Does international trade improve carbon productivity? Evidence from countries along the Belt and Road.

The Belt and Road Initiative proposed by China has significantly increased trade in countries along the Belt and Road (B&R). Since most of these countries are developing and emerging economies, the pressure to reduce carbon emissions poses a leading challenge for them. Carbon productivity has become a key indicator for assessing the degree of low-carbon development, as it can link economic development with CO emission reduction.

How economic policy uncertainty and geopolitical risk affect environmental pollution: does renewable energy consumption matter?

Climate change traps heat, affecting various species in previously dry areas. Climate change brought on by emissions of greenhouse gases exacerbates problems such as severe storms, earthquakes, epidemics, and food distribution. The group of developed and developing countries, the world's biggest carbon emitters and most significant economies, is expertly planning to lessen its environmental challenges and contribute to achieving Sustainable Development Goals 7 and 13 set by the United Nations.

Cross-Cultural Education and College English Speculative Reading Teaching in Multi-Modal Theoretical Environment.

Due to the extensive development of globalization, the ethnic makeup of the world is becoming more and more complex, and the issue of cultural diversity has emerged as a key concern for all nations' educational systems. Cross-cultural education is an educational prescription for many western countries to deal with cultural diversity and strengthen national cohesion in order to address this issue and promote mutual respect, understanding, and communication between different groups and individuals. One of the most recent developments in global education is cross-cultural education, which has also given rise to a brand-new area of study in the field of education.

Design of Table Tennis Training Competition Knowledge Interaction Platform Integrating Improved Swarm Intelligence Algorithm.

Table tennis is China 's national game and the proudest sport in China's sports field. During the research and technology service work of the Chinese table tennis team for many years, it has accumulated a large amount of valuable data on the analysis of skills and tactics of training and matches, match video, training monitoring, and so on. This paper discusses the relevant theory of swarm intelligence algorithm processing big data on the table tennis training competition knowledge interaction platform system, as well as the technical support of Nginx and Tomcat, and determines the technical basis of the table tennis training competition knowledge interaction platform.

Testing the Club Convergence Dynamics of the COVID-19 Vaccination Rates Across the OECD Countries.

Vaccines are essential to create a more resilient economic growth model. Ending the COVID-19 pandemic requires a more coordinated, effective, and equitable distribution of vaccines across the countries. Therefore, governments are in a race to increase the vaccination rates of the population.

Evaluation of Occupational Health Risk Management and Performance in China: A Case Study of Gas Station Workers.

China has a large number of gas stations, with which thousands of workers are associated. There is abundant online literature documenting the various occupational health risks these workers face. However, this literature has many flaws to address, and it falls short of suggesting measures to manage these risks.

The Impact of Sudden Public Health Events on the Insurance Companies' Investment Returns: Based on the Investors' Sentiment Perspective.

This study analyzes the conflicting effects of investors' sentiment caused by public health emergencies and uses event analysis methods and linear regressions to examine the impact of such emergencies on the stock prices of insurance companies. The study shows that public health emergencies have a positive and significant impact on insurance companies' portfolios through investors' sentiment, which is persistent. However, the investor fear index triggered by public health emergencies is negatively associated with insurance stock portfolio returns.

Application of Mathematical Models in Economic Variable Input and Output Models under the Scientific Visualization.

At present, with the development of society and economy, some new problems have emerged continuously. Among them, the more serious problem is that enterprises pay too much attention to economic benefits, which leads to problems in the development of many enterprises. Therefore, the problem caused by too much emphasis on economic benefits is one of the major economic problems.

Impact of Entrepreneurial Education, Mindset, and Creativity on Entrepreneurial Intention: Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy.

This study aimed to investigate the direct influence of entrepreneurial education, entrepreneurial mindset, and creativity on the entrepreneurial intention with the indirect role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy. This study applied the structural equation model technique using AMOS software to verify the hypothesis relationships. This study collected self-administered survey data from 365 university students of Jiangsu and Zhejiang province of China.

The Use of Deep Learning and VR Technology in Film and Television Production From the Perspective of Audience Psychology.

As the development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, the deep-learning (DL)-based Virtual Reality (VR) technology, and DL technology are applied in human-computer interaction (HCI), and their impacts on modern film and TV works production and audience psychology are analyzed. In film and TV production, audiences have a higher demand for the verisimilitude and immersion of the works, especially in film production. Based on this, a 2D image recognition system for human body motions and a 3D recognition system for human body motions based on the convolutional neural network (CNN) algorithm of DL are proposed, and an analysis framework is established.

Effects of Pandemic Outbreak on Economies: Evidence From Business History Context.

The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the capitalist dysfunction showing that considering profit over people can be deadly. The study reveals the LME economies were more responsive toward the impact of the disease outbreaks as compared to the CME economies wherein the impact of the disease was moderated by the government involvement. This allows us to draw that the impact of the disease outbreaks can be moderated by increasing the involvement of the government authorities.

An evaluation of the impact of natural ecotourism on environmental pollution.

The existing models that measure the environmental pollution impact of ecotourism suffer from the problems of low success rate and poor accuracy. We propose a new model to evaluate the environmental pollution impact better. Environmental pollution data are first obtained from the scenic areas of ecotourism.

Functional parcellation of the hippocampus by semi-supervised clustering of resting state fMRI data.

Many unsupervised methods are widely used for parcellating the brain. However, unsupervised methods aren't able to integrate prior information, obtained from such as exiting functional neuroanatomy studies, to parcellate the brain, whereas the prior information guided semi-supervised method can generate more reliable brain parcellation. In this study, we propose a novel semi-supervised clustering method for parcellating the brain into spatially and functionally consistent parcels based on resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data.

Exploring Types of Information Sources Used When Choosing Doctors: Observational Study in an Online Health Care Community.

Background: Patients attempt to make appropriate decisions based on their own knowledge when choosing a doctor. In this process, the first question usually faced is that of how to obtain useful and relevant information. This study investigated the types of information sources that are used widely by patients in choosing a doctor and identified ways in which the preferred sources differ in various situations.

Causal Effect of Honorary Titles on Physicians' Service Volumes in Online Health Communities: Retrospective Study.

Background: An OHC online health community (OHC) is an interactive platform for virtual communication between patients and physicians. Patients can typically search, seek, and share their experience and rate physicians, who may be involved in giving advice. Some OHC providers provide incentives in form of honorary titles to encourage the web-based involvement of physicians, but it is unclear whether the award of honorary titles has an impact on their consultation volume in an OHC.

Identification of the Differential Effect of City-Level on the Gini Coefficient of Health Service Delivery in Online Health Community.

Inequality of health services for different specialty categories not only occurs in different areas in the world, but also happens in the online service platform. In the online health community (OHC), health services often display inequality for different specialty categories, including both online views and medical consultations for offline registered services. Moreover, how the city-level factors impact the inequality of health services in OHC is still unknown.

Patch-based local learning method for cerebral blood flow quantification with arterial spin-labeling MRI.

Arterial spin-labeling (ASL) perfusion MRI is a non-invasive method for quantifying cerebral blood flow (CBF). Standard ASL CBF calibration mainly relies on pair-wise subtraction of the spin-labeled images and controls images at each voxel separately, ignoring the abundant spatial correlations in ASL data. To address this issue, we previously proposed a multivariate support vector machine (SVM) learning-based algorithm for ASL CBF quantification (SVMASLQ).

Indicators of satisfaction in clickers-aided EFL class.

How to identify whether students are satisfied with clickers-aided EFL class might be largely a mystery for most researchers since satisfaction is deeply hidden in human psychology which is subtle and intangible. This study, by using bivariate correlation analysis and structural equation modeling, survey scales claimed both valid and internally consistent, and data collected from randomly selected 227 participants, explored the indicators of satisfaction in clickers-aided EFL class, together with gender differences in the indicators. It was concluded that satisfaction was positively correlated with interaction, self-efficacy and self-regulation in clickers-aided EFL class without statistically significant gender differences.

Effects of ginsenosides-Rb1 on exercise-induced oxidative stress in forced swimming mice.

Background: The fleshy root of Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer (ginseng) is one of the most well-known and valued herbs in traditional Chinese medicine.

The impact of clickers instruction on cognitive loads and listening and speaking skills in college English class.

Clickers might own a bright future in China if properly introduced although they have not been widely acknowledged as an effective tool to facilitate English learning and teaching in Chinese contexts. By randomly selecting participants from undergraduates in a university in China over four academic years, this study aims to identify the impact of clickers on college English listening and speaking skills, and differences in cognitive loads between clickers and traditional multimedia assisted instruction modes. It was concluded that in China's college English class, compared with multimedia assisted instruction, (1) clickers could improve college English listening skills; (2) clickers could improve college English speaking skills; and (3) clickers could reduce undergraduates' cognitive loads in College English Class.

An exploration of computer game-based instruction in the "world history" class in secondary education: a comparative study in China.

So far, many studies on educational games have been carried out in America and Europe. Very few related empirical studies, however, have been conducted in China. This study, combining both quantitative with qualitative research methods, possibly compensated for this regret.