasive threats and purveyors of potentially beneficial hybridities, adapting tropes of ethnic alterity to rethink the rural-urban divide and challenge both urban-centered and rural-centered discourses of progress. The wild brings vibrancy to the civilized, the center is drawn to the periphery, and the rural and urban are alternately desired and dismissed. In the end, these rural women's songs erase hierarchical notions of center and periphery and bring together alternative worldviews and visions of progress as only songs of the borderland can.
Conciliatory Amalgamation
Authors: Tan E. K.
Published: November 2021

Published in 2015, Padi Guli's A Hundred Years of Bloodline tells the story of Fatima, a Uyghur woman's journey to unpack her family history while struggling to understand the status of ethnic minorities in the larger fabric of multiethnic China. The novel concludes with a positive message calling for ethnic integration. This adoption of a state-sanctioned concept of ethnic integration is what this article calls conciliatory amalgamation; it privileges a rhetoric of multiethnicism that centers on national unity and economic progress. This article reads the novel against the PRC's ethnic minority policy to examine the implications of the protagonist's cultural, linguistic, and geopolitical border-crossing as she comes to terms with ethnic amalgamation as a necessary mode of survival. This allows the novel to be read as a symptom of Padi Guli's status as a Sinophone Uyghur writer who establishes herself within the dominant tradition of Chinese literature. As one of the few prominent Sinophone Uyghur writers, she inevitably becomes a token that sustains the rhetoric of Chinese literature as inclusive and diverse. Along this line of thought, the article argues that Padi Guli's status as a writer mirrors that of her protagonist as they both adopt a conciliatory attitude toward amalgamation.
Treading Poetic Borders in Southwest China and Northeast India
Authors: Bender Mark
Published: November 2021

Since the 1980s ethnic minority poets writing in the borderlands of Southwest China and Northeast India emerged on the world stage from within currents of dramatic environmental, political, economic, and demographic change, cresting in momentum by the 2010s. Within these borderlands of the Eastern Himalayas, burgeoning populations, propelled by sociopolitical agendas, ecological disasters, and other factors, stress borders and resources in areas increasingly open to exploitation by regional and international corporations and governments. Minority poetic voices throughout the region often respond to these radical environmental and cultural shifts with imagery of the environment delivered in very personal terms. Poets not only assume individual voices but also take on metonymic personae, speaking for concerns of their own groups via print, live performance, and digital formats. Mutual awareness of these cross-border poetries is slowly emerging, revealing that themes of poems from within these border areas are often parallel, with common concerns, though local characteristics. Cultural shifts and accommodation to new or revised modes of living and reactions to increasingly severe challenges to the local and regional environments surface repeatedly in the poetry. Some poems tread boundaries between the human and nonhuman inhabitants of these border areas, speaking for—or as—plants, animals, and geographic features.
Embracing the Xenophone
Authors: Shernuk Kyle
Published: November 2021

By interrogating the borderlands of the discipline of Chinese literature, this article argues that Chinese literary studies should recognize non-Sinitic-language literatures that engage with issues of Chineseness as proper objects of study. Prevailing frameworks in Chinese and Sinophone literary studies range from an implicit aversion to non-Sinitic-language texts to their explicit exclusion. The consequence, however, is that texts that would otherwise be considered works of Chinese literature based on their content and/or combinations of other factors are condemned to a “literary no-man's land.” By removing the minimum threshold of language for consideration in the Chinese literary tradition and permitting texts that otherwise reflect or participate in the production of discourses of Chineseness—which the author theorizes as an embrace of the xenophone—the study of Chinese literature recuperates previously excluded expressions of Chineseness and begins writing a new branch of Chinese literary history. As case in point, the author analyzes the Spanish-language Chinese literature of Chinese Peruvian American writer Siu Kam Wen, specifically, his first collection of short stories, El tramo final (The Final Stretch). From offering new ideas of what it means to be Chinese to rewriting the history of China's red legacies, Siu's work represents a needed intervention in Chinese literary studies that would otherwise be excluded owing to its language of composition.
"Beyond This Narrow Now"
Authors: Chandler Nahum Dimitri
Published: November 2021

In “Beyond This Narrow Now” Nahum Dimitri Chandler shows that the premises of W. E. B. Du Bois's thinking at the turn of the twentieth century stand as fundamental references for the whole itinerary of his thought. Opening with a distinct approach to the legacy of Du Bois, Chandler proceeds through a series of close readings of Du Bois's early essays, previously unpublished or seldom studied, with discrete annotations of The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches of 1903, elucidating and elaborating basic epistemological terms of his thought. With theoretical attention to how the African American stands as an example of possibility for Du Bois and renders problematic traditional ontological thought, Chandler also proposes that Du Bois's most well-known phrase—“the problem of the color line”—sustains more conceptual depth than has yet been understood, with pertinence for our accounts of modern systems of enslavement and imperial colonialism and the incipient moments of modern capitalization. Chandler's work exemplifies a more profound engagement with Du Bois, demonstrating that he must be re-read, appreciated, and studied anew as a philosophical writer and thinker contemporary to our time.
The Sovereign Trickster
Authors: Rafael Vicente L.
Published: November 2021

In The Sovereign Trickster Vicente L. Rafael offers a prismatic view of the age of Rodrigo Duterte in the contemporary Philippines. Framing Duterte as a trickster figure who boasts, jokes, terrorizes, plays the victim, and instills terror, Rafael weaves together topics ranging from the drug war, policing, and extrajudicial killings to neoliberal citizenship, intimacy, and photojournalism. He is less concerned with defining Duterte as a fascist, populist, warlord, and traditional politician than he is with examining what Duterte does: how he rules, the rhetoric of his humor, his use of obscenity to stoke fear, and his projection of masculinity and misogyny. Locating Duterte's rise within the context of counterinsurgency, neoliberalism, and the history of electoral violence, while drawing on Foucault’s biopower and Mbembe’s necropolitics, Rafael outlines how Duterte weaponizes death to control life. By diagnosing the symptoms of the authoritarian imaginary as it circulates in the Philippines, Rafael provides a complex account of Duterte’s regime and the social conditions that allow him to enjoy continued support.
Crosstalk between basal extracellular matrix adhesion and building of apical architecture during morphogenesis
Authors: Barrera-Velázquez Mariana , Ríos-Barrera Luis Daniel
Published: November 2021

Tissues build complex structures like lumens and microvilli to carry out their functions. Most of the mechanisms used to build these structures rely on cells remodelling their apical plasma membranes, which ultimately constitute the specialised compartments. In addition to apical remodelling, these shape changes also depend on the proper attachment of the basal plasma membrane to the extracellular matrix (ECM). The ECM provides cues to establish apicobasal polarity, and it also transduces forces that allow apical remodelling. However, physical crosstalk mechanisms between basal ECM attachment and the apical plasma membrane remain understudied, and the ones described so far are very diverse, which highlights the importance of identifying the general principles. Here, we review apicobasal crosstalk of two well-established models of membrane remodelling taking place during Drosophila melanogaster embryogenesis: amnioserosa cell shape oscillations during dorsal closure and subcellular tube formation in tracheal cells. We discuss how anchoring to the basal ECM affects apical architecture and the mechanisms that mediate these interactions. We analyse this knowledge under the scope of other morphogenetic processes and discuss what aspects of apicobasal crosstalk may represent widespread phenomena and which ones are used to build subsets of specialised compartments.
Η Αγγελική Χατζημιχάλη ως εθνική λαογράφος
Authors: Τουτουντζή Αλεξάνδρα
Published: November 2021

Η διατριβή ερευνά μέσω της βιογραφικής προσέγγισης το λαογραφικό έργο και τη δημόσια δράση της Αγγελικής Χατζημιχάλη (1895-1965). Τοποθετώντας δε τη λαογράφο στην εποχή της ως μέλος συλλογικοτήτων μέσα από τις οποίες και χάρη στις οποίες διαμορφώθηκε και αναδείχθηκε ως ιστορικό υποκείμενο, καλύπτει την πορεία του ελληνικού κράτους από τον Μεσοπόλεμο ως τις πρώτες μεταπολεμικές δεκαετίες. Ταυτόχρονα παρακολουθεί τον διάλογο των διανοουμένων αναφορικά με την έννοια της ελληνικότητας και την αντιμετώπιση των κοινωνικών ζητημάτων την περίοδο αυτή. Γόνος αστικής οικογένειας της Αθήνας, η Χατζημιχάλη συμμετείχε από μικρή ηλικία στο φεμινιστικό κίνημα, συνεργάστηκε με σημαντικούς θεσμούς και ανθρώπους του καιρού της για την εκπαίδευση και επαγγελματική αποκατάσταση των μικρασιατών προσφύγων και των λαϊκών τάξεων γενικότερα, ενώ ήταν ενεργά παρούσα στα μείζονα ιστορικά γεγονότα που συντελέστηκαν αυτή την ταραγμένη εποχή. Το σημαντικότερο έργο της υπήρξε η καταγραφή και μελέτη του λαϊκού πολιτισμού της υπαίθρου με ιδιαίτερη εστίαση στη λαϊκή τέχνη, την οποία προσπάθησε να αναδείξει και ως συστατικό στοιχείο του νέου ελληνικού πολιτισμού, αλλά και ως εμπορικό προϊόν. Έτσι, έδωσε τον δικό της ορισμό για την ελληνικότητα και συνέβαλε σε τέτοιο βαθμό στη διάχυση του εθνικού αφηγήματος εντός και εκτός Ελλάδας, ώστε να μπορεί να χαρακτηριστεί σήμερα ως εθνική λαογράφος. Η εργασία έχει τετραμερή δομή. Το πρώτο κεφάλαιο παρουσιάζει τη ζωή και την εργογραφία της Χατζημιχάλη. Στο δεύτερο κεφάλαιο δίνονται οι βασικές κατευθύνσεις της ευρωπαϊκής και ελληνικής ακαδημαϊκής λαογραφίας, καθώς και οι έννοιες και τα ερευνητικά αντικείμενα βάσει των οποίων η λαογράφος ανέπτυξε το έργο της. Η άποψη της Χατζημιχάλη για την ελληνικότητα και τα επιχειρήματα πάνω στα οποία στήριξε την αδιάσπαστη συνέχεια, μοναδικότητα και σπουδαιότητα του ελληνικού πολιτισμού είναι το περιεχόμενο του τρίτου κεφαλαίου. Το τέταρτο κεφάλαιο ξεκινά με την πρότασή της για έναν νέο ελληνικό πολιτισμό βασισμένο στην πρόσφατη παράδοση. Το κεφάλαιο και η διατριβή κλείνουν με τη δημόσια δράση της Αγγελικής Χατζημιχάλη για την προαγωγή της λαϊκής τέχνης.
Racism in medicine: A qualitative study on the impact of discussion among medical students
Authors: Saymuah Stone Sara , Bell Capricia , Peoples Ashleigh , Sandhu Manvir , Alzouhayli Suma , Akers Katherine G.
Published: November 2021

Background: This study evaluated the impact of the Racism in Medicine Summit on student perceptions of various topics related to racism in medicine. The Summit was organized at the Wayne State University School of Medicine (WSUSOM) to educate students, faculty and staff on how structural racism affects the residents of Detroit and the historical relationship between healthcare and vulnerable populations. The Summit aimed at providing context for what students in Detroit will encounter as physicians-in-training and the skills they will need to master while working within similar communities. 

Methods: Qualtrics surveys were created and distributed via email to attendees before and after the event. Responses were obtained via Likert scale and open-text questions. 

Results: A total of 342 out of 445 participants (77%) completed both the pre- and post-survey. Quantitative analysis in post-survey responses revealed more familiarity among participants regarding specific instances of racism in the history of medicine, greater extent of thinking the history of racism impacts present-day Detroit residents, greater extent of thinking that racism influences medical care and/or medical outcomes, and belief that racism is reflected in medical research, compared to pre-survey responses (p < 0.001). Participants also reported more often considering racial or societal influences when studying medicine and more knowledge of what they can do to combat racism as a student and physician (p < 0.001). 

Qualitative analysis revealed seven themes among participants: the history of racism in medicine, personal reflection, racism in research, bias and microaggression, actions to take against racism, resources for anti-racist education, and racism in medical education. 

Conclusions: Demonstrable changes in medical student attitude and awareness surrounding topics of racism and healthcare were achieved after the Racism in Medicine Summit. This can serve as a model for other medical schools to raise awareness about racism in medicine.
Features of Distance Learning in Geometric and Graphic Disciplines Using Methods of Constructive Geometric Modeling
Authors: Boyashova E.
Published: November 2021

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of teaching the discipline "Descriptive geometry" in the conditions of distance learning, it examines the application of information technologies in the educational process in geometric and graphic disciplines. Increasing the speed of information processes, reducing the number of hours for mastering the discipline. the conditions of distance learning set new tasks for teachers and dictate their requirements for teaching graphic disciplines and the use of teaching experience in a new reality; there is a need to introduce and develop new forms of education without losing the quality of education. Geometric-graphic disciplines occupy one of the important places in technical education, the complexity of the study of which lies in the development of a graphical representation of phenomena, objects and processes by methods of constructive geometric modeling. The knowledge and skills acquired by students contribute to the development of spatial, imaginative and rational thinking, which is necessary for future professional activities. Descriptive geometry is a discipline that is not easy to master on your own without a conscious understanding of the logic and sequence of geometric constructions, without deep knowledge of theoretical foundations and constant, repeated implementation of practical tasks. The acquisition of practical skills in mastering the methods of discipline has become more difficult in the current epidemiological situation.

In modern conditions of distance learning, the use of the Simplex geometric modeling system made it possible to develop and propose a new concept of geometric-graphic interaction, which significantly reduced the time for completing and checking educational tasks in real time. The proposed technology reveals the deep informational essence of the studied discipline "Descriptive Geometry" and becomes a powerful research tool for students. The integration of traditional teaching methods in the graphic preparation of students with computer and communication facilities increases the possibilities of communication and improves the quality of teaching.
LANGUAGE ECOLOGY IN TIBETAN AREAS OF WESTERN SICHUAN: PROBLEMS, CAUSES AND STRATEGIES
Authors: WANG XIAO-QIONG
Published: November 2021

The language ecology in western Sichuan is diverse and complex, and there are nearly 20 ethnic groups and 20 languages intermingled with each other. However, their unique linguistic individuality is often covered by the universal language and become "disadvantaged languages" in their own habitat. Many reasons, of which are mixed ethnic distribution, deficient education resource and economic transformation etc., have led to the loss of linguistic vitality of the ancient languages. Ethnic, bilingual and vocational education are necessary strategies to improve the ethnic language ecology.
RESEARCH ON THE APPLICATION OF “PRODUCTION-ORIENTED APPROACH” BASED ON BLENDED TEACHING IN COLLEGE ENGLISH WRITING TEACHING IN PRIVATE UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGES
Authors: XU JING , FENG LI
Published: November 2021

The “production-oriented approach” or POA theory believes that foreign language teaching should embrace such focus as “learning-centered”, “learning and use integration” and “key capabilities cultivation”. Besides, foreign language teaching should be designed as a process that starts with production and ends with production. In view of the merits of network resources and platforms in blended teaching mode as well as teaching process of “driving, facilitating, and evaluating” in POA, this paper explores the combination of POA and blended teaching to research on the feasibility and effectiveness of applying it to the teaching of college English writing in private undergraduate colleges. By analyzing the relevant research theoretical basis and research status, the author further elaborates on the specific implementation process of applying POA based on blended teaching in the college English writing teaching of private undergraduate colleges from the aspects of research significance research subjects, research methods, research content and data analysis. In terms of research content, the author specifically expounds the procedures from such detailed parts as before-class stage: production drive + online autonomous learning, in-class stage: input facilitating + offline classroom teaching, after-class stage: evaluation to promote learning + online correction and classroom display. This paper is expected to promote students’ writing interests and proficiency so as to provide a valuable reference for the reform of college English writing teaching methods.
AN OVERVIEW OF THE ENGLISH READING STRATEGIES AND CHINESE READING STRATEGIES
Authors: LI WEN-JUN
Published: November 2021

In this modern age of knowledge explosion, reading is regarded as one of the most efficient means to obtain the information on science, academic research and other different fields. Moreover, reading plays an important role in foreign language learning and communication. It not only offers necessary and sufficient linguistic input for foreign language learners, but also lays a solid foundation for the learners’ comprehensive ability in language learning. This paper will have an overview of reading strategies at home and abroad in order to have deeper understanding and clearer insights into the learners’ reading strategy use.
THE CONSTRUCTION OF TALENT CULTIVATION MODE OF THE INTEGRATION BETWEEN INDUSTRY AND EDUCATION IN HIGHER VOCATIONAL EDUCATION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF “THREE EDUCATIONS” REFORM
Authors: ZHANG YUN-RUI , SUN KAI-LAI
Published: November 2021

With the ever-accelerated updating of higher vocational education reform, it is becoming more and more important to improve the system of vocational education and training, and promote integration between industry and education and cooperation between enterprises and colleges. And we must move faster to bring out the full potential of higher vocational education, and build higher vocational colleges into world-class colleges. In this new era, “Three Educations” reform has become the necessity for the higher vocational colleges to improve the quality of college management and talent cultivation. Aiming to provide a reference for the talent cultivation mode of the integration between industry and education, this article first analyzes the necessity of constructing such mode from the perspective of “Three Educations” reform, and then explores the existing problems, and finally put forwards the possible solutions.
GROUP CHARACTERISTICS OF COLLEGE STUDENTS AND CULTIVATION OF MODERN SCIENTIFIC THINKING
Authors: ZHU WEN-BO , LIU JUN , LIN MEI-JIN , CHEN DAN-FENG , LIU SHI-YA
Published: November 2021

The scientific thinking level of college students not only determines the depth and breadth of their professional development after entering the society, but also directly affects the speed and quality of China's future scientific and technological development. It is a long and systematic project to cultivate the modern scientific thinking of college students. This paper discusses the group characteristics of college students and the connotation of modern scientific thinking, and gives the cultivating road-map of their modern scientific thinking. Universities, enterprises and institutions, associations and societies cooperate with each other to practice the modern scientific thinking cultivation in talent training system, education and teaching, second classroom activities and self-ability cultivation, which aims to provide reference to improve the scientific thinking ability and the level of college students.
THE IDEOLOGICAL AND POLITICAL TEACHING PRACTICE OF THE COURSE "MECHANICAL MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY FUNDAMENTALS" UNDER THE BACKGROUND OF "NEW ENGINEERING"
Authors: LI YI-HUA , LIU ZHI-WEI , ZHANG XIN , LIU QIANG , LUAN ZHEN-HUI
Published: November 2021

To optimize the teaching content, it relies on the "New Engineering" project to revise the curriculum syllabus, and integrate the ideological and political elements such as craftsmanship, innovation, and May Fourth spirit into the course teaching of " Basic Mechanical Manufacturing Technology" through actual cases ; in order to finish the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education, training students establish correct outlook on life and values, and deliver compound talents that meet social needs.
TOWARDS AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TO IDEOLOGICAL AND POLITICAL EDUCATION: A CASE STUDY OF ‘AN INTRODUCTION’ WITH THE ‘XUEXI QIANGGUO’ APP
Authors: XU XUE-MEI , CHEN YOU-BIN
Published: November 2021

In this new era of mobile internet, in the face of the demanding task of educating students and helping them to have correct values, so that they can understand socialism with Chinese characteristics better and be willing to make contributions to our Chinese dream of national rejuvenation, we teachers should advance with the times, and design our ideological and political education courses properly to enhance college students’ integrative motivation to make learning a part of their everyday life, and help them develop a good habit in their lifetime. Based on constructivism, we can make use of some smart phone-based apps like “Xuexi Qiangguo” to have an integrative approach. This app is distinctive, authoritative, and powerful, like a great treasure house with a lot of news, theories, and stories. It is flexible, easily accessible, and efficient, and is able to us make a big difference in teaching. Our case study shows how we can actually rebuild a preview mechanism, upgrade our learning style and better evaluation mechanism for better teaching of some courses.
"SOIL" OF MODERN CHINESE LANDSCAPE PAINTING—ANALYSIS OF RACE, ENVIRONMENT AND THE TIMES
Authors: DU YI-FAN
Published: November 2021

As we all know, material civilization and spiritual civilization depend on three factors: race, environment, and times. [1] As a kind of culture, modern Chinese landscape painting has undergone new changes, mainly because the "soil" and "climate" on which it depends for survival have changed. In order to clarify how the changes of modern Chinese landscape painting in recent years are affected by three factors, this article will take the modern Chinese landscape painting as the research object, and study its influence on modern Chinese landscape painting from three aspects: race, environment, and times. The author hopes that this article can provide a reference for the future development of Chinese landscape painting.
RESEARCH ON IDEOLOGICAL AND POLITICAL TEACHING REFORM OF PACKAGING DESIGN COURSE BASED ON CULTURAL CONFIDENCE
Authors: LIANG LI-ZHU
Published: November 2021

Based on the cultural self-confidence of the packaging design curriculum ideological and political teaching reform research, by embedding cultural projects into the packaging design curriculum, with cultural creative packaging design as the core curriculum content, the packaging design curriculum ideological and political teaching reform practice research is carried out, the purpose is to let the visual Communication design students can not only acquire due professional knowledge in packaging design class, but also cultivate students' love for Chinese traditional culture, enhance cultural self-confidence, and promote the development of Chinese cultural packaging design industry. This course runs through cultural projects, and is divided into three parts: "Packaging Design Research and Positioning", "Packaging Structure Design", and "Packaging Visual Design", which mainly incorporates "Chinese Traditional Packaging", "Chinese Traditional Characters", and "Packaging Design". Ideological and political content of courses such as "Chinese Traditional Pattern" and "Modern Design of Traditional Brand Packaging". At the same time, innovative teaching ideas and teaching methods have been incorporated in the course of curriculum ideological and political reform practice.
RESEARCH ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES OF WELLNESS TOURISM PRODUCTS—TAKE PHOENIX VALLEY FOREST AS AN EXAMPLE
Authors: ZHANG JIAN-RONG , LI JIA-XIN , WU XUAN-YA
Published: November 2021

In recent years, as people pay more attention to healthy life, the "big health" industry is heading for a new round of growth. As a combination of tourism and "big health" industry, wellness tourism has good market environment. The wellness tourism in China is in its initial stage, and the research on wellness tourism products based on the demand of tourists is insufficient. In this paper, Phoenix Valley Forest Parkas the research object, using the form of questionnaire survey based on the needs of tourists, put forward suggestions on the development of forest wellness tourism products, in order to enrich the content of wellness tourism research and provide reference for the industry development.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS REMOTE INTERNSHIP PROGRAMS IN THE BACKGROUND OF COVID-19 EPIDEMIC
Authors: ZHANG, ZHENG-YI , LIU LING , DONG YI-WEI
Published: November 2021

International organization talents are China’s key resource for the overall implementation of the global strategy, and serve as an important medium for keeping up with international standards. The outbreak of COVID-19 epidemic has had a continuous and serious adverse impact on the cooperation programs between universities and international organizations. Facing the impact and challenges brought by the epidemic, it is urgent to explore effective development paths and practical models of international organization remote internship programs, including exploring new ways for international organizations to establish offices in China, creating new models for academic researches, establishing regular cooperation between universities and international organizations, and developing new strategies to transfer the talents to international organizations, while establishing a diverse interactive cooperation mechanism and forming an in-depth cooperation network between universities and organizations, training innovative talents that serve both China’s national strategies and the development of international politics and economy.
RESEARCH ON THE CURRENT SITUATION AND COUNTERMEASURES OF RURAL PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN CHINA
Authors: LAI MING-HANG
Published: November 2021

Physical education as a compulsory course to promote the all-round development of students, at the same time, with the continuous promotion of quality education, physical education has been significantly improved. However, compared with cities with better economic conditions, the current situation of rural physical education is not satisfactory. By using the methods of literature investigation and analysis, this paper discusses the current situation of rural physical education in China and puts forward some measures to promote the development of rural physical education in China.
RESEARCH ON THE TRAINING OF ELECTROMECHANICAL COMPLEX TALENTS IN HIGHER VOCATIONAL COLLEGES UNDER THE BACKGROUND OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Authors: CAO AN-YAN , LV QIAN , CUI LI-GONG
Published: November 2021

The new technology in artificial intelligence has a far-reaching impact on the intelligent development of the manufacturing industry. These new skill requirements are bound to promote the reform of vocational education in the field of intelligent control. It is urgent to train a group of highly skilled compound talents who can adapt to the development of artificial intelligence and intelligent manufacturing and can engage in the field of intelligent control technology. In this background, this paper takes Binzhou Polytechnic as an example, which is a high level vocational college with Chinese characteristics. We investigate the current situation and development prospect of artificial intelligence and intelligent manufacturing and analyze the problems and development opportunities of mechatronics technology specialty under the background of artificial intelligence development. We put forward some suggestions on the personnel training system of mechatronics technology from the aspects of specialty orientation and the integration and optimization of training specifications, the development of specialty curriculum system, the reform of teaching mode, and the construction of innovative teacher team.
THE CIRCLES AND RELATIONSHIPS BEHIND "PERSONAL HELP-SEEKING" CROWDFUNDING IN THE MICRO-PHILANTHROPY ERA
Authors: GUO YAN-LI
Published: November 2021

In the era of micro-philanthropy, crowdfunding has become an important way for ordinary families to get rid of the plight of poverty caused by illness. Through the analysis of three typical crowdfunding cases, this article found that the “personal help-seeking” crowdfunding circle is dominated by WeChat circles, supplemented by other social platforms such as Weibo, and the types of WeChat circles are analyzed from the perspective of strong and weak relationships. Divided and analyzed the influence of the size of the crowdfunding circle, the role of authority figures in the circle, and the way the crowdfunding circle is formed on the effect of crowdfunding
CONSTRUCTION AND ALIENATION: RESEARCH ON FEMALE IMAGES IN WEBCAST
Authors: MAO YAN-JIE , LI ZONG-HUA
Published: November 2021

In recent years, webcasting has developed in a spurt, giving birth to a large number of camgirl communities. The interconnection of virtual fields and real spaces has made the appearance of webcast subjects a social phenomenon worthy of attention. The network media empowers people and brings new fields and opportunities for the development of female subjectivity. Camgirls based on identity and subjective expression participate in the process of constructing their own image. In the diverse and fluid cyberspace field and in the age of entertainment, the conspiracy of image capital and visual consumption has continuously created and produced a subculture in the live broadcast field, causing the construction of female images from "subjective fiction." The shift to "symbol alienation" has caused the female body to be continuously desired, materialized, symbolized, disciplined and peeped. Behind the image of the network camgirl, it conveys the changes of human society and culture, the variation of the real space and the network field, and it is worthy of our reflection and discussion.
RESEARCH ON SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF COLLEGE STUDENTS IN SOCIAL PRACTICE
Authors: LIU GUI-HUA , FENG YU
Published: November 2021

The cultivation of the sense of social responsibility is an important part of the college education in all links, all elements, and multiple dimensions. Social practice is an essential approach for improving the sense of social responsibility, in which the college students in the current are generally lacking. Therefore, the college and the society, as well as the government should make full use of social practice as a second classroom to cultivate college students’ patriotism and social responsibility, and urge them to implant such senses in their daily life.
EU Policy in Central Asia
Authors: Velichkov Kamen
Published: November 2021

Geography and a preference for regional approaches have an impact on EU foreign policy. From the EU perspective, the countries of Central Asia are classified as “neighbors of EU neighbors.” The EU’s policies assume the existence of strong centripetal forces in the Eurasian heartland, whereas in fact the regionalization is still in the initial stages there. Consequently, EU foreign policy in Central Asia pursues both structural and relational objectives. The specific goals and performance of EU member states add a two-tier dimension to this process. In parallel with other external actors such as Japan, the United States, South Korea, and India, the European Union conducts its dialogue and cooperation with the Central Asian states in a 5+1 format. Compared to the policies of China, Turkey, or Russia, the EU has much more limited influence. It primarily aims to support the independent development of the Central Asian countries, for which some degree of regionalization appears to be a prerequisite.
Climate Change as a Threat to Regional Peace and Security and the Role of the UNSC: An India-EU Perspective in Context
Authors: Arya Sujata , Mohanty Aparajita , Bhattacharyya Sayantan
Published: November 2021

Climate change has increasingly come to be viewed as a security threat, as well as a ‘threat multiplier’. The impact of this has become a cause for major international concern, especially in light of national contributions to climate change, by virtue of heavy industrial dependence on polluting processes. To address this issue, certain national lobbies have suggested that the United Nations Security Council should be made legislate on the issue, given its bearing on international security. This approach has been supported by nations and blocs like the United States, the EU, the Pacific Islands, etc. An alternate lobby, comprising states like India, have argued against this approach due to the UNSC’s fractured mandate, and expressed their wish to keep deliberations more representative. This paper shall evaluate the context of climate change, the legal principles underlying it, and argue in favor of the Indian stand that the UNSC is not the appropriate institution to make policy decisions on this matter.
Scalable Vertiport Hub Location Selection for Air Taxi Operations in a Metropolitan Region
Authors: Chen Liting , Wandelt Sebastian , Dai Weibin , Sun Xiaoqian
Published: November 2021

On-demand air mobility services, often called air taxis, are on the way to revolutionize our urban/regional transportation sector by lifting transportation to the third dimension and thus possibly contribute to solving the congestion-induced transportation deadlock many metropolitan regions face today. Although existing research mainly focuses on the design of efficient vehicles and specifically battery technology, in the near future, a new question will arise: Where to locate the vertiports/landing pads for such air taxis? In this study, we propose a vertiport location selection problem. In contrast to existing studies, we allow the demand to be distributed over the whole metropolitan area, modeled as a grid, and exclude certain grid cells from becoming hubs, for example, because of safety/geographical constraints. The combination of these two contributions makes the problem intriguingly difficult to solve with standard solution techniques. We propose a novel variable neighborhood search heuristic, which is able to solve 12 × 12 grid instances within a few seconds of computation time and zero gaps in our experiments, whereas CPLEX needs up to 10 hours. We believe that our study contributes toward the scalable selection of vertiport locations for air taxis.

Summary of Contribution: The increasing interest in opening the third dimension, that is, altitude, to transportation inside metropolitan regions raises new research challenges. Existing research mainly focuses on the design of efficient vehicles and control problems. In the near future, however, the actual operation of air taxis will lead to new set of operations research problems for so-called air taxi operations. Our contribution focuses on the optimization of vertiports for air taxi operations in a metropolitan region. We choose to model the problem over a grid-like demand structure, with a novel side constraint: selected grid cells are unavailable as hubs, for example, because of environmental, technical, cultural, or other reasons. This makes our model a special case in between the two traditional models: discrete location and continuous location. Our model is inherently difficult to solve for exact methods; for instance, solving a grid of 12 × 12 grid cells needs more than 10 hours with CPLEX, when modeled as a discrete location problem. We show that a straightforward application of existing neighborhood search heuristics is not suitable to solve this problem well. Therefore, we design an own variant of mixed variable neighborhood search, which consists of novel local search steps, tailored toward our grid structure. Our evaluation shows that by using our novel heuristic, almost all instances can be solved toward optimality.
Seeker Exemplars and Quantitative Ideation Outcomes in Crowdsourcing Contests
Authors: Koh Tat Koon , Cheung Muller Y. M.
Published: November 2021

Crowdsourcing ideation contests allow solution-seeking firms (seekers) to solicit ideas from external individuals (solvers). Contest platforms often recommend seekers to provide examples of solutions (i.e., seeker exemplars) to guide and inspire solvers in generating ideas. In this study, we delve into solvers’ ideation process and examine how different configurations of seeker exemplars affect the quantitative outcomes in solvers’ scanning, shortlisting, and selection of ideas. Results from an online experiment show that solvers generally search for, shortlist, and/or submit fewer ideas when shown certain seeker exemplars. In addition, solvers who submit fewer ideas tend to submit lower-quality ideas, on average. Thus, a key insight from this study is that showing seeker exemplars, which contest platforms encourage and seekers often do, could negatively affect quantitative ideation outcomes and thereby impair idea quality. To help mitigate these adverse ideation outcomes, we propose a few areas of which seekers should be mindful. We also suggest ways that contests’ platforms can contribute to the idea generation process that solvers undertake.
The Price Effect of Drug Price Ceilings: Intended and Unintended Consequences
Authors: Li Jun , Wu Di (Andrew)
Published: November 2021

Policy makers in many developing countries use maximum price or markup policies to control pharmaceutical costs, which represent 20%–60% of their overall healthcare expenditure. We study the price effect of price ceiling policies by exploiting a major policy shift in China: the elimination of longstanding ceilings on retail drug prices. We collect weekly price and characteristics data on more than 4,500 drug stock keeping units (SKUs) from a leading pharmacy chain. By comparing the rate of discontinuous price jumps across drugs with and without price ceilings during the years before and after the policy change, we find that while price ceilings are effective in containing the prices of some drugs, they can lead to higher prices for others, particularly if the ceilings are set at the national level irrespective of local economic conditions. About 5% of nationally controlled drugs (or more than 125 drugs) had inflated prices because of price ceilings, with an average price inflation of 10%. We attribute this perverse price effect to focal point pricing and asymmetric information about production costs. Further supporting this view, we find the perverse price effect most prominent in lower-income regions where the centrally set price ceilings are arbitrarily high considering their poorer economic conditions. Moreover, drugs with highly concentrated production and less elastic demand face heightened risks of inflated prices under price ceilings. Finally, based on a sample of drugs with available price ceiling data, we find that drugs with manufacturer-specific ceilings are 100% more likely to be priced at or near their ceilings and 70% more likely to experience price drops once the ceilings are removed compared with other drugs with regular ceilings. Overall, this paper documents the unintended perverse effect of price ceilings in pharmaceutical markets and sheds lights on the ongoing debate of drug price regulation.

This paper was accepted by Stefan Scholtes, healthcare management.
GAIN-QoS: A Novel QoS Prediction Model for Edge Computing
Authors: Choi Jiwon , Lee Jaewook , Ryu Duksan , Kim Suntae , Baik Jongmoon
Published: November 2021

With recent increases in the number of network-connected devices, the number of edge computing services that provide similar functions has increased. Therefore, it is important to recommend an optimal edge computing service, based on quality-of-service (QoS). However, in the real world, there is a cold-start problem in QoS data: highly sparse invocation. Therefore, it is difficult to recommend a suitable service to the user. Deep learning techniques were applied to address this problem, or context information was used to extract deep features between users and services. However, edge computing environment has not been considered in previous studies. Our goal is to predict the QoS values in real edge computing environments with improved accuracy. To this end, we propose a GAIN-QoS technique. It clusters services based on their location information, calculates the distance between services and users in each cluster, and brings the QoS values of users within a certain distance. We apply a Generative Adversarial Imputation Nets (GAIN) model and perform QoS prediction based on this reconstructed user service invocation matrix. When the density is low, GAIN-QoS shows superior performance to other techniques. In addition, the distance between the service and user slightly affects performance. Thus, compared to other methods, the proposed method can significantly improve the accuracy of QoS prediction for edge computing, which suffers from cold-start problem.
Selective transport of chiral particles by optical pulling forces
Authors: Zheng Hongxia , Li Xiao , Chen Huajin , Lin Zhifang
Published: November 2021

We propose a simple approach for chirality sorting based on the optical pulling forces. The scenario is to employ three simple plane waves with the same circular polarization. The three wave vectors have the same longitudinal positivezcomponent while their corresponding transverse projections in thex-o-yplane form a regular triangle. In such an optical lattice, particles with certain chirality will be drawn by the transverse optical force to the periodic intensity maxima, where they are stably trapped and exerted by an optical pulling force along the negativezdirection. On the contrary, particles with the opposite chirality are de-trapped transversely away from the intensity maxima and then dispersed in regions where they subject to a positive (pushing) force along thezdirection. The phenomena therefore give rise to an alternative all-optical method for selective transport of chiral particles with a wide range of chirality parameters.
Spiral scanning fiber-optic two-photon endomicroscopy with a double-cladding antiresonant fiber
Authors: Wang Conghao , Liu Huilan , Ma Jianrui , Cui Haodong , Li Yijun , Wu Danlei , Hu Yanhui , Wu Dakun , Fu Qiang , Liang Lintang , Yu Fei , Wu Runlong , Wang Aimin , Feng Lishuang
Published: November 2021

Two-photon endomicroscopy is an optical biopsy tool that satisfies clinical requirements for real-time subcellular-resolution imaging to assist pathological biopsy in diagnosis. Herein, we present a two-photon endomicroscopy system based on a piezoelectric ceramic tube scanner. A dual-channel amplitude-modulated sine wave drives the fiber to realize spiral scanning, a double-cladding antiresonant fiber is used for 920-nm femtosecond light-pulse low dispersion transmission, and fluorescence collection occurs with no fiber-tip engineering. The field of view is ∼200 µm, the resolution is 3.1 µm, and the frame rate is 0.7 fps. Pollen grain, GFP-labeled mouse brain section, and human stomach tissue imaging verify the capability of the two-photon endomicroscopy system.
Spectral compression by phase doubling in second harmonic generation
Authors: Zeng Xin , Cui Shuzhen , Cheng Xin , Feng Yan
Published: November 2021

In second harmonic generation, the phase of the optical field is doubled, which has important implications. Here, the phase-doubling effect is utilized to solve a long-standing challenge in the power scaling of single-frequency laser. (−π/2, π/2) binary phase modulation is applied to a single-frequency seed laser to broaden the spectrum and suppress the stimulated Brillouin scattering in a high-power fiber amplifier. The second harmonic of the phase-modulated laser returns to single frequency because the (−π/2, π/2) modulation is doubled to (−π, π) for the second harmonic. A compression-to-single-frequency rate as high as 95% is demonstrated in experiments limited by the electronic bandwidth of the setup. Such phase manipulation in wave-mixing processes may open up a new field of development in nonlinear optics and laser technology.
Dotted-line FLEET for two-component velocimetry
Authors: Zhang Yibin , Richardson Daniel , Marshall Garrett , Beresh Steven J. , Casper Katya M.
Published: November 2021

Femtosecond laser electronic excitation tagging (FLEET) is a powerful unseeded velocimetry technique typically used to measure one component of velocity along a line, or two or three components from a dot. In this Letter, we demonstrate a dotted-line FLEET technique which combines the dense profile capability of a line with the ability to perform two-component velocimetry with a single camera on a dot. Our set-up uses a single beam path to create multiple simultaneous spots, more than previously achieved in other FLEET spot configurations. We perform dotted-line FLEET measurements downstream of a highly turbulent, supersonic nitrogen free jet. Dotted-line FLEET is created by focusing light transmitted by a periodic mask with rectangular slits of 1.6 × 40 mm2 and an edge-to-edge spacing of 0.5 mm, then focusing the imaged light at the measurement region. Up to seven symmetric dots spaced approximately 0.9 mm apart, with mean full-width at half maximum diameters between 150 and 350 µm, are simultaneously imaged. Both streamwise and radial velocities are computed and presented in this Letter.
Holographic beam shaping of partially coherent light
Authors: Barré Nicolas , Jesacher Alexander
Published: November 2021

We present an algorithmic approach for holographic shaping of partially coherent light, which is described by a mode expansion containing thousands of individual modes. Using gradient descent and algorithmic differentiation, our algorithm is able to find a set of axially separated phase patterns such that each mode undergoes an individually optimized transformation with respect to the formation of a user-defined target intensity distribution. We demonstrate numerically and experimentally that a tandem of two phase patterns can achieve any intensity profile transformation with good accuracy.