The Development of College Ice Hockey in China: Leveraging the Success for Beijing 2022

After winning the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, ice hockey has become more popular in colleges in China. However, the challenges to college hockey’s development in China are not surprising as new markets tend to experience struggles due to the fluidity of logics (Thornton & Ocasio, 2008) and issues of establishing legitimacy (Deephouse & Suchman, 2008). Considering this, those hoping to establish new sport institutions within untapped contexts are burdened with the arduous task of simultaneously creating and maintaining institutional structures while working to establish legitimacy (Washington, 2004). In this study, we draw from the concept of institutional work to understand how Chinese collegiate administrations and other relevant stakeholders have created, built, and sustained the emergent ice hockey environment for universities in China. This inquiry was guided by the following research questions: what factors at various institutional levels influenced the development of college ice hockey in China? How did institutional leaders utilize Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics to leverage the development of college ice hockey? To answer these questions, we employed qualitative case study methodology. Primary data were collected through 18 semi-structured interviews with university faculty, student athletes, and administrative officials. Secondary data were collected via archived documents from numerous sources. Data analysis was consistent with the Gioia methodology, wherein we identified first-order concepts, second-order themes, and aggregate theoretical dimensions (Gioia, Corley, & Hamilton, 2012). Preliminary findings suggest the development of college ice hockey in China has framed the development model with opportunities and multiple resources. Organizing capability, the hockey infrastructure, and legitimating issues impacted the development of college ice hockey. The 2022 Winter Olympics is a good opportunity for developing college ice hockey and it is bringing in additional funding and support to college hockey teams and athletes. The development of college ice hockey in China always combines with nationalism, and some student athletes also represent the national team for China. In addition, youth ice hockey development in Beijing and Heilongjiang is providing ice hockey talents for the college hockey teams around China. College ice hockey in China was facing challenges in an environment from different institutional logic orders. This study provides insights into the relationship among the nationalism, Olympics, and the development of winter sport in college. Additionally, this research outlined how public and private actors may work to create new governance structures that may be seen as legitimate

Mass hierarchy sensitivity of medium baseline reactor neutrino experiments with multiple detectors

We report the neutrino mass hierarchy (MH) sensitivity of medium baseline reactor neutrino experiments with multiple detectors. Sensitivity of determining the MH can be significantly improved by adding a near detector and combining both the near and far detectors. The size of the sensitivity improvement is related to accuracy of the individual mass-splitting measurements and requires strict control on the relative energy scale uncertainty of the near and far detectors. We study the impact of both baseline and target mass of the near detector on the combined sensitivity. A figure-of-merit is defined to optimize the baseline and target mass of the near detector and the optimal selections are $\sim$13~km and $\sim$4~kton respectively for a far detector with the 20~kton target mass and 52.5~km baseline. As typical examples of future medium baseline reactor neutrino experiments, the optimal location and target mass of the near detector are selected for JUNO and RENO-50. Finally, we discuss distinct effects of the neutrino spectrum uncertainty for setups of a single detector and double detectors, which indicate that the spectrum uncertainty can be well constrained in the presence of the near detector.Comment: 7 pages, 9 figure

E-Commerce and Internet Marketing in Yemen: Opportunities and Challenges

Nowadays, information and communication technologies (ICT) are advancing in a fast speed. It is widely acknowledged that businesses can benefit a lot from the process of applying the advanced technology in both B2B and B2C Marketing. For example, both the behaviors of buying and selling can be completed based on Internet and information system, and this is called e-Commerce. Under this situation, the internet marketing has emerged. It is represented by e-Marketplace which is known as a virtual place. The emergence of e-platforms is helpful for businesses to find more customers and finish the business transactions effectively and efficiently. Despite the limitations and obstacles in adopting and implementing e-commerce, SMEs can still enjoy the benefits of e-commerce. Yemen is still developing the basic elements of an e-commerce infrastructure such as networking, electronic payments and IT-related services, including information technology education and training. Yemen has recently gained higher mobile subscriptions and Internet access penetration rates. The increased use and popularity of mobile phones in Yemen has opened the door to large-scale introduction of e-commerce. Due to the high penetration rate and infrastructure construction, Yemen has good potential to apply ICT and e-commerce. However, Yemeni e-commerce must overcome the lack of experience and skills such as ICT and e-commerce, the concentration of ICTs in urban areas, and the shortage of information technology personnel and facilities. The document suggests that effective e-commerce adoption and implementation should be conducted under carefully designed national ICT and e-commerce development plans and guidelines. Keywords: Electronic commerce, information and communication technology, electronic business, mobile commerce, developing countries, technology transfer, emerging economies, digital economy, Middle East, Yemen. DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/11-21-04 Publication date:July 31st 201

The study of strategic management improvement in Yemen soft company

Software industry is the core of information industry and the foundation of information-based national economy, and also a strategic industry that decides a country’s position in international competition. The Yemeni government has put the development of software industry to a significant part in the national development plan. Yemen Software, a rapid-developing high-tech corporate enterprise, is entering a growing period after years of primitive accumulation. In this key point of development, it is highly necessary for it to make strategic positioning through comparison of internal and external environment opportunities and the advantages and disadvantages of itself. It is also the most important and the most urgent challenge for Yemen to lay its competitive advantage by grabbing the unprecedented developing chance with limited resources and fully taking advantage of its own strengths so as to stand out from the competition. Therefore, it is of much strategic significance to mane comprehensive thinking and studies on the development strategies of this company. In addition, this paper also makes strategy research on Yemen Software as a subject corporate. In section one, it introduces the importance of studying the development strategies research on Yemen Software as well as the purpose and meaning of this research. The main structure, research methods and technical routes are provided through studying the research condition of this topic. Section two illustrates the nature and features of strategy and introduces the strategy structure and its contents and tasks of this company. Section Three is a general introduction about Yemen Software, including internal operation environment, human resources, market share and resources. Then it analyzes the external macro-environment of this company through the aspects of economy, politics, political law, technical environment and competition environment. In Section four, the author builds a SWOT strategy matrix through the analysis on the advantages, disadvantages, chances and challenges of this company. Section five introduces the Safeguard Measures taken by Yemen Software from four aspects including optimization of organization structure, production strategy, human resources allocation as well as corporate culture. This paper aims to set a development plan for Yemen Software through the strategic analysis and provide learning experience for other similar software companies. Keywords: Yemen Software; strategic management; Yemen; corporate development strategy; SWOT analysis; strategic planning improvement  DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/11-16-12 Publication date:June 30th 201

SheetCopilot: Bringing Software Productivity to the Next Level through Large Language Models

Computer end users have spent billions of hours completing daily tasks like tabular data processing and project timeline scheduling. Most of these tasks are repetitive and error-prone, yet most end users lack the skill to automate these burdensome works. With the advent of large language models (LLMs), directing software with natural language user requests become a reachable goal. In this work, we propose a SheetCopilot agent that takes natural language task and control spreadsheet to fulfill the requirements. We propose a set of atomic actions as an abstraction of spreadsheet software functionalities. We further design a state machine-based task planning framework for LLMs to robustly interact with spreadsheets. We curate a representative dataset containing 221 spreadsheet control tasks and establish a fully automated evaluation pipeline for rigorously benchmarking the ability of LLMs in software control tasks. Our SheetCopilot correctly completes 44.3\% of tasks for a single generation, outperforming the strong code generation baseline by a wide margin. Our project page:https://sheetcopilot.github.io/.Comment: Accepted to NeurIPS 202

Poly(pentafluorobenzyl 2‐ylidene‐acetate): Polymerization and Postpolymerization Modification

The polymerization of 2,3,4,5,6-pentafluorobenzyl 2-diazoacetate is conducted at ambient temperature and catalyzed by [(l-prolinate)RhI(1,5-dimethyl-1,5-cyclooctadiene)] or [(l-prolinate)RhI(1,5-cyclooctadiene)] yielding C1 polymers with molecular weights of 3000–4000 g mol−1 and dispersity between 1.1 and 1.3. Incorporation of the pentafluorobenzyl group into the C1 polymer results in a different solubility when compare to its C2 analog poly(2,3,4,5,6-pentafluorobenzyl methacrylate). Efficient postmodifications via para-fluoro-thiol reaction with different thiols are conducted with this C1 polymethylene