Worldwide Revolution Research Articles

Spatial-temporally and industrially heterogeneous effects of new infrastructure construction on fostering emerging industries in Chinese cities

New infrastructure construction stemming from the new waves of technological revolution worldwide is exemplified by 5G base stations, big data centers, and ultra-high voltage. It has aroused extensive academic and policy interests in recent years, especially due to its beneficial role in empowering regional novel economic dynamics. However, this argument is still too general to capture the nuanced effects of new infrastructure construction on fostering emerging industries in specific spatial-temporal and industrial contexts, which is left for geographers to take up. This paper focuses on the spatial-temporally and industrially heterogeneous effects of new infrastructure construction on fostering four distinctive emerging industries in major Chinese cities over the last decade. It reveals that new infrastructure construction and emerging industries have experienced rapid development in major Chinese cities, with geographical agglomeration in national central cities with advanced economic development level. It is empirically demonstrated that new infrastructure construction can facilitate the development of emerging industries in major Chinese cities, while significant spatial-temporal heterogeneity characterizes the contributory forces. Furthermore, artificial intelligence as a Key Enabling Technology, robotics as a kind of hardware-featured industry, software-as-a-service as a software-centered industry, and blockchain as a networking-oriented industry vary markedly in the extent and the ways in which they benefit from new infrastructure construction, and they consequently exhibit industrial sensitivity to spatial-temporal heterogeneity in the fostering effects.

A Study of Ethical Dilemmas and Regulation of AI Chatbots

Chatbots are the product of the development of artificial intelligence to a certain stage, and have different degrees of technical effects under the iteration of technology. Under the development of media technology in recent years, the artificial intelligence robot represented by Chatgpt has attracted widespread attention because of its ability to learn dialogue, and from the current stage of development, there is no doubt that intelligent chatbots have brought about a worldwide revolution in communication technology. It has had a great impact on various fields such as sociology, communication, computation, education, etc. It has produced an underlying reaction to various fields from the technical architecture, changed the previous way of creating, interacting, educating and other behaviours, and has also had an important impact on social construction and interaction. Its unique way of knowledge learning and updating not only brings new possibilities to the network communication ecology, but also brings some ethical dilemmas in communication, which require people to be alert to this new technology and take corresponding preventive and regulatory measures.

Marxist Realism: Kobayashi Takiji and the Politics of Representation

This paper explores the cross-cultural dynamics and contradictions that surface when attempting to apply the universal claims of Marxist literary aesthetics to the particular case of a non-Western national tradition. More specifically, the key work of 1930s proletarian writer, Kobayashi Takiji (“The Factory Ship”) and his mentoring relationship to Marxist critic, Kurahara Korehito, will be analyzed by examining the tensions in trying to remain faithful to the universal, international claims of global Marxism, while also respecting Japanese historical and cultural particulars and conditions. Broadly speaking, the issues that surface in the Kobayashi/Kurahara relationship reflect inherent difficulties in maintaining metanarrative dimension of orthodox Marxism that belies its Western framework regarding world historical movements. The tension between the universal and particular poles of Marxism’s global vs Japanese context also frames parallel tension between the literary/aesthetic realm of art and its political content; remaining true to the former may bracket the assumed-to-be applicable state of the latter. In short, the question of the viability of a particular work of fiction’s realism (namely, its literariness) vs its fidelity to political orthodoxy, often articulated in terms of its form versus content. Finally, this tension between the universal global and particular national culture setting of Marxist literature and Marxist politics also may indicate a tension inherent within the revolutionary ambitions of idealist philosophy, namely Hegelianism. Stated differently, is Marxist philosophy itself a work of art/fiction – the utopic impulse of the classless society and worldwide revolution – at odds with the realities of specific historical and cultural conditions ‘on the ground’?

Investigating the Determinants of Islamic Mobile FinTech Service Acceptance: A Modified UTAUT2 Approach

Financial technology (FinTech) is leading a worldwide revolution to increase financial access. Bangladesh’s financial sector is entering a new era of innovation due to the country’s rapid embrace of financial technology. Mobile FinTech service (MFS) providers achieve unattainable economic peaks every year. The growth of conventional banks’ MFS is significant. However, Islamic banks have a good market share but cannot attract more customers to use the Islamic MFS. This study aimed to determine the factors influencing Islamic bank customers to accept the Islamic MFS. This study utilized a modified UTAUT2 model. Data were collected from 310 Islamic bank customers by using online Google Forms. Structural equation modeling was employed to analyze the data by SMART PLS 3.2.9. The results revealed that social influence, facilitating conditions, price, and perceived credibility have a significant positive effect on Islamic MFS acceptance. However, performance expectancy and effort expectancy showed no impact on Islamic MFS acceptance. This research framework is helpful for academicians and researchers to investigate FinTech acceptance in developing countries. Moreover, the study results are beneficial for MFS providers and FinTech firms.

КИТАЙСКАЯ РЕВОЛЮЦИЯ В ИСКУССТВЕ: ИНТЕРМЕДИАЛЬНЫЕ СВЯЗИ ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННОГО ЯЗЫКА КИНО И КЛАССИЧЕСКОГО БАЛЕТА В ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННОМ ФИЛЬМЕ «КРАСНЫЙ ЖЕНСКИЙ ОТРЯД»

The article aims to analyze the intermediary relationship between cinema and dance in the feature film The Red Detachment of Women (1961, Xie Jin) and in the filmed ballet of the same title (1971, Pan Wenzhan and Fu Jie). The films belong, respectively, to the so-called Period of 17 Years (1949–1966) and to the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), years that comprise the government of Mao Zedong. The analysis takes into account the peculiar development of Chinese cinema since its beginnings, and its aesthetic originality based on the different types of arts in the country. During the Maoist period, initially under Soviet influence, China’s film industry turned to socialist themes with the intention of internationalizing national arts that sought to make the revolution worldwide. Through the slogan gu wei jin yong yang wei zhong yong (古为今用，洋为中用), which means using the ancient for the present, and foreign things for China, the cultural guidelines of the Communist Party relied on the popular appeal of diverse Chinese and foreign arts to build the heroic narratives of a people forged under socialism. They were easily absorbed not only by the local population, but also by people from other countries. The films in question are examples of the aforementioned motto and combine western aesthetic resources, such as classical ballet, with eastern elements such as Chinese operatic theater, resulting in an original aesthetic for cinema

Refinery 4.0, a Review of the Main Challenges of the Industry 4.0 Paradigm in Oil & Gas Downstream

Industry 4.0 concept has become a worldwide revolution that has been mainly led by the manufacturing sector. Continuous Process Industry is part of this global trend where there are aspects of the "fourth industrial revolution" that must be adapted to the particular context and needs of big continuous processes such as oil refineries that have evolved to control paradigms supported by sector-specific technologies where big volumes of operation-driven data are continuously captured from a plethora of sensors. The introduction of Artificial Intelligence techniques can overcome the current limitations of Advanced Control Systems (mainly MPCs) by providing better performance on highly non-linear and complex systems and by operating with a broader scope in terms of signals/data and sub-systems. Moreover, the state of the art of traditional PID/MPC based solutions is showing an asymptotic improvement that requires a disruptive approach in order to reach relevant improvements in terms of efficiency, optimization, maintenance, etc. This paper shows the key aspects in oil refineries to successfully adopt Big Data and Machine Learning solutions that can significantly improve the efficiency and competitiveness of continuous processes.

Changes of Neolithic subsistence in south Hangzhou Bay coast, eastern China: An adaptive strategy to landscape processes

The transition from hunting and gathering to agricultural subsistence is a striking feature of the Neolithic revolution worldwide. Known as the cradle of a series of representative Neolithic cultures, south Hangzhou Bay (SHB) witnessed substantial changes in both landscape and human subsistence during the Holocene, yet the relationship between them was not well established. Here, we combined archaeobotanical results from sediment cores with archaeological findings to illustrate the subsistence changes during the Neolithic regime in the context of the landscape process in SHB. Our result showed that SHB was inundated by marine transgression 8,200 years ago without significant human imprints. At 8,200–7,600 cal yr. BP, the initial coastal wetland formation at locations with the semi-enclosed landscape would have facilitated the activities of hunting-gathering, incipient rice cultivation, and collecting seafood if accessible. Pollen and phytoliths evidence from multiple sediment cores in the Yaojiang Valley (YJV) suggested a desalinization process of wetland in the following hundreds of years. This amelioration of the environment had favored the intermittent rice cultivation at various locations in the YJV, where archaeological evidence was absent. Since 7,000–6,600 cal yr. BP, as freshwater wetland expanded with coastal progradation, a wide variety of food resources became available. Meanwhile, rice domestication began to serve as a crucial food supplement as evidenced by both microfossil results and archaeological findings. With the expansion of the coastal plain after 5,500 cal yr. BP, rice farming became widespread and rice consumption was increasingly important in the diet, as supported by discoveries of upgraded farming tools, abundant rice remains, and ancient rice paddies. Above all, the change of subsistence from hunting-gathering to rice farming exhibited an adaptive strategy in response to landscape evolution from an initial marine-influenced setting to a later coastal plain.

The Making of Goliath: How the Chinese and Japanese far Left Perceived Israel as the 'Frontier' of Global Revolution in the 1950s–1970s

Exploring the perceptions held by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Japanese Red Army (JRA) of the Arab-Israeli conflict, this paper argues that the pursuit of a worldwide Maoist revolution and t the sense of insecurity in the face of a perceived Western threat prompted the East Asian far-leftist government and organization to imagine the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a frontier of the East-West struggle and an epicenter for worldwide revolution. In their theoretical imagination, Israel was a microcosm of Western imperialism, and Arab states served as a buffer blocking that imperialism. In an anticipated domino effect, Israel’s victories at the imagined ‘frontier’ were regarded as a precursor to a Western imperialist invasion of East Asia. This particular worldview not only prompted the global far left to delegitimize Israel, but also constructed a type of negative identity interdependence with Israel in which the far left denied all claims made by Israel as ‘imperialist’, while Israel saw all pressure from the global far left as simply ‘anti-Israel’ or even ‘anti-Semitic’.

COVID-19 Enforced Shift to Distance Education: Readiness and Challenges

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a worldwide revolution in our understanding of how to conduct education. International lockdowns were the catalyst for a global shift from traditional face-to-face learning to distance learning. This comparative study utilized a mixed method approach to investigate the readiness of Higher Education instructors and students and the challenges arising from the shift to distance education in two different Arab countries, Qatar and Jordan. Generally, the findings gleaned from the questionnaires (230 instructors and 551 students) revealed certain inconsistencies with the findings that emerged from the interviews (18 instructors and 38 students) in terms of both the level of readiness and the challenges faced. The results showed a substantial variation in instructors and students’ readiness at both participating universities. While factors like country, age, gender, specialization, years of experience/year in the program, and the number of online training courses prior to the COVID-19 epidemic proved to cause statistically insignificant differences in instructors and students’ readiness, variables including age, gender and prior experience in online courses were relatively influential for students in terms of the challenges they faced.

Using a novel optimization algorithm for parameter extraction of photovoltaic cells and modules

The critical worldwide revolution towards clean energy has prompted the improvement of studies on the fabrication of high-performance solar cells. In this regard, rendering an accurate model of the solar cell for performance evaluation in the simulation could be essential. So far, several models have been proposed for the solar cell, including single-diode model (SDM), double-diode model (DDM), and three-diode model (TDM). By increasing the number of diodes considered in the equivalent circuit in order to deliver a more accurate model, the number of unknown parameters which must be identified will be increased as well. Therefore, presenting an efficient algorithm to estimate these parameters becomes an interesting issue in recent years. In this study, an improved optimization algorithm, called springy whale optimization algorithm (SWOA), is proposed to estimate the model parameters of solar cells. SWOA is a generalization of the WOA and has the advantages of high convergence speed, global search capability, and high robustness over it. In order to inquire the efficiency of SWOA, this algorithm is posed to estimate the parameters of models of solar cells and photovoltaic (PV) modules as well; the simulation results authenticate the supremacy of the proposed algorithm. Furthermore, the effectiveness of SWOA algorithm in the practical application has been evaluated using commercial modules, including polycrystalline (SW255), multi-crystalline (KC200GT), and monocrystalline (SM55). This assessment is carried out for various operating conditions under different irradiance and temperature conditions, which yield variations in the parameters of the PV model. The results obtained from various experimental setups confirm the high performance and robustness of the proposed algorithm.

The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes by Jill Richards

Reviewed by: The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes by Jill Richards Linda Roland Danil, Dr. (bio) Jill Richards, The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes (Columbia University Press 2020), ISBN: 9780231197113 (paperback), 344 pages. Already at the outset of her rich and varied book, Jill Richards makes her intent clear: her aim is to “assemble a transatlantic archive of female citizenship.”1 Richards’ analysis is contextualized in wider narratives of women’s rights [End Page 831] during the period generally referred to as feminism’s first wave during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Moreover, rather than focus on female citizenship as a priori constituted through shared histories of exclusion and as being underpinned by histories and experiences of shared pain and suffering—Richards focuses on the female/woman as a subject of action. Richards therefore considers women arsonists, industrial saboteurs, queer resistance cells, and suffrage rioters, among others. The thesis of Richards’ book is that women’s rights movements and the historical avant-gardes became entangled in “an often vexed but hugely influential relationship of reciprocal construction.”2 In her analysis, Richards further draws on a wide range of sources, and includes parliamentary inquiries, police reports, mug shots, and propaganda booklets, among others. Specifically, Richards’ book is situated within the historical timeframe when first wave feminism and institutional human rights emerged at the same time as Dada and surrealism, and asks—how can these currents be understood alongside each other and as part of the same historical period? More specific still, Richards focuses on the little-known but significant entanglement between women’s rights movements and the international avant-gardes, with that interweaving having partly arisen through a mutual dependence on a socialist international that provided financial backing for the distribution of radical newspapers, journals and pamphlets across the Atlantic. The individuals (not always women) that populate the book’s pages are endlessly fascinating, intelligent, creative, and principled. In the analysis of the intersection between art and politics, Richards writes about women such as Paulette Nardal, who produced a black feminist periodical and served as an area expert for the newly founded United Nations; Leonora Carrington, the surrealist painter, was a refugee a number of times over and fled to Mexico in fear of reprisal for her involvement in anti-government protest meetings; Til Brugman joined the Dutch resistance; the Dada artist Hannah Höch was an advocate for birth control reform and her work was condemned as ‘degenerate art’ by the Nazis; the novelist Rebecca West rioted with the suffragettes. Other individuals include the gender non-conforming artist Claude Cahun and their partner, Marcel Moore— who were both sent to a prisoner of war camp for their participation in the French resistance. Not all of the individuals in question were admirable or even remotely likable, however—think of the despicable Marie Huot, the nineteenth century secretary of the League Against Vivisection—who claimed to have disposed of new-born puppies by tying a heavy stone around their necks and then tossing them into a body of water. In another anecdote, Huot apparently imparted the advice that housecat populations could be controlled by directly taking the kittens away from the mother and drowning them in a pot of water closed with a heavy lid. Huot allegedly argued that the same could be done for unwanted human infants, and further advocated for the entire extinction of humanity through the use of birth control. In an engaging discussion in which Huot is first brought up, Richards discusses the notion of proletarian “birth strikes” or womb strikes, in which women would deploy birth control as a form of strike against the production of people to feed [End Page 832] to future war machines and the industrial production of commodities. Through this view, “the limitation of reproduction would deprive capitalism of workers and soldiers to exploit, eventually resulting in a world-wide revolution.”3 Here, workers took control of (self)reproduction in a biopolitical form of resistance against the state, and rather than reproductive rights being framed through the language of the human right to privacy to be granted by the...

Machine learning: Best way to sustain the supply chain in the era of industry 4.0

With the rapidly growing importance in the industries on the adaptation of advanced technologies, the involvement of IT-enabled systems has increased in developing the pathway for the future industry. The learning’s from these technologies becomes paramount for the present industries which gives a sense of belongingness and significance of the industry towards the market. The digital revolution world-wide affected the physical happenings of the events in the manufacturing industries such as the procurement, manufacturing/assembling & distribution of goods. This digital reformation is known as Industry 4.0 which generally means the advancement in the existing business models where all the business operations are interconnected with each other by digital mode (virtual representation based on operations). In this kind of environment, it is being necessary to map all the operations digitally in such a manner so that the physical flows of resources/goods will not suffer at any stage. Machine learning in the present scenario is one of the thrust areas for the researchers and the practitioners. The output in the machine learning process is having many dependencies on the input data such as the functions and characteristics imparted to the machine at the earlier stage. The present paper aptly reflects the thoughts and reflections of present-day industries and the opportunities to express feelings, thoughts, and contribute towards the future industries.

Reliability assessment by sensitivity analysis due to electrical power sequential tripping for energy sustainability

A drastic change has occurred over the last few years in the electrical power business, where a significant worldwide revolution has taken place and changing the design of electrical powers. It has become imperative for the utility to handle the electrical power reliably as poor performance can lead to electrical power outages which will inevitably have an adverse impact on a nation’s economy and society. Hence, the power company should consider devising suitable pre-emptive measures to avoid the possibility of electricity supply disruptions. These disruptions may have a potentially catastrophic effect on the running of the system, which may even include consumers having to bear monetary costs. This research looks at the valuations of risk and reliability cost/worth-based customer interruption cost due to static system sequential tripping. The performance of the suggested techniques are evaluated through comparing risk-based valuations and reliability cost/worth valuations corresponding to the transfer capability results which are correlated to the static system sequential tripping. The results have demonstrated that the unpredictable sequential tripping must not be ignored from the transmission reliability margin determination. Hence, the proposed techniques are likely to play an important role for energy sustainability of the future.

Mapping sexual orientation research in management: A review and research agenda

AbstractAttitudes, norms, and laws regarding sexual orientation are undergoing a worldwide revolution. Managers and HR professionals play a key role in responding to these changes, and managing issues related to sexual orientation diversity in organizations. As such, the amount of management scholarship on sexual orientation has been rapidly growing to help inform practice. However, at present, the literature is fragmented across management specialty areas. This makes it difficult to have an overview of what has been learned to date, and detect research opportunities. Thus, this article aims to provide the first integrative review of sexual orientation research across the management field over 23 years. We use bibliometric techniques to (a) systematically identify and map 111 topics in this literature (map downloads from:https://bit.ly/SOTopicMap), (b) identify topic trends and topic citation rates, and (c) derive an inductive taxonomy of major topic clusters. We then identify key theories and relationships in the literature, review key findings for scholars and practitioners, and identify future research directions. Among these, we highlight the need to incorporate sexual orientation as a standard demographic question in management research, and highlight best practices for doing so from other scientific fields.

ETHICS OF POOR PEOPLE IN CHRISTIAN REALISM

The article observes the historical background of relations between the poor and the rich. The influence of the capitalist social order on increasing inequality between rich and poor is described. It is noted that the proletarians think about social relations from the position of class conflict. It is described that the idealistic path to equality is the Marxist idea of worldwide revolution and the annihilation of class structure. It is emphasized that the destructive nature of Marxist idealism aims to the destruction of society. It is demonstrated that the ideas of the proletarians are based on envy and desire for revenge, not on moral values.

Cannabis and Its Secondary Metabolites: Their Use as Therapeutic Drugs, Toxicological Aspects, and Analytical Determination.

Although the medicinal properties of Cannabis species have been known for centuries, the interest on its main active secondary metabolites as therapeutic alternatives for several pathologies has grown in recent years. This potential use has been a revolution worldwide concerning public health, production, use and sale of cannabis, and has led inclusively to legislation changes in some countries. The scientific advances and concerns of the scientific community have allowed a better understanding of cannabis derivatives as pharmacological options in several conditions, such as appetite stimulation, pain treatment, skin pathologies, anticonvulsant therapy, neurodegenerative diseases, and infectious diseases. However, there is some controversy regarding the legal and ethical implications of their use and routes of administration, also concerning the adverse health consequences and deaths attributed to marijuana consumption, and these represent some of the complexities associated with the use of these compounds as therapeutic drugs. This review comprehends the main secondary metabolites of Cannabis, approaching their therapeutic potential and applications, as well as their potential risks, in order to differentiate the consumption as recreational drugs. There will be also a focus on the analytical methodologies for their analysis, in order to aid health professionals and toxicologists in cases where these compounds are present.

Повесть Берты Ласк «Как Франц и Грета ездили в Россию» и образ СССР в пролетарской детской литературе 1920-х гг.

Proletarian children's literature was developing in Germany in 1920-ies. Stories about Soviet Union as well as travelogue were among popular genres. These books were a obvious propaganda. Stories about the first socialist state had as their main goal to set a positive example for the young readers to follow in the class struggle as well as served as a proof of the inevitability of the proletarian revolution worldwide. German communist writer Bertha Lask in her book “How Franz and Gretha went to Russia” (1926) has told about a trip of two young proletarian children, members of the young Spartacus league, through Russia – from Leningrad and Moscow to Ukraine and Crimea. Young readers learned from the book not only about Soviet achievements, but also about obstacles in the construction of the new society: class struggle, hunger, homeless children. The author depicted the achievements of socialism in opposition to capitalist oppression. Bertha Lask demonstrated a new attitude to children and considered them to be equal partners of the adults, her young heroes are engaged in the construction of socialism and are armed with progressive communist ideology. Bertha Lask has worked out in her book the main principles of interpretation of characters and events which will become common for all travelogues about the USSR addressed to young readers. Key words: Proletarian children’s literature in Germany in 1920-ies, Bertha Lask, children’s books about Soviet Russia

Revolution? What Revolution?

Revolution? What Revolution? Yongjin Zhang (bio) Wars and revolutions, Hannah Arendt once famously claimed, “determined the physiognomy of the twentieth century.” 1 For one thing, the two World Wars had devastating and destructive impacts on the historical development of the century. Think also of the systemic challenges to the international order presented by the Bolshevik Revolution and the Chinese Communist Revolution, which attempted to create and sustain different domestic political and economic orders founded on a rival socioeconomic system and ideology. Furthermore there was the 1952 Egyptian Revolution, the 1959 Cuban Revolution, and the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and one could also point to anticolonial revolutions that delegitimized imperialism and made the sovereign order global. China had its own share of wars and revolutions in the twentieth century. The modern transformation of the country is characteristically marked by the 1911 Republican Revolution, which ended its dynastic history and changed the Chinese body politic. It is also marked by the deadly contest between the Nationalist and Communist revolutions in what are often called the “revolutionary civil wars,” leading to the Communist victory and the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Mao Zedong and his comrades continued to wage revolution after 1949, culminating in the disastrous Cultural Revolution of 1966–76. As a revolutionary power in the postwar international system, China actively promoted revolution worldwide, exporting it as one thrust of the country’s foreign policy. It was Deng Xiaoping who launched the “second revolution” through opening and reform in 1978, which changed the country from a revolutionary power to a reformist state. It is therefore only natural that fundamental changes in China in the twentieth century are often understood in terms of successive revolutions—or continuous revolution, as Mao would have it. By the same token, revolution, either as a critical perspective or as a descriptive, analytical, and normative term, has become deeply entrenched and practically indispensable in the study of Chinese history and politics. [End Page 154] Wittingly or not, Elizabeth Economy’s The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State largely follows this analytical mode in an attempt to make sense of China’s contemporary transformation under the leadership of Xi Jinping. “Deng’s ‘second revolution’ had drawn to a close,” Economy asserts, and “Xi Jinping’s ‘third revolution’ was underway” (p. 10). She judiciously selects six areas of Xi’s top reform priorities for critical examination. Chapters 2 to 7 each provide a captivating account of the transformation of China’s political institutions and processes that led to the dramatic centralization of authority. These are symbolized by the declaration of Xi as the core of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership, the intensified penetration of society by the party-state through the control of the internet and of the free flow of ideas and information, the reassertion of the party in the decision-making of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), the expanded role of the SOEs in core sectors of the Chinese economy, the government’s drive to reinvent China as an innovative nation, the war on pollution, and finally China’s ambition under Xi to reassert itself as a great power in world politics through the exercise of its growing hard and soft power. Economy investigates these ongoing transformative changes in China not as a disinterested academic but as an acutely involved policy analyst concerned with understanding the “seeming inconsistencies and ambiguities of Chinese policy today” (p. x). Her study attempts “to assess the relative success or shortcomings of the Chinese leadership’s initiatives on their own merits” (p. xi). The analysis is punctuated by conversations with Chinese officials, interviews of think-tank analysts and civil-society activists, and discussions with Chinese scholars in Beijing, Shanghai, Dubai, and Washington, D.C. There are also encounters with Jack Ma at the Economic Club of New York and debates at New York University. Cutting through the maze of what she calls “fast-changing, contradictory and occasionally misleading information” (p. x) about the transformation of China that has arguably overloaded information circuits, Economy has carefully woven a rich tapestry that provides a big picture while also including telling and baroque details of China’s ongoing...

Research on Data Mining of Learning Behaviours of College Students on MOOC Platform

With the continuous development of computer network and the popularity of internet applications, technology is constantly changing the traditional education model. The rise of the MOOC has set off a worldwide revolution in educational technology, which has been widely welcomed by university teachers and students. On the platforms of MOOC, the learning behaviours of college students have generated massive amounts of relevant data. Teachers can tap learning behaviours, master different types of learning styles to better control the learning steps and urge college students to better participate in all aspects of learning. Based on the MOOC platform, this paper classifies the students into excellent learners, middle learners, poor learners and non-learners by cluster analysis to teach students of different levels in different ways to optimize the MOOC teaching effect.

Amplified Trickle Algorithm in Routing Protocol for Low Power Lossy Networks for Internet of Things

Internet of Things (IoT) currently generates a worldwide revolution in the technology field that demands data transfer, data acquisition, and networking confronts. There are several ways or protocols available to connect and transfer data between different nodes in a network. The Routing Protocol for Low Power in lossy Networks (RPL) is a routing solution designed specifically for wireless sensor networks. The RPL routing protocol mainly focuses on forward traffic and making routing decisions. If the routing decisions are not appropriate and intelligent then the network needs to perform retransmission that consumes more resources, power, bandwidth and processing. The Amplified Trickle (AT) algorithm is proposed to enhance the routing performance in a low power lossy network. The AT algorithm is implemented using the Cooja simulator and the performance is analyzed based on power consumption and radio duty cycling. The results show that the performance of the RPL network is improved and the network lifetime is increased.