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Asymmetric Feedback from Financial Performance to Listed Firms’ ESG Investment: Two-dimensional Decomposition of Management Practice and Controversy
Prior research on environmental, social and governance (ESG) has predominantly treated sustainability performance as a determinant of financial outcomes, leaving the reverse question – whether improving profitability prompts managers to scale back ESG investment – largely…
De-duplicated User-item Metrics for E-commerce Conversion Funnel Diagnosis: Method, Validation, and Operational Audit Cues
Consumer‑to‑consumer (C2C) e-commerce sellers routinely face high exposure but low conversion. Existing research, however, relies largely on qualitative descriptions or small-scale surveys and rarely exploits behavioral logs to pinpoint where buyers drop out. Using a public…
Algorithmic Collusion in Financial Markets: Regulatory Dilemmas and Legal Responses in Digital‑age Securities Markets
The proliferation of algorithmic trading, artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled credit assessment and automated investment consultancy has facilitated the digital transformation of securities markets. Such technological progress has spawned a new regulatory concern: algorithmic collusion. Unlike traditional cartels…
World’s First Clinical Trial Performed: Terahertz Nerve Stimulation Breaks Barriers in Brain Function Repair
A groundbreaking advancement has recently emerged in China’s brain science and neuromodulation fields. A research team from the National Defense Innovation Institute, in collaboration with clinicians from Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University led by Jianghong…
Unitree Robotics Soars 629.44% on Shanghai Stock Exchange Science and Technology Innovation Board Debut, Minting Millionaires and $66.00 Billion Market Cap
Unitree Robotics, China’s first publicly traded humanoid robot manufacturer, made a spectacular debut on Shanghai Stock Exchange Science and Technology Innovation Board on August 19th, 2026, with its shares skyrocketing 629.44 percent at the opening bell.…
The Exoteric and the Esoteric: The Dual Logic of Plato’s Educational Stratification
In the Republic, Plato constructs an ideal city-state centered on justice, and education serves as the essential pathway through which this ideal is to be realized. Taking the exoteric-esoteric logic as its point of entry, this…
Silencing the Qilin: Ecological Politics in Inside the Cable Temple
This article examines how the Chinese rock band “Omnipotent Youth Society” transforms ecological and social critique into artistic form on its second album – Inside the Cable Temple. Prompted by the band’s own account of a…
2026 Smart Glasses Breakthrough: Lightweight Design and AI Agents Drive Spatial Computing Popularization
The global smart glasses industry has achieved rapid development in 2026, driven by major tech firms including Huawei, Samsung, Meta and Alibaba Qwen. Fueled by lightweight hardware upgrades and embedded artificial intelligence (AI) agents, smart glasses…
Mechanisms of Rural Cluster Development: A Comparative Case Analysis of Eight Models in Zhejiang, China
Inter-village collaboration is a common challenge in rural governance, and how to build durable cooperation mechanisms is a shared concern across rural development practices. This study examines rural cluster development in Zhejiang Province, China. Based on…
Alibaba and CAS Unveil Universal AI Toolkit to Simplify Complex Real-world Computing
A joint research team from Alibaba group and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has released a groundbreaking universal artificial intelligence (AI) toolkit, aiming to resolve the long-standing complexity of real-world intelligent computing. The new open-source…
From Real-world Contexts to Physics Models: Chinese Senior High School Students’ Difficulties in Solving Contextualized Physics Problems
Contextualized physics problems require more than the application of a familiar law: Students must reconstruct a physical system from ordinary language, distributed information, technical devices, and real-world constraints. This qualitative-dominant embedded multiple-case study examined where that…
Unitree Robotics Launches STAR Market IPO as China’s First Publicly Traded Humanoid Robot Maker
Unitree Robotics, the Hangzhou-based humanoid robot manufacturer, officially launched its initial public offering on Shanghai’s sci-tech, technology, innovation and board (STAR) Market on August 10th, 2026, becoming the first A-share listed company focused on humanoid robot…
Shenzhen’s Low‑altitude Economy Gains Momentum: Full‑chain Ecosystem Takes Shape for Trillion‑yuan Commercial Rollout
As a national pioneer in low‑altitude economy development, Shenzhen is leveraging its robust electronic‑information industrial base, policy innovations and abundant urban application scenarios to propel low‑altitude industries from technical validation toward large‑scale commercial operation, emerging as…
A Lightweight Subject-adaptive EEG Network for Driver Drowsiness Detection
Electroencephalography (EEG)-based driver-drowsiness detection is hindered by cross-subject variability and the resource cost of multi-channel models. This article presents Lite dynamic vision with explicit-adaptive implicit matching knowledge distillation (Lite-DV-EAIM-KD), a lightweight, subject-adaptive, and interpretable framework for…
Percutaneous Acupotomy Combined with Selective Nerve Root Block in the Treatment of Degenerative Spine and Joint Diseases: A Multicenter Clinical Application and Safety Evaluation
Objective: To investigate the efficacy and safety of percutaneous acupotomy combined with selective nerve root block (SNRB) in the treatment of degenerative spine and joint diseases. Methods: A multicenter, prospective, randomized controlled trial was conducted, enrolling…
IPhone Prices Set to Surge Sharply This Autumn
Bloomberg’s tech correspondent Mark Gurman released exclusive supply chain reports, which were further validated by Apple’s official cost warnings during its Second Quarter (Q2) earnings call. The upcoming iPhone 18 lineup launching this September will see…
Research on a Multi-source Perception-fused Intelligent Intervention Robot System for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Addressing the pressing challenges in autism rehabilitation – such as teacher shortages, homogenized intervention approaches, and high costs of overseas equipment – this study proposes and implements an intelligent intervention robot system that integrates multi-source sensory…
China’s Long March 8A Successfully Launches New Low-orbit Satellite Internet Satellites with Key Technological Breakthroughs
China has achieved another major milestone in low-orbit satellite internet construction with the successful launch of a new batch of network satellites via the Long March 8A Y10 carrier rocket. The liftoff took place at 16:52…
UAV-enabled Dual-scenario Empowerment for Urban-rural Spaces: A Comparative Study of Immersive E-commerce Platforms and Intelligent Building Facade Inspection Systems
The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) remote sensing, virtual reality (VR) panoramic display, and artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative paradigm for urban-rural spatial governance. However, existing research predominantly concentrates on single-technology applications…
The “AI Tax” Arrives: China’s “Worker Essentials” See Broad Price Hikes
In what has become one of the most talked-about economic trends of 2026, the three everyday items that define urban employment in China – laptop computers, smartphones, and electric bicycles – have all seen significant price…