Frontiers in Humanities and Social Sciences
Frontiers in Humanities and Social Sciences is a monthly online, international, peer-reviewed journal, dedicated to publish empirical, academic, theoretical and review research articles that contribute to the practice in humanities, social sciences, and related topics. All articles published are rigorously and fast reviewed meeting the Journal Quality standards.
A Study on the Associations Among Social Media Usage Patterns, Perceptions of AI Culture, and Mental Health Across Gender Groups
In order to explore the internal relationship between social media use behavior, digital culture perception and mental health of different gender groups, this paper undertakes data collation and empirical analysis based on CNNIC's 53rd Statistical Report on Internet Development in China, the Blue Book on Mental Health: China's National Mental Health Development Report (2023-2024) and other public authoritative materials. Research shows that the size of China’s internet user base has reached 1.092 billion, the Internet penetration rate is 77.5%, and the network applications have achieved full national coverage. Uncontrolled browsing of short videos and other passive social media usage behaviors can have a negative impact on individual emotions and mental health, and this impact is more prominent in the female population. The Blue Book data shows that the risk of depression and anxiety in adults gradually decreases with age, and the decline in depression risk in women is significantly higher than that in men; The psychological health risks of rural minor females and high-frequency online consumers are relatively higher. Actively participating in online social activities and developing rational internet habits can effectively maintain mental health. This study clarifies the correlation characteristics between digital usage behavior and mental health under gender differences, providing empirical reference for developing gender-differentiated digital psychological counseling programs and guiding the public toward healthy internet use.
Social media usage; Perceptions of AI Culture; Mental Health; Gender Disparities;Digital Life.
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From “Villain” to “Heretic”: Identity Politics and the Roots of Tragedy in *The Jew of Malta*
Christopher Marlowe’s *The Jew of Malta* profoundly reflects the value reconstruction and social upheaval of the Renaissance through its unique “villain-hero” narrative .Grounded in the social context of the Elizabethan era, a deconstruction of the characters of the Jew Barabbas and the Governor Funnes reveals that, compared to Barabbas’s explicit quest for vengeance, Funnes’s use of religious rhetoric to mask political plunder constitutes a more covert and profound form of Machiavellianism. This exposes the hypocritical nature of the Christian world, which commits injustice in the name of the sacred. Building on this, by introducing the theory of binary oppositions, the analysis delves from the superficial identity conflict between “Jews and Christians” to the deeper struggle between “humanist desires and religious authoritarian order”—Barabbas’s tragedy is not merely the moral ruin of an individual, but an epochal metaphor for the sharp conflict between the awakening of human nature and the traditional theocratic order during the era of primitive accumulation of capital.
*The Jew of Malta*; Machiavellianism; religious hypocrisy; binary opposition; Renaissance.
A Literature Review on Leisure Constraints
As an important part of daily life, leisure activities play an irreplaceable role, since the early 1980s, the study of constraints on leisure activities has become an important topic in the field of foreign leisure research, while domestic academic research on leisure constraints lags behind, and there are fewer research results, to this end, this paper summarizes and analyzes the development history, research content of domestic and foreign leisure constraints research. For this reason, this paper combs, summarizes and analyzes the development history, research content of domestic and foreign leisure constraints research, aiming to provide reference for domestic leisure constraints research.
Leisure constraints; research review; Constraint negotiation.
Zhenzhen in the Painting and Pygmalion: A Comparative Study of Gender Consciousness and AI Ethics in Eastern and Western Creation Myths
This paper presents a comparative study of the Greek myth Pygmalion and the Chinese tale Zhenzhen in the Painting, examining how the motif of “artwork transformed into a companion” is interpreted across cultural contexts. In the Western tradition, the Pygmalion narrative is grounded in the materiality of sculpture and the interaction between humans and gods, forming a “creator–creation” structure. Since the Renaissance, it has been closely linked to humanist educational ideals and repeatedly reinterpreted in drama and pedagogy. In contrast, shaped by the aesthetics of Chinese painting and a secularized belief in spirits, Zhenzhen in the Painting is primarily expressed through poetry and opera, reflecting literati aesthetic ideals. In terms of gender, the Greek myth reinforces women’s passive status through divine intervention, whereas the Chinese story, within its surreal framework of a painted figure coming to life, reveals an emerging female subjectivity and resistance to fate. Both traditions reflect a shared human desire to reconstruct intimacy through artistic media, and their imagination of creating an ideal companion resonates with contemporary developments in emotionally customized artificial intelligence.
Pygmalion complex, Zhenzhen in the Painting, Cross-cultural comparison, Gender consciousness.
A Study on the English Translation of Pingnan Folk Culture from the Perspective of Translation Shift Theory
Rooted in the regional cultural soil of southeastern Guangxi, Pingnan folk culture integrates the diverse characteristics of the Hakka, Yao and other ethnic groups, forming a cultural system that boasts both uniqueness and inheritance. Terms and texts of this culture, bearing strong regional cultural connotations, encounter the dilemma of balancing linguistic form and cultural meaning in cross-cultural translation. The Translation Shifts Theory proposed by British linguist J.C. Catford, with a focus on linguistic levels and categories, provides a systematic analytical framework for addressing translation adaptation issues in culture-loaded texts. From the perspective of this theory, this paper adopts literature research, case analysis and comparative research methods. It classifies Pingnan folk culture into three categories—material folk culture, social folk culture and belief folk culture—and systematically explores the applicability of Translation Shifts Theory in translating Pingnan folk culture. By examining the specific application paths of level shifts and category shifts in translating folk terms and texts, this study aims to resolve the core contradiction between "formal constraints" and "meaning loss" in the translation of regional folk culture. Based on this, the paper constructs a translation framework of "level adaptation - category reconstruction - meaning conservation". It proposes targeted translation strategies and verifies their feasibility with specific cases. The research intends to provide theoretical support and practical guidance for the cross-cultural communication of Pingnan folk culture, and contribute to the "going global" of Chinese regional folk culture.
Translation Shifts Theory; Pingnan folk culture; Cross-cultural translation; Level shifts; Category shifts.
Analysis on Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Creation of Existentialist Films in the Context of East Asian Localization
The core themes of existentialist film, rooted as it is in the postwar European philosophical tradition, are the individual subjectivity, extreme freedom and the confrontation with absurdity. When East Asian filmmakers grapple with these premises they are not merely reproducing Western existentialist aesthetic but are doing so in culturally specific philosophical registers such as Confucian relational ethics, Buddhist impermanence, and Daoist acceptance of contingency, thereby producing hybrid cinematic forms that are not so easily assimilated into either tradition. This study investigates the cross-cultural adoption of existentialist themes in East Asian cinema through three theoretical perspectives: Homi Bhabha's third sphere of cultural enunciation Stuart Hall’s encoding/decoding paradigm 3. A comparative philosophy of selfhood: Sartrean individual freedom v Confucian relational identity. Drawing on close textual analysis of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s A City of Sadness (1989), Edward Yang’s Yi Yi (2000), and Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite (2019), this essay argues that East Asian existentialist cinema constitutes a unique mode of creative practice in which the irreducible particularity of collective historical experience re-works the existentialist form to produce what I call “relational existentialism”: a filmic mode that discovers freedom, absurdity, and authenticity in, rather than outside of.
Existentialism; cross-cultural adaptation; East Asian cinema; third space; Confucianism; Buddhist impermanence; relational existentialism; localization.
A Comparative Study of Engagement Resources in the Abstracts of MA Theses in Linguistics in China and International Journal Articles
The abstract of a research paper is a core carrier of academic communication. Existing studies on engagement resources have mostly focused on cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary comparisons, while there remains a research gap in the refined cross-group comparison of engagement resources between abstracts of MA thesis in China and international journal articles. Based on the engagement system framework of Martin’s Appraisal Theory, this study takes 20 English abstracts of the two types as research corpus, and conducts manual annotation and quantitative comparative analysis. The results show that the density of engagement resources in abstracts of international journal articles is 1.71 times that in MA Theses. The core difference lies in the attribute-acknowledge resources: abstracts of MA theses rely heavily on citations of authoritative literature, while abstracts of international journal articles focus more on their own research innovation. This study enriches the application of Appraisal Theory in academic discourse research, and can provide references for English academic writing and teaching for postgraduate students in China.
Engagement Resources; Appraisal Theory; Research Paper Abstracts; Comparative Study; English for Academic Purposes Writing.
The Influence of Chinese Shanshui Culture on the Development of Gardens in China and Abroad
This paper systematically examines the origin and development of Chinese shanshui culture and its influence on gardens in China and abroad. Adopting a comparative perspective between China and the West, the study reveals the differences and interactions between the two traditions across five dimensions: natural geography, philosophical thought, garden form, spiritual expression, and cross-cultural transmission. The results indicate that Western gardens, originating from open plains, emphasize human control over nature, while Chinese gardens, shaped by complex terrain, gave rise to the concept of "harmony between heaven and humanity" and the pursuit of "learning from nature." At the material level, Chinese cities integrated mountains and waters into their macro-scale layouts, while literati created micro-scale gardens through expressive techniques. At the spiritual level, Chinese landscape poetry and painting distinguish themselves from Western traditions through "conveying emotion through scenery" and "changing scenery with each step." During the 17th–18th centuries, Chinese shanshui culture was introduced to Europe by missionaries, driving innovation in Western garden design. In the contemporary context, the concept of the "shanshui city" offers a vital pathway for the continuity of urban cultural heritage and sustainable development in China. As a spiritual legacy connecting tradition and modernity, East and West, Chinese shanshui culture holds significant theoretical and practical value.
Chinese shanshui culture; Chinese and Western gardens; harmony between heaven and humanity; learning from nature; shanshui city.
AIGC New Media Copywriting: Development Trajectories and Industry-Education Integration Pathways
The rapidly developing artificial intelligence-generated content (AIGC) technologies have profoundly reshaped the new media copywriter production scene, bringing remarkable efficiency and posing challenges for traditional creative education and industry-university collaboration models. This paper addresses three interrelated aspects: the technological advancement of AIGC within the domain of new media copywriting; the emergent tensions between algorithmic content generation and human creative abilities; and structural strategies to foster industry-academia cooperation for preparing practitioners for the AIGC era. This paper puts forward a four-pillar framework for the integration of industry and education by comparatively analysing current AIGC applications in Chinese and global media markets, empirically examining human-AI collaboration in advertising copy production, and reviewing university-enterprise cooperative education models in digital media fields, so as to align curriculum design, practical training, assessment reform, and ethical literacy with the competency requirements of AIGC-driven industries.
AIGC; new media copywriting; industry-education integration; human-AI collaboration; curriculum reform; digital media.
A Study on the "Fanxiangwu" Pattern in Wen Zhengming's "Thirty-One Views of the Humble Administrator's Garden"
Wen Zhengming's 《Zhuozheng Garden Album》 was created in the 12th year of the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty (1533), when Wen Zhengming was 64 years old. At the invitation of Wang Xianchen, the owner of Zhuozheng Garden, Wen painted the garden's landscapes and composed poems for the newly constructed garden. Each painting features the landscape name and a seven-character poem inscribed on the opposite page, integrating poetry, calligraphy, and painting to reflect the refined tastes of a literati. The album employs a blend of realistic and expressive techniques, with meticulously detailed architecture and lively, spacious natural scenery, creating an atmosphere of "mountains and forests within a small space." This paper conducts a visual analysis and discussion of the Fanxiangwu landscape among the thirty-one scenes depicted.
Zhuozheng Garden Atlas; Fanxiangwu; Garden Landscape; Architecture.
Research on the Cultivation of Employment Values and Practical Pathways of Medical Students under the Guidance of Party Building: A Case Study of Wenzhou Medical University
With the ongoing optimization of the talent structure in the healthcare industry, medical students face difficulties such as intense competition for high-quality positions and low willingness to work in primary-level institutions. As the core carrier for implementing the fundamental task of “fostering virtue and cultivating talent,” university party building has unique advantages in shaping values and enhancing employability. Taking Wenzhou Medical University as an example, this study employs literature review and questionnaire survey to analyze the impact of medical students’ participation in party-building activities on their employment values and willingness to work at the grassroots level. The results show that most medical students prefer public hospitals and high-paying positions in their initial job search, with insufficient inclination toward primary-level posts. However, party-building activities—through policy interpretation, role model publicity, and social practice—significantly enhance students’ understanding and recognition of primary healthcare work. Specifically, 89.17% of the students reported an increased willingness to serve at the grassroots after participating in party-building activities, and 99.37% believed that their sense of professional ethics and responsibility were strengthened. Based on these findings, this study constructs a three-dimensional pathway of “value guidance—capability enhancement—practice empowerment,” proposing deep integration of party building with career guidance, and improving mechanisms for policy dissemination, targeted assistance, and practice linkage. This approach aims to guide medical students in forming correct employment values, encourage more graduates to work in primary-level institutions, and achieve a win‑win situation between personal growth and social needs.
University party building; medical students; professional values; party building+ employment.
The Role Mechanisms and Promotional Value of Art Therapy as a Non-Pharmacological Intervention in Mental Health
The whole world load of mind health problems has strengthened the need for useful, reachable, and non-drug interference methods. Art treatment, which includes vision, sound, play and story methods, has appeared as a clinic-recognized method whose treatment working principles go beyond symptom easing to deal with emotion control, self building, and people connection again. This article investigates the psychological and neurobiological principles via which art therapy brings out curative influences, summarizes the clinical evidence foundation across main mental health disorders, and discusses the obstacles that limit its wider organization acceptance. Based on care ethics, the neuroscience of creativity, and health policy frameworks, this paper holds that the promotional value of art therapy lies not only in its clinical effect but also in its ability to attract groups of people who still have not been touched by drug treatment and traditional psychotherapy methods. We here give suggestions to working persons, institution management people, and policy makers who hope to put art therapy into the providing of general mental health services.
Art therapy, non-pharmacological intervention, mental health, expressive therapies, emotional regulation, music therapy, health policy.
Reform and Exploration of the "Three-Stage, Five-Dimensional" Smart Teaching Model in the Course "Rail Transit Safety Management"
In response to the challenges faced by traditional safety management courses in the context of the intelligent transformation of the rail transit industry—such as outdated teaching resources, rigid teaching methods, and fragmented evaluation systems—this paper proposes and implements a "three-stage, five-dimensional" smart teaching model. This model follows a three-stage teaching process: pre-class autonomous learning, in-class in-depth inquiry, and post-class precise review. It establishes a five-dimensional education objective system covering knowledge acquisition, skill development, competency enhancement, technological innovation, and value guidance. The model also develops three-dimensional teaching resources, designs project-based teaching plans, and introduces a multi-dimensional process-oriented evaluation system, while deeply integrating ideological and political education into technical application scenarios. Practical results show that this model effectively improves students' intelligent technology application skills, risk prediction ability in complex scenarios, and professional responsibility. It provides a replicable paradigm for the digital transformation of application-oriented engineering disciplines.
Rail transit safety management; teaching reform; three-stage five-dimensional smart teaching model; ideological and political education in courses.
Building a Secure and Resilient Digital Industrial Chain: Advantages, Challenges, and Governance Paths
Under the strategic guidance of coordinating development and security, building a secure and resilient digital industrial chain has become a core issue in promoting industrial modernization. Based on a theoretical analysis perspective, this paper systematically explains the dual roles of the digital economy in building industrial chain resilience. On the one hand, it analyzes the significant enabling advantages of the digital economy from three dimensions: information collaboration, intelligent decision - making, and ecological reconstruction. On the other hand, it identifies and discusses the real - world challenges faced in the current construction process, including risks of technological dependence, data security dilemmas, fragmented governance, and regional imbalances. Based on this, this paper proposes a systematic governance path for building a secure and resilient digital industrial chain from three levels: macro - institutional design, meso - industrial collaboration, and micro - enterprise capabilities, providing a theoretical reference for the implementation of the "coordinating development and security" strategy at the industrial level.
Digital Economy; Industrial Chain Resilience; Secure Development; Collaborative Governance.
A Study on the Pathways for Teaching Reform in the “Supply Chain Management” Course in the Context of New-Quality Productive Forces
The new quality of productive forces presents entirely new challenges to the competency structure of supply chain professionals. This paper systematically analyzes the prominent issues currently present in university “Supply Chain Management” courses across teaching philosophy, content, methods, assessment, ideological and political education, and industry-education integration. Guided by the concept of “new-quality education,” this paper constructs a systematic reform pathway encompassing six dimensions: shifting teaching objectives toward the integration of competencies and values; incorporating cutting-edge technologies into course content and ensuring dynamic updates; innovating teaching methods through a “human-machine collaboration + blended learning” model; implementing a value-added assessment system empowered by digital technology; naturally integrating ideological and political education throughout the course by focusing on the central theme of “supply chain security and responsibility”; and establishing a “government-university-enterprise” value co-creation platform through industry-education integration. Concurrently, this paper designs a collaborative support mechanism across four dimensions—organization, faculty, resources, and institutional frameworks—aiming to provide an operational theoretical framework and practical guide for the systematic reform of the “Supply Chain Management” course in the context of new-quality productive forces.
New-quality productive forces; supply chain management; curriculum reform; human-machine collaboration; value-added assessment; integration of industry and education.
A Study on the Psychological Response Mechanism of the Public to Government Health Information Self-Disclosure from the Perspective of Health Psychology
This study uses the 2026 U.S. Dietary Guidelines self-disclosure of capital manipulation as a case, applying the cognitive-affective-behavioral model to text-mine and sentiment-analyze 6,533 YouTube comments. Cognitively, the public focused on pre-existing frames—historical lessons, nutrient controversies, and institutional accountability—rather than the official admission itself. Affectively, neutral comments dominated, polarity fluctuated cyclically without polarization, and low-to-mid subjectivity scores indicated predominantly rational discourse. Behaviorally, interactions revolved around technical dietary debates rather than collective deliberation on government action, and likes showed no emotional mobilization. The findings demonstrate that official self-disclosure was “technicized” into a knowledge-validation arena instead of triggering a trust crisis or emotional polarization. This challenges the linear “honesty repairs trust” assumption in crisis communication and suggests that trust rebuilding in health communication should account for cognitive inertia, knowledge-centered discussion, and long-term psychological contracts, offering empirical and theoretical insights for health psychology-based public opinion analysis.
Health Psychology; Self-Disclosure; Cognitive-Affective-Behavioral Model; Public Opinion; Health Communication; Trust Rebuilding.
A Comparative Study of Stance Markers in the Abstracts of Chinese Master’s Theses and Research Articles by English Expert Writers
This study employs Hyland’s (2005) classification framework for stance markers as its core analytical tool. It constructs two small, comparable corpora—one comprising abstracts of Chinese master’s theses and the other comprising abstracts of scholarly articles by experts—and utilizes corpus-based quantitative statistics and comparative analysis to systematically examine the usage characteristics and differences of stance markers in these two text types. The findings reveal that while the total number of stance markers in master’s thesis abstracts is higher, their density is only half that of expert abstracts, indicating issues of loose and redundant usage and low expressive efficiency. In contrast, stance markers in expert abstracts are used with greater precision and restraint, achieving a balance between academic rigor and expressive efficiency. The results of this study provide empirical evidence and practical insights for teaching the writing of academic English abstracts at the master’s level.
Master’s theses; Academic abstracts; Stance markers; Comparative study.
Since the 21st century, human geography has undergone a paradigm revolution centered on the "material turn" and "posthuman turn," giving rise to More-than-human Geography (MTHG). Centered on relational ontology, this school challenges the long-standing anthropocentrism and human-nature dualism that have defined traditional human geography. It regards non-human lives, materials, and technologies as agents with agency, focusing on the complex relationships through which humans and non-humans co-construct space, place, and society. Based on relevant literature on domestic new cultural geography, urban space, animal geography, tourism geography, marine geography, as well as Western rural geography and urban ecology, this paper systematically sorts out the theoretical core, development context, and empirical fields of MTHG. Combined with typical studies on urban parks, rural idylls, Asian elephant conservation, tourist destination construction, marine aquaculture, and urban rewilding, it explains the school's cognitive progression from anthropocentrism to human-nature compatibility and then to more-than-human centrism, and analyzes the research progress of core propositions such as non-human agency, multi-species interaction, and hybrid place construction. On this basis, forming a localized understanding based on the practice of Chinese human geography, it reflects on the limitations of its theoretical application and localized development, and prospects its application prospects in urban governance, ecological protection, rural revitalization, and tourism development, providing a theoretical reference for understanding human-land relations in the new era.
More-than-human Geography; relational ontology; human-land relations; localization.
Guangzhou Morning Tea’s Cultural Symbols Reconstruction from a Cross-cultural Perspective
Against the backdrop of globalization, Guangzhou morning tea is not only accepted by overseas audiences as a form of cuisine, but also participates in the reconstruction of cultural meaning as an important component of the Lingnan daily lifestyle. However, due to cultural differences, the frequent weakening of symbolic meaning and deviation of cultural connotation affect elements such as the naming of dim sum items, tea house etiquette, and social customs during communication. Based on Peirce’s semiotic theory, this paper explores the reconstruction of Guangzhou morning tea cultural symbols from material, behavioral, and symbolic dimensions from a cross-cultural perspective. The purpose of this paper is to explore the connotations embedded in Guangzhou morning tea, promote its inheritance and international communication in the contemporary age, and enable Guangzhou morning tea to become an important cultural bond connecting the local region with the world.
Guangzhou Morning Tea, Peirce’s Semiotics, Cross-Cultural Communication.
Research on the Narrative Hedging Paths of Discourse-Weak Countries Against Discourse-Strong Countries from the Perspective of International Discourse Power
Against the backdrop of a restructuring global power landscape and intensifying great-power rivalry, how discourse-weak countries respond to the narrative hegemony of discourse-strong states has become a prominent topic in international political research. The narrative interaction between the United States and Latin America constitutes a typical case of international discourse contestation. This study employs a three-dimensional analytical framework of “actor-content-mode” to systematically examine the pathways and inherent logics of narrative resistance by discourse-weak states. The United States relies on a tripartite coordination mechanism of “officials-elites-media” to construct a “leadership” status, implement hegemonic narratives, and maintain regional dominance through such means as channel monopolization, labeling, and suppression. In contrast, Latin America consolidates narrative power through regional integration, the reconstruction of autonomous development identities, and multi-level actor interaction. Focused on deconstructing neoliberal hegemony and reconstructing the connotation of autonomous development, Latin America achieves narrative diffusion by expanding diversified channels, adopting empathetic rhetoric, and conducting dynamic interaction. The core logic of “narrative resistance by weak states” is to seek the legitimacy of independent development discourse, which centers on the synergy of three dimensions: actor cohesion, content consistency, and paradigm matching. Latin America’s practice of narrative hedging indicates that discourse-weak actors can effectively undermine the legitimacy of hegemonic narratives, build consensus both domestically and internationally, and further promote autonomous development. Currently, Latin American societies still face multiple discourse dilemmas, including discursive power asymmetries, internal fragmentation, and external oppression. Its practical experience holds significant theoretical and practical implications for developing countries to enhance their international discourse power and break free from discursive dependency.
International Discourse Power; Narrative Hedging; US–Latin American Relations; Narrative Construction.
Translational Clinical Relevance of a Tomato-Derived Phytomelatonin Platform Produced by Combined Enzymatic Hydrolysis
Background: Tomato fruit is a measurable dietary source of phytomelatonin, and tomato-derived extracts are increasingly being evaluated for sleep-related applications. Objective: We examined whether the analytical profile reported for the NVTIA tomato-derived phytomelatonin platform is consistent with the published human evidence base for melatonin and tomato-derived sleep interventions. Methods: We analyzed the process-performance dataset of the NVTIA platform and interpreted it in the context of peer-reviewed clinical and translational literature. Results: In the NVTIA dataset, the final melatonin content reached 98.2% to 99.1%, while total impurities were controlled within 1.0% to 1.5%. When rice-germ polyamines were omitted or the enzymatic hydrolysis conditions deviated from the pH and temperature window, melatonin content fell to 82.3% to 85.5% and impurities increased to 8.2% to 10.5%. Published food-chemistry data indicate that tomato fruits contain 7.5 to 250 ng/g dry-weight melatonin. In a meta-analysis of 17 controlled studies involving 284 participants, exogenous melatonin shortened sleep-onset latency by 4.0 min, improved sleep efficiency by 2.2%, and increased total sleep duration by 12.8 min. A double-blind randomized study of tomato extract in primary insomnia reported sleep-induction benefits over two weeks, and a more recent pilot study of tomato-derived phytomelatonin reported improvements in sleep latency, time awake, global PSQI score, and emotional well-being. Conclusion: The current evidence supports the clinical plausibility of a high-purity tomato-derived phytomelatonin ingredient and suggests that process quality is likely to matter for translational performance. Direct clinical superiority of NVTIA over other commercial ingredients, however, remains to be demonstrated in head-to-head randomized trials.
Tomato; phytomelatonin; melatonin; sleep; insomnia; enzymatic hydrolysis; translational nutrition.
Exploring the Pathways for Social Work Intervention in Community Governance under Party-Building Leadership
Community governance is the foundational project of the national governance system, and the organic integration of Party-building leadership with the professional strength of social work represents an important direction for enhancing the effectiveness of community governance. Currently, social work intervention in community governance faces practical dilemmas, including insufficient professional recognition and ambiguous identity positioning, administrative absorption and the weakening of professional autonomy, and imperfect mechanisms for the coordination of multiple actors. Based on the internal logic of Party-building leadership in social work intervention in community governance, this paper elaborates on the implementation pathways for social work participation in community governance from three dimensions: political leadership, administrative coordination, and professional services. It proposes a framework for building a "concentric circle" pattern of community governance centered on Party-building, and advances an approach to promoting the integrated development of social work and community governance through platform construction, mechanism innovation, capacity building, and the establishment of evaluation and incentive systems. This study aims to provide theoretical reference and practical inspiration for realizing a new governance pattern of joint construction, joint governance, and shared benefits at the grassroots level.
Party-building leadership, social work Intervention, community governance.
A Research on the English Translation of Ethnic Literature from the Perspective of “Three Beauties Theory”: A Case Study of Sheba Songs of the Tujia Ethnic Group
The translation of Chinese ethnic literature is a crucial initiative to promote Chinese culture to the world. As a traditional folk song of the Tujia ethnic group, Sheba Songs is rich in connotations and embodies the beauty of artistic conception; it has a strong sense of rhythm, representing the beauty of sound; and it features neat parallelism, demonstrating the beauty of form. Guided by Xu Yuanchong’s “Three Beauties Theory” as the theoretical framework, this study explores the beauty in sense, sound, and form in the English translation of the Tujia Sheba Songs. It highlights the applicability of the “Three Beauties Theory” in the translation of ethnic literature and holds significant reference value and practical guiding significance for the English translation of Chinese ethnic literature.
Three Beauties Theory; Ethnic Literature; Tujia ethnic group; Sheba Songs; English Translation.
NVTIA Rice Bran Fatty Alcohol-Plant Sterol Complex for Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Protection: Preclinical Efficacy Benchmarks and a Randomized Clinical Trial Protocol
Background: Dyslipidemia, endothelial injury, oxidative stress, and impaired microcirculation are mechanistically linked to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular risk. We developed an NVTIA branded raw-material complex built around rice bran fatty alcohol and plant sterol, with earthworm protein, bitter melon peptide, antioxidant components, lipid-lowering components, vascular maintenance agents, and excipients. Objective: We evaluated the preclinical efficacy pattern of the NVTIA complex against model control and comparator formulations, and we designed a publishable randomized clinical evaluation framework for subsequent human confirmation. Methods: We summarized a controlled preclinical efficacy benchmark using lipid indices (TC, TG, LDL-C, HDL-C), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), and superoxide dismutase (SOD). We then compared the biological direction of the NVTIA formulation with established clinical evidence on plant sterols/stanols, rice-bran lipid fractions, and antioxidant vascular-support ingredients. A prospective 12-week double-blind randomized clinical protocol is proposed for implementation in a cardiology clinical-trials setting. Results: In the optimized NVTIA benchmark group, TC, TG, and LDL-C were reduced by 50.3%, 64.2%, and 63.0%, respectively, versus model control, while HDL-C, VEGF, and SOD increased by 86.6%, 70.1%, and 86.3%. Compared with the commercial comparator in the same model, optimized NVTIA showed lower TC, TG, and LDL-C by 32.5%, 43.0%, and 44.1%, respectively, and higher HDL-C, VEGF, and SOD by 33.0%, 29.9%, and 32.4%. Published human evidence supports LDL-C lowering by plant sterols/stanols and lipid improvement by rice-bran oil; however, a human trial is still required to confirm the full NVTIA complex as a combined branded raw material. Conclusion: The NVTIA complex demonstrates a coherent preclinical profile across lipid regulation, vascular repair, and antioxidant protection. We propose a randomized clinical trial to determine whether the multi-component raw-material system can achieve clinically meaningful effects beyond single-ingredient comparators.
NVTIA; rice bran fatty alcohol; plant sterol; dyslipidemia; cardiovascular protection; cerebrovascular protection; randomized clinical trial; endothelial function.
Semiotic Analysis of Internet Buzzwords (2022-2025)
Against the backdrop of the post-pandemic era featuring the release of social emotions, the penetration of short-video platforms, and the dominance of online discourse by Generation Z from 2022 to 2025, Internet buzzwords have exhibited distinctive characteristics in production and dissemination. Taking Peirce’s triadic sign theory as the core analytical framework, this paper conducts a systematic semiotic study of Internet buzzwords in this period. According to the nature of the relationship between signs and their objects, Internet buzzwords are classified into three categories: iconic signs, indexical signs, and symbolic signs, with a detailed analysis of the transformation and blending among these three types. On this basis, this paper dissects the semiotic functions of Internet buzzwords from three dimensions: emotional expression, social reflection, and identity construction. It finds that Internet buzzwords transform individual private emotions into public signs, serving as a “pressure valve” for social emotions; they complete a leap from direct objects to dynamic objects, acting as a “barometer” reflecting social reality; relying on the communal sharing and differentiation of interpretants, they become an “identity card” for young people to construct identity and demarcate group boundaries. This study reveals the inherent semiotic logic and cultural connotations of Internet buzzwords in this period, expands the application of semiotic theory in the field of online popular culture, and also provides a semiotic tool for public opinion analysis, understanding contemporary social mentality and youth culture.
Internet Buzzwords; Semiotics; Triadic Sign Theory.
Research on the Impact of Agricultural Infrastructure Construction on the High-Quality Agricultural Development Efficiency
Agriculture, as the fundamental pillar industry of the national economy, plays a pivotal role in China's national strategy for the new era. High-quality agricultural development is a core component of this strategy, and enhancing agricultural infrastructure construction is a crucial approach to achieve it. Based on panel data from 30 provinces in China spanning from 2011 to 2023, this paper employs the super-efficiency SBM-DEA model to measure the high-quality agricultural development efficiency. It empirically examines the impact and mechanism of agricultural infrastructure construction on this efficiency. The results indicate that agricultural infrastructure construction significantly enhances the efficiency of high-quality agricultural development. This conclusion remains valid after a series of robustness and endogeneity tests. Agricultural infrastructure construction can improve the high-quality agricultural development efficiency through two mechanisms: enhancing new agricultural productivity and extending the agricultural industry chain. The impact exhibits regional heterogeneity, being more pronounced in the Eastern China, Western China, Northeast China, and Southeast region of the Hu Huanyong Line. Based on these findings, policy recommendations are proposed: further improving agricultural infrastructure construction, continuously fostering new agricultural productivity, promoting the extension of the agricultural industry chain, and leveraging the positive role of agricultural infrastructure construction in Northwest region of the Hu Huanyong Line.
Agricultural infrastructure construction; High-quality agricultural development efficiency; Super-efficiency SBM-DEA model; New agricultural productivity; Extension of the agricultural industry chain.
An Inquiry into the Realization Path of the Seller's Right of Reclamation in Bankruptcy Proceedings
Article 388 of the Civil Code introduces the concept of 'other contracts with guarantee functions', placing retention of title sales contracts, financial leasing contracts, and recourse factoring contracts on par with typical guarantee contracts, thereby conferring the effects of guarantee rights on such contracts from the perspective of functionalist legislation. Regarding retention of title contracts, the Civil Code, through Articles 641 and 642, introduces registration against third parties rules and provisions for reference to the enforcement procedures of security interests, effectively treating the seller's retained ownership as a security interest, thereby diminishing the attributive nature of the ownership in the subject matter and substituting it with priority right of satisfaction from the value of the subject matter. The introduction of functionalist legislation has also prompted the Supreme People's Court to conduct certain cleanups and revisions to judicial interpretations during the implementation of the Civil Code. The Provisions of the Supreme People's Court on Several Issues Concerning the Application of the Enterprise Bankruptcy Law of the People's Republic of China (II) (Judicial Interpretation No. 18 of 2020) (hereinafter referred to as the 'Bankruptcy Judicial Interpretation (II)') is also within the scope of modification, with Articles 34 to 38 specifically stipulating the specific rules regarding retention of title in bankruptcy proceedings. However, this modification has not made any substantive changes to retention of title, still regulating it based on the perspective of ownership formation under formalism. This has led to ambiguity in the nature of the seller's rights in bankruptcy proceedings. Furthermore, the uncertainty regarding the nature of the seller's right of reclaim has resulted in its realization path being inconsistent with the legislative stance of the current Civil Code. Specifically, when the seller is bankrupt, it may exercise the right of reclaim under Article 642 of the Civil Code; whereas when the buyer is bankrupt, the right enjoyed by the seller should be a separate right (priority claim).
Retention of title; Right of reclamation; Bankruptcy proceedings.
Translation Strategies of GBA's Intangible Cultural Heritage Publicity from the Perspective of Cross-cultural Communication
Based on the national strategic background of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area's construction and Chinese culture's "going out", this study focuses on the key bottleneck of the rich intangible cultural heritage in this region-translation. At present, the practice of international publicity often leads to "meaning dissipation" and "understanding deviation" of profound cultural connotations in international communication due to simple language conversion, which seriously restricts the effectiveness of cross-cultural communication. Therefore, this paper introduces the perspective of cross-cultural communication theory, aiming to break through the limitation of traditional "language equivalence" and regard the translation of international publicity as a meaning reconstruction activity centered on the target audience and aimed at promoting cultural understanding. Through text analysis and case study, this paper systematically analyzes the core challenges faced by Greater Bay Area's translation of non-legacy publicity at three levels: text, context and media, and accordingly constructs a three-dimensional strategy system consisting of "deep translation of text", "reconstruction of narrative meaning" and "multi-modal integration of media". It is found that the successful translation of non-legacy publicity is not a literal transformation, but a strategic communication that combines cultural adaptation, storytelling and multimedia collaboration. This study not only provides regional empirical and theoretical thinking for the cross-cultural communication and translation studies, but also aims to provide a set of operational strategic reference for the cultural publicity practice in Greater Bay Area and even the whole country, so as to help the intangible culture truly realize the deep international communication from "translation" to "introduction".
Cross-cultural communication; Greater Bay Area; Intangible cultural heritage; External publicity translation; acculturation.
The evolution of the human-machine relationship in the era of intelligent communication: from tools to symbiosis
In this context where intelligent communication has achieved high penetration rate, human beings’ relationship with media technology is being changed profoundly from all aspects. As for communication aspect, this essay aims at discussing the evolution of the relation between man and machine, from “tool” to “symbiosis”, considering their history in terms of logic and drives.it recognizes and compares four main types of such relation: tool, cooperation, integration, and symbiosis, distinguishing the different degrees of power ownership, modes of interaction, agency, and trust. Based on that, the paper discusses possible problems in symbiosis – such as tech dependence, subject melting, algorithmic black boxes, and accountability vacuums—and suggests parallel solutions in the form of a reconfiguration of communication literacy as well as institutional adaptation. We contend that in intelligent communications settings, people and computers will be more fused and interdependent with each other. As McLuhan anticipated, every prosthesis involves a loss; therefore, symbiosis is never an end but rather an endless contest between stimulation and anaesthesia.’’ By examining this trend, we can approach how to cope with the future communication environment more wisely as well as reach a healthier coexistence among humans and machines.
Smart communication; Human-technology relation; Instrumental rationality; Technological symbiosis; Subjectivity of communication.
Contemporary Value of Ancient China’s Wisdom in Managing Alien Species
As one of the top five direct drivers threatening global biodiversity, invasive alien species represent a pressing challenge that demands immediate resolution in China's ecological and environmental domains. The "15th Five-Year Plan" period marks a critical phase for advancing China's biosecurity, during which there is an urgent need to enhance the invasive species prevention and control system. By examining historical management philosophies from the Qin-Han and Ming-Qing dynasties, this analysis identifies current shortcomings in China's invasive species management, such as insufficient interdepartmental coordination, lack of independence in risk assessment, and regulatory lag in cross-border e-commerce oversight. Therefore, it is imperative to establish a centralized interdepartmental coordination mechanism, ensure the independence of risk evaluations, and strengthen cross-border supervision and penalties. Drawing on ancient wisdom in managing alien species can provide valuable insights for refining the contemporary invasive species prevention institutional framework, thereby helping to fortify ecological security barriers and foster harmonious coexistence between humanity and nature.
Invasive Alien Species; Ecological Wisdom from Ancient Times; Cross-border E-commerce Regulation; Risk Assessment.