The generalization of digital environments profoundly transforms the cognitive, emotional and social conditions of communication. Using the framework of communications psychology, this article analyzes how platforms, interfaces and algorithms reconfigure attention, emotion, decisions and social relationships. It shows that contemporary communication is part of hybrid human-technical systems, where digital environments act as active architectures guiding cognition, amplifying affects and structur...

Psychology 

Electrostatic equations in 3 dimensions were set up for the interaction between 2 arrays of neutral atoms. The residual force at small distance from gold neutral atoms was found not negligible. Three atom-thick structures were used: atom, plate and wire. Two structures were set aligned in front of each other, one was considered fix (not moving) and the other was free to move under the action of the force between them. The calculations showed evidence of attraction and repulsion depending on the ...

Applied Physics 

In the field of cross-cultural translation, pragmatic presupposition plays a vital role in discourse comprehension and conversational interaction. As a classic piece in Pu Songling’s Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, The Lo-ch’a Country and the Sea-market contains a wealth of traditional Chinese myths, social systems, and folk culture. Taking Herbert A. Giles’ English translation of The Lo-ch’a Country and the Sea-market ...

Linguistics  Culture 

The assessment of solar energy potential in the Sahel region, particularly in Mali, has made significant progress due to various geographic, environmental, and socioeconomic factors. This study focuses on assessing the solar potential of buildings in rural areas of Mali, specifically excluding grid-connected electrification systems. It highlights the transition from initial feasibility studies to comprehensive assessments that take into account the lack of electrification services and the region...

Electric Engineering 

This paper demonstrates a teaching practice case of integrating the Production-Oriented Approach (POA) with Project-Based Learning (PBL) in college English instruction at an application-oriented university, which can be explicitly illustrated through a six-period teaching unit themed “To Be a Citizen”. This study shows how POA’s “motivating-enabling-assessing” framework can give structured pedagogical support inside PBL’s project-driven learning cycle. The int...

Pedagogy 

Ethical leadership is one of the necessary ingredients of good governance, particularly in public institutions where leaders exercise authority over public resources and decision-making. Despite efforts to improve governance, frameworks, and structures, public leaders’ ethical disposition continues to hamper accountability, public trust, and institutional performance in Tanzania. This study rethinks ethical leadership in relation to good governance by examining the implementation of ethica...

Politics  Public Policy 

The Reading and Thinking section of senior high school English textbooks is where the curriculum’s activity-based approach is expected to be realized most fully, yet its potential is often constrained by a single ordinary decision: what to ask. This paper proposes a three-layer framework and six teaching strategies for designing question chains in such lessons with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). The framework aligns question functions with the curriculum’s progression fr...

Linguistics  Language Education 

Cutting of the Jiaxing Canon (Jiaxing zang) began in the seventeenth year of the Wanli reign (1589) and continued for more than two centuries. Fascicles circulated as they were carved, and neither a fixed recension nor a unified catalogue was ever produced. Drawing on eleven terminal colophons in which all five native-place elements are recorded, this article examines the canon’s productive organization through the drainage-network morphology of Horton, Strahler, and Shreve and the ...

Culture 

Returned overseas scholars in marine-focused universities constitute a high-end talent group underpinning marine scientific and technological innovation and serving the strategy of building a powerful maritime nation, and stand as key targets of united front work in universities in the new era. Current united front work targeting returned scholars in marine-focused universities is confronted with practical challenges including vague profiling of talent pools, homogenized ideological guidance, in...

Sociology 

Introduction: Globally, unmet need for family planning among adolescents contributes to unintended pregnancies and related health and social consequences such as unsafe abortions. Parents and guardians can influence adolescents’ access to and use of family planning services. This study explored parents and guardian perceptions of adolescents’ utilisation of family planning services in Chawama, Lusaka District. Methods: This qualitative exploratory study included 20 purp...

Sociology