Nonlinear effects of resource allocation delay on epidemic spreading in complex networks.

The impact of resource allocation on the dynamics of epidemic spreading is an important topic. In real-life scenarios, individuals usually prioritize their own safety, and this self-protection consciousness will lead to delays in resource allocation. However, there is a lack of systematic research on the impact of resource allocation delay on epidemic spreading.

Research on quantitative evaluation of medical insurance fraud supervision policy based on 'Antecedents-Process-Outcomes' framework.

Fraud in medical insurance is a serious problem that threatens the safety and sustainability of medical insurance funds. The process of reducing or even eliminating the impact of fraud is related to maintaining the balance of payments for medical insurance funds and reforming the payment system based on total amount control. As a result of reviewing the policy background of medical insurance fraud in China, combined with the policy evaluation model in the area of public management, this paper develops a conceptual framework of 'Antecedents-Process-Outcomes' that emphasizes the fraud and governance of medical insurance funds.

Digital technology administrative penalties and green technology innovation: Evidence from China.

In digital economy era, digital technology is a key force to promote green technological innovation (GTI). Digital technology administrative penalties (DTAP) are an important means to regulate the development of digital technology enterprises, but its ability to effectively guide digital technology enterprises to better serve GTI remains to be further examined. DTAP sends signals to physical enterprises, financial enterprises, and individuals, thereby affecting the allocation of resources, such as technology, talent, and funds.

Study protocol: A national cross-sectional study on psychology and behavior investigation of Chinese residents in 2023.

Introduction: This study protocol specifies the primary research line and theoretical framework of the 2023 Survey of the Psychology and Behavior of the Chinese Population. It aims to establish a consistent database of Chinese residents' psychological and behavioral surveys through multi-center and large-sample cross-sectional surveys to provide robust data support for developing research in related fields. It will track the public's physical and psychological health more comprehensively and systematically.

How does habit strength affect reactions to warning labels? evidence from Chinese consumers' choices of carbonated beverages.

Effectively regulating the excessive consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) has been an important task for public health authorities around the world. The rapid increase in SSB consumption in China necessitates robust regulations. This study employed a choice experiment to simulate the market scenario in which a text warning label was presented on SSBs.

The Change in Child Sexual Abuse Victimization Among Chinese Children and Adolescents (2000-2022): A Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis.

Limited meta-analytical research has examined the epidemiology of child sexual abuse (CSA) victimization among Chinese children and adolescents over the past two decades. It is crucial to evaluate how the incidence of CSA has changed over time in response to the significant policy and sociocultural changes since 2013. This study employed a cross-temporal meta-analysis to explore the trend of CSA victimization among Chinese children and adolescents from 2000 to 2022.

Creativity gain or drain: The dual association between boundary-spanning and creativity.

Boundary-spanning behavior, which involves building relationships with external entities to achieve organizational goals, has been highlighted as a key mechanism for enhancing the inflow of external knowledge. While boundary-spanning can fuel creativity by providing employees with new resources, ideas, and inspiration, it also poses challenges, potentially depleting resources and inducing stress that hinders creativity. Drawing on Conservation of Resources (COR) Theory, this paper explores the dual impact of boundary-spanning on employee creativity-serving both as a facilitator and inhibitor.

The relationship between urban residents' physical exercise attitudes and sports consumption demands: the mediating role of physical activity level.

Object: This study examines the differences and relationships among urban residents' physical exercise attitudes, physical activity levels, and sports consumption demands, focusing on how physical activity mediates the relationship between exercise attitudes and consumption behaviors.

Method: A survey was conducted among residents in Chengdu using validated questionnaires to measure physical exercise attitudes, physical activity levels, and sports consumption demands. Data analysis included independent samples t-tests and one-way ANOVA to assess differences across demographic variables, as well as correlation analysis and structural equation modeling to examine the path relationships among key variables.

Development of differential diagnostic models for distinguishing between limb-girdle muscular dystrophy and idiopathic inflammatory myopathy.

Objective: Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) is usually confused with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM) in clinical practice. Our study aimed to establish convenient and reliable diagnostic models for distinguishing between LGMD and IIM.

Methods: A total of 71 IIM patients, 24 LGMDR2 patients and 22 LGMDR1 patients diagnosed at our neuromuscular center were enrolled.

A novel hybrid PSO-MIDAS model and its application to the U.S. GDP forecast.

In this study, the traditional lag structure selection method in the Mixed Data Sampling (MIDAS) regression model for forecasting GDP was replaced with a machine learning approach using the particle swarm optimization algorithm (PSO). The introduction of PSO aimed to automatically optimize the MIDAS model's mixed-frequency lag structures, improving forecast accuracy and resolving the "forecast accuracy" and "forecast cost" weighting problem. The Diebold-Mariano test results based on U.

Shopping online: E-commerce and household carbon emissions in China.

The rapid development of e-commerce has significantly reshaped consumption behaviors, influencing both the scale and the structure of household consumption and its associated carbon emissions. As China strives for a low-carbon transition, understanding the environmental implications of e-commerce becomes crucial for policymakers. This study investigates the impact of e-commerce development on household consumption-based carbon emissions in China via a nationwide survey and e-commerce data.

Prime effects in metaphor comprehension: comparing congruent and opposite schematic primes.

This study investigates the role of priming in the process of metaphor comprehension focusing on both literal and gesture-based primes under congruent and opposite conditions. We conducted a two-stage experiment to explore how different priming conditions influence the cognitive processing of metaphors. In stage 1, participants made sensibility judgments on a set of metaphors in congruent literal primes (Group 1), opposite literal primes (Group 2), and no-prime conditions, with Group 3 serving as a baseline.

Hybrid contrastive multi-scenario learning for multi-task sequential-dependence recommendation.

Multi-scenario and multi-task learning are crucial in industrial recommendation systems to deliver high-quality recommendations across diverse scenarios with minimal computational overhead. However, conventional models often fail to effectively leverage cross-scenario information, limiting their representational capabilities. Additionally, multi-step conversion tasks in real-world applications face challenges from sequential dependencies and increased data sparsity, particularly in later stages.

Attachment and self-regulation in the workplace-a theoretical integration.

Interest in adopting attachment theory to interpret workplace dynamics is growing, reflected in increasing theoretical development and empirical research. However, the advancement of the field has been hindered by the limited attention paid to the cognitive, affective and behavioral processes involved in carrying the effect of attachment styles on outcomes. Adopting a self-regulatory lens, this paper aims to unpack the attachment black box by integrating attachment theory and self-regulation theory.

The declining effectiveness of air quality index in China: A perspective of air pollution alert system.

Since 2013, the air quality in China has improved dramatically. However, the regulatory standard as defined in air quality index (AQI) is still the one introduced in 2012. To evaluate the gap between reality and regulation, we study the effectiveness of China's AQI from the perspective of air pollution alert, a system that reflects AQI standard directly.

A neuro decision-making approach for prioritizing circular economy criteria in sustainable smart cities.

Sustainable cities are crucial in establishing effective waste management systems and minimizing environmental pollution. For cities to be sustainable, different aspects need to be considered, such as technological development, clean energy usage, and energy efficiency. However, taking the most important actions is essential because of the very high cost that will arise, and this situation causes countries to have budget deficit problems.

Blood-based tumor mutational burden impacts clinical outcomes of immune checkpoint inhibitor treated breast and prostate cancers.

Background: Breast and prostate tumors are known to be less responsive to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). Tissue-based tumor mutation burden (tTMB) has emerged as a predictive biomarker of response to ICIs, including in these "cold tumors". In clinical practice, when tTMB is not available, blood-based TMB score (bTMB) can be used to consider treatment with ICIs.

Drink like a man? Modified Poisson analysis of adolescent binge drinking in the US, 1976-2022.

This study estimates temporal trajectories and sociodemographic disparities in underage adolescent binge drinking in the United States over the past four decades. By compiling 47 waves of national representative data from the Monitoring the Future (MTF) study between 1976 and 2022, we analyzed two types of adolescent binge drinking behaviors, past-two-week excessive drinking and drunkenness in the past 30 days, using the innovative modified Poisson (mixture) approach to grouped and right-censored counts (GRC). The overall decrease in incidence rates was attributable to substantial reductions in the risks of excessive drinking (45.

Cranial motor neuron input specificity refined by activity.

A recent study by Kaneko and colleagues provides evidence that developing cranial motor neurons in larval zebrafish refine their input specificity over time, using an activity-dependent mechanism that may depend, in part, on adaptive dendrite extension. These findings illuminate the mechanism by which spatially overlapping motor pools are recruited into distinct motor circuits.

Exploring the interplay of living arrangements, social support, and depression among older adults in rural northwest China.

Background: With the intensification of aging, depression among the older adults has become a significant global health challenge, especially in developing countries where the problem is particularly severe. This study aims to explore the association between living arrangements and depression, with a specific focus on examining the mediating role of social support in rural northwest China.

Methods: Data were collected from 501 individuals aged 60 and above in rural Shaanxi Province, northwest China.

Are enterprises embedding in digital platform ecosystems greener? A resource curse view.

Achieving the global climate mitigation goals requires corporate green innovation, especially substantive green innovation, to address the resource constraints. In this paper, we analyze the impact of the depth of enterprise embeddedness in digital platform ecosystems (DPEs) on substantive green innovation of enterprises. Previous research findings suggest that enterprises' involvement in DPEs can overcome the resource constraints and increase resource accumulation required for the substantive green innovation of enterprises.

Manufacturer's agency channel encroachment on an online retail platform.

Channel encroachment intensifies competition among channels and changes the relationships within the supply chain. This study examines the manufacturer's agency channel encroachment decision and its impact when it has already operated a platform reselling channel and a retailer channel on the platform. Equilibrium results reveal that the manufacturer's agency channel encroachment triggers a competition effect, leading to a reduction in market demand for both the platform's reselling channel and the retailer's channel, as a larger share of the market shifts toward the manufacturer's agency channel.

Association of stressful life events with subjective age and the mediating role of depression: A cross-sectional study of older adults in China.

Objective: While previous studies have examined the relationship between stressful life events (SLEs) and subjective age (SA), the results were inconclusive and the mechanisms linking the association were unclear. This study investigated whether the experience of SLEs was associated with an older SA and the potential mediating role of depression linking this association in a cross-sectional study of older adults in China.

Methods: Data were drawn from the 2018 China Longitudinal Aging Social Survey (CLASS), comprising 7643 participants aged 60 and older.