Factors Shaping People’s Memories of the Covid-19 Global Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused immense damage to the world, including its impact on the global economy and public health. The pandemic has also exposed the weaknesses in the healthcare and economic systems. While many factors have influenced the global COVID-19 pandemic, there is a lack of research on the key shapers of COVID-19 and their importance. This article explores this issue through the perspectives of media, narratives of COVID-19-infected individuals, and visual images. The impact of COVID-19 on the global pandemic is analyzed from the viewpoint of self-reports and visual images of COVID-19-infected individuals. The paper suggests ways to improve preparedness for future global health crises by analyzing these issues and ensuring that we can learn from the pandemic’s memory

How Users can Solve the Trust Problem in the Digital Age

The digital age has brought new changes to both the production and dissemination of information, and these changes are both positive and negative. This paper focuses on the trust problems in information that has arisen in the digital age, analyses the problem of disinformation and the weakening influence of opinion leaders in the Internet environment from the perspective of users, and makes suggestions for improvement

Effect of clogged drainage pipes on the stability of railway embankments

The rising water level caused by clogged drainage pipes results in instability in railway embankments and creates dangerous riding conditions for passing trains. As such, it is crucial to identify the factors that influence the slope stability of railway embankments subjected to rising water levels and exposed to train traffic. The purpose of this thesis is to study the slope stability of railway embankments by using a coupled Biot model where pore water pressure and stresses are considered simultaneously. Slope stability analyses are performed using two-dimensional finite element shear strength reduction (FE-SSR) models in which the control variable method is employed to study the effect of key parameters (e.g., embankment geometry, water level, and train speed) on the stability of railway embankments. Maximum safe train speeds are calculated for various slope geometries and water levels to maintain a minimum factor of safety of 1.3. The simulation results illustrate that a flatter slope with a slope ratio of 1V:3H, 3m railway embankment and the 1m natural slope presents the best result in maximum safe train speed. Consequently, a model is developed to evaluate the influence of compromised drainage on the slope stability of a railway embankment under stationary or moving train loads. The findings of this study are then used to determine desirable slope geometry parameters and maximum safe train speeds for railway embankments subjected to rising water levels

Eco-Translatology Perspective on the English Translation of Subtitles in the Documentary Eight Hundred Years of Chu State

Based on the concept of translational eco-environment, oriental ecological wisdom, and the Darwinian principle of natural selection, the concepts of eco-translatology and relevant theoretical ideas were proposed and explained by Professor Hu Gengshen from 2001 on. This interdisciplinary theory of translation studies and ecology considers translation as a translator's adaptation and selection activities, and its translation methods include the linguistic, cultural, and communication aspects. Eight Hundred Years of Chu State is a large-scale documentary about Chu culture. It systematically tells about the great history of the 800 years of Chu State, interpreting the brilliant and splendid civilization of Chu with its magnificent cultural relics, and revealing the laws worth pondering behind its ups and downs. Taking as examples the Chinese-English subtitle translations of the documentary Eight Hundred Years of Chu State, this paper aims to take the interdisciplinary theoretical perspective of eco-translatology to explore its implications for documentary translation from the linguistic, cultural, and communicative dimensions. Aiming also to improve the English translation of Chinese-made documentaries to a higher level, this paper hopes to promote the spread of Chinese traditional culture, especially Jingchu culture, and to enhance the world's understanding of China and its splendid culture

Targeted Poverty Alleviation and Households’ Livelihood Strategy in a Relation-Based Society: Evidence from Northeast China

Abstract: Although China is experiencing a transition from a relation-based society to a rule-based society, relationships among acquaintances still play an important role in resource allocation, such as the allocation of policy resources. This is particularly true in rural China, where targeted poverty alleviation is prevalent and a relation-based social structure still dominates. However, it is still unknown how relationships affect the livelihood strategy of households in rural China and how poverty alleviation policies plays a role between them. Therefore, this paper embeds poverty alleviation into the relation-based society and explores how households respond to the policy in this specific context. Using grounded theory research method and the sustainable livelihoods approach (SLA) framework, this paper contains in-depth interviews and field observations from three povertystricken villages in Northeast China. The results show that relationships have a significant impact on the households’ livelihood strategy. In other words, the households’ livelihood strategy is embedded in the relation-based society. The types of relationships induce households to choose maintained or developmental type livelihood strategies, while relationships influence how the poverty alleviation policies affect the livelihood strategy. This study is not only an extension of the SLA in the research context, but also provides a significant perspective for enriching the long-term mechanism of targeted poverty alleviation by building a theoretical model of the relationships between a relation-based society, targeted poverty alleviation and the livelihood strategies of households.publishedVersio

Research on Translation of Petroleum Technical English from the Perspective of Eco-Translatology

As a special category of English for science and technology, Petroleum Technical English (PTE) has rising importance with the development of petroleum industry. Combining general English with petroleum terminology and knowledge, its language is characterized by conciseness, accuracy, objectivity, logic and preciseness. From the perspective of Eco-translatology, and in light of the stylistic features of PTE, this article intends to explore the application of Eco-translatology theory on the translation of PTE from three dimensions: linguistic, cultural and communicative

Ai-Empowered Inclusive Strategies for Fishing Villages

With the development of the economy and society, the continuous development and application of artificial intelligence have gradually become an important factor and driving force to promote the transformation and upgrading of all walks of life. Promoting artificial intelligence has inevitably become the best way to empower the governance and services of fishing village communities, which is also the general trend of future development. Artificial intelligence, as an organized force, plays an important role in community governance, but at present, the potential of artificial intelligence to empower community governance in fishing villages has not been fully tapped. Through literature survey, literature review and comparative analysis, this paper investigates and studies the current situation of community governance in artificial intelligence-empowered fishing villages, finds and raises some related problems. Then the survey found the significant role of artificial intelligence on community governance in fishing villages. Finally, according to the current situation of AI-empowered fishing village community governance, some constructive suggestions are put forward about AI-empowered inclusive strategies for fishing villages

Surface structure and multigap superconductivity of V3Si (111) revealed by scanning tunneling microscopy

V3Si, a classical silicide superconductor with relatively high TC (~16 K), is promising for constructing silicon-based superconducting devices and hetero-structures. However, real space characterization on its surfaces and superconducting properties are still limited. Here we report the first low-temperature scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) study on cleaned V3Si (111) single crystal surface. We observed a r3 by r3 superstructure which displays mirror symmetry between adjacent terraces, indicating the surface is V-terminated and reconstructed. The tunneling spectrum shows full superconducting gap with double pairs of coherence peaks, but has a relatively small gap size with comparing to bulk TC. Impurity induced in-gap state is absent on surface defects but present on introduced magnetic adatoms. Upon applying magnetic field, a hexagonal vortex lattice is visualized. Interestingly, the vortex size is found to be field dependent, and the coherence length measured from single vortex at low field is significantly larger than estimated value from bulk H_c2. These results reflect V3Si is a multi-band, s- wave superconductor