期刊:
Critique - Studies in Contemporary Fiction,2024年:16 ISSN:0011-1619
通讯作者:
Cai, Y
作者机构:
[Cai, Yi] Cent China Normal Univ, Sch Foreign Languages, Wuhan 430079, Peoples R China.
通讯机构:
[Cai, Y ] C;Cent China Normal Univ, Sch Foreign Languages, Wuhan 430079, Peoples R China.
摘要:
Centering on the precarious bodies that are diseased or faced with health problems in Danticat's oeuvre, this article from a biopolitical perspective examines how the malfunction of power exacerbates the health condition of individuals, and how those precarious bodies both expose the existing problems in Haiti's health management and provide enlightenment to its improvement. This article argues that external causes of the diseased or health-threatened bodies in Danticat's writing can be attributed to the abuse, misuse, or absence of authoritative power in health management, including the state's inefficiency in managing people's health and security, the neglect in environmental protection, and the authorities' abuse of medical power, which demonstrate Danticat's denunciation of the Haitian authoritative power's inaction in health management and her appeals for urgent measures to be taken to improve people's health. This article contributes to the discussions surrounding the disease narrative and health issues in Danticat's writing, enhances people's understanding of Haitian health issues from a non-Euro-American-centric lens, and enriches the research on biopolitical theories of health.
期刊:
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATE CHANGE STRATEGIES AND MANAGEMENT,2024年16(1):1-18 ISSN:1756-8692
通讯作者:
Tong, QM
作者机构:
[Liu, Xuan; Tong, Qingmeng; Ran, Shan; Tong, QM] Cent China Normal Univ, Sch Econ & Business Adm, Wuhan, Peoples R China.;[Zhang, Lu; Zhang, Junbiao] Huazhong Agr Univ, Coll Econ & Management, Wuhan, Peoples R China.
通讯机构:
[Tong, QM ] C;Cent China Normal Univ, Sch Econ & Business Adm, Wuhan, Peoples R China.
关键词:
Agricultural internet information (AII);Climate resilience;China;Rice production;Recursive binary probit model
摘要:
Purpose
The main purpose of this study is to examine the impact of agricultural internet information (AII) acquisition on climate-resilient variety adoption among rice farmers in the Jianghan Plain region of China. Additionally, it explores the influencing channels involved in this process.
Design/methodology/approach
Based on survey data for 877 rice farmers from 10 counties in the Jianghan Plain, China, this paper used an econometric approach to estimate the impact of AII acquisition on farmers’ adoption of climate-resilient varieties. A recursive bivariate Probit model was used to address endogeneity issues and obtain accurate estimates. Furthermore, three main influencing mechanisms were proposed and tested, which are broadening information channels, enhancing social interactions and improving agricultural skills.
Findings
The results show that acquiring AII can overall enhance the likelihood of farmers adopting climate-resilient varieties by 36.8%. The three influencing channels are empirically confirmed. Besides, educational attainment, income and peer effects can facilitate farmers’ acquisition of AII, while climate conditions and age significantly influence the adoption of climate-resilient varieties.
Practical implications
Practical recommendations are put forward to help farmers build climate resilience, including investing in rural internet infrastructures, enhancing farmers’ digital literacy and promoting the dissemination of climate-resilient information through diverse internet platforms.
Originality/value
Strengthening climate resilience is essential for sustaining the livelihoods of farmers and ensuring national food security; however, the role of internet information has received limited attention. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first to examine the casual relationship between internet information and climate resilience, which fills the research gap.
期刊:
British Journal of Educational Technology,2024年 ISSN:0007-1013
通讯作者:
Ba, S;Hu, X
作者机构:
[Ba, Shen] Educ Univ Hong Kong, Dept Curriculum & Instruct, Hong Kong, Peoples R China.;[Hu, Xiao] Univ Hong Kong, Fac Educ, Hong Kong, Peoples R China.;[Stein, David] Ohio State Univ, Coll Educ & Human Ecol, Columbus, OH USA.;[Liu, Qingtang] Cent China Normal Univ, Sch Educ Informat Technol, Wuhan, Peoples R China.;[Ba, Shen; Ba, S] Educ Univ Hong Kong, Dept Curriculum & Instruct, Tai Po, 10 Lo Ping Rd, Hong Kong, Peoples R China.
通讯机构:
[Ba, S ] E;[Hu, X ] U;Educ Univ Hong Kong, Dept Curriculum & Instruct, Tai Po, 10 Lo Ping Rd, Hong Kong, Peoples R China.;Univ Hong Kong, Fac Educ, Pokfulam, Room 209, Runme Shaw Bldg, Hong Kong, Peoples R China.
关键词:
community of inquiry;epistemic network analysis;learning analytics;online discussion;trajectory tracking
摘要:
Abstract Accurate assessment and effective feedback are crucial for cultivating learners' abilities of collaborative problem‐solving and critical thinking in online inquiry‐based discussions. Based on quantitative content analysis (QCA), there has been a methodological evolvement from descriptive statistics to sequential mining and to network analysis for mining coded discourse data. Epistemic network analysis (ENA) has recently gained increasing recognition for modelling and visualizing the temporal characteristics of online discussions. However, due to methodological restraints, some valuable information regarding online discussion dynamics remains unexplained, including the directionality of connections between theoretical indicators and the trajectory of thinking development. Guided by the community of inquiry (CoI) model, this study extended generic ENA by incorporating directional connections and stanza‐based trajectory tracking. By examining the proposed extensions with discussion data of an online learning course, this study first verified that the extensions are comparable with QCA, indicating acceptable assessment validity. Then, the directional ENA revealed that two‐way connections between CoI indicators could vary over time and across groups, reflecting different discussion strategies. Furthermore, trajectory tracking effectively detected and visualized the fine‐grained progression of thinking. At the end, we summarize several research and practical implications of the ENA extensions for assessing the learning process.Practitioner notesWhat is already known about this topic Assessment and feedback are crucial for cultivating collaborative problem‐solving and critical thinking in online inquiry‐based discussions. Cognitive presence is an important construct describing the progression of thinking in online inquiry‐based discussions. Epistemic network analysis is gaining increasing recognition for modelling the temporal characteristics of online inquiries. What this paper adds Directional connections between discourses can reflect different online discussion strategies of groups and individuals. A pair of connected discourses coded with the community of inquiry model can have different meanings depending on their temporal order. A trajectory tracking approach can uncover the fine‐grained progression of thinking in online inquiry‐based discussions. Implications for practice and/or policy Besides the occurrences of individual discourses, examining the meanings of directional co‐occurrences of discourses in online discussions is worthwhile. Groups and individuals can employ different discussion strategies and follow diverse paths to thought development. Developmental assessment is crucial for understanding how participants achieve specific outcomes and providing adaptive feedback.
期刊:
Journal of Environmental Management,2024年351:119729 ISSN:0301-4797
通讯作者:
Yang, S
作者机构:
[Peng, Kaida; Yang, Shao; Yang, Hongyan; Xu, Min; Cheng, Hu; Liu, Yi; Yang, S; Liu, Pan; Liu, Xiaofeng] Cent China Normal Univ, Sch Life Sci, Wuhan 430079, Peoples R China.
通讯机构:
[Yang, S ] C;Cent China Normal Univ, Sch Life Sci, Wuhan 430079, Peoples R China.
关键词:
Anthropogenic activities;Bloom-forming cyanobacterial genera;Climate change;Driving factors;Sedimentary ancient DNA;Thresholds
摘要:
Cyanobacterial blooms pose a global environmental concern, with various genera contributing to their formation. The harmfulness of cyanobacterial blooms varies depending on the specific genus, yet the factors triggering their formation remain incompletely understood. This study conducted qPCR of sediment DNA in Lake Erhai to reconstruct the historical succession of three common bloom-forming cyanobacterial genera (i.e., Microcystis, Dolichospermum, and Aphanizomenon). The driving factors and their corresponding thresholds were identified, and human activities related to driving factors were evaluated. The results revealed two successions in the past century. The first succession transitioned from Aphanizomenon (1902-1978) to Microcystis and Dolichospermum (1978-1999), driven by TN:TP and TP. The second succession shifted from Microcystis and Dolichospermum (1978-1999) to Microcystis (1999-2010), driven by TP, TN:TP, and temperature. The thresholds of TP and TN:TP for the Microcystis bloom were 0.023mg/L and 17, respectively. TN:TP was significantly influenced by domestic pollution and crop farming in both successions, while TP was significantly impacted by domestic pollution in the first succession and by pollution from crop and dairy farming in the second succession. These results shed light on the underlying mechanism responsible for the blooms of various cyanobacterial genera and could serve as a valuable reference for effectively preventing and controlling nutrient input in the watershed.
摘要:
Fosmidomycin (FOS) is a natural product inhibiting the DXR enzyme in the MEP pathway and has stimulated interest for finding more suitable FOS analogues. Herein, two series of FOS analogue hydroxamate-containing bisphosphonates as proherbicides were designed, with bisphosphonate replacing the phosphonic unit in FOS while retaining the hydroxamate (BPF series) or replacing it with retro-hydroxamate (BPRF series). The BPF series were synthesized through a three-step reaction sequence including Michael addition of vinylidenebisphosphonate, N-acylation, and deprotection, and the BPRF series were synthesized with a retro-Claisen condensation incorporated into the reaction sequence. Evaluation on model plants demonstrated several compounds having considerable herbicidal activities, and in particular, compound 8m exhibited multifold activity enhancement as compared to the control FOS. The proherbicide properties were comparatively validated. Furthermore, DXR enzyme assay, dimethylallyl pyrophosphate rescue, and molecular docking verified 8m to be a promising proherbicide candidate targeting the DXR enzyme. In addition, 8m also displayed good antimalarial activities.
摘要:
Measurements of charged-particle production in pp, p–Pb, and Pb–Pb collisions in the toward, away, and transverse regions with the ALICE detector are discussed. These regions are defined event-by-event relative to the azimuthal direction of the charged trigger particle, which is the reconstructed particle with the largest transverse momentum
$$ \left({p}_{\textrm{T}}^{\textrm{trig}}\right) $$
in the range 8 <
$$ {p}_{\textrm{T}}^{\textrm{trig}} $$
< 15 GeV/c. The toward and away regions contain the primary and recoil jets, respectively; both regions are accompanied by the underlying event (UE). In contrast, the transverse region perpendicular to the direction of the trigger particle is dominated by the so-called UE dynamics, and includes also contributions from initial- and final-state radiation. The relative transverse activity classifier,
$$ {R}_{\textrm{T}}={N}_{\textrm{ch}}^{\textrm{T}}/\left\langle {N}_{\textrm{ch}}^{\textrm{T}}\right\rangle $$
, is used to group events according to their UE activity, where
$$ {N}_{\textrm{ch}}^{\textrm{T}} $$
is the charged-particle multiplicity per event in the transverse region and
$$ \left\langle {N}_{\textrm{ch}}^{\textrm{T}}\right\rangle $$
is the mean value over the whole analysed sample. The energy dependence of the RT distributions in pp collisions at
$$ \sqrt{s} $$
= 2.76, 5.02, 7, and 13 TeV is reported, exploring the Koba-Nielsen-Olesen (KNO) scaling properties of the multiplicity distributions. The first measurements of charged-particle pT spectra as a function of RT in the three azimuthal regions in pp, p–Pb, and Pb–Pb collisions at
$$ \sqrt{s_{\textrm{NN}}} $$
= 5.02 TeV are also reported. Data are compared with predictions obtained from the event generators PYTHIA 8 and EPOS LHC. This set of measurements is expected to contribute to the understanding of the origin of collective-like effects in small collision systems (pp and p–Pb).
摘要:
The current digital speech deletion and insertion tampering detection methods mainly employes the extraction of phase and frequency features of the Electrical Network Frequency (ENF). However, there are some problems with the existing approaches, such as the alignment problem for speech samples with different durations, the sparsity of ENF features, and the small number of tampered speech samples for training, which lead to low accuracy of deletion and insertion tampering detection. Therefore, this paper proposes a tampering detection method for digital speech deletion and insertion based on ENF Fluctuation Super -vector (ENF-FSV) and deep feature learning representation. By extracting the parameters of ENF phase and frequency fitting curves, feature alignment and dimensionality reduction are achieved, and the alignment and sparsity problems are avoided while the fluctuation information of phase and frequency is extracted. To solve the problem of the insufficient sample size of tampered speech for training, the ENF Universal Background Model (ENF-UBM) is built by a large number of untampered speech samples, and the mean vector is updated to extract ENF-FSV. Considering the shallow representation of ENF features with not highlighting important features, we construct an end -toend deep neural network to strengthen the attention to the abrupt fluctuation information by the attention mechanism to enhance the representational power of the ENF-FSV features, and then the deep ENF-FSV features extracted by the Residual Network (ResNet) module are fed to the designed classification network for tampering detection. The experimental results show that the method in this paper exhibits higher accuracy and better robustness in the Carioca, New Spanish, and ENF High -sampling Group (ENF-HG) databases when compared with the state-of-the-art methods.
作者机构:
[Sheng, Xin-Li; Sheng, XL] INFN Firenze, Via Giovanni Sansone 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy.;[Sheng, Xin-Li] Cent China Normal Univ, Key Lab Quark & Lepton Phys, MOE, Wuhan 430079, Peoples R China.;Cent China Normal Univ, Inst Particle Phys, Wuhan 430079, Peoples R China.;[Oliva, Lucia] Univ Catania, Dept Phys & Astron Ettore Majorana, Via S Sofia 64, I-95123 Catania, Italy.;[Oliva, Lucia] INFN, Sez Catania, Via S Sofia 64, I-95123 Catania, Italy.
通讯机构:
[Sheng, XL ] I;INFN Firenze, Via Giovanni Sansone 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy.
摘要:
We propose a relativistic theory for spin density matrices of vector mesons based on Kadanoff-Baym equations in the closed-time-path formalism. The theory puts the calculation of spin observables such as the spin density matrix element rho 00 for vector mesons on a solid ground. Within the theory we formulate rho 00 for phi mesons into a factorization form in separation of momentum and spacetime variables. We argue that the main contribution to rho 00 at lower energies should be from the phi fields that can polarize the strange quark and antiquark in the same way as electromagnetic fields. The key observation is that there is correlation inside the phi meson wave function between the phi field that polarizes the strange quark and that polarizes the strange antiquark. This is reflected by the fact that the contributions to rho 00 are all in squares of fields that are nonvanishing even if the fields may strongly fluctuate in spacetime. The fluctuation of strong force fields can be extracted from rho 00 of unflavored vector mesons as links to fundamental properties of quantum chromodynamics.
作者机构:
[Li, Qian; Yan, Qiang; Yan, Q; Li, Yuntao] Zhejiang Univ, Huzhou Cent Hosp, Affiliated Huzhou Hosp, Dept Gen Surg,Sch Med, Huzhou 313000, Peoples R China.;[Li, Qian; Sun, Yao; Zhao, Fang] Cent China Normal Univ, Coll Chem, Natl Key Lab Green Pesticide, Wuhan 430079, Peoples R China.;[Ye, Huan] Guangxi Univ, Sch Light Ind & Food Engn, Nanning 530004, Peoples R China.;[Zhang, ZP; Zhang, Zhipeng] Hubei Univ Sci & Technol, Xianning Med Coll, Coll Pharm, Xianning 437100, Peoples R China.
通讯机构:
[Zhang, ZP ] H;[Sun, Y ] C;[Yan, Q ] Z;Zhejiang Univ, Huzhou Cent Hosp, Affiliated Huzhou Hosp, Dept Gen Surg,Sch Med, Huzhou 313000, Peoples R China.;Cent China Normal Univ, Coll Chem, Natl Key Lab Green Pesticide, Wuhan 430079, Peoples R China.
摘要:
Bacterial infections can lead to the development of large-scale outbreaks of diseases that pose a serious threat to human life and health. Also, conventional antibiotics are prone to producing resistance and allergic reactions, and their therapeutic effect is dramatically diminished when bacterial communities form biofilms. Fortunately, well-designed supramolecular coordination complexes (SCCs) have been used as antibacterials or anti-biofilms in recent years. SCCs can kill bacteria by directly engaging with the bacterial surface through electrostatic interactions or by penetrating the bacterial membrane through the auxiliary effect of cell-penetrating peptides. Furthermore, scientists have engineered fluorescent SCCs that can produce reactive oxygen species (ROS) to eliminate bacteria when exposed to laser irradiation, and they also demonstrate outstanding performance in in vivo imaging, enabling integrated diagnosis and treatment. In this review, we summarize the design strategy and applications of SCCs in antibacterials or anti-biofilms and provide an outlook on future research.
作者机构:
[Zhao, Qinqin] MianYang Teachers Coll, Deans Off, Mianyang, Peoples R China.;[Wang, Zheng; Bian, Yueran; Zeb, Irum; Zhang, Yan] Huazhong Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Educ, Wuhan, Peoples R China.;[Yang, Caihong] Cent China Normal Univ, Sch Psychol, Wuhan, Peoples R China.;[Chen, Han] MianYang Teachers Coll, President Off, Mianyang, Peoples R China.;[Wang, Pu; Wang, P] Sun Yat Sen Univ, Affiliated Hosp 7, Dept Rehabil Med, Shenzhen, Peoples R China.
通讯机构:
[Wang, P ] S;[Zhang, Y ] H;[Yang, CH ] C;Cent China Normal Univ, Sch Psychol, Wuhan, Peoples R China.;Sun Yat Sen Univ, Affiliated Hosp 7, Dept Rehabil Med, Shenzhen, Peoples R China.
关键词:
anxiety;anxiety without depression;cognitive control network;depression;fNIRS
摘要:
Anxiety is a common psychological disorder associated with other mental disorders, with depression being the most common comorbidity. Few studies have examined the neural mechanisms underlying anxiety after controlling for depression. This study aimed to explore whether there are differences in cortical activation in anxiety patients with different severities whose depression are normal. In the current study, depression levels were normal for 366 subjects-139 healthy subjects, 117 with mild anxiety, and 110 with major anxiety. Using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and a verbal fluency task (VFT) to test subjects' anxiety and depression and cognitive function, respectively. A 53-channel guided near-infrared spectroscopic imaging technology (fNIRS) detected the concentration of oxyhemoglobin (oxy-Hb). Correlation analysis between anxiety severity and oxy-Hb concentration in the brain cortex was performed, as well as ANOVA analysis of oxy-Hb concentration among the three anxiety severity groups. The results showed that anxiety severity was significantly and negatively correlated with oxy-Hb concentrations in the left frontal eye field (lFEF) and in the right dorsolateral prefrontal area (rDLPFC). The oxy-Hb concentration in the lFEF and the rDLPFC were significantly lower in the major anxiety disorder group than that in the control group. This suggests that decreased cortical activity of the lFEF and rDLPFC may be neural markers of anxiety symptoms after controlling for depression. Anxiety symptoms without depression may be result from the dysfunction of the cognitive control network (CCN) which includes the lFEF and rDLPFC. Anxiety disorders often experience an internal sense of loss of control and often be associated with depression. This study aimed to explore the neural mechanisms underlying anxiety after controlling for depress ive symptoms. We found that decreased cortical activity of the lFEF and rDLPFC may be neural markers of anxiety symptoms after control depressive symptoms. Anxiety symptoms without depressive symptoms may be result from the dysfunction of cognitive control network including lFEF and rDLPFC.