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    Thermoelastic behavior of a thermoelectric thin-film attached to an infinite elastic substrate
    with B. L. Wang and C. Zhang
    Philosophical Magazine 97 (1): 43-57. 2017.
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    There is an important contemporary debate in moral responsibility about whether the following asymmetry thesis is true: moral responsibility for actions does not require alternative possibilities but moral responsibility for omissions does. In this paper, we do two things. First, we consider and reject a recent argument against the asymmetry thesis, contending that the argument fails because it rests on a false view about the metaphysics of omissions. Second, we develop and defend a new argument…Read more
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    Atomically resolved precipitates/matrix interfaces in KTaO3crystals
    with Y. B. Xu, Y. L. Tang, X. L. Ma, and Y. L. Zhu
    Philosophical Magazine 96 (5): 486-497. 2016.
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    Based on the social identity theory, the relationship and influencing mechanism between high-performance human resource practices and employees’ voice behavior were explored by constructing a moderated mediation model, and the relationship between the field of human resources and the field of organizational behavior was also established. Through 1,178 paired samples of supervisor-employee survey and multilevel linear model analysis technology, it was found that HPHRPs had a positive impact on em…Read more
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    Distributed Power Trading System Based on Blockchain Technology
    with Shuguo Chen, Weibin Ding, and Zhongzheng Xiang
    Complexity 2021 1-12. 2021.
    The power trading system has the characteristics of nonlinearity, dynamics, and complexity. Part of the business data in the trading system needs to be exposed to numerous external business systems. The traditional centralized power trading model has some problems, such as low data security and trust crisis of regulators. Blockchain technology provides prominent ideas for solving these problems. Firstly, the improved AdaBoost algorithm is used to predict the supply and demand gap of power tradin…Read more
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    Two-Agent Single Machine Order Acceptance Scheduling Problem to Maximize Net Revenue
    with Jiaji Li, Yuvraj Gajpal, Amit Kumar Bhardwaj, and Huangen Chen
    Complexity 2021 1-14. 2021.
    The paper considers two-agent order acceptance scheduling problems with different scheduling criteria. Two agents have a set of jobs to be processed by a single machine. The processing time and due date of each job are known in advance. In the order accepting scheduling problem, jobs are allowed to be rejected. The objective of the problem is to maximize the net revenue while keeping the weighted number of tardy jobs for the second agent within a predetermined value. A mixed-integer linear progr…Read more
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    Effect of the Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Pandemic on Medical Students’ Psychological Stress and Its Influencing Factors
    with Wan Ye, Xinxin Ye, Qixi Liu, Somayeh Vafaei, Yuzhen Gao, Huiqin Yu, Yanxia Zhong, and Chenju Zhan
    Frontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.
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    Creativity East and West
    Dissertation, University of Edinburgh. 2020.
    This thesis is about the creativity in the East and the West, but I will mainly focus on the view of creativity in ancient Greek philosophy and Chinese philosophy. In the first chapter, I will explore the concept of creativity, the history of creativity, and the research on creativity, including the creativity research in psychology and philosophy, which will set the stage for further disscusion. Then in the second chapter, I will start from Plato’s dialogue, Ion, and explore the traditional the…Read more
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    Creativity Through Lateral Thinking Techniques
    Politeia 1 (3): 82-87. 2019.
    Creativity is a developing topic in philosophy in recent years, and it raises a series of challenging questions both in theory and practice for us. In this paper, I will explore creativity with the lateral thinking techniques which aim to solve problems in a creative and lateral way. I will examine the meaning of lateral thinking and its three kinds, the conceptual lateral thinking, the emotive lateral thinking, and the diagrammatic lateral thinking, trying to find out how the space of possible …Read more
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    Ethics status of clinical research and trials in developing countries
    Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 25 (4): 124-127. 2015.
    With the development of economic globalization, more and more clinical research and trials shift from developed countries to developing countries. The globalization of clinical trials also brings some ethical and scientific concerns. This paper discussed some ethical problems of clinical trials in the developing countries including 1) "golden rice" event in China; 2) Informed consent in clinical trials in developing countries; 3) Ethical consciousness in clinical research and trials in developin…Read more