In the long history of China, the unification of characters by Qin Dynasty is an important milestone. Through a series of measures, Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of Qin Dynasty, successfully unified the writing style and pronunciation of Chinese characters. The unification of characters by Qin Dynasty not only had a profound impact on the ancient Chinese character culture, but also played a positive role in promoting the development of characters and cultural exchanges in later generations.

Culture 

In my work, I attempted to highlight how the Buddhist value of Karuna is needed for true development. I was able to do this through a literature review of the Buddhist concept of Karuna and how it influences current movements within Buddhist social engagements. I concluded that Buddhist social participation, rooted in Karuna, truly addresses the needs of people and that this is needed for true development. To arrive at this conclusion, I first examined the definition o...

Sociology  Philosophy 

This has led to the rise of a paradigm shift in machine learning called federated learning (FL) that allows for decentralized model training over distributed data sources. With FL, devices, servers, or edges train the model together without sharing their privacy-sensitive data, effectively addressing the arising data privacy regulation, data residency, and data silos types of issues, among many others. The FL ecosystem has also been through a series of significant developments, leading to the em...

Information Management  Machine Learning 

Background: Research on sexuality and HIV prevention among adolescents and young adults (AYA) men are limited despite recent progress in HIV prevention and the low generalized HIV levels in Ghana. Objectives: To assess the prevalence of HIV PrEP Knowledge, PrEP Acceptability, HIV Testing, and to identify multi-dimensional factors predicting the knowledge and acceptability of PrEP coupled with HIV testing engagement among adolescents and young adult (AYA) males a...

HIV  Infectious Diseases 

This paper designs an intelligent greenhouse monitoring system to achieve the purpose of intelligent and precise acquisition, storage, and transmission of various data. The main control chip of the system is the STM32F103C8T6 minimum system board, which uses soil moisture sensors, photoresistors, temperature and humidity sensors, raindrop sensors, CO₂ sensors, and other sensors to collect data. An OLED display shows the monitored data on site, and an ESP8266 module transmits the data ...

Automata 

This paper investigates the simulation technology of a virtual elevator system that is close to reality. By building a virtual HMI elevator model and completing the modular design according to the elevator control functions, the software design of the elevator system is completed using TIA Portal V17 software, and functional testing is carried out to prove the feasibility of the virtual elevator test system. The system uses the Siemens S7-1200 PLC as the control core, employs virtual HMI buttons...

Automata 

Kenyans on Kenyans on 𝕏 function as a community of language users where language is not just a tool of communication, but an instrument for achieving social goals where they use language to navigate social interactions, have fun, critique leaders and assert their social identities. This paper examines the use of mock politeness as a communicative strategy by Kenyans on 𝕏. With a focus on their language, the study discusses how mock politeness helps Kenyans on 𝕏 discuss va...

Linguistics 

The study examined the professional identity level of kindergarten teachers and the challenges affecting their identity formation in the Central Region in Ghana. The concurrent mixed method design using identical samples for both quantitative and qualitative data was used. The study comprised all Kindergarten teachers in the municipality. The census sampling procedure was thus employed in selecting 182 kindergarten teachers for the study. A questionnaire with some open-ended items was used to ga...

Educational Technology 

Sexual harassment in the workplace is still omnipresent in the workplace in Canada. It is even more ubiquitous in male-dominated industries, and women holding these “masculine” positions are the principal victims. Sexual harassment can take many forms, such as physical, verbal, or even virtual. Many Canadian women working in male-dominated industries are victims of this type of harassment in the workplace, which causes them intense stress and substantial emotional distress. Whether it’s in the C...

Sociology  Psychology  Women’s Health 

Corporate dividend policy is one of the most challenging issues in the corporate finance field. The decision of dividend policy is considered an important managerial decision as it could have a serious impact on firm performance and firm value. Many researchers have investigated the association between dividend policy and firm performance in different countries and contexts. Different theories and a large body of theoretical and empirical literature have addressed the relationship between divide...

Finance