What is the Way Allah's Word Manifests Itself in Yemeni Arabic?

In this paper, the author shows how ‘Allah’ is used in daily Yemeni Arabic conversations. The term Allah has a variety of meanings in Yemeni Arabic, as it does in the Arab world, reflecting the belief that Allah alone is in charge of all the affairs, grants blessings, and either encourages or criticizes someone to do something. The result of this is that the term Allah appears in several expressions when the term is part of a sentence containing the word. For example, there are expressions that have over one meaning, such as Allah alaik, which signifies two literal meanings. The word Allah can also be found in other expressions, but with entirely different meanings, including moaning or aiming for guidance. I conducted a study looking at the occurrences of social life contact, reactions, and the cultural influence of native Yemenis. The rest of this paper explores some of the other most common expressions used in Yemeni society, which shows the word is heavily influenced by religion and culture in its use in Yemeni society

University students adaptation to the Chinese culture : a case study of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) University students in China

This study explores the adaptation of Arab students to Chinese culture, using MENA students as examples. MENA students are from the Middle East and North Africa (Arabic is their mother tongue and is commonly referred to as “Arabs”). The purpose of their visit is to pursue their studies in China and to adopt the Chinese lifestyle. We examine how they integrated Chinese culture into their culture and vice versa to better understand their adaptation to the Chinese cross-culture. Their perception of Chinese society and lifestyle differs from their own. We conducted a survey comprising forty-one closed questions and one open-ended question to examine fifty-five MENA students studying in mainland China. Regardless of their backgrounds, the results suggest that their adaptation to Chinese culture appears to include adhering to Chinese etiquette, becoming close to the way of life, examining the development of Technology, and attempting to share Chinese development perspectives with their own cultures. In contrast to their own culture, they display a high degree of adaptability to the conditions and rules of Chinese society with 89% of total participants. Aside from displaying cultural diversity, they also highlight language proficiency challenges, impressions of the culture, and wonders of the host country

Atomically intimate solid electrolyte/electrode contact capable of surviving long-term cycling with repeated phase transitions

The electrode–electrolyte contact issue within the composite electrode layer is a grand challenge for all-solid-state Li batteries. In order to achieve cycling performances comparable to Li-ion batteries based on liquid electrolyte, the aforementioned solid–solid contact not only needs to be sufficiently thorough but also must tolerate repeated cycling. Simultaneously meeting both requirements is rather challenging. Here, we discover that epitaxy may effectively overcome such bottlenecks even when the electrode undergoes repeated phase transitions during cycling. Through epitaxial growth, the perovskite Li0.33La0.56TiO3 solid electrolyte was found capable of forming atomically intimate contact with both the spinel Li4Ti5O12 and rock-salt Li7Ti5O12. In contrast to conventional expectations, such epitaxial interfaces can also survive repeated spinel-to-rock-salt phase transitions. Consequently, the Li4Ti5O12–Li0.33La0.56TiO3 composite electrode based on epitaxial solid–solid contact delivers not only a rate capability comparable to that of the surry-cast one with solid–liquid contact but also an excellent long-term cycling stability