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Since the global economic recession in 2008, Chinese undergraduate students have quickly risen to be the largest international student population in American colleges and universities, forming a monoethnic group that often isolates itself from domestic students on campuses. This study explores how twelve Chinese undergraduate students utilized on-campus employment as a means of engaging host nationals to improve language skills and engage in cross-cultural interactions. Thematic analysis affirms the efficacy of the university workplace as an educational space outside of the classroom. Based on these findings, various policy recommendation are proposed to improve the management of international student employees.

Using academic capitalism as a theoretical foundation, this phenomenological study examined the new study abroad experiences of Chinese college students in six popular English-speaking study destination countries--the U.S., the U.K., Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, and Singapore. Qualitative data collected from 20 interviews indicate some hosting higher education institutions prioritize enrollment growth and neglect recruitment process and student development. Three main findings are 1) delegating recruitment to overseas agencies causes mismatches between host institutions and the Chinese students, 2) Chinese students having insufficient language skills are prone to have a dissatisfied study abroad experience, and 3) high density of student population from one country impedes Chinese students' integration on campus. Implications for higher educational professionals, students, and faculty are presented.

Objectives: This study aimed to ascertain if the radiomics features of epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) and pericoronary adipose tissue (PCAT) based on coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) could identify non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) from unstable angina (UA)., Materials and Methods: This retrospective case-control study included 108 patients with NSTEMI and 108 controls with UA. All patients were separated into training cohort (n = 116), internal validation cohort 1 (n = 50), and internal validation cohort 2 (n = 50) based on the time order of admission. The internal validation cohort 1 used the same scanner and scan parameters as the training cohort, while the internal validation cohort 2 used different canners and scan parameters than the training cohort. The EAT and PCAT radiomics features selected by maximum relevance minimum redundancy (mRMR) and least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) were adopted to build logistic regression models. Finally, we developed an EAT radiomics model, three vessel-based (right coronary artery [RCA], left anterior descending artery [LAD], and left circumflex artery [LCX]) PCAT radiomics models, and a combined model by combining the three PCAT radiomics models. Discrimination, calibration, and clinical application were employed to assess the performance of all models., Results: Eight radiomics features of EAT, sixteen of RCA-PCAT, fifteen of LAD-PCAT, and eighteen of LCX-PCAT were selected and used to construct radiomics models. The area under the curves (AUCs) of the EAT, RCA-PCAT, LAD-PCAT, LCX-PCAT and the combined models were 0.708 (95% CI: 0.614-0.802), 0.833 (95% CI:0.759-0.906), 0.720 (95% CI:0.628-0.813), 0.713 (95% CI:0.619-0.807), 0.889 (95% CI:0.832-0.946) in the training cohort, 0.693 (95% CI:0.546-0.840), 0.837 (95% CI: 0.729-0.945), 0.766 (95% CI: 0.625-0.907), 0.675 (95% CI: 0.521-0.829), 0.898 (95% CI: 0.802-0.993) in the internal validation cohort 1, and 0.691 (0.535-0.847), 0.822 (0.701-0.944), 0.760 (0.621-0.899), 0.674 (0.517-0.830), 0.866 (0.769-0.963) in the internal validation cohort 2, respectively., Conclusion: Compared with the RCA-PCAT radiomics model, the EAT radiomics model had a limited ability to discriminate between NSTEMI and UA. The combination of the three vessel-based PCAT radiomics may have the potential to distinguish between NSTEMI and UA., Competing Interests: We declare that we have no financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that can inappropriately influence our work, there is no professional or other personal interest of any nature or kind in any product, service and / or company that could be construed as influencing the position presented in, or the review of, the manuscript entitled., (© 2023 The Authors.)