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7Book 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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5Foundations of instance level updates in expressive description logicsArtificial Intelligence 175 (18): 2170-2197. 2011.
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16Rhetorical 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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7Book 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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2452Artificial 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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22Withdrawal of treatment in a pediatric intensive care unit at a Children’s Hospital in China: a 10-year retrospective studyBMC Medical Ethics 21 (1): 1-9. 2020.BackgroundPublished data and practice recommendations on end-of-life care generally reflect Western practice frameworks; there are limited data on withdrawal of treatment for children in China.MethodsWithdrawal of treatment for children in the pediatric intensive care unit of a regional children’s hospital in eastern China from 2006 to 2017 was studied retrospectively. Withdrawal of treatment was categorized as medical withdrawal or premature withdrawal. The guardian’s self-reported reasons for …Read more
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18Effect of a Seeding System on Competitive Performance of Elite Players During Major Tennis TournamentsFrontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.
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78Situational and Positional Effects on the Technical Variation of Players in the UEFA Champions LeagueFrontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.
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41Evolutionary Trends of Players’ Technical Characteristics in the UEFA Champions LeagueFrontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.
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1On Hursthouse’s Argument for the Objectivity of VirtuesProceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 12 235-239. 2018.Rosalind Husthouse’s argumentation for the objectivity of virtue ethics includes three sub-arguments. But her explanations are problematic, because the “objectivity” argument does not have sufficient perspicuity, nor have abundant explanatory persuasion. In comparison with the perspicuity of structure in her work On Virtue Ethics, the three concerning explanations appear more obscure. And such obscurity results in her distinction of the three propositions being groundless, and the effect of her …Read more
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10The Effect of the Non-task Language When Trilingual People Use Two Languages in a Language Switching ExperimentFrontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.This study investigated the effect of non-task language in language switching experiment. Non-task language refers to participants’ language(s) (regardless of proficiency level) that are not used in any trials throughout the experiment. We recruited 60 Tibetan-Chinese-English trilinguals (grade-12 high school students with a median age of 17) to perform a lexical decision (word vs. non-word) task in only two of their languages. We repeated the experiment three times to present each language pair…Read more
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8Adolescent Social Networks and Physical, Verbal, and Indirect Aggression in China: The Moderating Role of GenderFrontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.
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17Self-Control Modulates the Behavioral Response of Interpersonal ForgivenessFrontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.
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153Action Real-Time Strategy Gaming Experience Related to Increased Attentional Resources: An Attentional Blink StudyFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 14. 2020.
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9Intercultural Communication Competence Of Chinese English Majors: A Study Of Its Components And Influencing Factors In Teaching English As A Foreign LanguageDissertation, Universiti Sains Malaysia. 2014.With the rapid development of internationalization and globalization, this world is becoming smaller and smaller, and the necessity to comuunicate with people from other cultures successfully is becoming increasingly urgent. This research is designed to investigate Chinese english major's intercultural communication competence, and this target is split into following two sets of research questions.
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3Intentional Directedness and Immanent ContentInternational Philosophical Quarterly 60 (1): 23-36. 2020.This paper will investigate the roots of intentionality in Aristotle’s theory of perception and assess the accuracy of Brentano’s proposed location of intentionality in Aristotle. When introducing intentionality into contemporary philosophy, Brentano attributed it to Aristotle, whose theory of psychology he believed to reveal the characteristics of intentional inexistence. After setting up a working definition of intentionality that stresses such features as immanent content and intentional dire…Read more
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12An Analysis of the Dilemmas in Rural Modernization From the Perspective of Organism PhilosophyPhilosophy Study 9 (12). 2019.
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8Differences in Technical Performance of Players From ‘The Big Five’ European Football Leagues in the UEFA Champions LeagueFrontiers in Psychology 10. 2019.
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10Key Anthropometric and Physical Determinants for Different Playing Positions During National Basketball Association Draft Combine TestFrontiers in Psychology 10. 2019.
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20Pervasive Transcription Represses Coding Gene Expression by Closing Their Nucleosome‐Depleted RegionsBioessays 41 (11): 1900159. 2019.BioEssays, EarlyView.
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18Correlation Between Thalamus-Related Functional Connectivity and Serum BDNF Levels During the Periovulatory Phase of Primary DysmenorrheaFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 13. 2019.
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18Comparison of Different LGM-Based Methods with MAR and MNAR Dropout DataFrontiers in Psychology 8. 2017.
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24The role of proactive control on subcomponents of language control: Evidence from trilingualsCognition 194 (C): 104055. 2020.
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117The attitudes of neonatal professionals towards end-of-life decision-making for dying infants in TaiwanJournal of Medical Ethics 39 (6): 382-386. 2013.The purposes of research were to describe the neonatal clinicians' personal views and attitudes on neonatal ethical decision-making, to identify factors that might affect these attitudes and to compare the attitudes between neonatal physicians and neonatal nurses in Taiwan. Research was a cross-sectional design and a questionnaire was used to reach different research purposes. A convenient sample was used to recruit 24 physicians and 80 neonatal nurses from four neonatal intensive care units in …Read more
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13The Feedback of the Chinese Learning Diagnosis System for Personalized Learning in ClassroomsFrontiers in Psychology 10. 2019.
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