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International Advances in Business Discourse Research (2013-2022): A CiteSpace-based Investigation and Analysis of WOS

This paper provides a quantitative and qualitative visual investigation and analysis of the advances in international research on business discourse over the last decade via CiteSpace. Primary findings are: 1) Based on Publication Trend, business discourse research has undergone an upward tendency with few fluctuations; 2) Regarding Keyword Clustering, heated emphasis is laid on research areas encompassing different business scenarios, disciplinary fields (e.g., pedagogy, sociology), and information technological methods (e.g., natural language processing) due to the globalization and digitalization of business activities; 3) Grounding Disciplinary Distribution and Co-occurrence, the main theoretical perspectives in business discourse research comprise linguistics, the interdisciplinary orientation of management and economics, and other applications and extensive research; 4) Topics in Keyword Timeline and Keyword Burst emerge (e.g., social media, systems, and impact). Visualization of business discourse research is expected to offer implications and insights for future research and business practices.

工业系统生态化研究的国际态势及其启示 International Research Advance of Industrial System Ecologization and Its Reflection

根据工业既是资源配置器，又是资源消耗和污染物产生的控制体这一特征，在过程上促进从“资源–产品–废弃物”的开环流程到“资源–产品–资源”的闭环流程的转换，对产业共生关系和环境协调，促进工业系统的可持续发展具有重要意义。针对工业活动对自然生态系统的影响，20世纪80年代末逐步形成了工业生态学(IE)的思想，20世纪90年代以来，国际学术界对工业系统降低环境影响、提高生态化水平的调控研究不断拓展，文章从工业生态学理论和应用工具、工业系统生态效率、工业系统能值、工业系统风险和脆弱性、工业系统生态模拟、工业系统绿色化和持续性管理等6个方面的研究进展进行了梳理和总结，在此背景下，获得了工业系统生态化研究的战略视野由“调整”转向“适应”、工业系统生态化研究的学科基础由“单一”转向“综合”的重要启示。In line with the feature of industry’s configurator of resource, as well as controller of pollutants discharge, it is of significant importance to shift from an open loop system of “resource-product-waste” to a closed loop system of “resource-product-waste”, especially in coordination between industrial symbiosis and the environment, and in sustainability of industrial system. Based on the impact of industrial activities on natural ecosystem, the idea of industrial ecology has formed gradually since 1980s; therefore, the research of industrial system-based ecology is expanding continuously in international academic society. This paper summarizes the international research advances and orientations in six aspects, including industrial ecology and practical tools, ecological efficiency of industrial system, emergy analysis of industrial system, risk and vulnerability of industrial system, ecological stimulation of industrial system, cleaning and sustainability of industrial system. And author provides twofold of research reflections, which are strategically shifting from “adjustment” to “adaptation” of industrial system in research perspective, shifting from “simplicity” to “integrity” in discipline base.

On Land Surface Processes and Its Experimental Study in Chinese Loess Plateau

In this paper,international research advances in land surface processes and its experimental study are summed up,the particularities and important meanings of land surface processes in China's loess plateau are analyzed,some key scientific problems on the experimental study of land surface processes in China's loess plateau are discussed.Finally,some preliminary ideas,by which the experimental study of land surface processes in China's loess plateau will be implemented in future,are presented.

Pesticide Chemistry: Advances in International Research, Development, and Legislation

Pesticide Chemistry: Advances in International Research, Development, and Legislation

It's Important, but Don't Bank on Exercise Alone to Prevent Osteoporosis, Experts Say

ALTHOUGH exercise is essential for building and maintaining sound bones, it is not a panacea for preventing osteoporosis, as portrayed by some reports in the lay news media, says Barbara L. Drinkwater, PhD, a research physiologist at Pacific Medical Center, Seattle, Wash. Relying on exercise instead of estrogen replacement therapy for postmenopausal women, who are at risk for developing osteoporosis, "is like playing Russian roulette with their bones," she warned at the Second International Research Advances in Osteoporosis Conference, in Arlington, Va. While ample evidence exists that long periods of immobility can lead to serious bone loss (irreversible bone loss also occurs during extended periods of weightlessness and is a serious problem confronting American and Soviet manned space programs), there is no evidence that intensive exercise will prevent the rapid bone loss many women experience during the first decade following menopause, Drinkwater says. <h3>Exercise and Estrogen?</h3> "If you look at