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Adapting a Vocational College Study Tour for Russian Adolescents
How practical participation relates to cultural understanding is a central question for short educational visits. Drawing on transcultural communication and experiential learning, this retrospective qualitative case study examines curriculum adaptation at a ten-day camp hosted by…
Intelligent Identification and Scale Effect of Regional Soil Salinization Based on Multi-source Remote Sensing and Transfer Learning
Soil salinization is one of the most important forms of land degradation in arid and semi-arid regions, placing pressure on regional food security and ecological security. The rapid and accurate identification of the spatial distribution and…
HomeEnv-Link: A Smart Home System for Environmental Monitoring and Household Appliance Feedback Control
To address the limitations of traditional smart home devices, including scattered functional modules, single interaction modes, poor device interconnection compatibility, and insufficient local automatic feedback capability, this paper designs and implements a smart home environmental monitoring…
Modeling Renewable Energy Output Characteristics for Mobile Agricultural Scenarios and Multi-source Complementary Configuration Optimization
Agricultural mobile scenarios have dispersed energy loads that fluctuate with seasons and operational cycles. The intermittency and volatility of a single renewable energy source make it difficult to independently sustain a continuous and reliable power supply.…
China Completes Batch Delivery of Core Components for World’s First Compact Fusion Experimental Device BEST
China has officially completed the batch delivery of key core components for the burning plasma experimental superconducting tokamak (BEST), the world’s first compact fusion energy experimental device, marking a crucial milestone in the country’s pursuit of…
New Round of Price Cuts Hits the Large AI Model Sector as the Industry Enters Inclusive Competition
China’s large artificial intelligence (AI) model market has witnessed a fresh wave of sweeping price reductions. Leading vendors have cut charges for Application Programming Interface (API) calls, computing power leasing and custom enterprise services. Combined with…
China Extends Consumer Loan Interest Subsidy Through End of 2026, Caps Annual Benefit at 3,000.00 Yuan
China’s Ministry of Finance (MOF) and two other central authorities have extended the personal consumer loan interest subsidy policy through December 31st, 2026, providing continued support for household borrowing costs as part of broader efforts to…
SpaceX Starship Flight 14 Cleared for First Orbital Attempt, Poised to Deploy Starlink V3 Satellites
SpaceX is set to launch its Starship vehicle on its 14th flight, designated Flight 14, from Starbase in Texas on September 28th, 2026, in what will be the vehicle’s first attempt to reach Earth orbit. The…
The Efficiency Layer of a Performance Evaluation Model: Data Envelopment Analysis of Artificial-intelligence Investment in Chinese E-commerce Platforms
Composite performance scores measure the level of a firm’s transformation but not the efficiency with which resources are converted into it. This paper constructs the efficiency layer of the Pathway-Capability-Performance (PCP) framework by applying data envelopment…
Self-evolving Spatial Intelligence – Integrating Large Language Models with GIS for Automated Geospatial Knowledge Discovery and Decision Support
Recent breakthroughs in natural language understanding, reasoning, and code generation have opened a new path for the intelligent transformation of geographic information systems (GIS). Existing large language models (LLM) -driven GIS methods. However, largely remain task-specific…
An Exploration of Restructuring Learning Objectives in China’s Higher Vocational Business Education in the Era of Multi-scenario Agents
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents are spreading quickly and are changing what many jobs consist of, and education has been slower to respond than most sectors. Agent products are also getting easier to use, so the technical…
From Barriers to Breakthroughs: Formation Mechanism and Development Pathways of University Teachers’ AI Literacy Under Bidirectional Regulation of Human-AI Trust
To address the trust barriers hindering university teachers’ artificial intelligence (AI) literacy improvement, this study introduces a bidirectional human-AI trust perspective, extends the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) model, and examines the…
EU CBAM Enters Formal Reporting Phase, Reshaping Global Trade and Industrial Carbon Rules
The European Union (EU) ’s landmark Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) has officially entered its comprehensive mandatory reporting phase, kicking off a new era of global carbon-regulated trade. Widely regarded as the world’s first systematic cross-border…
Figure Robot Enters Stranger’s Home, Completes Chores Without Pre-learning
Figure, a California-based humanoid robot company, announced on September 17th, 2026, that its latest neural network model, Helix 2.5, enabled its Figure 03 robot to perform household tasks in completely unfamiliar homes without any site-specific data…
AI Achieves 20-millisecond Real-time Plasma Control, Paving Way for Practical Fusion Energy
Researchers from the United States (U.S.) Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University have developed a cutting-edge artificial intelligence framework that enables ultra-fast prediction and real-time control of fusion plasma, marking a…
Adaptive Distributed k-WTA Network Under Time-varying Topologies for Multi-AGV Automated Loading Systems
To address the multi-task allocation problem of collaborative multi-automated guided vehicle (AGV) operations in automated loading systems, an adaptive multi-feature distributed k-Winners-Take-All (k-WTA) task allocation method is proposed. By integrating information such as AGV position, payload,…
Biodegradable Polymer-based Long Persistent Luminescent Materials: Recent Advances in PLA, PCL and PHB Systems, Mechanisms, and Emerging Applications
Biodegradable polymer-based long persistent luminescent (LPL) materials have emerged as a new class of sustainable optical materials that combine environmentally friendly degradation behavior with ultralong afterglow emission. Unlike traditional inorganic persistent phosphors relying on defect traps…
Role Boundaries and Resource Bricolage in Academic-athletic Conflict Among Elite College Tennis Players: A Mixed-methods Study
This mixed-methods study investigates the role-boundary mechanisms and resource-bricolage strategies that shape academic-athletic conflict among elite college tennis players. Survey data from 247 student-athletes across 12 Chinese universities were complemented by in-depth interviews with 18 participants.…
BOJ Raises Key Rate to 1.25% to Curb Inflation and Yen Depreciation Pressures
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) announced a key interest rate hike on Friday, lifting its policy rate from 1.00% to 1.25% following its latest monetary policy meeting, marking a further step in the country’s monetary tightening…
Apple Plots Server Market Comeback with Custom Silicon, Taps NVIDIA for Interconnect Tech
In a move that signals its most ambitious hardware pivot in over a decade, Apple is developing a line of enterprise-grade artificial Intelligence (AI) servers powered by its own custom-designed chips. The project would mark the…