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This study constructed a moderated mediation model to explore the impact of parent-child communication on English academic engagement. We conducted a questionnaire survey among 21,270 middle school students using various measurements: English Academic Engagement Scale, Adolescent Parent-Child Communication Scale, learning adaptability questionnaire, and English Learning Self-Efficacy Scale. The results showed that learning adaptability played a mediating role between parent-child communication and English academic engagement. Moreover, the relationships between parent-child communication and English academic engagement as well as between parent-child communication and learning adaptability were all moderated by English learning self-efficacy. These findings revealed the importance of parent-child communication in middle school students' foreign language learning and suggested that more attention should be paid to improving middle school students' English learning self-efficacy and learning adaptability and, therefore, English academic engagement.

This study was based on ecological systems theory, combined with the concept of localization put forward by Chinese scholars, to explore the influence of the family (family cohesion) and personal (psychological suzhi) factors on middle school students' aggression. A total of 20,114 middle school students aged 12 to 18 years (M = 14.30, SD = 1.40) completed the Family Cohesion Questionnaire, the Psychological Suzhi Questionnaire, and the Chinese Version of Buss and Perry Aggression Questionnaire. The results indicated that there were significant negative correlations among family cohesion, psychological suzhi, and overall aggression along with its components. Additionally, psychological suzhi significantly mediated the relationship between family cohesion and aggression and its sub-dimensions. These results highlighted the important roles of family cohesion and psychological suzhi in adolescents' behavioral development and provided potential strategies to reduce middle school students' aggression., Author(s): Xu Wang [sup.1] [sup.2] , Yi-bo Geng [sup.1] [sup.2] , Jie Lin [sup.1] [sup.2] , Zhen-shuo Yi [sup.1] [sup.2] , Yan-ling Liu [sup.1] [sup.2] Author Affiliations: (1) grid.263906.8, 0000 [...]

This study investigated learning adaptability in the English language academic engagement of 17,341 middle school students from 17 provinces (cities) in China. We used the following scales in our study: learning adaptability, foreign language classroom anxiety, English learning self-efficacy, and English academic engagement. Our research resulted in two key findings. First, learning adaptability positively predicted English academic engagement. Second, foreign language anxiety and English learning self-efficacy played separate and sequential mediating roles between learning adaptability and English language academic engagement. These findings indicated that learning adaptability, foreign language anxiety, and English learning self-efficacy play key roles in Chinese middle school students' English academic engagement. Therefore, in order to improve the level of middle school students' English academic engagement, teachers and parents can carry out educational activities by cultivating student's learning adaptability, reducing their foreign language anxiety, and improving their English learning self-efficacy., Author(s): Xu Wang [sup.1] [sup.2] , Yan-ling Liu [sup.1] [sup.2] , Bin Ying [sup.3] , Jie Lin [sup.1] [sup.2] Author Affiliations: (1) grid.263906.8, 0000 0001 0362 4044, The Lab of [...]

Comprehensive Summary: In vivo monitoring of bioelectrical and biochemical signals with implanted electrodes has received great interest over the past decades. However, this faces huge challenges because of the severe mechanical mismatch between conventional rigid electrodes and soft biological tissues. In recent years, the emergence of flexible and stretchable electrodes offers seamless and conformable biological‐electronic interfaces and has demonstrated significant advantages for in vivo electrochemical and electrophysiological monitoring. This review first summarizes the strategies for electrode fabrication from the point of substrate and conductive materials. Next, recent progress in electrode functionalization for improved performance is presented. Then, the advances of flexible and stretchable electrodes in exploring bioelectrical and biochemical signals are introduced. Finally, we present some challenges and perspectives ranging from electrode fabrication to application. Key Scientists: In 2001, a seminal work by Kipke et al. first showed flexible polyimide‐based intracortical electrode arrays.[1] This electrode was further expanded to 252‐channel using microelectromechanical systems technology by Stieglitz et al. in 2009 and achieved large‐scale cortical recordings.[2] Later, Lieber et al. created mesh electronics that allow for seamless and minimally invasive three‐dimensional interpenetration with nerve tissues, opening up unique applications for flexible electronics.[3] Subsequently, Rogers et al. described bioresorbable electronics for transient electrical activity recordings in 2016.[4] And Frank et al. proposed polymer electrode arrays capable of resolving single neurons in 2019.[5] It wasn't until 2020 that a significant breakthrough in biochemical signals monitoring by Peng et al. demonstrated functionalized carbon nanotube fibre bundles for multiple disease biomarkers monitoring.[6] Later on, Mooney et al. established the first fully viscoelastic electrode arrays for neural recordings from the brain and heart in 2021.[7] Recently, Bao et al. presented tissue‐mimicking, stretchable neurotransmitter interfaces for monitoring the brain and gut.[8] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study provides detailed description of a newly-discovered Callicarpa yongshunensis Wen B. Xu, Xiao D. Li & Yan Ling Liu (Lamiaceae) species from Hunan, China. The species shares similarities in the inflorescence, glandular colour and leaf shape features with C. luteopunctata H. T. Chang and C. giraldii Hesse ex Rehd., while its white fruits are similar to those of C. longifolia Lamk. However, its procumbent, evergreen shrub and white fruits are distinctly different from those of C. luteopunctata and C. giraldii, while its procumbent, scarless nodes and stellate pubescence free fruits distinguishes it from C. longifolia. Images, distribution, morphological features, molecular phylogenetic classification and conservation assessment of this new Callicarpa species are explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]