The Study of Knowledge and Attitudes of Students in Chinese Universities Towards Canadian Political and Local Issues

This paper provides a specific perspective of Chinese-Canadian relations by studying the knowledge and attitudes of Chinese students towards Canadian political and local issues. The data and conclusions presented are based on 134 questionnaires that analyze the level of knowledge and attitudes the participants had and what factors contributed to this. The findings reveal that the participants had very little knowledge about Canada and fairly negative attitudes towards Canada, compared to other countries such as the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Moreover, certain factors, such as sex, place of birth, and proficiency with English, impacted the level of knowledge and attitudes among the participants

New existence and multiplicity of homoclinic solutions for second order non-autonomous systems

In this paper, we study the second order non-autonomous system \begin{eqnarray*} \ddot{u}(t)+A\dot{u}(t)-L(t)u(t)+\nabla W(t,u(t))=0, \ \ \forall t\in\mathbb{R}, \end{eqnarray*} where $A$ is an antisymmetric $N\times N$ constant matrix, $L\in C(\mathbb{R},\mathbb{R}^{N\times N})$ may not be uniformly positive definite for all $t\in\mathbb{R}$, and $W(t,u)$ is allowed to be sign-changing and local superquadratic. Under some simple assumptions on $A$, $L$ and $W$, we establish some existence criteria to guarantee that the above system has at least one homoclinic solution or infinitely many homoclinic solutions by using mountain pass theorem or fountain theorem, respectively. Recent results in the literature are generalized and significantly improved

Mechanism of Green Finance Awareness on Sustainable Competitiveness of SMEs

One phenomenon observed during environmental problems was increased green finance in most countries. This study explores the mechanisms of green finance, sustainable competitiveness, and supply chain among SMEs. Self-administered online questionnaires were completed by 738, 314, and 210 senior managers respectively from China, Malaysia, and Singapore. SPSS and Smart PLS-SEM software were used to test the hypotheses. This study aligns with Sustainable Development Goal 11, i.e., sustainable cities and communities, and Sustainable Development Goal 13, i.e., climate action. This study echoes the China government's "double-carbon" target initiative presented in the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly. Keywords: Human Capital Index in Malaysia, Early Education, Economic growth, Future Productivity eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2023. The Authors. Published for AMER & cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), College of Built Environment, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v8i24.463

Variations in Stable Carbon Isotope Composition and Leaf Traits of Picea schrenkiana

To understand the morphological and physiological responses of leaves to changes in altitudinal gradients, we examined ten morphological and physiological characteristics in one-year-old needles of Picea schrenkiana var. tianschanica at ten points along an altitudinal gradient from 1420 to 2300 m a.s.l. on the northern slopes of the Tianshan Mountains in northwest China. Our results indicated that LA, SD, LPC, and LKC increased linearly with increasing elevation, whereas leaf δ13C, LNC, Chla + b, LDMC, LMA, and Narea varied nonlinearly with changes in altitude. With elevation below 2100 m, LNC, Narea, and Chla + b increased, while LDMC and LMA decreased with increasing altitude. When altitude was above 2100 m, these properties showed the opposite patterns. Leaf δ13C was positively correlated with Narea and LNC and negatively correlated with SD and LA, suggesting that leaf δ13C was indirectly controlled by physiological and morphological adjustments along altitudinal gradients. Based on the observed maximum values in LNC, Narea, Chla + b, and LA and the minimum values in LMA and LDMC at the elevation of 2100 m, suggesting higher photosynthetic capacity and greater potential for fast growth under superior optimum zone, we concluded that the best growing elevation for P. schrenkiana var. tianschanica in the Tianshan Mountains was approximately 2100 m