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9Working Conditions Influencing Junior School Principalship as a Satisfying Profession: A Cross-Country Comparative StudyFrontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.Although prior studies have extensively investigated the effect of working conditions upon professional satisfaction, the cross-national variance in the effect remains largely understudied due to technical or financial restrictions. The Teaching and Learning International Survey provides an opportunity to investigate the cross-country differences in the impact of working conditions upon principals’ professional satisfaction. The current study attempts to investigate the overall and specific effe…Read more
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8How Does Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment Respond to Host Country Cultural Tolerance and Trust?Frontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.Based on 2010 to 2019 Chinese outward foreign direct investment panel data from 39 host countries, this paper studies the relationships between host country cultural characteristics and Chinese OFDI. The OLS regression results show that the cultural tolerance and trust in the host countries are significantly positively correlated with Chinese OFDI, which are robust according to the system GMM tests. Further analysis reveals that cultural tolerance is more positively related to Chinese OFDI in ho…Read more
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9The Impact of Job Burnout on Employees’ Safety Behavior Against the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Mediating Role of Psychological ContractFrontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.Employee safety behavior is critical for occupational health in work environments threatened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, the widespread and increasingly serious job burnout of employees is a complex and difficult problem for enterprises to handle during any epidemic. Therefore, it is helpful to identify and discuss job burnout and other main psychological factors that affect safety behavior to find appropriate solutions. Using the PLS-SEM method, the study explored the relationship betw…Read more
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9Exploring Senior High School Students’ English Learning Demotivation in Mainland ChinaFrontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.In the last 20 years, much attention has been paid to learners’ demotivation. Researchers have conducted many studies on second/foreign language learning demotivation from the perspectives of social culture, social psychology, and so forth. In China, related studies have mainly focused on college students’ demotivation; scant attention has been paid to senior high school students. Regarding scale development, although much progress has been made, there remains a need for a scale with high reliab…Read more
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26Human becomings: theorizing persons for Confucian role ethicsBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 30 (5): 901-904. 2022.Roger Ames in this book tries to further construct an alternative to a foundational individualism by concocting person, individual and personhood into an ethical conceptual regimen, as a substantia...
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12Bertrand's paradox: a physical way out along the lines of Buffon's needle throwing experimentEuropean Journal of Physics 32 (3). 2011.Bertrand’s paradox ) can be considered as a cautionary memento, to practitioners and students of probability calculus alike, of the possible ambiguous meaning of the term ‘at random’ when the sample space of events is continuous. It deals with the existence of different possible answers to the following question: what is the probability that a chord, drawn at random in a circle of radius R, is longer than the side of an inscribed equilateral triangle? Physics can help to remove the ambiguity by …Read more
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8Based on socioeconomic statistical data, transport data, and network big data, the urban connection index was constructed in terms of industry, transportation, information, and innovation, and the high-quality development index was established from five aspects: innovation, coordination, green development, openness, and sharing. Taking Lanzhou-Xining urban agglomeration as a case, the urban connection intensity and high-quality development level were measured to analyze the relationship between …Read more
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13An Easy-to-Understand Method to Construct Desired Distance-Like MeasuresComplexity 2021 1-15. 2021.Metrics and their weaker forms are used to measure the difference between two data. There are many metrics that are available but not desired by a practitioner. This paper recommends in a plausible reasoning manner an easy-to-understand method to construct desired distance-like measures: to fuse easy-to-obtain pseudo-semi-metrics, pseudo-metrics, or metrics by making full use of well-known t-norms, t-conorms, aggregation operators, and similar operators. The simple reason to do this is that data…Read more
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19Post-traumatic Growth and Related Influencing Factors in Discharged COVID-19 Patients: A Cross-Sectional StudyFrontiers in Psychology 12. 2021.The purpose of this study is to investigate the current state of post-traumatic growth and identify its influencing factors in discharged COVID-19 patients. PTG refers to individual experiences of significant positive change arising from the struggle with a major life crisis. This descriptive cross-sectional study used the convenient sampling method to recruit 140 discharged COVID-19 patients in Hunan, China. The results show that the PTG of the discharged COVID-19 patients was positively correl…Read more
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5Book Review: Written Corrective Feedback: The Role of Learner Engagement: A Practical Approach (review)Frontiers in Psychology 12. 2021.
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6Book Review: Exploring Student Loneliness in Higher Education: A Discursive Psychology Approach (review)Frontiers in Psychology 12. 2021.
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31Predicting syntactic choice in Mandarin Chinese: a corpus-based analysis of ba sentences and SVO sentencesCognitive Linguistics 32 (2): 219-250. 2021.This paper investigates the effects of 10 factors on the choice between alternative ba sentences and SVO sentences in Mandarin Chinese. These factors are givenness, definiteness, animacy and pronominality of NP2s, NP2 length, VP length, verb sense, syntactic parallelism, dependency distance, and surprisal. Using corpus data and mixed-effects logistic regression modeling, we find that on the one hand, givenness, syntactic parallelism, and the log-transformed ratio of NP2 length and VP length are …Read more
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14Focus on the Mental Health of Pediatric Medical Workers in China After the COVID-19 EpidemicFrontiers in Psychology 12. 2021.As was previously known, pediatric medical staff in China faced several hurdles including high occupational risk, multiple contradictions, heavy workload, and long working hours. After the outbreak of 2019 novel coronavirus, facing the overload of work and the potential risk of infection, pediatric medical workers may be under great psychological pressure. The purpose of this article was to call attention to the impact of the epidemic on the mental health of Chinese pediatric workers, and develo…Read more
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13The Effect of Mobile Marketing Design on Consumer Mobile ShoppingComplexity 2021 1-10. 2021.The rapid popularity of mobile shopping makes people’s lives more convenient, but it also makes it easier for customers to change providers. How to use marketing stimulus to retain customers has become an urgent concern for mobile sales companies. However, the theoretical researches in this field are not enough. For this reason, this study used the methods of literature review and structural equation to explore the effects of mobile marketing design factors on the continual intention of consumer…Read more
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6Book Review: Language Learning Motivation: An Ethical Agenda for Research (review)Frontiers in Psychology 12. 2021.
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7With the rapid development of mobile devices, users can now read on the screen. Electronic reading has become a common reading style with the growth in online learning or electronic learning. E-book applications are widely developed and applied for reading on a screen. However, it is difficult for readers to change their reading habits or preference from paper-printed books to digital devices. The study of readers' continuance intention to use e-book APPs is the first step to improving e-reading…Read more
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15Objective: To investigate the relationship between psychological empowerment, psychological capital, job involvement, and the retention intention of kindergarten teachers in mainland China and the internal mechanism of action.Methods: A total of 554 kindergarten teachers were investigated by scales for psychological empowerment, psychological capital, job involvement, and retention intention.Results: Psychological empowerment was positively correlated with psychological capital and job involveme…Read more
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9Transformational Leadership and Perceived Overqualification: A Career Development PerspectiveFrontiers in Psychology 12. 2021.Drawing on social information processing theory and a career development perspective, we examined the effect of transformational leadership on the perceived overqualification via career growth opportunities, and how the supervisor–subordinate guanxi moderates the relationship between transformational leadership and perceived overqualification. We tested this proposal using three waves of lagged data collected from 351 company employees in the Yangtze River Delta region in China. The results reve…Read more
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11LPR-MLP: A Novel Health Prediction Model for Transmission Lines in Grid Sensor NetworksComplexity 2021 1-10. 2021.The safety of the transmission lines maintains the stable and efficient operation of the smart grid. Therefore, it is very important and highly desirable to diagnose the health status of transmission lines by developing an efficient prediction model in the grid sensor network. However, the traditional methods have limitations caused by the characteristics of high dimensions, multimodality, nonlinearity, and heterogeneity of the data collected by sensors. In this paper, a novel model called LPR-M…Read more
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15The Relationship of Self-Presentation, Psychological Needs, and Exercise Dependence in College Students With OverweightFrontiers in Psychology 11. 2021.Objectives: The objectives of the study were to explore the effect of self-presentation and psychological needs on exercise dependence and to provide an essential reference for preventing and inhibiting the production of exercise dependence in overweight college students. Methods: The freshmen in two comprehensive universities accepted physical fitness tests, filled out the scales of self-presentation, psychological needs, and exercise dependence after obtaining their consent. A sample of 747 ov…Read more
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13Alterations of Cerebral Hemodynamics and Network Properties Induced by Newsvendor Problem in the Human Prefrontal CortexFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 14. 2021.While many publications have reported brain hemodynamic responses to decision-making under various conditions of risk, no inventory management scenarios, such as the newsvendor problem, have been investigated in conjunction with neuroimaging. In this study, we hypothesized that NP stimulates the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the orbitofrontal cortex joined with frontal polar area significantly in the human brain, and that local brain network properties are increased when a person transits f…Read more
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11Explaining Positional Differences of Performance Profiles for the Elite Female Basketball PlayersFrontiers in Psychology 11. 2021.The aim of the present study was to explore the differences in technical performances of players considering playing positions by controlling the effect of situational variables in each FIBA female continental basketball competition. Samples of 9,208 observations from 471 games in the America, Africa, Asia, and Europe Championships during 2013–2017 were collected and analyzed by generalized mixed linear modeling. The results showed that Centers from Europe had more 2-point made, 2-point attempte…Read more
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6Book Review: Directed Motivational Currents and Language Education: Exploring Implications for Pedagogy (review)Frontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.
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10Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network and Convolutional Neural Network for Smoke DetectionComplexity 2020 1-12. 2020.Real-time smoke detection is of great significance for early warning of fire, which can avoid the serious loss caused by fire. Detecting smoke in actual scenes is still a challenging task due to large variance of smoke color, texture, and shapes. Moreover, the smoke detection in the actual scene is faced with the difficulties in data collection and insufficient smoke datasets, and the smoke morphology is susceptible to environmental influences. To improve the performance of smoke detection and s…Read more
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4Foundations of instance level updates in expressive description logicsArtificial Intelligence 175 (18): 2170-2197. 2011.
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13Rhetorical relations revisited across distinct levels of discourse unit granularityDiscourse Studies 18 (4): 454-472. 2016.In accordance with the compositionality criterion and hierarchy principle of Rhetorical Structure Theory, this study reframes each tree in the RST Discourse Treebank into three new dependency trees with ultimate nodes being clauses, sentences, and paragraphs, respectively, which also draw on an analogy between syntactic and discourse trees. Detailed percentages of various RST relations at the three granularity levels are examined, illuminating the discourse processes of organizing units of one g…Read more
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6Book Review: The Emotional Rollercoaster of Language Teaching (review)Frontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.
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9Follow your heartInteraction Studies. Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systemsinteraction Studies / Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systemsinteraction Studies 16 (2): 303-339. 2015.Long distance travel is an unusual activity for humans. The economical cabin environment during the long haul flights causes discomfort and even stress for many passengers. In-flight video and music systems are commonly available to improve the comfort level of the passengers. However, current in-flight music systems do not explore how the content can be used to reduce passengers stress. Most of these systems are designed and implemented assuming a homogeneous passenger group that has similar ta…Read more
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2335Artificial Intelligence and Legal Disruption: A New Model for AnalysisLaw, Innovation and Technology. forthcoming.Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly expected to disrupt the ordinary functioning of society. From how we fight wars or govern society, to how we work and play, and from how we create to how we teach and learn, there is almost no field of human activity which is believed to be entirely immune from the impact of this emerging technology. This poses a multifaceted problem when it comes to designing and understanding regulatory responses to AI. This article aims to: (i) defend the need for …Read more
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