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Bentham on the corruption of democracyIn Philip Schofield & Xiaobo Zhai (eds.), Bentham on democracy, courts, and codification, Cambridge University Press. 2022.
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China's fengshui forests: the fate of lineage wind-water polities under ecological civilizationIn Chris Coggins & Bixia Chen (eds.), Sacred forests of Asia: spiritual ecology and the politics of nature conservation, Routledge. 2022.
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4Toward a framework for understanding translation and interpreting teacher role identityFrontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.The purpose of this study was to present a translation and interpreting teacher role identity framework for investigating how T&I teachers in China develop their role identities. There is a vast literature on language teacher identity in higher education compared to a paucity of literature on the development of T&I teacher identity. Developing a strong T&I teacher identity in the context of Chinese universities is challenging as teachers combine sub-roles of trainers/educators, researchers, and …Read more
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5Effect of mindfulness meditation on depression during pregnancy: A meta-analysisFrontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.PurposeThis study systematically evaluates the effect of mindfulness meditation on depression during pregnancy. We provide evidence-based suggestions for preventing and reducing depression during pregnancy by exploring the most effective intervention mode, cycle, and frequency of mindfulness meditation.MethodsRecords were retrieved from PubMed, Web of Science, EBSCO, and Science Direct. A total of 1,612 randomized controlled trial studies on the effect of mindfulness meditation on pregnancy depr…Read more
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11The Role of Language Switching During Cross‐Talk Between Bilingual Language Control and Domain‐General Conflict MonitoringCognitive Science 46 (8). 2022.The relationship between bilingual language control and executive control is debated. The present study investigated the effect of short‐term language switching in a comprehension task on executive control performance in unbalanced bilinguals. Participants were required to perform a context task and an executive control task (i.e., flanker task) in sequence. A picture‐word matching task created different language contexts in Experiment 1 (i.e., L1, L2, and dual‐language contexts). By modifying t…Read more
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14Many scholars have investigated education management. Scholars in the education field have made significant achievements in contributing to multiple educational reform policies, while other scholars discuss teacher-related issues from the perspective of organizational behavior. The teaching innovation of high school teachers plays a critical role in students’ learning attitude and motivation, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Teachers need to utilize more diversified teaching m…Read more
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18A unifying causal framework for analyzing dataset shift-stable learning algorithmsJournal of Causal Inference 10 (1): 64-89. 2022.Recent interest in the external validity of prediction models has produced many methods for finding predictive distributions that are invariant to dataset shifts and can be used for prediction in new, unseen environments. However, these methods consider different types of shifts and have been developed under disparate frameworks, making it difficult to theoretically analyze how solutions differ with respect to stability and accuracy. Taking a causal graphical view, we use a flexible graphical re…Read more
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8Neuronal Morphological Model-Driven Image Registration for Serial Electron Microscopy SectionsFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 16. 2022.Registration of a series of the two-dimensional electron microscope images of the brain tissue into volumetric form is an important technique that can be used for neuronal circuit reconstruction. However, complex appearance changes of neuronal morphology in adjacent sections bring difficulty in finding correct correspondences, making serial section neural image registration challenging. To solve this problem, we consider whether there are such stable "markers" in the neural images to alleviate r…Read more
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7Faster R-CNN architecture is used to solve the problems of moving path uncertainty, changeable coverage, and high complexity in cold-air induced large-scale intensive temperature-reduction detection and classification, since those problems usually lead to path identification biases as well as low accuracy and generalization ability of recognition algorithm. In this paper, an improved recognition method of national ITR path in China based on faster R-CNN in complicated meteorological systems is p…Read more
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3The Impact of Perceptions of Positive COVID-19 Information on Travel Motivation and Intention: Evidence From Chinese University StudentsFrontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.The COVID-19 pandemic has influenced the tourism industry in various ways, including tourists’ travel motivations and intentions. Unlike previous studies that have focused on the dark side of the pandemic, this study adds the dimension of perceptions of positive information on COVID-19 to the Theory of Planned Behavior to explore their influence on travel motivation and intention. A total of 470 valid questionnaires were collected from a sample of Chinese university students. The results showed …Read more
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4Using Data Mining Approach for Student Satisfaction With Teaching Quality in High Vocation EducationFrontiers in Psychology 12. 2022.High vocation education is an important foundation for China to cultivate high teaching quality and technical and skilled talents. In the new era, the acceleration of the development of modern vocational education is put in a more prominent position. It is proposed that we should adhere to moral education, closely combine this with the needs of technological change and industrial upgrading, constantly improve the quality of high vocational education teaching, and cultivate more technical and ski…Read more
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8On Ernest Nagel on Teleology in BiologyIn Matthias Neuber & Adam Tamas Tuboly (eds.), Ernest Nagel: Philosophy of Science and the Fight for Clarity, Springer. pp. 189-211. 2021.This chapter revisits Ernest Nagel’s view of teleology in biology. In some of his writings from the 1950s to the 1970s, Nagel contended for the legitimacy of teleology in biology but argued against its uniqueness. In addition, Nagel also offered a goal-contribution account in the biological function debate which emerged in the 1960s and the 1970s. While questions of legitimacy and uniqueness of teleology draw little attention today, the biological function debate remains in focus in philosophy o…Read more
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10Trepanier, Lee, ed., Eric Voegelin’s Asian Political Thought: Lanham, Boulder, New York, and London: Lexington Books, 2020, 233 pagesDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 20 (3): 515-520. 2021.
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45Improvement and Optimization of Feature Selection Algorithm in Swarm Intelligence Algorithm Based on ComplexityComplexity 2021 1-10. 2021.The swarm intelligence algorithm simulates the behavior of animal populations in nature and is a new type of intelligent solution that is different from traditional artificial intelligence. Feature selection is a very common data dimensionality reduction method, which requires us to select the feature subset with the best evaluation criteria from the original feature set. Feature selection, as an effective data processing method, has become a hot research topic in the fields of machine learning,…Read more
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20Criticizing the Modern Synthesis: between Phenomenal Characteristics and Synthetic PrinciplesBiosemiotics 14 (1): 135-140. 2021.Starting from Denis Noble’s criticism on the modern synthesis, this article argues that the author’s presentation of the modern synthesis focusses too one-sidedly on the phenomenal characteristics of the living, whereby it is made easily suitable to his criticisms, but risks to remain trapped in a territory-struggle; this criticism lacks an explicit focus on logical matters, and more in particular on the synthetic principles required to situate the relevancy or irrelevancy of phenomenal characte…Read more
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8Creativity and Leadership in the Creative Industry: A Study From the Perspective of Social NormsFrontiers in Psychology 12. 2021.Individual creativity has been the focus of long-term research in creative industries. However, few studies have explored the impact on individual creativity from social factors. At the same time, the influence of individual creativity on the existence of subsequent factors in the creative industry is also worthy of further investigation. From a social standpoint, this research aims to explore how social norms affect individual creativity, and how individual creativity affects subsequent leaders…Read more
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14A Database of Chinese-English Bilingual Speakers: Ratings of the Age of Acquisition and FamiliarityFrontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.
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12The Effect of Semantic Similarity on Learning Ambiguous Words in a Second Language: An Event-Related Potential StudyFrontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.
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107The debate on the Yan-yi relation in chinese philosophy: Reconstruction and commentsFrontiers of Philosophy in China 1 (4): 539-560. 2006.The debate on the yan-yi relation was carried out by Chinese philosophers collectively, and the principles and methods in the debate still belong to a living tradition of Chinese philosophy. From Yijing (Book of Changes), Lunyu (Analects), Laozi and Zhuangzi to Wang Bi, "yi" which cannot be expressed fully by yan (language), is not only "idea" or "meaning" in the human mind, but is also some kind of ontological existence, which is beyond yan and emblematic symbols, and unspeakable. Thus, the deb…Read more
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14Environmental unpredictability, economic inequality, and dynamic nature of life history before, during, and after the Industrial RevolutionBehavioral and Brain Sciences 42. 2019.It is emphasized that environmental predictability is another important condition that plays roles in slow strategies that are related to innovation; that economic inequality, except as measured by Gross Domestic Product per capita, influences innovation; and that switching global life history from a slow to a fast strategy is a response adopted in response to new challenges during the post-Industrial Revolution period.
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6Effects of Working Memory Capacity and Tasks in Processing L2 Complex Sentence: Evidence from Chinese-English BilingualsFrontiers in Psychology 8. 2017.
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20The role of proactive control on subcomponents of language control: Evidence from trilingualsCognition 194 (C): 104055. 2020.
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22On the System Entropy and Energy Dissipativity of Stochastic Systems and Their Application in Biological SystemsComplexity 2018 1-18. 2018.
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22Finite-Time Synchronization for Complex-Valued Recurrent Neural Networks with Time DelaysComplexity 2018 1-14. 2018.This paper focuses on the finite-time synchronization analysis for complex-valued recurrent neural networks with time delays. First, two kinds of common activation functions appearing in the existing references are combined together and more general assumptions are given. To achieve our aim, a nonlinear delayed controller with two independent parameters different from the existing ones is provided, which leads to great difficulty. To overcome it, a newly developed inequality is used. Then, via L…Read more
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32The Destructive Effect of Ingroup Competition on Ingroup FavoritismFrontiers in Psychology 9. 2018.
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19Semantic Similarity to Known Second Language Words Impacts Learning of New MeaningsFrontiers in Psychology 9. 2018.
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9Metaphysics, Function and the Engineering of Life: the Problem of VitalismKairos 20 (1). 2018.Vitalism was long viewed as the most grotesque view in biological theory: appeals to a mysterious life-force, Romantic insistence on the autonomy of life, or worse, a metaphysics of an entirely living universe. In the early twentieth century, attempts were made to present a revised, lighter version that was not weighted down by revisionary metaphysics: “organicism”. And mainstream philosophers of science criticized Driesch and Bergson’s “neovitalism” as a too-strong ontological commitment to the…Read more
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40A non-metaphysical evaluation of vitalism in the early twentieth centuryHistory and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 40 (3): 50. 2018.In biology the term “vitalism” is usually associated with Hans Driesch’s doctrine of the entelechy: entelechies were nonmaterial, bio-specific agents responsible for governing a few peculiar biological phenomena. Since vitalism defined as such violates metaphysical materialism, the received view refutes the doctrine of the entelechy as a metaphysical heresy. But in the early twentieth century, a different, non-metaphysical evaluation of vitalism was endorsed by some biologists and philosophers, …Read more
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21The Moderating Role of Vertical Collectivism in South-Korean Adolescents’ Perceptions of and Responses to Autonomy-Supportive and Controlling ParentingFrontiers in Psychology 9 291690. 2018.Research increasingly demonstrates that associations between autonomy-relevant parenting and adolescent adjustment generalize across cultures. Yet, there is still an ongoing debate about the role of culture in these effects of autonomy-relevant parenting. The current study aimed to contribute to a more nuanced perspective on this debate by addressing cultural variability in micro-processes involved in autonomy-relevant parenting and, more specifically, in adolescents’ appraisals of and responses…Read more