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The image construction of elderly video bloggers on social media from the perspective of post-figurative culture
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From the perspective of postfigurative culture, this paper explores the image construction of elderly video bloggers on DouYin(Chinese TikTok). As short video platforms gain popularity, elderly users are playing an important role, with some emerging as "elderly internet celebrities" who challenge mainstream media stereotypes.Using netnography and thematic analysis of 100 short videos from the top ten most-followed elderly bloggers on DouYin in 2024-2025, this study reveals that the self-image construction of elderly bloggers is heavily influenced by postfigurative culture, primarily through personalization and stereotype-breaking strategies. Personalization includes diversification of roles, behavioral rejuvenation, trendy wording, and technological shooting techniques. Breaking stereotypes is primarily driven by intrinsic motivation and extrinsic factors. More importantly, elderly bloggers in China exhibit a hybrid self-construction model, demonstrating a fusion of independent and dependent self-construction. This reflects both the influence of collectivist social relationships and the emphasis on individuality in Western culture, thus forming a uniquely Chinese self-construction model in the new media era. Regarding emotional tendencies, coding analysis shows that neutral and positive emotions dominate the construction process, with personally initiated psychological changes contributing to positive affect.Analysis of young viewers' comments demonstrates significant reverse influence, providing life experience references and prompting behavioral reflection among younger generations.
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Living towards death: funeral reform from the perspective of folklore studies
Funeral customs constitute an essential component of social customs and culture—practices and norms established, shaped, and perpetuated by the living for the deceased, representing a core dimension of social ritual. Current academic research on funeral reform in China has been predominantly concentrated in the fields of history, policy, and law, while the core folkloristic themes inherent in funeral reform—such as cultural change and the transformation of customs and practices (yifeng yisu)—have received comparatively insufficient scholarly attention. Building on a systematic review of the history of funeral reform in China and a critical assessment of the existing state of scholarship, and drawing on theoretical frameworks in folklore studies, this paper situates funeral reform within the domain of folkloric culture and everyday life through three analytical dimensions: the formation patterns of "folklore," the right of folkloric subjects to make value judgments, and the de-subjectification of folkloric knowledge. Through these lenses, the paper seeks to uncover the deeper cultural significance of funeral reform and illuminate its connections with cultural consciousness and social governance. The analysis suggests that funeral reform cannot be reduced to a purely technical or administrative matter, but must be understood as a complex cultural transformation deeply embedded in the moral frameworks, emotional worlds, and community identities of local populations.
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Disseminating Miao new year culture via emojis: a Labubu-style trendy toy IP approach
As lightweight digital media such as social media and short videos have gradually become the primary channels for teenagers to access information and engage in social expression, the traditional offline-dominated dissemination of ethnic minority cultures has faced high barriers, making it difficult to effectively integrate into teenagers' daily life and resulting in a gradual decline in communication effectiveness. The Miao New Year, a vital traditional festival of the Miao ethnic group with profound cultural connotations, has low recognition among teenagers and has not yet formed a communication path adapted to the digital media environment. This study takes Miao New Year culture as the research object and explores the feasibility of using original IP emojis as a carrier for cultural dissemination based on teenagers' media usage habits. Through literature analysis, questionnaire surveys and design practice, the study developed the original IP image "Miao Nuo Zai" and a series of themed emojis, and conducted user tests on the design outcomes. The results show that most teenagers hold a positive attitude towards this communication form, believing that the emojis have a strong emotional appeal and usage intention, and can arouse their interest in Miao New Year culture to a certain extent. This study argues that integrating lightweight digital media with traditional cultural content helps lower the threshold of cultural dissemination and provides a feasible path for the contemporary expression and dissemination of ethnic minority cultures among teenagers.
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To what extent does exercise dosage affect working memory in children and adolescents?
Working Memory (WM) denotes the mental capacity that allows people to store, process, and manipulate information for a short time, which is essential as a component of executive function. In consequence, the healthy development in children and adolescents, and improvement of working memory, should be given weight, and a proper dosage of exercise is a promising solution to it. In order to give evidence-based physical activity recommendations for schools, this study researches the extent to which working memory is affected in children and adolescents, focusing on working memory and assessment methods, the most effective exercise types and amounts, and the physical changes in the nervous system related to exercise. The findings of this study indicate that working memory is enhanced by the motor skills involved across different types of sports, which can stimulate the prefrontal cortex. A regimen of high-intensity exercise for 10- 20 minutes per session, for 2-5 days per week, for at least a month, is linked to better working memory, while the dosage for moderate-intensity exercise remains inconclusive. It is also found that cognitive deficits like anxiety and individual variables like age and fitness level are potential factors that may impact cognitive performance. Given these influences, more research is needed to get a better understanding of their connection with working memory and, finally, to provide recommendations for future school physical education.
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Legal coordination between evidence disclosure in international commercial arbitration and China's data export regulatory
The enactment of China's Data Security Law and Personal Information Protection Law has created an issue for Chinese enterprises. It is subject to evidence production orders in overseas arbitral proceedings. The existing framework governing cross-border data transfers is procedurally ill-suited to arbitration timelines. Also, it does not address arbitration-specific scenarios. This paper employs doctrinal legal analysis to examine the interpretive scope of Article 36 of the Data Security Law. It draws on comparative references to the European Union and the United States as comparative evidence of the limits. The conflict arises because Article 36 prohibits providing data to foreign judicial or law enforcement authorities. It has not been authoritatively interpreted to exclude or include international commercial arbitral tribunals. This leaves Chinese enterprises exposed to potential administrative penalties if they produce evidence and to adverse consequences if they do not. The solution is a narrow judicial interpretation of Article 36 to exclude privately constituted commercial arbitral tribunals from its scope, accompanied by a targeted tiered classification mechanism for arbitration-specific data export applications and, as a supplementary technical measure, domestically hosted virtual data rooms ('VDR') for lower-sensitivity evidence production. These solutions are legally tractable and directly serve the state's interest in international commercial dispute resolution.
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Research on the characteristics of attentional bias in individuals with Internet Gaming Disorder
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This study explored attentional bias towards gaming cues in individuals with Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD), a behavioral addiction sharing similarities with substance addiction. Attentional bias, comprising difficulty in disengagement, facilitated attention, and attentional avoidance, is a critical characteristic of addiction. Using both the addiction Stroop task and the Dot-Probe paradigm, the study first found no significant attentional bias difference between 28 IGD subjects and 37 healthy controls (HC). Subsequently, an exploratory study with 15 IGD and 17 HC subjects using adapted Dot-Probe tasks revealed that in the single-image inconsistent version, IGD subjects showed significantly longer reaction times to game pictures than to neutral pictures, indicating difficulty in disengagement. This version demonstrated higher sensitivity for measuring attentional bias than the traditional version. These findings highlight the heterogeneous nature of attentional bias in IGD.
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A study on tourism English translation teaching in colleges and universities from the perspective of intercultural communication
Against the backdrop of the "China Travel" craze and the deep integration of culture and tourism, inbound tourism has become a frontline for national image building and cultural international dissemination. This study, based on intercultural communication theory, explores innovative paths for tourism English translation teaching in higher education institutions. The article first analyzes the core cultural cognitive differences that lead to thinking obstacles in tourism translation practice. Then, based on the theories of "functional equivalence" and "cultural adaptation"[1], it proposes a translation approach centered on the audience and integrating multimodal means. Finally, by combining current teaching practice cases in higher education institutions, it constructs a teaching strategy system oriented towards "deep integration of industry and education" and "co-growth of intercultural competence", aiming to provide a reference for cultivating compound cultural and tourism translation talents with language proficiency, cultural sensitivity, and narrative skills, and effectively serving the macro-strategy of telling China's stories well.
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A chaos-based analysis of finger plethysmogram for deception detection: effects of stimulus similarity on concealed information processing
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Deception detection remains an important aspect of the forensic, security, and psychological domains. Even though traditional polygraphy relies on multiple physiological measures of deception, the effectiveness of deception detection based on chaos theory measures of pulse waves remains relatively unexplored. Chaos theory measures the inherent complexity of a signal and can potentially reveal patterns in deception detection that might otherwise remain hidden by traditional linear measures of deception detection. This study aimed to explore the effectiveness of fingertip plethysmogram chaos theory measures in deception detection in the context of simulated theft with a 2x2 factorial design involving stimulus similarity (high and low) and stimulus type (probe and irrelevant). Largest Lyapunov Exponent (LLE) measures were calculated from 560 experiments conducted on 14 participants. Analysis of variance revealed significant main effects of stimulus type (F(1,13)=9.26, p=.009) and the interaction of stimulus similarity and stimulus type (F(1,13)=6.93, p=.021). Furthermore, under low similarity conditions, LLE of the probe condition exceeded the irrelevant condition (t(13)=4.23, p<.001, dz=1.13). Generalized estimating equations revealed significant effects of LLE on deception detection at the individual trial level (β=0.575, p=.006). Permutation tests revealed significant effects of LLE on deception detection (p=.021). Overall, the results suggest the effectiveness of LLE in deception detection in low similarity conditions and support the effectiveness of chaos theory measures of deception detection with boundary conditions in mind.
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On safety culture literacy education in vocational colleges from the perspective of the Free Trade Port
Guided by General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on safety culture and safety education, and grounded in the practical context of the Hainan Free Trade Port as well as the teaching practices of Hainan Vocational University of Science and Technology, this paper analyzes the core connotations and contemporary value of safety culture literacy education in vocational colleges from the perspective of the free trade port. It systematically reviews the university's achievements in curriculum system development, the establishment of practice bases, and innovations in talent cultivation models. On this basis, a four-dimensional optimization path—"policy anchoring, system construction, base empowerment, and collaborative cultivation"—is proposed to consolidate the human resource foundation for the safe development of the Hainan Free Trade Port.
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