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With the advent of COVID-19 pandemic, the whole world is overwhelmed with a mood of fear, anxiety, depression and psychological discomfort. The Coronavirus has wrapped all aspects of life with a new mode so that the authorities concerned have imposed stay-at-home orders, curfews and restrictions on mass mobility and daily activities. These restrictions have given rise to unprecedented practices rarely available in pre-Coronavirus era. Consequently, the normal course of life has greatly changed and a new daily routine has been established during the COVID-19 pandemic whose impact on all life activities is characterized by being extensive and having far-reaching consequences. This paper investigates the COVID-19 repercussions in some purposively selected cartoons and comics from different websites. The selected cartoons and comics attempt to establish what may be called covidity, a neologism that requires collective and wide-spread response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It analyzes negative pandemic-related aspects that have bearing especially on travel, religious and sport activities. The study draws upon Kress and Leeuwen’s approach of Visual Grammar (2006) within the framework of social semiotics. The study probes Multimodal Discourse Analysis (MDA), which is mainly applied and opted for deeper examination of visual discourse maintained in the data under discussion. Multimodality is a concept that accounts for different semiotic resources in communication to express certain meanings or ideologies. The paper demonstrates how coping strategies help to alleviate the grim mood created by the pandemic and to get adapted to new circumstances. مع ظهور جائحة كوفيد-19، ساد العالم أجمع حالة من الخوف والقلق والانزعاج النفسي. لقد أضفى فيروس كورونا نمطا جديدا على كافة مناحي الحياة، مما دفع السلطات المعنية لإصدار تعليمات البقاء بالمنازل وحظر التجول والقيود على التنقل الجماعي والأنشطة اليومية. وقد أدت هذه القيود إلى ظهور ممارسات غير مسبوقة قلما تواجدت في فترة ما قبل فيروس كورونا. وبالتالي، تغير المسار الطبيعي للحياة بشكل كبير وظهر روتين يومي جديد خلال جائحة كوفيد-19 والذي كان له تأثير بالغ المدى على جميع أنشطة الحياة. تبحث هذه الدراسة تداعيات كوفيد-19 في بعض الرسوم الكرتونية والرسوم المضحكة المختارة من مواقع الكترونية مختلفة. تهدف البيانات المختارة إلى إرساء ما يمكن تسميته "بالكوفيدية"، وهو مصطلح جديد يتطلب استجابة جماعية وواسعة النطاق لجائحة كوفيد-19، ويحلل الجوانب السلبية المتعلقة بالوباء وتأثيرها لا سيما على السفر والأنشطة الدينية والرياضية. تعتمد الدراسة على منهج كريس وليوين في القواعد النحوية المرئية (2006) في إطار نظرية السيمائية الاجتماعية. كما تبحث الدراسة في تحليل الخطاب المتعدد الوسائط والذي يتم تطبيقه بشكل أساسي في تحليل الخطاب المرئي بصورة أشمل للبينات قيد الدراسة. إن تعدد الوسائط مفهوماً يفسر الوسائل السيمائية المختلفة في التواصل للتعبير عن معاني أو أيدولوجيات معينة. وتكشف الدراسة عن مدى مساهمة تلك الاستراتيجيات في التخفيف من حالة التجهم التي خلّفها الوباء والتأقلم مع الواقع الجديد.

Albania, like other countries in the region, has been aspiring to join the EU for two decades. In different periods of the last 20 years, it has taken steps back and forth along the process towards membership. Therefore, in this context, the present paper will analyse the Albanian perspective, having in focus the promotion of human rights standards in lights of it s integration into the European Union. The aim of this paper is to comprehend the evolution of Albania in relation to human rights in light of the EU integration perspective and demonstrate that Albania has yet a very long road ahead to become part of the European Union.

This paper aims to provide an overview of social engineering attacks, and their impacts on cybersecurity, including national and international security, and figures out detection techniques, and major methods for countermeasure. How do social engineering attacks affect national and international security? And why is it so hard to cope with them? Seeking for answers to these questions, this paper applies qualitative research methods particularly literature review and case analysis. While qualitative research methods are predominantly employed, quantitative methods will also be utilized when deemed essential. Social engineering attacks, also referred to as online fraud, are a type of attack that typically necessitates minimal or no technical knowledge. Social engineering attacks, instead benefit from the weaknesses and mistakes of individuals, since the user is accepted as the weakest link in cybersecurity. Many studies have shown that the vast majority of successful cyber-attacks in the digital world are social engineering (SE) because countering them is more difficult than countering technical cyber-attacks. Based on the analysis of some major cyber-attacks such as the intervention in the 2016 US Presidential elections, the hacking of CIA director, John Brennan in 2015, and Stuxnet in 2010, the paper figures out that social engineering attacks have a tremendous impact on cybersecurity on the individual, institutional, societal, national, and international levels. Penetration tests and training for raising awareness are the prolific ways to mitigate social engineering attacks.

Stylometry focuses on detecting some linguistic features such as the length and complexity of sentences, spelling errors, punctuation and phraseology analysis, the frequency of words and lexical items. Stylometric analysis identifies and classifies literary texts according to authorship. It also detects, as a serious scholarly discipline and methodology, the lexical items which characterize the style of a text. The present paper proposes a stylometric analysis of Hussien's خِطبة الشيخ khiTbat al-shaykh (1914) and its English translation rendered by M. Enani in (2020) as The Shaykh's Marriage Proposal. The linguistic features examined within the theoretical framework proposed by Halliday and Matthiessen (2014) are parataxis, hypotaxis and lexical choice. The study tests the validity of the translated text in detecting the style of the source text and hence creating either one profile shared by Hussein and Enani, or two different profiles. The main research questions are: (1) in what way does the deployment of parataxis and hypotaxis trace the writing style changes- if there are any- in Hussein's text and its translation? (2) what role does the translated text assume in the domain of stylometric analysis? (3) how does the lexical choice in both the source text and the target text contribute to the creation of personal profiles for the author and the translator? The study suggests that translation is a valid assessment tool in authorship identification as it creates a separate profile for the translator which discerns him/her from the author of the ST. Though stylometric analysis identifies the anonymous author of a given text by specifying its stylistic features and comparing them to other texts written by the same author, the paper offers instead profiling as a changing, style measuring tool for each literary text written by a given author. By defining the stylomeric features and the authorial discriminators of Hussein's and Enani's texts, it is assumed that the Arabic/ English literary pieces cannot be dealt with as a single text written by two authors in collaborations as each text has its own stylistic features that assign an individual profile for its author.يهدف التحليل الاسلوبي الاحصائي للنصوص الأدبية إلى تحديد بعض السمات اللغوية كطول الجمل ، مدى تعقيدها، الأخطاء الإملائية ، علامات الترقيم ، تحليل و صياغة العبارات، الكلمات المتكررة و الاستخدامات المعجمية، و ذلك لتحديد و تصنيف النصوص الأدبية وفقاً لهوية المؤلف. و يعتمد التحليل الاسلوبي الاحصائي على تحديد العناصر المعجمية و التي تميز النص ، و من ثمّ يُعتبر هذا النوع من التحليل من الأساليب العلمية الهامة (فيكرز 2002، هولمز 1992). تطرح هذه الدراسة تحليلاً اسلوبياً لرواية خطبة الشيخ لطه حسين التي صدرت عام 1914 ، و ترجمتها إلى الإنجليزية التي قدمها محمد عناني عام 2020 . في ضوء الاطار النظري الذي وضعه كلا من هاليداى وماثيسين 2014 تبحث الدراسة بعض السمات اللغوية مثل الإرداف و التبعية واختيار المفردات ، وتختبر الدراسة مدى صلاحية النص المترجم في الكشف عن أسلوب النص المصدر و من ثم رسم إما ملف شخصي واحد يتقاسمه الكاتب و المترجم أو ملف شخصي للكاتب و آخر للمترجم. و تجيب الدراسة على الأسئلة الآتية: (1) كيف تعكس الخواص الاسلوبية للإرداف و التبعية التغيرات الأسلوبية - إن وجدت- في نص طه حسين و ترجمته؟ (2) ما هي عناصر التشابه و الاختلاف في لغة كل نص؟ 3)) كيف يمكن استخدام النص المترجم كإحدى أدوات التحليل الأسلوبي الاحصائي؟ (4) كيف ساهمت المفردات المستخدمة في النص المصدر و النص الهدف في رسم طابع خاص لأسلوب الكاتب و المترجم؟ تقترح هذه الدراسة فاعلية النصوص المترجمة في إجراء التحليل الاسلوبي الاحصائي و ذلك باعتبار الترجمة أداة ذات فاعلية يمكن استخدامها لإضفاء طابع شخصي للمترجم من شأنه أن يميزه عن كاتب النص المصدر. و بالرغم من فاعلية التحليل الأسلوبي الاحصائي في الكشف عن هوية المؤلف الأصلي لعمل ما، و ذلك بالكشف عن السمات الأسلوبية لأحدى نصوصه و مقارنتها بالنصوص الأخرى المنسوبة إليه، إلا أن هذه الدراسة تقترح أن لكل عمل أدبي سمات اسلوبية خاصة تكسب كاتبه هوية مختلفة ومتغيرة. فبتحديد السمات الاسلوبية الاحصائية و الشواهد التأليفية لنصي حسين و عناني ، يمكن القول يأن هذين النصين لا يمكن اعتبارهما كنص واحد اشترك في صياغته كلا من الكاتب والمؤلف حيث أن السمات الاسلوبية للنص الأصلي والمترجم تمنح كل منهما طابع خاص به.

تهدف هذه الورقة البحثية إلى دراسة ارتباط فكرة توحيد المعبودات خلال فترة الآتونية بالمكانة السياسية والدينية للملك ، والتى كانت الغرض الأساسى من هذه الدعوة ، مع إلقاء الضوء على جذورها ، منذ أيام الملك أمنحوتب الثالث ، إضافة إلى ذلك ستلقى هذه الورقة البحثية الضوء على موقف الناس من الدين الجديد وانقسامهم على أنفسهم ، سواء أكانوا من المؤيدين المستفيدين من دعوة التوحيد أو من الرافضين المتمسكين بالعبادات الأخرى سواء فى السر أو فى العلن ، علاوة على أهم رجال عهد "إخناتون" المتميزين ، الذين كان لهم الدور الأكبر فى تنفيذ كل أوامر "إخناتون" ، مع التعرض لموقفهم من المعبود "آمون" والديانات الأخرى ودورهم التخريبى والمدمر الذى عانت منه معابد تلك الديانات وعبادهم ، مع التعرف على دلالات استمرار العبادات الأخرى فى السر والعلن ، وما تركه بعض الأفراد من دلائل على ذلك فى مقابر العمارنة الجنوبية منها ، والشمالية ، وأخيرا نهاية "إخناتون" وما تبعها من تدمير وتخريب لمركز عبادته فى العمارنة ، ومعابد آتون ، ومحاولة مَحوْ ذكراه من الوجود باعتباره مهرطقا.Abstract This research paper aims to study the connection of the idea of uniting deities during the Atonian period with the political and religious status of the king, which was the main purpose of this call, shedding light on their roots, since the time of King Amenhotep III. In addition, this paper sheds light on the people's attitude towards the new religion and their division against themselves, whether they were among the supporters who benefited from the call for monotheism or the rejecters who adhered to other cults in private or in public. It also highlights the most important distinguished men of the era of "Akhenaten", who had the greatest role in executing all the orders of "Akhenaten", tackling their attitude towards the deity "Amun" and other religions and their subversive and destructive role that the temples of those religions and their worshipers suffered from. Besides, this paper identifies the indications of the continuation of other cults in private and in public, and what some individuals left of evidence of that in the southern and northern Amarna tombs, and finally the end of "Akhenaten" and the subsequent destruction and sabotage of his cult center in Amarna and the temples of Aten, as well as the attempt to erase his memory from existence as a heretic.

This paper explores the impacts of Presbyterianism on Indo-Trinidadian communities in Trinidad. Through interviews with notable figures in the Church’s history, surveys within Presbyterian congregations, and in-depth research into Presbyterianism’s history in Trinidad, an analysis was conducted on how this history has shaped the Church from the twentieth to twenty-first century. General observations were also made in Presbyterian Church settings. The findings suggest that many contemporary Presbyterian practices mirror those of colonial times, albeit in a neocolonial context. Historical evidence supports the hypothesis that ideologies of Eurocentrism and elitism existed within the Presbyterian Church in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Trinidad, and aspects of these ideologies persist today. Additionally, both youth and adults within the Church express a need to address prevalent societal issues such as homosexuality, traditionally a taboo topic. Consequently, this research paper examines the concepts of “mission” and “submission”, aiming to understand the Church’s past reality, present state, and future implications within the Trinidadian Presbyterian context.

This paper examines how Achille Mbembe draws upon, then iterates from, the work of Aimé Césaire to provide a rich analysis of personhood in contemporary Africa. Typically, African treatments of Mbembe’s theorization place considerable emphasis on the intellectual influence of Frantz Fanon, rightly so. And while Fanon does have a central role in Mbembe’s writing, arguably it is Césaire who prompts Mbembe to conceptually insist upon the historical malleability of racial classification, racial civic ascription, and racial subjective comprehension as these social forms are reshaped by historical development. In tracing the development of these aspects of Mbembe’s social and political thought, this paper discusses the bisections and points of departures with Césaire’s poetry and philosophy as it pertains to the notion of Blackness. Effectively the dialectical encounter with Césaire and the Caribbean situation helps give rise to Mbembe’s main conclusion that there is a severe limitation to Black Reasoning, especially when its discursive referents give preference to a sublime singularity over the mutable.

The European Research Council (ERC) funding scheme classifies law within the social sciences and humanities sector, identifying legal science as a social science. The paper presents the case-study of such a classification as a deterministic model of evaluation and assessment of legal research. This may impact on career opportunities of individuals as well as on scientific independence, tacitly predefining the selection of research topics and legal methodology. The paper argues that ERC encourages a successful trend of conducting legal research to obtain funding, through the application of indicators. Their aim is to show which process has been followed to achieve and measure results. Legal science then risks being reduced to the analysis of legal performance. In this context, re-reading some writings of Polanyi on social sciences as well as on the critique of economic determinism sheds light on forms of academic determinism that affect the way of carrying-out research.

As Canada works towards developing a national school food program, it is timely to examine the lessons learned from the programs of other countries. Analyzing these insights can help Canada avoid key pitfalls and replicate promising practices in program design and implementation. The Government of Canada has the advantage of learning from one of the longest standing national school food programs and our southern neighbour: the United States (U.S.). This paper distills vital lessons from the U.S. school food programs, with a focus on addressing four critical aspects: access, emphasis on health and education, funding, and program implementation. First, the U.S. experience demonstrates the significance of universal free school meals. The historical inadequacies of means-tested programs result in inefficiencies, stigma, and exclusion of students in need. Second, the paper argues for an emphasis on health and education benefits. Third, it underscores the necessity of adequate funding. Inadequate reimbursements in the U.S. have compromised meal quality and led to the food industry’s capitalization on school meals, with negative implications for children’s health. Lastly, harnessing the power of procurement and employment can stimulate local economies, create good jobs, and foster a healthier food environment. As Canada tailors its national school food program to its diverse regions and communities, it has an extraordinary opportunity to avoid the policy and program implementation errors revealed by the U.S. experience.

Opportunity of access to higher education is related to personal development, as well as to the future status of the individual in the social hierarchy. Therefore, to ensure the opportunity equality of access to higher education is very important and has been a research focus. However, the existing research on the deep causes affecting the opportunity equality of access to higher education is still limited. As a supplement, this paper takes Japan as the research object, analyzes the current situation of higher education enrollment in Japan from three dimensions of material value, cultural value and thinking value, and finds out that there is also the problem of inequality of access to higher education in Japan. Through the analysis of survey data and qualitative analysis, the paper finds out that educational resources, comprehensive quality, cultural atmosphere of growth environment and students’ thinking patterns are all important factors leading to such inequality, and these factors are all related to family income. Therefore, it can be inferred that family income affects the opportunity equality of access to higher education from multiple dimensions in Japan. In order to promote the equality of access to higher education, this paper puts forward some countermeasures to reduce the influence of family income. In the material dimension, it should improve the existing scholarship structure and increase its popularization rate, reduce the part-time job restriction, and alleviate the imbalance of educational resources caused by income difference. In the cultural dimension, it is necessary to balance the differences in the cultivation of comprehensive quality in different schools and families, and create a proper cultural atmosphere of growth environment for students through various methods. In the thinking dimension, families and schools should make more efforts to cultivate the educational thinking of students.

This paper explores the aesthetic function of integrating educational drama practice into English teaching. It aims to shed light on the potential benefits and implications of using drama techniques to enhance students’ language acquisition and overall learning experience. Through a comprehensive literature review and analysis, this study examines the relationship between aesthetics and education, highlighting drama’s unique capacity to engage students emotionally, intellectually, and creatively. By immersing learners in meaningful and contextually relevant theatrical experiences, drama practice encourages active participation, builds linguistic proficiency, fosters cultural understanding, and develops key soft skills. Furthermore, this research investigates various drama techniques, such as role-playing, improvisation, and performance, and illustrates how they can be effectively incorporated into English language curricula. Additionally, this paper highlights the importance of the teacher’s role as a facilitator in creating a supportive and inclusive learning environment for students to explore their individual voices through drama. Ultimately, this study advocates for the wider implementation of educational drama in English teaching as a means to enhance students’ language proficiency, cognitive abilities, and socio-cultural competencies, ultimately promoting a more engaging and effective learning experience.

Multi-Attribute Task Battery (MATB) is a software that has been arguably utilized in many ergonomics/human factors studies, including in the topic of mental workload. However, the use of this well-known program in diverse investigations has not yet been systematically tracked. Furthermore, it may be argued that a critical appraisal of MATB is urgently needed so that future researchers and users can take several crucial factors into account when planning a study or experiment using MATB. The aim of this paper is to comprehensively identify and review the use of MATB software in published studies. This aim might be accomplished by achieving two goals: (1) systematic discovery of published papers in literature databases and (2) categorization of research according to pertinent topics. In this paper, thirty-one articles were included for analysis after carefully screening for their eligibility. Our scoping review finds that MATB is a beneficial program for creating multitasking environments in general, with aviation being the area where it has been used the most. The program was also extensively used for studies on mental workload, especially by producing various stimuli that ultimately result in varying degrees of task demand or difficulty. Moreover, to successfully use MATB, researchers must be aware of a few operational issues and criticisms.

Human error is a mistake due to human negligence, both consciously and unconsciously, which can cause a system to experience disruption and not run as planned. These errors can occur at the managerial, conceptual, or technical level. One of the activities with a high potential for finding human error is construction activities. Construction activities are a series of activities that include the construction, operation, maintenance, demolition, and construction of a building. Infrastructure development is one of the government’s policy focuses in 2023, with development from four main areas: water resources, roads and bridges, settlements, and housing. These infrastructure projects must have a good quality because they are closely related to user safety and security. Based on data from the Social Security Organizing Agency (BPJS) Employment and statements from the Ministry of PUPR, the industrial sector is an enormous contributor to work accidents with an average percentage of 32% each year. The human factor is one of the forerunners of human error apart from equipment and working environment conditions. Viewed from the perspective of Cognitive System Engineering, human error is caused by the failure of human cognitive processes where the process is related to Human Information Processing (HIP). This paper will describe and briefly discuss the problem of human error and its relation to Human Information Processing (HIP). This paper will examine various literature and summarize efforts that can be applied to improve the information processing process in the hope of minimizing the occurrence of human error in the scope of construction work.

Lithuania, as most of the EU countries, has an aging population. At the beginning of 2019, there were 552.4 thousand elderly people (aged 65 and older), or 19.8 per cent of the total resident population. Each seventh man and each fourth woman were aged 65 and older ‘(Official statistics portal, 2019). The aim of the paper is to investigate possibilities of Lithuanian social policy to meet older adults’ digital needs for better inclusion and active ageing. Paper is based on secondary data analysis including legal documents (EU and National Programmes, Strategies, Orders), scientific research, statistical (of older adults’ population) and other data (results of national research). A significant proportion of older adults lack the skills to use digital technology, which are essential for successful functioning in society. The rapid development of technology and the recent Covid-19 pandemic have accelerated the transference of many services on the Internet. The importance of the use of technology for older adults was particularly evident during the Covid 19 pandemic. Various research works revealed that the telephone, and less often the computer, had become the main working tool for a significant proportion of close care workers. This situation points to a new need for the development of digitised social services and a new approach to social policy.

This paper selects Zhongzhu Healthcare Holding Co.,Ltd (ST Zhongzhu ) as the research object, introduces the means of ST Zhongzhu’s controlling shareholders’ interest appropriation, studies the factors leading to the behaviour of interest appropriation, and puts forward targeted solution measures. This paper includes the following six parts. The first section is an introduction, combing the related literature and summarizing the background and significance of writing. The third part is the introduction of the case of ST Zhongzhu controlling shareholders encroaching on the interests of listed companies, the controlling shareholders of ST Zhongzhu encroach on the huge interests of listed companies mainly through the appropriation of funds by the related parties and the violation of the provision of guarantees for the related parties, etc., and at the same time elaborates on the negative impacts caused by this behaviour. The fourth part is the reason why the controlling shareholders of ST Zhongzhu’s interest encroachment behaviour can be realized. The fifth part is the measures to prevent the controlling shareholders’ interest encroachment, and puts forward the countermeasures to solve the encroachment of the company’s interests by the controlling shareholders of ST Zhongzhu. The sixth part is the conclusion of this paper. This paper analyses in-depth the current situation of interest encroachment in ST, and puts forward specific measures to solve the problem in view of the contributing factors. Contribute to the corresponding theoretical research.

This research explores the development trend of the informal economy after the Covid-19 pandemic and the ways to avoid the increase informal economy. The paper discusses the development process of the informal economy, the difficulties it faces, and the causes of its emergence. Based on the detailed analysis of the current situation of informal economy and its possible impact on society, this paper points out that solutions should be implemented from the perspectives of government, enterprises and individuals, which prevent the informal economy from growing at an uncontrollable rate. For example, once the government’s five insurance policies are formulated and laws and regulations are publicized; And the way enterprises treat new technical talents have affected the informal economy to some extent. The research of this paper will increase the understanding and attention of the society to the informal economy. Providing some substantial improvement strategies for the current informal economic system will help more people benefit from the regulated economic system.

With the wide use of network media, consumers’ information acquisition and communication methods have undergone significant changes. Network media not only provides them with a fast and efficient way to obtain information, but also provides them with a broader social space and communication platform. Therefore, the popularity of social media has brought some negative effects, such as low mood and depression among consumers. This paper will first study the impact of social media operation strategies on consumer sentiment. Secondly, the author will examine how social media self-control affects mood, which includes how users control their emotions and behaviors on social media, and the impact of this self-control on consumer mood. This paper will discuss and study through the research methods of psychology and sociology. Finally, this study aims to analyze the problem of information overload between social media and consumer sentiment by focusing on the comments made by consumers on social media. At the end of the study, the research results need to be summarized and analyzed in order to provide useful references for social media platforms to manage consumer emotions, so as to provide useful references for lawmakers, academics and practitioners.

The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on global trade and its transformation of trade relations between the United States and China. The outbreak of the epidemic triggered a huge restructuring of the global trade system and accelerated the trend of global trade de-globalization. As the two largest economies, the trade relationship between the United States and China plays an important role in this process. This paper analyzes the causes of deglobalization, which are mainly caused by the fracture of industrial chain, trade protection and industrial upgrading. At the same time, the paper focuses on the factors that have caused the deglobalization trend in the post-COVID-19 era, such as changing trade agreements, poor cross-border investment environment, and the challenges and uncertainties brought by e-commerce. Finally, it concentrates on the changes of the US and China bilateral trade in the post-COVID-19 era. Affected by the epidemic, the bilateral relationship between these two countries has become more conflictual and focused on technological competition. Finally, the trend against globalization has led to inefficient economic development and the regionalization of trade because of the necessity of communication.

International trade needs healthy and balanced development, and so does labor employment. There are some connections between the two, so both need to be taken into account in development. In terms of international trade, Sino-US trade is a hot topic at present. Based on the development of Sino-US trade relations and the correlation between the development of Sino-US trade relations and the employment of the labor force, this paper makes a summary. This paper mainly studies the development stage and changing trend of Sino-US trade relations, and discusses the influence of the development of Sino-US trade relations on labor employment. This paper mainly analyzes the impact of Sino-US trade relations in a relatively stable state, including positive and negative impacts. In addition, this paper mainly discusses the relationship between trade relations and labor employment and strives to achieve a balanced development of the two, promote the healthy development of trade, and stabilize employment and people’s livelihood.

When conducting international commodity trade, companies have to face changes in the prices of raw materials and finished products. Particularly in the context of a volatile international situation and increasingly complex geopolitics, enterprises are often inclined to engage in hedging activities to mitigate price risks. Establishing and improving risk management in hedging to promote enterprises’ smooth trade business is significant. Good risk management can ensure the long-term and stable development of enterprises. This paper conducts a case study through the March 2022 nickel futures price surge event on the London Metal Exchange. Through the huge loss of Tsingshan Group in the transaction, the cause of the event and the corresponding suggestions are put forward. The causes of the problems are analyzed from the macro-environmental and micro factors of the exchange and the enterprise, and the solutions are put forward. This paper has a certain reference value for similar enterprises to improve their hedging risk management ability.

The Disney Company and Warner Brothers have long played an important role in shaping and disseminating American popular culture. With the gradual development and improvement of the Internet and the information technology these days, they are quietly subverting the traditional culture and entertainment industry. Disney and Warner Brothers, as two large and classic film and television companies, their success from their founding to today cannot be separated from their own business strategies. As Disney gradually became bigger and bigger, it acquired many famous companies as its subsidiaries, and Warner Brothers also developed many peripheral products, or cooperated with other companies for their marketing. However, in the process of continuous development, the two companies also faced different problems. This paper studies and analyzes the development status and business strategies of these two companies. At the same time, it also provides some suggestions that are beneficial for the two companies. This paper uses the comparison method, and uses the tabulator data to more convincingly reflect.

Sanming City, Fujian Province, is known as the green capital of China. This paper focuses on the local forestry carbon sink projects in Sanming City and analyzes their carbon trading prices based on the real option pricing theory and the Black-Scholes model and concludes that the value of the forestry carbon sink projects in Sanming City has been underestimated. This paper seizes the undervalued situation and puts forward certain suggestions for working on projects to develop forestry carbon sink in Sanming, such as increasing the well-being of residents by utilizing forestry carbon sink projects, increasing the number of trading entities in the carbon market, and perfecting the carbon trading market, etc. It also points out that the rationalization of forestry carbon sink products should be carried out reasonably. At the same time, it also points out the significance of reasonable pricing of forestry carbon sink products for the local carbon trading market, which leads to the significance of the rational development of forestry carbon sinks for China’s green development.

In recent years, there are often high premium acquisitions based on high-performance commitment in corporate mergers and acquisitions. The performance commitment is intended to alleviate the information asymmetry between the two parties of mergers and acquisitions, but the pressure brought by the high-performance commitment often triggers the company’s financial fraud behaviour. This paper will use the case study method to select the classic case of Aerospace Communications merger and acquisition of the HiPAD, in-depth analysis of the merged party HiPAD of the financial counterfeiting means, and corresponding to the identification of signs of financial fraud research. This paper analyses the abnormal signs in the public disclosure information of HiPAD from the unique perspectives of financial information identification and non-financial information identification, parent company and subsidiaries, providing a reference direction for the financial fraud identification path. Finally, it puts forward a universal proposal for the prevention of corporate financial fraud in the context of the pressure of the performance commitment, which provides a feasible method for the similar mergers and acquisitions and high-performance commitment cases.

The changes in the Nasdaq and Nikkei over the past in recent years offer valuable insights for evaluating macroeconomic developments in the United States and Japan. Through an analysis of these two indicators, this paper can initially draw conclusions about the state of both countries’ economies. Over the past three years, the Nasdaq index has exhibited a relatively stable growth trend, maintaining strong overall growth despite fluctuations caused by global uncertainties. This may reflect advancements in areas such as technological innovation and the Internet sector, as well as investors’ optimism regarding future prospects. In contrast, the Nikkei index has displayed a more intricate and volatile pattern during this same period. While there have been some gains, it has experienced an overall decline marked by shocks. This could be attributed to various challenges faced by Japan including an aging population, low growth rate, and declining corporate competitiveness. The objective of this paper is to explore a similar model that explains stock markets in both the US and Japan. Many long-term investors base their stock decisions on the assumption that corporate cash flows should grow alongside economic performance while considering a constant or slow-moving discount rate. Therefore, it is expected that stock returns may exhibit correlation with future economic performance. Another concern worth addressing is how deflation might impact real stock returns.

With the development of the financial field, there are more and more hedging strategies accompanied by an increasing number of residual risks in these strategies. These risks are generally ignored by people, resulting in losses. This paper begins with CITIC Securities, the leader in China’s securities industry, and analyzes its large-scale paired trading case, spreading spreads in the A-stock market. Firstly, at the macro trading level, this paper finds that there are still credit risks and liquidity risks in the trading of this investment portfolio by referring to the prospectus of CITIC Securities’ bond offering. It puts forward relevant suggestions to reduce these risks. Next, the focus shifts to the analysis of the portfolio strategy itself. The paper identifies four risk points: stock price rise in advance, abnormal events, reduced hedging opportunities, and market irrationality. It also provides suggestions on how to mitigate losses caused by these remaining risks. For example, setting up profit and loss points, establishing relevant departments to control the remaining risk points, maintaining good customer credit, and improving the company’s credit rating.

Affected by various factors such as COVID-19 epidemic and war, the world economic situation changes more frequently, which leads to increased instability in the international and domestic financial derivatives market. For the substantial changes in the international and domestic financial derivatives market, how to deal with sudden changes and analyze the failure cases in the change of financial derivatives is of far-reaching significance to the rapidly developing domestic financial derivatives market. By taking the Bank of China “crude oil treasure’ margin call liquidation case and Tsingshan LME Nickel Futures Squeeze Case as the core of the study, this paper uses case analysis method to deeply study the possible problems and failures in the futures market under the condition of financial derivatives market instability and puts forward suggestions on how to deal with these problems. This paper analyzes the attributes and characteristics of China’s ‘crude oil treasure’ products and nickel futures products, restores the event process, describes the impact of the event on investors, trading institutions and banks, and puts forward suggestions for improvement. The suggestions in this paper are as follows: First, the company and the regulatory department should strengthen risk supervision and management; Second, companies and investors should improve their professional capabilities.

Venture capital (VC) has transcended its Silicon Valley origins to become a global force shaping the innovation and economic landscape. It is imperative to recognize the critical role of VC and improve its success rate. Employing the “jockey-horse-meadow” model, this paper identifies three crucial determinants influencing VC success: the entrepreneurial team, strategic approach and business model, and the market context. Delving into specific sub-points, the paper underscores the unique significance of each determinant, substantiating their pivotal roles in shaping VC outcomes. This research not only contributes insights into the success dynamics of VCs but also serves as a valuable reference for startups seeking financing and development. Additionally, it offers guidance to investors navigating the selection process, aiding them in identifying startups with genuine potential for impactful investment. By shedding light on these fundamental factors, this paper enriches the discourse surrounding VC success, fostering a more informed and strategic approach in the dynamic world of venture capital.

This paper explores the profound impact of investor behavior, driven by cognitive biases such as loss aversion, the framing effect, and the endowment effect, on financial markets. The presence of these biases introduces market anomalies and long-term reversals, challenging the efficiency of the market. While valuable insights are gained from studying investor behavior, limitations must be considered. Individual variations in psychological traits and decision-making processes may render these theories inapplicable to all investors. Historical data, a primary tool for analyzing behavior, may not reliably predict future market trends. Quantifying cognitive biases and measuring their impact presents challenges due to the subjective nature of psychological factors. Additionally, limited sample sizes in some studies may compromise the generalizability of findings. Despite these constraints, understanding investor behavior remains paramount for unraveling market dynamics and shaping informed investment strategies. The paper underscores the need to acknowledge these limitations while appreciating the nuanced role of cognitive biases in financial markets.

With the acceleration of the globalization process and the increase in international links, global trade and transnational investment are growing rapidly, and a clear and sound investment policy system can provide clear guidance and support to domestic enterprises and investors, while also influencing investment decisions and willingness to cooperate of other countries or regions. This paper presents a concise summary of the investment policies of China and the United States. It highlights that the United States’ investment policies primarily consist of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) policy and the safeguarding of domestic industries and capital, while China’s focus remains on attracting foreign investment, with continuous OFDI policy improvement. This paper also analyzes the positive impacts and risk challenges of FDI on China’s economy. FDI generally promotes China’s economic growth, provides employment opportunities, improves the quality of labor, promotes technological progress, and enhances innovation, but it also faces a series of problems, especially the negative side of economic stability, market competition, and coordinated social development. Improvements in all these issues require timely adaptation and guidance from national investment policies.

The traditional approval system has in the past suffered from low approval efficiency and inadequate information disclosure, and was prone to market speculation and information asymmetry. In order to improve market transparency and standardization, the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) formally implemented a registration system for stock issuance in 2019 and is gradually promoting related reforms. Under the registration system, if the regulator still has questions about a company’s response or needs further information, it may ask additional questions and request more information and explanations from the company. At this point, the company will face multiple rounds of questioning. Through the multiple rounds of questioning procedures, the regulator can gain an in-depth understanding of the situation of the proposed listed company, ask questions and request additional information, so as to better protect the rights and interests of investors and the stable operation of the market. This paper analyzes Hitake as an example of a company, and studies the reasons why Hitake experienced multiple rounds of questioning as well as the economic results of multiple rounds of questioning from both financial and nonfinancial perspectives. The significance of this paper is that by analyzing the multiple rounds of inquiries under the registration system of Hitake, it reflects the impact of the multiple rounds of inquiries, thus reflecting the far-reaching role of the registration system in today’s market as well as the revelation.

This paper examines the field of behavioral finance. First, a review of the behavioral finance literature will highlight the key findings and theories that have emerged in this field. Second, this paper will also discuss the practical applications of behavioral finance, including how it can be applied to improve investment decisions and reduce cognitive biases. Finally, several future research directions that may further advance the field of behavioral finance are analyzed, such as exploring the role of emotions in financial decision-making and examining the impact of social factors on investor behavior, pointing out shortcomings and making extensions to current research in this field. This paper will specifically analyze behavioral finance in terms of loss aversion, market anomalies, framing effect and endowment effect, revealing the psychological bias and cognitive bias of human beings in the process of financial decision-making, and providing new perspectives and methods for understanding the operating mechanism of the financial market and investment strategies.

Everyone is a stakeholder in environmental issues. Contemporarily, climate change is incrementally imposing threats to human development, making multilateral cooperation necessary to minimise the impacts of climate-related risks. The Kyoto Protocol was a significant internationally binding agreement that aimed to reduce greenhouse gases emissions, whereas its signatories failed to achieve its target to a large extent. This paper analyzes the reason behind the failure of the Kyoto Protocol through a game-theoretic literature. The main factors that contributed to the collapse of the Kyoto Protocol include the complex nature of the environmental issue and strategic interest in the treaty ratification procedure. The global environment is defined as a public good, therefore, each country has a free-rider incentive to take advantage of others’ actions in pollution reduction, which is analyzed through a single prisoners’ dilemma game. When such a game is extended to a repeated prisoners’ dilemma game with an infinite horizon, there is a possibility that nations adopt a cooperative strategy in the long run. Simultaneously, the ultimatum game provides a representation of the treaty negotiation and ratification process, highlighting the importance of fairness and reciprocity of the treaty for its signatories. Potential solutions include trade sanctions, tax on exports, and the measure of cumulative emission has been evaluated at the end of the paper.

The Initial Public Offering (IPO) listing of emerging Chinese tea brands in Hong Kong has captured widespread attention in current social discourse. Amidst the swift evolution of the tea brand industry and the advent of innovative Chinese tea offerings, the competitive landscape is witnessing a surge, prompting numerous brands to opt for Hong Kong IPOs as a strategic move to “breakthrough the siege.” Focusing on NAYUKI Tea as the subject of investigation, this paper delves into the rationale behind NAYUKI Tea’s IPO within the context of the tea brand market. It meticulously examines the financial and non-financial transformations both preceding and succeeding its IPO. The analysis reveals an enhancement in NAYUKI Tea’s financial operations post-IPO, although formidable challenges persist in the capital market. Building on these findings, the paper consolidates insights into NAYUKI Tea’s IPO journey, offering a comprehensive overview of its experiences, coupled with anticipations and prospects for the future of the tea industry.

This paper explores the pervasive challenge of financial fraud in listed companies, emphasizing the vital role of the independent director system in corporate governance and fraud prevention. Beginning with a background overview and theoretical foundation, it assesses the status and significance of independent directors, analyzing factors influencing their involvement in preventing financial fraud. Using Kangmei Pharmaceuticals as a case study, the paper examines the corporate financial fraud methods and relevant risks, focusing on internal governance issues. Emphasis is placed on the independence of independent directors, their relationships with the board and supervisory board, and their impact on Kangmei Pharmaceuticals’ governance in the financial fraud context. The study uncovers reasons for perceived failures, concluding with recommendations to enhance independent directors’ engagement in corporate governance. This research contributes to understanding financial fraud governance mechanisms, enriching the theory of independent directors, and proposing suggestions to improve the effectiveness of the independent director system.

This paper analyzes the phenomenon of RMB depreciation on the basis of trade inequality between China and the United States. It is concluded that the causes of the trade imbalance between China and the United States are mainly related to the transfer of the global industrial chain, the highly complementary trade structure of China and the United States, the international dollar credit standard, etc. This paper puts forward some suggestions and measures to solve the pressure of RMB exchange rate and Sino-US trade imbalance. This paper argues that China should actively promote the internationalization of RMB and improve the formation mechanism of RMB exchange rate. In addition, China should promote the deep integration of the Chinese market into the global market and accelerate industrial innovation and upgrading. It also recommends the cultivation of foreign-related economic and rule of law talents to promote the easing of the relationship between the two sides and the common economic growth.

In recent years, the food delivery industry has had significant growth. In 2020, COVID-19 pushes this industry to be general for society. The food delivery industry helps customers’ lives be convenient. In China, Meituan is at the leading position in the food delivery market. Their business model has a huge effect on other food delivery companies. Fantuan is a food delivery company in Western countries, they usually work with local Chinese restaurants and deliver food to the customers. This paper analyzes both Meituan and Fantuan in macro, meso and micro way, to find out their status. This paper analyzes the governments’ politics, country economy, society and technology to find out how external factors affect companies’ business. This paper can depend on their competition mechanism to explain the reason for Meituan being the top food delivery company in China. Plus, this paper provides advice for Fantuan to improve their business in the Future.

This paper focuses on the significance of game balance in games and explores the application of game theory concepts for designing and analyzing balanced gameplay. When analyzing instances of games, the paper initially presents the renowned prisoner’s dilemma, a prominent problem in game theory, and delves into diverse strategies along with their corresponding advantages, thereby enabling readers to appreciate the captivating essence of game theory. After that, the paper respectively mentions two individual cases from two different forms of games. The well-known game Rock-Paper-Scissors is a simple strategy game. FPS (First Person Shooter) game is a sort of video game that is a complex strategy game. In analyzing this type of game, the paper draws images to show the imbalance in the game. In the end, the article puts forward the prospect that game theory can contribute to game design. The approach adopted in this study integrates existing research in game theory with practical insights from game design, without delving into extensive theoretical derivations or complex formulas.

The China-US trade war has emerged as one of the most significant and complex issue in contemporary international trade. It affects not only the cooperation between the two countries, but also the global economy. Therefore, the analysis of China-US trade war has significant meaning in understanding the global trading system and making economic forecasts. This paper analyses the causes of trade war from the perspective of trade deficit, globalization, and property rights, indicating that the US started trade war for its own interest and felt the stress from the development of China. Apart from causes, the effects are also crucial. This paper analyses the import and export volume, investment effect, economic effect, and political effect, showing that the impacts of China-US trade war are widespread. Based on the analysis above, this paper gives several suggestions in the hope that China and US could strengthen exchange and cooperation, reduce trade disputes, and contribute to the development of global economy.

In recent times, one of the major issues currently affecting the global economy has been the trade war between the United States and China. This paper examines the impact of the US-China trade war on the global macro economy, including U.S. tariffs, real exports, macroeconomic indicators, and production structure. This paper finds that increased U.S. tariffs on China not only reduce the welfare of U.S. consumers and firms but also cause a domino effect throughout other regions that significantly impact the global trade structure. The US-China trade war, with its complexity regarding taxes and extensive geopolitical implications on current economics, proves itself to be an interconnected entity dictating the course of the present world economy. Based on examining some essential elements, from real exports macroeconomic parameters, the trade conflict has merely exceeded the bilateral dimension and now marks even the global economy. Therefore, the dynamics of this trade war call for global collaboration and advanced planning to guard against its wide-ranging implications.

Many existing studies of social comparison focus on the psychological component, but the reality of users’ lived experiences is that most users incorporate multiple platforms into their communication practices in order to access the people and networks they desire to influence. This paper delves into the phenomenon of social comparison on social media platforms, examined through the lens of media and communication studies. Particularly emphasized is the role of algorithmic curation and the emergence of social media influencers as modern benchmarks of success and aspiration. This paper endeavors to offer a comprehensive understanding of the intertwined dynamics of technological affordances, socio-cultural catalysts, and psychological impacts in the realm of digital social comparison. Finally, the paper reflects on potential strategies to navigate this complex terrain, aiming to strike a balance between digital engagement and mental well-being. The overarching aim is to foster a digital environment that, while enabling connection and expression, also ensures the psychological well-being of its users.

With the development of China’s economy, retail and warehousing have a very objective market. As Sam’s club, which has been deeply engaged in China for many years, this will be a good opportunity. However, competition in China’s retail market is still fierce. Today, China’s local retail enterprises have fired the first shot in the price war against Sam. This paper uses economic knowledge to analyze the market situation of Sam’s club in China, including but not limited to swot, pestle and market positioning analysis. Through the analysis of economics, this paper clarifies the advantages and disadvantages of Sam in the principality market. In addition, it also clearly pointed out the challenges and opportunities faced by Sam’s Club in China. In the case that competitors have started to compete in the price war, this paper gives suggestions that are more in line with China’s national conditions. This will greatly help Sam’s Club to understand China’s national conditions and develop new market strategies.

The research background of the paper is that the Genshin Impact has become very famous in recent years. The game made $4 billion in revenue in just two years after its launch. The game’s worldwide popularity has attracted a lot of attention. Thus, this paper wants to find out the producer uses which kind of methods to attract such many players and gain a large amount of profit. The paper uses a literature review and case analysis as research methods. By using these two methods to research, this paper finds that the producer of the game Genshin Impact uses lots of market strategies to attract players. Also, this research wants to explore how the game Genshin Impact successfully integrates traditional Chinese culture and promotes traditional Chinese culture to overseas players. The conclusion is producer of Genshin Impact uses different market strategies to attract players and help promote traditional Chinese culture to overseas people.

Language and culture are two indispensable elements of human society. They interweave and influence each other, and jointly constitute the diversity and uniqueness of human society. As a tool of communication, language not only transmits information, but also is a carrier of culture. This paper aims to explore the importance and mutual influence of language and culture on cross-cultural communication in the era of intellectual media. Through the analysis of related literature review, this paper puts forward in the era of intellectual media, can to a certain extent, break the barriers between cultural communication and cross-cultural language communication, “cross language and cross-cultural” the humanities social important proposition, make the communication activities of “language”, “culture”, “communication” three elements maximum transmission efficiency, make based on intellectual media multimodal culture communication and language communication more affinity and story.

The research background of this paper is to focus on the globalization and diversification of the market, and many brands intend to integrate culture into their products for marketing. At the same time, by the end of 2023, the stores of new tea brands can reach up to 5 billion. Currently, China’s milk tea industry has entered China and entered the era of new tea drinks. This paper to the overlord CHAGEE the brand as a research entrance, the traditional culture can assign tea brand marketing logic study the subject, the research method is used to the process tracking method and 4P theory, through the two methods to the operation of traditional culture risks and the analysis, found that the brand using traditional culture can assign brand marketing method, and at the end to the brand in the use of traditional culture marketing to provide relevant Suggestions. This study has guiding significance for the future development of the related milk tea beverage industry.

The paper delves into the historical development of Taoism, analyzing its rise and fall across various Chinese dynasties. It begins with the Eastern Han dynasty, emphasizing Zhang Ling’s role in establishing Taoism as a significant religious force. The paper highlights the strategic expansion of Taoist influence under Zhang Lu in Sichuan. During the South North Dynasty, the focus shifts to Tao Hongjing’s efforts in integrating Taoist, Buddhist, and Confucian ideas, thereby creating a comprehensive deity system. The contributions of Ge Hong, especially in alchemy and the concept of ’inner alchemy’, are noted in the context of the Danding School. The peak of ancient Taoism is traced back to the Song and Yuan dynasties, underscoring the pivotal support of emperors and the roles of figures like Zhang Zhengsui and Zhang Jixian in promoting Taoism. However, the Ming and Qing dynasties saw Taoism’s decline due to the suppression of religious practices and its reduction to a mere cultural aspect for the royal family and aristocracy. The paper concludes by proposing a future path for Taoism, emphasizing the need for adaptation to modern society. It suggests that Taoism should lower barriers to entry and increase its relevance to contemporary life, learning from other religions like Christianity, to sustain its growth and significance in the modern era.

This paper discusses the common syntactic errors in Chinese senior high school English writing, explores the causes of their English expression errors, and proposes a writing enhancement plan for senior high school students. Based on the theory of error analysis and the analysis of writing materials, this paper collects relevant data, analyzes the types of transfer errors and interference patterns in writing, and tries to explain the causes of interference syntactic errors in students’ English writing. Although the reasons for the negative transfer of senior high school students are complex and diverse, the efforts of teachers and students can still effectively avoid the formation of negative transfer of English thinking reduction. In English teaching, teachers should strengthen students’ syntactic discrimination ability and syntactic structure through comparative analysis, encourage students to overcome the interference of mother tongue thinking, and cultivate students’ English thinking ability.

This paper delves into SKIMS’ strategic positioning in the contemporary fashion industry, emphasizing its robust Direct-to-Consumer model that enables genuine consumer engagement. The brand’s utilization of celebrity endorsements, especially its founder, Kim Kardashian, facilitates a compelling blend of global recognition and authentic consumer connections. Central to SKIMS’ success is its ability to cater to modern consumer preferences for personalization and diversification, effectively distinguishing itself from competitors like Victoria’s Secret. SKIMS exhibits a unique synergy that accentuates its industry dominance through strategic influencer collaborations and a pronounced digital presence. However, inherent challenges emerge, notably the potential pitfalls of relying heavily on celebrity-driven branding and navigating product diversity in a saturated market. The allure of celebrity endorsement provides immediate brand benefits but could pose long-term vulnerabilities given the unpredictable nature of celebrity dynamics. A transformative insight from this paper is the pivotal role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in modern marketing for SKIMS. AI’s predictive capabilities bolster SKIMS’ inventory management and consumer engagement, promoting real-time adaptability in marketing strategies. Thus, while SKIMS showcases a blend of strategic insight and technological integration, it must also address the inherent challenges of the evolving fashion landscape. In essence, SKIMS’ journey offers valuable lessons for brands navigating the complexities of modern consumerism and market dynamics.

In the process of traditional classroom teaching, the classroom atmosphere is generally dull, which greatly restricts the teaching quality and learning efficiency. As the only school-enterprise cooperation major, the information security technology application major in Shandong Electric Power College, together with NARI, 360 and other companies, makes full use of existing resources and builds a classroom based on skills competition that is goal-oriented guidance, close to job requirements, competition and cooperation coexisting. Meanwhile, this paper forms a three-dimensional construction model focus on knowledge, ability and quality. Based on the three-dimensional construction model mentioned before, this paper has explored on three aspects: teaching model, combination of competition and training, and multi-level competition mechanism, which is of great significance to the construction of a vitality classroom centered on student learning.

This paper attempts to put forward pedagogical suggestions for Chinese middle school English teachers to improve their efficiency of preposition teaching by analyzing the errors made by Chinese English learners. Because of the complex semantics network of all prepositions, this paper will take only three prepositions IN, ON, and AT as examples to make a deeper analysis in this field.

At present, the interdisciplinary learning ability and level of junior middle school have become an important symbol to measure the teaching level of junior middle school. As the basic theory and important tool of science learning, it is of great significance to vigorously promote the interdisciplinary learning of junior middle school mathematics with mathematics as the core subject. This paper first analyzes the research background and current situation of interdisciplinary learning of junior middle school Mathematics from the perspective of STEM (i.e. Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics). Then, the paper constructs the theoretical framework of junior middle school mathematics interdisciplinary learning based on the research of science subject, technology subject and engineering subject. Finally, from the three dimensions of experimental teaching, information technology and scientific spirit, this paper puts forward the practical strategy of junior middle school mathematics interdisciplinary learning.