Core Essence Research Articles

Development of China's health care system in the time of COVID‐19: Challenges, opportunities, and call for actions

Development of China's health care system in the time of COVID‐19: Challenges, opportunities, and call for actions

An Analyze of the Core Thoughts of Nagarjuna’s Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way

Mûlamadhyamakakârikâ. ( 中 論 Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way) written by Nagarjuna is the most fundamental classic work of the Madhyamaka School, and it is also the core essence of the teachings of the Middle Way idea. Nagarjuna used a distinctive dialectical methodology in Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way to break away from other sects thoughts and vigorously promote the meaning of “Emptiness” of Mahayana Buddhism. The method of dialectics in Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way is not negated simply for negation. However, the purpose of this negation is to express affirmation instead. By denying the contradiction in the other different theories, the objective of affirming the correctness of the his own theory is achieved. Furthermore, the meaning of “Emptiness” expressed by Nagarjuna is not the void of nothingness, but the standpoint of the middle way, emphasizing the emptiness of nature while not denying the absence of existence. Hence, he criticized all thoughts that did not conform to the true meaning of the middle way, and expounded that the true nature of reality was emptiness. This paper will deconstruct the main idea of Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way from the three aspects of the emptiness of nature, eight negations of the middle way, and the conventional truth and the ultimate truth to further explore the meaning of Nagarjuna’s middle way.

Comparative Analysis of Fresh Food E-Commerce Business Models under " New Retail " —— Taking Pupu Supermarket and Hema Fresh as Examples

<p>With the continuous development of network marketing, the combination of online and offline mode emerges as the times require. On this basis, compare and analyze the business models of Pupu Supermarket and Hema Xiansheng, using the theoretical framework of 3W2H , analyze and compare around five basic elements, describe the status quo of business models under different e-commerce models, and analyze their core essence. Extract and summarize its successful model, and make suggestions for fresh food e-commerce, and continuously improve the business model of fresh food e-commerce.</p>

Traditional Sports from a Harmonious Perspective

Traditional sports is an indispensable part of the Chinese excellent history and culture. Harmonious development is the core essence of Chinese culture. Harmony promotes the inheritance and development of the Xizang traditional sports, builds a harmonious Xizang society, and smoothly realizes the Chinese Dream.

Distilling the comparative essence of teachers’ centres in England and Spain 1960-1990: past perspectives and current potential for teacher professional development?

ABSTRACT This paper seeks to examine a specific development in the history of teacher education to explore whether it might illuminate and inform contemporary debate. It offers a historical/comparative analysis of the contribution of teachers’ centres to the professional development of teachers in England and Spain during the late 1960s to the early 1990s. In looking back to the impact that teachers’ centres had on teachers in these very different social and political contexts, the paper examines whether, in spite of being adopted and adapted differently in the English and Spanish contexts, there was a fundamental essence of the teachers’ centre model that could transcend both time and space. Thus, although essentially historical in method and focus, the paper will problematise just how far new forms of teacher professional development have lessons to learn from older, now largely overlooked forms, as found in the practice of the teachers’ centres, with their focus on grassroots teacher autonomy and collaboration. The paper is in four parts: setting the scene and methodology; outlining the rise and fall of teachers’ centres in England and Spain; identifying the core essence of the teachers’ centre model; and finally exploring potential implications for current policy and practice.

Thesen und Fragen zur Historizität und Aktualität der Ideologiekritik

Abstract The essay ties in with current attempts at systematic reconstruction and reappropriation of the method of ideology critique. It argues that such attempts should not be satisfied with the reconstruction of an alleged core or basic essence, but should additionally address both the reasons for the historical decline of ideology critique and the new phenomena that lead to tensions with classical approaches to it.

The National Character of Higher Education Development

National character is the most distinctive character of Marxism. Marxist theory is the fundamental guiding ideology of China’s construction and development. The development of all aspects of China embodies the core essence of Marxism. A flourishing education prospers the country, while good education makes a country stronger. Higher education is an important symbol of a country’s development level and potential. Education depends on people, and at the same time, it is for the people. The national character of higher education development is mainly reflected in three aspects: education fairness, people-oriented, and serving the people. At present, higher education is still facing challenges, such as unfair education and the neglect of human needs. How to promote the development of higher education is worth pondering about, especially when it involves public opinion. Only by achieving educational equality, putting people first, teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, carrying out scientific evaluation, and promoting talent feedback can higher education bring more satisfaction to the people.

Utilizing modern tissue typing technologies to promote precision kidney transplantation

Improving quality is the primary goal of the kidney transplantation community in China. Promoting new technologies for tissue typing, including adopting high-resolution human leucocyte antigen (HLA) typing methods to ensure the integrity and uniqueness of the donor and recipient HLA genotype, combining modified cytological method and purified single antigen technology to improve the accuracy of HLA antibody detection, etc., can assess the donor-recipient's mismatch load and the immune risk of recipients more precisely, so as to guide the scientific allocation of organs and individualized immunosuppressive regime, which can contribute to the long-term survival of recipients. This is the embodiment of the core essence of"precision medicine"in the field of kidney transplantation.

Legal and institutional aspects that determine the dialog between public authorities and civil society organizations in the Republic of Moldova

CSOs are a key component of an open and democratic society as they play a key role in the strengthening of democracy and the rule of law, their dialogue with the public authorities being a precondition for this. By analyzing the development of dialogue between Moldovan CSOs and Central and Local Public authorities (CPA / LPA), I found that PA are not yet fully aware of the value of the dialogue, which is sporadic and guided by certain interests, that do not always coincide with the public interest. The key objective pursued by this research was to review the environment underlying activity and collaboration of the civil society from the standpoint of influence exerted by the internal and external factors that determine the core essence of the social environment, while paving and setting conditions for carrying out activities and collaboration between the civil society and public authorities. The paper aims to prove that more communication and collaboration between public authorities and civil society organizations, will likely result in a more inclusive, qualitative and focused act of governance. The author analyses and presents the existing decision-making systems and its consultation mechanisms with the civil society organizations in the Republic of Moldova, the existing opportunities for CSO’s involvement in the public policy making process and the actual practices. A number of research methods were used in the study, aimed at highlighting the particularities of the dialogue and cooperation between the public authorities (PA) and the CSOs, as part of the act of governance, studying the development over time and the influence of various social, economic and political factors on these processes.

THE TRANSATLANTIC ORIENTATION OF THE GERMAN FOREIGN POLICY AFTER TRUMP

The article addresses the main political aspects of German–American relations after the election of J. Biden for US presidency. It stresses the crucial topics of the transatlantic agenda of both the government of Angela Merkel and the new coalition headed by Olaf Scholz, assuming the willingness of all parties to restore the transatlantic partnership damaged by the previous US Trump administration. The author analyses the core essence of the bilateral agreements, taken in July 2021 in Washington regarding the primacy of a value-based foreign policy and the conditions for launching the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. The article reflects the position of the new German government after the Bundestag election and pays a special attention to the contacts of both governments with regard to the Ukrainian «crisis» in January-February 2022.

‘Re-existence’ of women Cambodian religious leaders: decolonial possibilities using insights from feminist relational theory and postsecular feminism

ABSTRACT Feminist relational theory can provide a theoretical framework for understanding and affirming the agency of women Cambodian religious leaders; an agency that can be overlooked if one assumes it comes from an individual whose core essence can be found apart from her relationships. In this paper, I draw on ethnographic fieldwork to spotlight the lives and values of two Cambodian women. These women are recognized as acting subjects in their communities due to their multiple relationships on interpersonal, institutional, and structural levels. Through analysis of participant observations and interviews with these women, I show the power of employing feminist relational theory’s explanation of the agential subject while affirming the possibility of non-oppositional agency. The move to the latter is characteristic of postsecular feminist scholarship, which decouples resistance from agency. Using these two theoretical lenses to analyze Cambodian women’s experience reveals how these women are flourishing apart from hegemonic structures and logics. This flourishing has been named ‘re-existence’ in decolonial thought, and it might also be thought of as a postsecular analogue to a secular resistance.

Context and Continuity in Histories of Antisemitism

Context and Continuity in Histories of Antisemitism Paul Hanebrink (bio) Kalman weiser begins his introduction to the excellent key concepts in the Study of Antisemitism with a set of reflections that will ring true to anyone who teaches about antisemitism at an academic institution. He and his fellow editors work in different countries: two (Weiser and Sol Goldberg) in Canada; the third (Scott Ury) in Israel. Weiser writes that the two Canada-based scholars teach students who generally know little of Jewish history apart from the Holocaust, see Jews primarily as a religious minority that is now well-integrated into Canada's (white) majority culture, and think of antisemitism as a marginal relic hardly comparable with more urgent forms of racial injustice. By contrast, the Israel-based editor teaches many students who are convinced that antisemitism is an eternal hatred that has shaped Jewish life everywhere from antiquity to the present, who see in Zionism and the Israeli state the only historically effective guarantee of Jewish security, and who are dismissive of Palestinian classmates who see that history very differently. Colleagues at many universities in the United States will recognize both of these perspectives among their own students. Too often, antisemitism is described either as a form of racism that is largely over or as an enduring evil that is always with us. How can scholars and teachers of antisemitism push back against such widespread (and politically explosive) cliches? Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism is meant to be a resource and a tool for instructors and researchers around the world who face this very dilemma. Its greatest innovation is in its design. Instead of producing a more usual historical survey of antisemitism through the ages, the editors have solicited a rich and diverse collection of short essays from leading scholars in the field about various concepts associated with the study of antisemitism. Topics range from anti-Judaism to emancipation; from conspiracy theories to nationalism; and from Jewish self-hatred to philosemitism. In each case, the authors were allowed to approach their chosen topic as they saw fit. Some are genealogical studies that show why the concept was created and what the [End Page 182] consequences of its use have been. Others survey the intellectual history of writing and thinking about the concept in order to highlight alternative ways of seeing it. Still others are built around one or more case studies, in order to illuminate the differences and commonalities between several manifestations of the concept or to focus on one illustrative instance that highlights its general discursive features. Weiser explains the philosophy behind the volume's design in the introduction. Invoking Salo Baron's famous admonition against the "lachrymose narrative of Jewish history," he writes trenchantly about the pitfalls of studying antisemitism chronologically as a force that retains a core essence of Jew hatred even as it mutates from one era to another. However carefully done, this approach inevitably casts Jews as perennial victims of a persecuting society, overlooks more complicated forms of social interaction with non-Jews that shaped the reality of Jewish life in certain contexts, flattens distinctions between different times and places, and generates a narrative that inevitably ends with Auschwitz and a warning to avoid its repetition. The result is a distorted historical record that obscures other ways of imagining relations between Jews and non-Jews historically, all at a significant political cost. Constructing the volume as a collection of essays about concepts has two principal advantages. First, it highlights the myriad ways that anti-Jewish stereotypes inform and interact with other social and cultural forces at a given historical conjuncture. Moving from one essay to the next helps us to see that anti-Jewish thought is not a pre-set "mask" laid over a nearly-infinite variety of ideas, concepts or social antagonisms, as David Nirenberg once proposed, but rather a protean element reconstituted and refashioned again and again as it becomes a part of the social and cultural relations of a specific time and place.1 Scott Ury emphasizes the dialectical relationship between antisemitism and Zionism in his essay on the writings of key Zionist intellectuals. Daniel Schwartz examines the complex...

Understanding, Thinking and Exploring: Cultural Teaching of Vocabularies under the New English Curriculum Standard

English vocabulary plays an important role in English language learning, and the methods of vocabulary acquisition also have a profound impact on its effect. Under the guidance of the New Curriculum Standard, the cultivation of cultural awareness is also an important part of the core literacy of English subjects, so it will be an inevitable trend of English vocabulary learning to apply the study of cultural awareness to vocabulary acquisition. In actual vocabulary teaching, to truly grasp the core essence of cultural awareness, teachers should recognize the shortcomings of cultural teaching and vocabulary teaching, and under the guidance of the core literacy of English subjects, combine vocabulary teaching with the transmission of cultural knowledge, aiming at exploring the English cultural connotation behind vocabulary, promoting the effective implementation of vocabulary and cultural teaching, and providing some reference suggestions for vocabulary cultural teaching.

قاعدة "تصرف الإمام في الرعية منوط بالمصلحة" وتطبيقها في نازلة كوفيد-19

Among the factors which play a great effect in causing the change in standard Islamic rulings is the occurance of a sudden widely spread catastrophe or pandemic which has resulted in large numbers of fatalities globally. In our current time, the Covid-19 has widely spread and adversely affected all aspects of daily life. In the time of pandemic or calamity, in general, the ruling government holds a great and heavy responsibilty in learning the Islamic ruling concerning the arising problems and thus taking the best decisions and measure in order to ease public affairs and put them in good order according to the Maqāṣid of Syarī‘ah (Objectives of Syarī ‘ah) in providing benefits for the citizens and safeguard them from harm. This goal is the core essence and ultimate purpose of governance in Islam. This study aims to elucidate the importance of the Legal Maxim: “Leader’s Actions Towards The People Are Based On Maṣlaḥah (Benefit)” in the light of collective ijtihād, knowledge and responsibilities according to Islamic rulings and Syarī‘ah governance to preserve the five kulliyyāt of Islamic Syarī‘ah (The Five General Objective of Syarī‘ah Islāmiyyah) in every aspect of both religious and worldly affairs. This study follows the descriptive and analytical methodologies in explaining the legal maxim from the view of Islamic Science tradition and, applied methodology in applying the legal maxim in dealing with the current Covid-19 pandemic and critical methodology in criticising some fatwa (legal ruling issued by Islamic scholars and authorities) in approaching and dealing with numerous issues related to this pandemic. Amongst the most important findings of this study is the important role of collective ijtihād which gather the government leaders, experts from every field, religious scholars and authorities to take any beneficial and unharmful decision based on the true methodology of Islamic teachings. This kind of ijtihād is extremely important to assure that every action done in facing this pandemic is in accordance with Allah’s law, therefore, in obtaining salvation in this worldly life and hereafter.

Organizational Strategic Management Responses and Consequences During Covid-19 Era

One consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic is that companies based on conventional (linear) value creation logic and traditional management solutions, even agricultural enterprises, are forced to make such strategic decisions and apply such strategic planning techniques which have not characterised them so far. My basic assumption is that the circumstances have been triggered and accelerated the linear–nonlinear transformation at companies. In this sense, during the value creation of linear organisations, special sets of functions emerge that are nonlinear in their nature. These include the development of adaptation skills, activities focusing on innovation, creativity management, rethinking of HRM, coordinating digital transformation, and all the skills which are needed to successfully respond to an increasingly unpredictable (complex) operating environment. The aim of the paper is to take a snapshot of the current literature dealing with strategic management responses on the consequences of pandemic and – in the same time – categorize the main suggestions, conclusions of the selected papers and documents in line with the steps of the strategic management process. In addition, I want to point out the core essence of the nonlinear management approach reflecting on the content of the literature. Finally, I analyzed the managerial responses of the Hungarian Blue Chip companies in line with the pandemic. The literature suggests a really wide range of solutions to handle the current situation affecting almost all of the most relevant strategy-making areas. The results show that the linear–nonlinear transformation has started in Hungary as well, but in many cases it is still in its infancy.

Legal and institutional aspects that determine the dialog between public authorities and civil society organizations in the Republic of Moldova (part I)

CSOs are a key component of an open and democratic society as they play a key role in the strengthening of democracy and the rule of law, their dialogue with the public authorities being a precondition for this. By analyzing the development of dialogue between Moldovan CSOs and Central and Local Public authorities (CPA / LPA), I found that PA are not yet fully aware of the value of the dialogue, which is sporadic and guided by certain interests, that do not always coincide with the public interest. The key objective pursued by this research was to review the environment underlying activity and collaboration of the civil society from the standpoint of influence exerted by the internal and external factors that determine the core essence of the social environment, while paving and setting conditions for carrying out activities and collaboration between the civil society and public authorities. The paper aims to prove that more communication and collaboration between public authorities and civil society organizations, will likely result in a more inclusive, qualitative and focused act of governance. The author analyses and presents the existing decision-making systems and its consultation mechanisms with the civil society organizations in the Republic of Moldova, the existing opportunities for CSO’s involvement in the public policy making process and the actual practices. A number of research methods were used in the study, aimed at highlighting the particularities of the dialogue and cooperation between the public authorities (PA) and the CSOs, as part of the act of governance, studying the development over time and the influence of various social, economic and political factors on these processes. Thus, the historical analysis method to research the origin and evolution of the legal framework that regulates the dialogue and cooperation between PA and the CSOs was applied. It included analysis of the relevant laws, regulations and policies, together with existing reports and studies on the subject of research, in the Republic of Moldova. I found that public authorities are not yet fully aware of the value of the dialogue and the political factor is also of great influence, as in recent years there has been an increasing pressure on the civil society. The paper reflects the current situation in Moldova, which can be summarized as follows: a) there are no permanent mechanisms or platforms for cooperation and consultation, open to all. Civil society participation is limited to a small number of CSOs, and there are no incentives for the growth of CSOs. b) LPAs, compared to CPAs, enjoy a much higher level of ,,trust” from the society/community, but they rarely have the resources and skills to conduct a constructive dialogue with CSOs; c) there is a proven reluctance of the LPA/CPA to deepen the dialogue and cooperation with the civil society; d) The culture of participation is very weak as there is no perception that participation is an instrument of change. A number of recommendations in order to address the identified problems are listed.

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Coordinated development mechanism and path of agricultural logistics ecosystem based on big data analysis and IoT assistance

This article has been retracted from publication in the Taylor & Francis journal, Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Section B — Soil & Plant Science. Following publication, concerns were raised by multiple third-parties around the content of the special issue and the decision-making process. Following an investigation by the Taylor & Francis Publishing Ethics & Integrity team in full cooperation with the Editor-in-Chief, it was confirmed that this article included in Special Issue titled “ Envisage Computer Modelling and Statistics for Agriculture”, guest edited by Gunasekaran Manogaran was not peer-reviewed appropriately, in line with the Journal's peer review standards and policy. As the stringency of the peer review process is core to the integrity of the publication process, the Editor and Publisher have decided to retract all of the articles within the above-named Special Issue. The journal has not confirmed if the authors were aware of this compromised peer review process. The journal is committed to correcting the scientific record and will fully cooperate with any institutional investigations into this matter. The authors have been informed of this decision. We have been informed in our decision-making by our policy on publishing ethics and integrity and the COPE guidelines.

Research on the Innovative Path of Strengthening the Study and Education of Party History in Colleges and Universities in the New Era

To solidly carry out the study and education of party history is to educate, guide and encourage party members to inherit the revolutionary tradition, inherit the red gene, and carry forward the revolutionary spirit, so as to always maintain the upward spirit of hard struggle, and show new achievements in the new journey towards the goal of the second century. Colleges and universities are the cradle of talent training and socialist successors. The foundation of standing is to implement the fundamental task of building morality and cultivating people, and the implementation of the fundamental task of building morality and cultivating people is inseparable from educating people with the history of the party. Therefore, in the process of party history learning and education, colleges and universities should organically combine the development of party history learning and education with the implementation of building morality and cultivating people, focus on the spiritual essence and core essence of party history learning and education, and innovate the new path of party history learning and education with the times, in order to promote the depth and focus of party history learning and education, and improve the effect of party history education.

Pharmacy in the future: A consumer perspective

Pharmacy in the future: A consumer perspective

Promoting Green Development in China's New Development Stage Through Tax Reform

Green growth is not only an important way to build ecological civilization and promote economic transformation, but also the core essence of ensuring high-quality economic development in the new development stage. Optimization of tax system design is a key measure to release institutional dividend to promote green development. From the perspective of tax reform, this paper analyzes the current situation and the challenges of tax greening in China in recent years, and puts forward general thoughts and suggestions on how to promote green development at the new stage so as to create a two-wheel drive mechanism of carbon tax and environmental protection tax, lead the structural reform of China’s tax system, continuously improve tax regulation, and construct a green tax system with multiple taxes and means to cooperate with each other and to regulate it comprehensively and effectively.