Key Way Research Articles

Can Top Management Teams' Academic Experience Promote Green Innovation Output: Evidence from Chinese Enterprises

Under the background of increasingly severe environmental problems, green innovation has become a key way to realize coordinated development of economy and environment. Therefore, it is of great significance to explore the antecedent factors of green innovation. Based on the upper-echelon theory, this study explores the influence of the academic background of top management teams (TMT) on firm's green innovation outcomes and firm performance in Chinese listed companies. This study also discusses three boundary conditions for TMT's academic experience to promote firm's green innovation. The results show that TMT's academic experience promotes green innovation output. Moreover, TMT's academic experience do not have a uniform effect: strict environmental regulation strengthens the relationship between TMT's academic experience and green innovation output, while political connection and innovation input negatively moderate this relationship. Furthermore, green innovation output does not result in better economic benefits for enterprises with top executives who have academic experience, and this condition is observed more in state-owned enterprises. This study reveals the motivation of green innovation and provides a useful reference for enterprises to implement green innovation strategy more effectively.

Influencing Factors of Student Satisfaction With the Teaching Quality of Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship Course Under the Background of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Innovation and entrepreneurship education is a key way to cultivate applied talents in colleges and universities. This article aimed to optimize the teaching quality of the Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship courses by constructing a conceptual model of “teaching quality–student satisfaction.”Teaching quality is divided into four indicator elements, teaching content, teaching methods, teaching conditions, and teaching management. A student satisfaction questionnaire was designed to measure the teaching quality of a Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship course. The reliability and validity of survey data from Linyi University were analyzed using SPSS.20 software. Through correlation and multiple regression analysis, it can be seen that the teaching content, teaching methods, teaching conditions and teaching management have a significant positive correlation with the teaching quality of the Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship course, which is an important factor affecting student’s satisfaction, and there is a certain gap between the expectation of teaching quality and student’s satisfaction. On this basis, suggestions are put forward to improve student satisfaction with the teaching quality of Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship courses, and to provide empirical evidence and recommendations for continuously improving the teaching quality of Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship courses, thereby improving college students’ employment and entrepreneurship ability.

How Does the Stability of Land Management Right (SLMR) Affect Family Farms’ Cultivated Land Protection and Quality Improvement Behavior (CLPQIB) in China?

Protecting and improving cultivated land quality is a key way to the realization of agricultural modernization. The Chinese government advocates agricultural producers to implement cultivated land protection and quality improvement behavior (CLPQIB). However, the cultivated land management rights of family farms are not so stable. In order to study how stability of land management rights (SLMR) affects family farms’ CLQPIB, promoting family farms in adopting technologies to protect cultivated land, this study investigated 117 family farms in Anhui and Hubei provinces by stratified sampling and analyzed data through the logistic regression model and marginal effects model. The results showed that transferred land ratio, contract types, and contract duration affected family farms’ CLPQIB significantly. The probability of family farms applying organic fertilizer decreased by 0.9% for every 1% increase of the transferred land ratio. Family farms’ rented land through formal contracts have a 21.4% higher probability of adopting planting–breeding technology than family farms’ rented land through informal contracts. For every additional year of the rental contract duration, the possibility for family farms to replace chemical fertilizer with organic fertilizer, pesticides reduction, and integrated planting-breeding increase by 2.1%, 2.2%, and 1.3%, respectively. The results of this study can guide policy makers with further regulating land transfer behavior, guide family farms with signing formal lease contracts, and extending the duration of lease contracts, improving the cultivated land protection behavior of family farms.

Influence of School Financial Requirements on Children Enrolment Rate of Pre-Primary Schools in Rwanda

The challenge faced by the government of Rwanda is to ensure that children from poor households are not excluded from early childhood education and care institutions due to failure to contribute for school financial requirements. One key way of responding to this challenge is by obtaining accurate data on parents’ contributions in preprimary schools. The purpose of this paper therefore, was to identify the influence of school financial requirements on enrolment rate of preprimary schools in Rwamagana District in Rwanda. The research design was descriptive and multiple regression. Data collection tools were questionnaires. The target population was 338 including 28 preprimary school staff and 310 parents of 3-6 year olds in Musha Sector of Rwamagana district. From this population, simple random sampling and convenient sampling techniques were used to get 181 respondents. The study results revealed that in pre-primary schools of Rwamagana District, parents spend on average 66,626Frw annually per child which is about 60$. The major costs and school requirements are teacher salary, school uniform, school materials and school feeding program. The less common school requirements are child transport, school construction, school parties and salaries for support staff. The study found that children enrolled in pre-primary classrooms were slightly more than enough with a 3.53 point scale mean, but the majority of children aged 3-6 years old were already out of schools with a 4.10 point scale mean. This study recommended there should be the promotion of pre-primary education cost sharing between the government and the parents and to abolish unnecessary financial requirements in pre-primary schools and also promote home based care centers. Parents should continue playing an active role in terms of management and funding of pre-primary schools. The government of Rwanda is recommended to increase its budget for pre-primary education funding especially in the rural districts because many poor households failed to contribute to teacher salaries and school construction. Keywords: School financial requirement, Child, enrolment rate and Pre-primary schools

Analysis of the Effect of Water Sector Reforms on Governance in Athi Water Services Board, Kenya

The challenge faced by the government of Rwanda is to ensure that children from poor households are not excluded from early childhood education and care institutions due to failure to contribute for school financial requirements. One key way of responding to this challenge is by obtaining accurate data on parents’ contributions in preprimary schools. The purpose of this paper therefore, was to identify the influence of school financial requirements on enrolment rate of preprimary schools in Rwamagana District in Rwanda. The research design was descriptive and multiple regression. Data collection tools were questionnaires. The target population was 338 including 28 preprimary school staff and 310 parents of 3-6 year olds in Musha Sector of Rwamagana district. From this population, simple random sampling and convenient sampling techniques were used to get 181 respondents. The study results revealed that in pre-primary schools of Rwamagana District, parents spend on average 66,626Frw annually per child which is about 60$. The major costs and school requirements are teacher salary, school uniform, school materials and school feeding program. The less common school requirements are child transport, school construction, school parties and salaries for support staff. The study found that children enrolled in pre-primary classrooms were slightly more than enough with a 3.53 point scale mean, but the majority of children aged 3-6 years old were already out of schools with a 4.10 point scale mean. This study recommended there should be the promotion of pre-primary education cost sharing between the government and the parents and to abolish unnecessary financial requirements in pre-primary schools and also promote home based care centers. Parents should continue playing an active role in terms of management and funding of pre-primary schools. The government of Rwanda is recommended to increase its budget for pre-primary education funding especially in the rural districts because many poor households failed to contribute to teacher salaries and school construction. Keywords: School financial requirement, Child, enrolment rate and Pre-primary schools

The temporary knowledge workers’ autonomous motivation: Relationship-oriented human resource management construction and its mechanism

<p id="p00005">The rapidly changing technology environment makes “talent sharing” as a key way to acquire the required skilled and knowledge workers for organizations. Research on human resources management in sharing economy is an emerging field. Enterprises are facing great challenges for management on temporary knowledge workers. Due to the externality of identity and the weak relationship base with co-workers, the basic needs of competence and relatedness of temporary knowledge worker' are hindered, resulting in insufficient autonomous motivation, which in turn affect performance. Specifically, the challenges faced by temporary knowledge workers management are: First, temporary knowledge workers lack relationships basis with other team members due to the externality of identities, which in turn limits their professional influence, then their autonomous motivation are insufficient and in the results of low quality cooperation; Second, the relatedness needs of employees are difficult to satisfy due to the periphery identity (compared to the core employees of the organization), which hinders the formation of autonomous motivation, and then affects the workplace experience and cooperation performance. These two major challenges focus on how to deal with the insufficient autonomous motivation of temporary knowledge workers. <p id="p00005">In the literatures, professional influence of contract experts (DiBenigno, <xref xml:base="bibr" rid="b23">2020</xref>) and the establishment of workplace identity of non-core employees (Bolinger et al., <xref xml:base="bibr" rid="b13">2018</xref>) both depend on the workplace relationship building. Therefore, this paper from the perspective of motivation management, explores human resource management practices and its role in the mechanisms for temporary knowledge workers combined with relational coordination theory and self-determination theory. For temporary knowledge workers who are embedded in team work, the research explores the relationship-oriented human resource management constructs based on the relational coordination theory. The self-determination theory is used to explore how the relationship-oriented HRP improve performance of temporary knowledge employees. We verify the path from the source (relation-oriented HRP; high quality relationship), the formulation (satisfaction of competence need and relatedness need), and results autonomous motivation (knowledge sharing intention, knowledge sharing behaviors and job satisfaction). This research will: (1) exploring the composition of practices of relationship-oriented human resource management for temporary knowledge workers, by identifying the relationship-oriented human resource management practices and develop corresponding measurement tool; and (2) verifying the impact of relationship-oriented human resource management practices on performance. We will verify that the relationship-oriented human resource management practice influences the employees' autonomous motivation (satisfaction of competence needs and relatedness needs) by establishing high-quality role relationship, and then improve the cooperation attitude (willingness to share knowledge) and behaviors (knowledge sharing behavior). <p id="p00005">Research on the content and utility of relationship-oriented HRP is helpful for a deeper understanding on the management of temporary knowledge worker and give implication for management practice in sharing economy. First of all, this research will promote the understanding of relationship-oriented human resource management under the background of “talent sharing” time. Secondly, we explored the effect of the relationship-oriented human resource management from the autonomous motivation perspective, which beyond the "resource path" and "exchange relationship" of relationship human resource management research in previous studies. Finally, the research brings the high-performance human resource management in a new context and give enlightenment for workplace diversity management.

515Association between hysterectomy and risk of thyroid cancer

Abstract Background Hysterectomy (surgical removal of the uterus) has been consistently associated with increased thyroid cancer risk. While there may be a biologic explanation, increased ascertainment (over-diagnosis) because of greater healthcare use by women having this procedure might also contribute to the observed increased risk. We explored this association considering indications for hysterectomy, age at hysterectomy, and the potential for the association to be mediated by increased contact with health professionals or increased thyroid function testing. Methods We recruited 730 women diagnosed with thyroid cancer and 785 age-matched population controls. We estimated odds ratios (OR) using logistic regression to assess the associations and used causal mediation analysis to investigate potential mediation. Results Prior hysterectomy was associated with an increased thyroid cancer risk (OR = 1.55, 95% CI: 1.14-2.12). When stratified by indication for hysterectomy, the increased risk was apparent only among those who had undergone hysterectomy for bleeding disorders (OR = 1.79, 95% CI: 1.26-2.56). Additionally, the association varied by age at hysterectomy (&amp;lt;55 years, OR = 1.68, 95% CI: 1.22-2.31 versus ≥ 55 years, OR = 0.87, 95% CI: 0.42-1.81). Around 30% of the association was mediated by more frequent use of healthcare services. Conclusions Hysterectomy for bleeding disorders was associated with an increased risk of thyroid cancer among women and a moderate proportion of this appeared due to frequent medical contact. Key messages The way in which women use health services probably explains at least some of the association between hysterectomy and risk of thyroid cancer.

The Catalysis Effect of Na and Point Defect on NO Heterogeneous Adsorption on Carbon during High-Sodium Zhundong Coal Reburning: Structures, Interactions and Thermodynamic Characteristics

The reburning process in a furnace, a key way to reduce NOx emissions, is a heterogeneous reaction during coal combustion, in which the heterogeneous adsorption is dominant. Zhundong coal with a high content of alkali metal can enhance the reburning process. In this paper, the influence of sodium and a defect on NO heterogeneous adsorption was studied by the density functional theory, and the thermodynamic characteristic was also analyzed. The results indicate that the binding energy for NO adsorption on the pristine graphene surface (graphene-NO), Na-decorated pristine graphene surface (graphene-Na-NO), defect graphene surface (gsv-NO) and Na-decorated defect graphene (gsv-Na-NO) is −5.86, −137.12, −48.94 and −74.85 kJ/mol, respectively, and that the heterogeneous adsorption is an exothermic reaction. Furthermore, except for covalent bonds of C and N, C and O for gsv-NO, other interactions are a closed-shell one, based on the analysis of AIM, ELF and IGM. The area of electron localization for NO is graphene-Na-NO &gt; gsv-Na-NO &gt; gsv-NO &gt; graphene-NO. The dispersion interaction is the main interaction force between NO and the pristine graphene surface. The δg index for the atom pairs about N–C and O–C on the pristine graphene surface is also the smallest. The density of spikes at graphene-Na-NO is bigger than that at gsv-Na-NO. Moreover, the thermodynamics characteristic showed that the reaction equilibrium constant of graphene-NO is less than those on the other surfaces under the same temperature. Thus, NO on the pristine graphene surface is the most difficult to adsorb, but the presence of sodium and a defect structure can promote its adsorption.

Bio-Fertilizers Based on Digestate and Biomass Ash as an Alternative to Commercial Fertilizers—The Case of Tomato

The reutilization of agricultural wastes, as bio-fertilizers, is the key way to close the nutrient cycle and save mineral fertilizers. This hypothesis was verified in three consecutive seasons, treating tomato with three bio-fertilizers on the background of a standard rate of mineral fertilizer. The bio-fertilizers differed in their C:N ratio, which was 13:1, 21:1, and 6:1 for the A, B, and C fertilizers, respectively. They were applied at the rate of 200, 400, 800, and 1600 kg ha−1. The average fruit yield increased in the order: B &lt; C &lt; A. For the relevant fertilizer, the maximum commercial yield was 91, 87, and 101 t ha−1, for a respective rate of 1600, 200, and 400 kg ha−1. The number of fruits (CFN), as the dominant yield component, indirectly reflected the nitrogen (N) supply to plants. A shortage or excess of N on plots treated with the B or C fertilizers, resulted in a decreased CFN, leading to a yield decline. The year-to-year variability in the potassium (K) content reflected fairly well the variable weather conditions, responsible for water management by tomato. The conducted study showed that the tested bio-fertilizers can replace mineral fertilizer, as long as they are applied at well-defined rates.

Effect of surfactants on anti-Escherichia coli ability of MgO nanoparticles

MgO nanoparticles (MgO NPs) were obtained by a simple hydrothermal-calcination method. The influence of three different surfactants on the surface morphology, particle size and antibacterial performance of MgO NPs was investigated. The SEM results indicated that compared with using benzoic acid and citric acid, the MgO sample has more regular flake morphology and well dispersion, moreover, its particle size has more small and uniform when EDTA-2Na was used as the surfactant. The colony-forming unit count and optical density (OD) measurement results suggested that MgO NPs prepared using EDTA-2Na had the best antibacterial activity against Escherichia coli (E. coli), which might be originated from the small particle size and low aggregation. Our study demonstrated that using proper surfactant was a key way during the synthesis process to control the size and morphology of MgO NPs and enhance its antibacterial efficiency, and this way was expected to be applied to other inorganic antibacterial agents.

Perceptual Bases of Inequality in Organizations

Despite growing workforce diversity, organizational attention, and social pressure (e.g, #MeToo), inequalities along axes of race, gender, class, sexual orientation, and ability remain a persistent challenge for most modern workplaces. Recent research has suggested that one key way these inequalities are perpetuated is through misperception, in which individuals fail to see, choose to ignore, misconstrue, or build narratives around them. However, though this work documents the importance of individuals' subjective understandings of inequality, how those understandings are formed--and thus how they might be altered--remains largely unclear. In the proposed symposium, we address this open question: We present a collection of novel empirical papers examining how the way people perceive aspects of organizational life (specifically, opportunity for upward mobility, meritocratic processes, relationships with other groups, and conflict) directly shapes their tolerance for and perpetuation of various types of inequality. Drawing from both experimental and field data and focusing on a range of different types of inequality (e.g., socioeconomic, racial) at work, these studies highlight that individuals’ perceptions about inequality are (1) potentially malleable, (2) critical vehicles through which today’s nuanced, relationally-enforced inequality is sustained, and (3) must be taken as seriously as the outcomes they foster. The Perceived Potential for Promotion: Upward Workplace Mobility and Acceptance of Pay Disparities Presenter: Dylan Wiwad; Northwestern Kellogg School of Management Presenter: Jon Michael Jachimowicz; Harvard Business School Presenter: Shai Davidai; Columbia Business School Bounded Meritocracy Presenter: Daniela Goya-Tocchetto; Fuqua School of Business, Duke U. Presenter: Aaron Kay; Duke U. Presenter: Keith Payne; U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The Connection between Preferences for Hierarchy and Empathic/Counter-Empathic Emotions Presenter: Sa-kiera Hudson; Yale U. Presenter: Mina Cikara; Harvard U. Presenter: Jim Sidanius; Harvard U. Colored Lenses: Perceptions of Conflict & the Perpetuation of Workplace Racial Disparities Presenter: Phoebe Strom; Cornell U. Presenter: Ishan Sharma; Cornell U. Presenter: Ariel Avgar; ILR at Cornell Presenter: Einav Hart; George Mason U.

One Decade of Online Patient Feedback: Longitudinal Analysis of Data From a German Physician Rating Website.

BackgroundFeedback from patients is an essential element of a patient-oriented health care system. Physician rating websites (PRWs) are a key way patients can provide feedback online. This study analyzes an entire decade of online ratings for all medical specialties on a German PRW.ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to examine how ratings posted on a German PRW have developed over the past decade. In particular, it aimed to explore (1) the distribution of ratings according to time-related aspects (year, month, day of the week, and hour of the day) between 2010 and 2019, (2) the number of physicians with ratings, (3) the average number of ratings per physician, (4) the average rating, (5) whether differences exist between medical specialties, and (6) the characteristics of the patients rating physicians.MethodsAll scaled-survey online ratings that were posted on the German PRW jameda between 2010 and 2019 were obtained.ResultsIn total, 1,906,146 ratings were posted on jameda between 2010 and 2019 for 127,921 physicians. The number of rated physicians increased constantly from 19,305 in 2010 to 82,511 in 2018. The average number of ratings per rated physicians increased from 1.65 (SD 1.56) in 2010 to 3.19 (SD 4.69) in 2019. Overall, 75.2% (1,432,624/1,906,146) of all ratings were in the best rating category of “very good,” and 5.7% (107,912/1,906,146) of the ratings were in the lowest category of “insufficient.” However, the mean of all ratings was 1.76 (SD 1.53) on the German school grade 6-point rating scale (1 being the best) with a relatively constant distribution over time. General practitioners, internists, and gynecologists received the highest number of ratings (343,242, 266,899, and 232,914, respectively). Male patients, those of higher age, and those covered by private health insurance gave significantly (P<.001) more favorable evaluations compared to their counterparts. Physicians with a lower number of ratings tended to receive ratings across the rating scale, while physicians with a higher number of ratings tended to have better ratings. Physicians with between 21 and 50 online ratings received the lowest ratings (mean 1.95, SD 0.84), while physicians with >100 ratings received the best ratings (mean 1.34, SD 0.47).ConclusionsThis study is one of the most comprehensive analyses of PRW ratings to date. More than half of all German physicians have been rated on jameda each year since 2016, and the overall average number of ratings per rated physicians nearly doubled over the decade. Nevertheless, we could also observe a decline in the number of ratings over the last 2 years. Future studies should investigate the most recent development in the number of ratings on both other German and international PRWs as well as reasons for the heterogeneity in online ratings by medical specialty.

Positive emotion of self-referential contexts could facilitate adult’s novel word learning: An fNIRS study

Learning words through contextual inference is a key way to enlarge one’s vocabulary especially for adults. However, few studies focused on the effects of different information contained in contexts on novel word learning. The present study used behavioral and fNIRS techniques to investigate the influences of positive, neutral and negative emotions inherent in self-related or other-related referential contexts. Participants were asked to perform a semantic consistency and a source judgment task after learning the relations between novel words and concepts in different contexts. The results showed that self-reference during lexical encoding could promote word learning generally. More importantly, there existed a self-positivity bias which is manifested in the significant interactions between contextual emotions and referential value. These interactions are related to the neural activities of the DLPFC and IFG. These results revealed the contextual information’s integrative contributions to semantic meaning acquisition and episodic source memory related with novel word learning.

A metabolomics pipeline for the mechanistic interrogation of the gut microbiome.

Gut microorganisms modulate host phenotypes and are associated with numerous health effects in humans, ranging from host responses to cancer immunotherapy to metabolic disease and obesity. However, difficulty in accurate and high-throughput functional analysis of human gut microorganisms has hindered efforts to define mechanistic connections between individual microbial strains and host phenotypes. One key way in which the gut microbiome influences host physiology is through the production of small molecules1-3, yet progress in elucidating this chemical interplay has been hindered by limited tools calibrated to detect the products of anaerobic biochemistry in the gut. Here we construct a microbiome-focused, integrated mass-spectrometry pipeline to accelerate the identification of microbiota-dependent metabolites in diverse sample types. We report the metabolic profiles of 178 gut microorganism strains using our library of 833 metabolites. Using this metabolomics resource, we establish deviations in the relationships between phylogeny and metabolism, use machine learning to discover a previously undescribedtype of metabolism in Bacteroides,and reveal candidate biochemical pathways using comparative genomics. Microbiota-dependent metabolites can be detected in diverse biological fluids from gnotobiotic and conventionally colonized mice and traced back to the corresponding metabolomic profiles of cultured bacteria. Collectively, our microbiome-focused metabolomics pipeline and interactive metabolomics profile explorer are a powerful tool for characterizing microorganisms and interactions between microorganisms and their host.

Simple Preparation of Polydimethylsiloxane and Polyurethane Blend Film for Marine Antibiofouling Application.

A key way to prevent undesirable fouling of any structure in the marine environment, without harming any microorganisms, is to use a polymer film with high hydrophobicity. The polymer film, which was simply prepared from a blend of hydrophobic polydimethylsiloxane elastomer and hydrophilic polyurethane, showed improved properties and economic viability for antifouling film for the marine industry. The field emission scanning electron microscope and energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer (FESEM and EDX) results from the polymer blend suggested a homogenous morphology and good distribution of the polyurethane disperse phase. The PDMS:PU blend (95:5) film gave a water contact angle of 103.4° ± 3.8° and the PDMS film gave a water contact angle of 109.5° ± 4.2°. Moreover, the PDMS:PU blend (95:5) film could also be modified with surface patterning by using soft lithography process to further increase the hydrophobicity. It was found that PDMS:PU blend (95:5) film with micro patterning from soft lithography process increased the contact angle to 128.8° ± 1.6°. The results from a field test in the Gulf of Thailand illustrated that the bonding strength between the barnacles and the PDMS:PU blend (95:5) film (0.07 MPa) were lower than the bonding strength between the barnacles and the carbon steel (1.16 MPa). The barnacles on the PDMS:PU blend (95:5) film were more easily removed from the surface. This indicated that the PDMS:PU blend (95:5) exhibited excellent antifouling properties and the results indicated that the PDMS:PU blend (95:5) film with micro patterning surface could be employed for antifouling application.

Modeling and optimization of combined heat and power with power-to-gas and carbon capture system in integrated energy system

The utilization of combined heat and power (CHP) units is a key way to enhance renewable energy accommodation. However, carbon emissions of CHP challenge the pollution and economic optimization of integrated energy system (IES). To tackle this challenge, we propose a novel model and optimal dispatch for CHP with power-to-gas (P2G) and carbon capture system (CCS), which solves the problems of the carbon source required for P2G and the CHP's carbon emissions by the optimal dispatch in IES. The model takes the CHP, P2G, and CCS as a whole system. The operation rule of the model is developed, and its coupling characteristics of electric power, heat power, gas power and carbon are analyzed. Correspondingly, the optimization strategy of IES considers the proposed model and carbon trading mechanism. The optimal dispatch model of IES is established and solved by YALMIP, and GUROBI. Our method is verified by simulation. Compared with other conventional models, the accommodation capacity of renewable energy with the proposed method is enhanced, and the carbon emissions and operating costs of IES are also reduced.

Nanofibrous membrane through multi-needle electrospinning with multi-physical field coupling

The mass electrospinning is the key way to promote the industrial application of nanofibrous membrane, in which the multi-parameter controlling is the challenge for the multi-needle electrospinning. A constant temperature and humidity environment was introduced to studied the effect of process parameters on the ejection process of multi-needle electrospinning process. This article focused on the nanofiber deposition behaviors of multi-needle electrospinning from two different polymer solution of aqueous solution of poly (ethylene oxide) and the non-aqueous solution of polyvinylidene fluoride. We found that the same humidity has opposite effects on the deposition morphology of the water-soluble material PEO and the non-water-soluble material PVDF electrospun fiber. At the same time, we explored the effects of solution conductivity, solvent volatility, temperature and viscosity on electrospinning on water-insoluble and water-soluble materials. What this paper aim is to provide a process debugging reference for the batch preparation of nanofibers of different materials by multi-needle electrospinning.

A Review on the Mechanism of Tuina Promoting the Recovery of Peripheral Nerve Injury.

Tuina, as one of the characteristic external therapies of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), has been used to treat the disease caused by peripheral nerve injury (PNI) for thousands of years. An increasing number of clinical trials and animal experiments have demonstrated that tuina can improve the symptoms and promote the recovery of damaged nerves. This review focuses on the mechanistic studies of tuina in promoting the recovery of PNI, which might provide a neurobiological foundation for the effects of tuina. Although many mechanisms underlying the effects of tuina on nerve repair have been identified, there are still many unknown problems, such as the key substance or way for tuina to work, so further investigation is warranted.

Research on Integrated Application System of Internet of Things in Oil Depot

To improve the efficiency of oil support, it is necessary to realize the integrated application of the equipment and systems related to the Internet of Things in oil depots. Based on the service-oriented design idea, this paper puts forward the architecture of the integrated application system of the oil depot Internet of Things, which lays a foundation for the integrated application of the oil depot Internet of Things data and related business systems through the design of business system component, data model standardization and system interface service. At the same time, through the data integration framework and process design of the Internet of Things, the data model design of the Internet of Things integration platform, and the system integration design based on service bus, it provides a key technical way for the development and implementation of the integrated application system of the Internet of Things in oil depots.

Pākehā Landhome-Making: Composting Arcadia with(in) Wairarapa

This article offers the notion of landhome-making as a way to compost arcadia. For my doctoral research, I interviewed Pākehā women from rural Wairarapa. Here I draw on fragments from three participants’ stories to demonstrate how landhome-making can be a fertile way to trouble dominant understandings of arcadia by drawing on Donna Haraway’s composting. Arcadia, which can be understood as a rural paradise, was a key way Europeans settled New Zealand, and is still a formative way in which Pākehā relate to land. Although immersed in colonial mythologizing, in which the arcadian ideal is an intimate part, I suggest participants’ narratives also have the capacity to disrupt this problematic colonial ideal. I found this out by using feminist more-than-human ethnographic methodologies that helped me conclude that landhome-making possesses possibilities for composting dominant understandings of arcadia with(in) Wairarapa.