China’s economy demonstrated remarkable resilience in 2025,with its GDP exceeding RMB 140 trillion for the first time and achieving a five percent year-on-year growth.This performance marked the successful conclusion...China’s economy demonstrated remarkable resilience in 2025,with its GDP exceeding RMB 140 trillion for the first time and achieving a five percent year-on-year growth.This performance marked the successful conclusion of the 14th Five-Year Plan(2021-2025),during which the country’s economy achieved“four consecutive leaps,”expanding from RMB 110 trillion to 120 trillion,then to 130 trillion,and finally to 140 trillion.展开更多
It’s widely believed that we’re experiencing a crisis of trust in institutions.Medicine,alongside government and media,stands accused of losing the public’s confidence.During the pandemic,this narrative intensified...It’s widely believed that we’re experiencing a crisis of trust in institutions.Medicine,alongside government and media,stands accused of losing the public’s confidence.During the pandemic,this narrative intensified.Medical authorities changed their recommendations as new evidence emerged,social media amplified doubts about vaccines and treatments,and the politicization of public health measures seemed to drive wedges between medicine and large segments of the population.展开更多
Before joining the Beijing Dragon Shadow Puppetry Art Theatre,this group of young people rarely had the chance to meet people like themselves,lacked friends,faced obstacles at work,and felt alienated from society.Now,...Before joining the Beijing Dragon Shadow Puppetry Art Theatre,this group of young people rarely had the chance to meet people like themselves,lacked friends,faced obstacles at work,and felt alienated from society.Now,they have gained appreciation,recognition,confidence,friendships,and love.展开更多
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s New Year message summarized an important year of steady progress as the country prepares to launch its 15th Five-Year Plan.“Our economic strength,scientific and technological abilities...Chinese President Xi Jinping’s New Year message summarized an important year of steady progress as the country prepares to launch its 15th Five-Year Plan.“Our economic strength,scientific and technological abilities,defense capabilities,and composite national strength all reached new heights.”declared President Xi Jinping in his 2026 New Year message on De-By CHINA TODAY cember 31,2025,offering a succinct summary of China’s development over the past year,marked by resilience,progress,and renewed confidence as the country stands at the threshold of a new development phase.展开更多
Vehicular Internet ofThings(V-IoT)networks need intelligent and adaptive spectrum access methods for ensuring ultra-reliable and low-latency communication(URLLC)in highly dynamic environments.Traditional reinforcement...Vehicular Internet ofThings(V-IoT)networks need intelligent and adaptive spectrum access methods for ensuring ultra-reliable and low-latency communication(URLLC)in highly dynamic environments.Traditional reinforcement learning(RL)-based algorithms,such as Q-Learning and Double Q-Learning,are often characterized by unstable convergence and inefficient exploration in the presence of stochastic vehicular traffic and interference.This paper proposes Adaptive Reinforcement Q-learning with Upper Confidence Bound(ARQ-UCB),a lightweight and reliability-aware RL framework,which explicitly reduces interruption and blocking probabilities while improving throughput and delay across diverse vehicular traffic conditions.This proposed ARQ-UCB algorithm extends the basic Q-updates with an exploration confidence term able to dynamically balance exploration and exploitation based on uncertainty estimates,hence allowing faster convergence in case of bursty vehicular traffic.A comprehensive simulation framework evaluates throughput,delay,fairness,energy efficiency,and computational complexity in several V-IoT scenarios.Obtained results indicate that ARQ–UCB attains substantial gains in terms of throughput,fairness,and blocking/delay probabilities while retaining sub-20μs decision latency and O(1)complexity per decision,thus validating real-time feasibility for reliable spectrum access in 5G and beyond V-IoT networks.展开更多
Guided by the significant theoretical principle of the“Two Integrations”and grounded in Marxist cultural theory as its methodological basis,this paper constructs a bidirectional interpretative model linking“Yellow ...Guided by the significant theoretical principle of the“Two Integrations”and grounded in Marxist cultural theory as its methodological basis,this paper constructs a bidirectional interpretative model linking“Yellow River Culture”with“Cultural Confidence”.It proposes an integrated“Objective-Content-Path-Support”framework.Through the synergy of three-dimensional objectives,adaptation of stratified content,innovation in four-dimensional pathways,and support from a three-dimensional guarantee system,this framework establishes a closed-loop operational mechanism of“Curriculum-Practice-Evaluation-Feedback”.The study focuses on core issues in integrating Yellow River culture into university education practices,such as content construction,methodological pathways,and institutional guarantees.It aims to provide a systematic reference for universities to fulfill their fundamental task of“fostering virtue and cultivating talent”and to serve the national strategies for ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin.展开更多
The South Central Axis in Beijing showcases China’s image and highlights its cultural confidence.THE Central Axis is the centerpiece of the Chinese capital’s urban spatial layout.The southern extended section of the...The South Central Axis in Beijing showcases China’s image and highlights its cultural confidence.THE Central Axis is the centerpiece of the Chinese capital’s urban spatial layout.The southern extended section of the Central Axis,or the South Central Axis,stretches from the Yongdingmen Gate Tower in the north to the South Fifth Ring Road in the south.While being a strategic transport link facilitating the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region,it also showcases China’s vision for the future and highlights its cultural confidence.展开更多
The original online version of this article was revised:Several errors occurred in the published version of the article.These have now been corrected as follows:Page 2,section"2.2 Laser Texturing Procedure of Sur...The original online version of this article was revised:Several errors occurred in the published version of the article.These have now been corrected as follows:Page 2,section"2.2 Laser Texturing Procedure of Surfaces",line 2:The device name was corrected from"YDFLP-E-50-M8"to"YDFLP-50-M8."Page 3,Section 2.4:The phrase"95%confidence interval"has been corrected to"95%confidence level."Page 3,Figure 1 caption:The phrase"fandg"has been corrected to"f and g."The order"C4 and C12"has been reversed to"C12 and C4,"in accordance with the display order in the figure.Page 4,Figure reference:The phrase"Figs.4c and d"has been corrected to"Figs.5b and c."Page 5,paragraph starting with"The ANOVA results are presented...":The phrase"95%confidence interval"has been corrected to"95%confidence level."展开更多
As the global economy navigates through a complex landscape of uncertainty and shifting dynamics,the Chinese economy stands out for its remarkable resilience,inherent vitality,and steadfast commitment to a transformat...As the global economy navigates through a complex landscape of uncertainty and shifting dynamics,the Chinese economy stands out for its remarkable resilience,inherent vitality,and steadfast commitment to a transformative,high-quality development path.The latest economic indicators,strategic policy guidance from the Central Economic Work Conference,and a surge in international confidence collectively present a picture of an economy not merely recovering,but actively building its new growth engines.China is transitioning towards a more sustainable and innovation-driven model,with new quality productive forces playing an increasingly prominent role.展开更多
China Standardization:What is your view on this year's International Standardization Youth Star Competition?Tom Heilandt:This is the first time I have attended this event,which was founded by my good friend Dr.Zha...China Standardization:What is your view on this year's International Standardization Youth Star Competition?Tom Heilandt:This is the first time I have attended this event,which was founded by my good friend Dr.Zhang Xiaogang,whom I first met in 2016 when he was President of ISO.It is an excellent initiative.I strongly believe that it is essential for young people to become involved in standardization.展开更多
Existing blockwise empirical likelihood(BEL)method blocks the observations or their analogues,which is proven useful under some dependent data settings.In this paper,we introduce a new BEL(NBEL)method by blocking the ...Existing blockwise empirical likelihood(BEL)method blocks the observations or their analogues,which is proven useful under some dependent data settings.In this paper,we introduce a new BEL(NBEL)method by blocking the scoring functions under high dimensional cases.We study the construction of confidence regions for the parameters in spatial autoregressive models with spatial autoregressive disturbances(SARAR models)with high dimension of parameters by using the NBEL method.It is shown that the NBEL ratio statistics are asymptoticallyχ^(2)-type distributed,which are used to obtain the NBEL based confidence regions for the parameters in SARAR models.A simulation study is conducted to compare the performances of the NBEL and the usual EL methods.展开更多
BACKGROUND Monkeypox(Mpox),is a disease of global public health concern,as it does not affect only countries in western and central Africa.AIM To assess Burundi healthcare workers(HCWs)s’level of knowledge and confid...BACKGROUND Monkeypox(Mpox),is a disease of global public health concern,as it does not affect only countries in western and central Africa.AIM To assess Burundi healthcare workers(HCWs)s’level of knowledge and confidence in the diagnosis and management of Mpox.METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study via an online survey designed mainly from the World Health Organization course distributed among Burundi HCWs from June-July 2023.The questionnaire comprises 8 socioprofessional-related questions,22 questions about Mpox disease knowledge,and 3 questions to assess confidence in Mpox diagnosis and management.The data were analyzed via SPSS software version 25.0.A P value<0.05 was considered to indicate statistical significance.RESULTS The study sample comprised 471 HCWs who were mainly medical doctors(63.9%)and nurses(30.1%).None of the 22 questions concerning Mpox knowledge had at least 50%correct responses.A very low number of HCWs(17.4%)knew that Mpox has a vaccine.The confidence level to diagnose(21.20%),treat(18.00%)or prevent(23.30%)Mpox was low among HCWs.The confidence level in the diagnosis of Mpox was associated with the HCWs’age(P value=0.009),sex(P value<0.001),work experience(P value=0.002),and residence(P value<0.001).The confidence level to treat Mpox was significantly associated with the HCWs’age(P value=0.050),sex(P value<0.001),education(P value=0.033)and occupation(P value=0.005).The confidence level to prevent Mpox was associated with the HCWs’education(P value<0.001),work experience(P value=0.002),residence(P value<0.001)and type of work institution(P value=0.003).CONCLUSION This study revealed that HCWs have the lowest level of knowledge regarding Mpox and a lack of confidence in the ability to diagnose,treat or prevent it.There is an urgent need to organize continuing medical education programs on Mpox epidemiology and preparedness for Burundi HCWs.We encourage future researchers to assess potential hesitancy toward Mpox vaccination and its associated factors.展开更多
NEW quality productive forces were one of the most frequently mentioned keywords for China’s high-quality development in the past year.The annual Central Economic Work Conference(CEWC)in December that reviewed the ec...NEW quality productive forces were one of the most frequently mentioned keywords for China’s high-quality development in the past year.The annual Central Economic Work Conference(CEWC)in December that reviewed the economy in 2024 and gave directions for the economic work in 2025 called for balancing fostering new growth drivers and revitalizing old ones while developing new quality productive forces based on local conditions.展开更多
1 I Like Me follows a cheerful and confident little pig who celebrates everything about herself.From her curly tail to her big feet,she loves every part of herself.In the book,I remember that the pig enthusiastically ...1 I Like Me follows a cheerful and confident little pig who celebrates everything about herself.From her curly tail to her big feet,she loves every part of herself.In the book,I remember that the pig enthusiastically declares that no matter what she does,even if she's making mistakes,being silly or being a clumsy rookie(笨拙的新手)of trying something new,she will always like herself.展开更多
文摘China’s economy demonstrated remarkable resilience in 2025,with its GDP exceeding RMB 140 trillion for the first time and achieving a five percent year-on-year growth.This performance marked the successful conclusion of the 14th Five-Year Plan(2021-2025),during which the country’s economy achieved“four consecutive leaps,”expanding from RMB 110 trillion to 120 trillion,then to 130 trillion,and finally to 140 trillion.
文摘It’s widely believed that we’re experiencing a crisis of trust in institutions.Medicine,alongside government and media,stands accused of losing the public’s confidence.During the pandemic,this narrative intensified.Medical authorities changed their recommendations as new evidence emerged,social media amplified doubts about vaccines and treatments,and the politicization of public health measures seemed to drive wedges between medicine and large segments of the population.
文摘Before joining the Beijing Dragon Shadow Puppetry Art Theatre,this group of young people rarely had the chance to meet people like themselves,lacked friends,faced obstacles at work,and felt alienated from society.Now,they have gained appreciation,recognition,confidence,friendships,and love.
文摘Chinese President Xi Jinping’s New Year message summarized an important year of steady progress as the country prepares to launch its 15th Five-Year Plan.“Our economic strength,scientific and technological abilities,defense capabilities,and composite national strength all reached new heights.”declared President Xi Jinping in his 2026 New Year message on De-By CHINA TODAY cember 31,2025,offering a succinct summary of China’s development over the past year,marked by resilience,progress,and renewed confidence as the country stands at the threshold of a new development phase.
基金support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding authors upon reasonable request.
文摘Vehicular Internet ofThings(V-IoT)networks need intelligent and adaptive spectrum access methods for ensuring ultra-reliable and low-latency communication(URLLC)in highly dynamic environments.Traditional reinforcement learning(RL)-based algorithms,such as Q-Learning and Double Q-Learning,are often characterized by unstable convergence and inefficient exploration in the presence of stochastic vehicular traffic and interference.This paper proposes Adaptive Reinforcement Q-learning with Upper Confidence Bound(ARQ-UCB),a lightweight and reliability-aware RL framework,which explicitly reduces interruption and blocking probabilities while improving throughput and delay across diverse vehicular traffic conditions.This proposed ARQ-UCB algorithm extends the basic Q-updates with an exploration confidence term able to dynamically balance exploration and exploitation based on uncertainty estimates,hence allowing faster convergence in case of bursty vehicular traffic.A comprehensive simulation framework evaluates throughput,delay,fairness,energy efficiency,and computational complexity in several V-IoT scenarios.Obtained results indicate that ARQ–UCB attains substantial gains in terms of throughput,fairness,and blocking/delay probabilities while retaining sub-20μs decision latency and O(1)complexity per decision,thus validating real-time feasibility for reliable spectrum access in 5G and beyond V-IoT networks.
基金Philosophy and Social Sciences Research Project of Shandong Higher Education Institutions:“Research on the Double Helix Mechanism of Yellow River Culture Empowering Ideological and Political Education in Universities from the Perspective of Cultural Confidence Cultivation”(2025ZSYB077)Youth Key Project of Shandong Humanities and Social Sciences Research Project,“Research on Integrating Yellow River Culture into the Cultivation of University Students’Cultural Confidence”Shandong Higher Education Institutions Young Innovation Team Program:“Yellow River Delta Ecological Protection and Governance Innovation Team”(2023RW036).
文摘Guided by the significant theoretical principle of the“Two Integrations”and grounded in Marxist cultural theory as its methodological basis,this paper constructs a bidirectional interpretative model linking“Yellow River Culture”with“Cultural Confidence”.It proposes an integrated“Objective-Content-Path-Support”framework.Through the synergy of three-dimensional objectives,adaptation of stratified content,innovation in four-dimensional pathways,and support from a three-dimensional guarantee system,this framework establishes a closed-loop operational mechanism of“Curriculum-Practice-Evaluation-Feedback”.The study focuses on core issues in integrating Yellow River culture into university education practices,such as content construction,methodological pathways,and institutional guarantees.It aims to provide a systematic reference for universities to fulfill their fundamental task of“fostering virtue and cultivating talent”and to serve the national strategies for ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin.
文摘The South Central Axis in Beijing showcases China’s image and highlights its cultural confidence.THE Central Axis is the centerpiece of the Chinese capital’s urban spatial layout.The southern extended section of the Central Axis,or the South Central Axis,stretches from the Yongdingmen Gate Tower in the north to the South Fifth Ring Road in the south.While being a strategic transport link facilitating the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region,it also showcases China’s vision for the future and highlights its cultural confidence.
文摘The original online version of this article was revised:Several errors occurred in the published version of the article.These have now been corrected as follows:Page 2,section"2.2 Laser Texturing Procedure of Surfaces",line 2:The device name was corrected from"YDFLP-E-50-M8"to"YDFLP-50-M8."Page 3,Section 2.4:The phrase"95%confidence interval"has been corrected to"95%confidence level."Page 3,Figure 1 caption:The phrase"fandg"has been corrected to"f and g."The order"C4 and C12"has been reversed to"C12 and C4,"in accordance with the display order in the figure.Page 4,Figure reference:The phrase"Figs.4c and d"has been corrected to"Figs.5b and c."Page 5,paragraph starting with"The ANOVA results are presented...":The phrase"95%confidence interval"has been corrected to"95%confidence level."
文摘As the global economy navigates through a complex landscape of uncertainty and shifting dynamics,the Chinese economy stands out for its remarkable resilience,inherent vitality,and steadfast commitment to a transformative,high-quality development path.The latest economic indicators,strategic policy guidance from the Central Economic Work Conference,and a surge in international confidence collectively present a picture of an economy not merely recovering,but actively building its new growth engines.China is transitioning towards a more sustainable and innovation-driven model,with new quality productive forces playing an increasingly prominent role.
文摘China Standardization:What is your view on this year's International Standardization Youth Star Competition?Tom Heilandt:This is the first time I have attended this event,which was founded by my good friend Dr.Zhang Xiaogang,whom I first met in 2016 when he was President of ISO.It is an excellent initiative.I strongly believe that it is essential for young people to become involved in standardization.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(12061017,12361055)the Research Fund of Guangxi Key Lab of Multi-source Information Mining&Security(22-A-01-01)。
文摘Existing blockwise empirical likelihood(BEL)method blocks the observations or their analogues,which is proven useful under some dependent data settings.In this paper,we introduce a new BEL(NBEL)method by blocking the scoring functions under high dimensional cases.We study the construction of confidence regions for the parameters in spatial autoregressive models with spatial autoregressive disturbances(SARAR models)with high dimension of parameters by using the NBEL method.It is shown that the NBEL ratio statistics are asymptoticallyχ^(2)-type distributed,which are used to obtain the NBEL based confidence regions for the parameters in SARAR models.A simulation study is conducted to compare the performances of the NBEL and the usual EL methods.
文摘BACKGROUND Monkeypox(Mpox),is a disease of global public health concern,as it does not affect only countries in western and central Africa.AIM To assess Burundi healthcare workers(HCWs)s’level of knowledge and confidence in the diagnosis and management of Mpox.METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study via an online survey designed mainly from the World Health Organization course distributed among Burundi HCWs from June-July 2023.The questionnaire comprises 8 socioprofessional-related questions,22 questions about Mpox disease knowledge,and 3 questions to assess confidence in Mpox diagnosis and management.The data were analyzed via SPSS software version 25.0.A P value<0.05 was considered to indicate statistical significance.RESULTS The study sample comprised 471 HCWs who were mainly medical doctors(63.9%)and nurses(30.1%).None of the 22 questions concerning Mpox knowledge had at least 50%correct responses.A very low number of HCWs(17.4%)knew that Mpox has a vaccine.The confidence level to diagnose(21.20%),treat(18.00%)or prevent(23.30%)Mpox was low among HCWs.The confidence level in the diagnosis of Mpox was associated with the HCWs’age(P value=0.009),sex(P value<0.001),work experience(P value=0.002),and residence(P value<0.001).The confidence level to treat Mpox was significantly associated with the HCWs’age(P value=0.050),sex(P value<0.001),education(P value=0.033)and occupation(P value=0.005).The confidence level to prevent Mpox was associated with the HCWs’education(P value<0.001),work experience(P value=0.002),residence(P value<0.001)and type of work institution(P value=0.003).CONCLUSION This study revealed that HCWs have the lowest level of knowledge regarding Mpox and a lack of confidence in the ability to diagnose,treat or prevent it.There is an urgent need to organize continuing medical education programs on Mpox epidemiology and preparedness for Burundi HCWs.We encourage future researchers to assess potential hesitancy toward Mpox vaccination and its associated factors.
文摘NEW quality productive forces were one of the most frequently mentioned keywords for China’s high-quality development in the past year.The annual Central Economic Work Conference(CEWC)in December that reviewed the economy in 2024 and gave directions for the economic work in 2025 called for balancing fostering new growth drivers and revitalizing old ones while developing new quality productive forces based on local conditions.
文摘1 I Like Me follows a cheerful and confident little pig who celebrates everything about herself.From her curly tail to her big feet,she loves every part of herself.In the book,I remember that the pig enthusiastically declares that no matter what she does,even if she's making mistakes,being silly or being a clumsy rookie(笨拙的新手)of trying something new,she will always like herself.
