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Chinese Language Teaching in a Saudi Context: A brief review 沙特语境下的汉语教学述评

2018 International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research Pub Date : 2022-12-30 DOI: 10.26803/myres.2022.10

Muhammad A Al Roomy

{"title":"Chinese Language Teaching in a Saudi Context: A brief review","authors":"Muhammad A Al Roomy","doi":"10.26803/myres.2022.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26803/myres.2022.10","url":null,"abstract":"While English remains the predominant language with prestigious status, which is highly valued throughout the world, other languages are also of paramount importance. For example, interest in teaching the Chinese language as a foreign or second language has increased both inside and outside China for historical, political, and economic reasons. Chinese has become an international and global language and millions of foreign students learn it to compete in the business market. Chinese language enjoys special attention from Saudi decision-makers. Recently, some selected schools introduced Chinese to Saud students for the first time in 2019. When teaching any foreign language, many problems occur in the teaching and learning process. Some of these problems are caused by psychological, cognitive factors, or individual variables. Others are related to teaching practices and curriculum designs. As teaching Chinese as a foreign language is relatively new in Saudi Arabia, there is a lack of official documents dealing with this issue and few studies have addressed this as a research topic. This brought us neatly to the necessity of producing more researches in this respect. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to lessen the gap and provide an overview of introducing Chinese language to Saudi students as a foreign language (CFL). It seeks to present some notes and indications of the inclusion of teaching Chinese in the Saudi educational system. It will discuss the possible problems to be encountered in light of the current situation and literature review, and finally, some recommendations and implications for further research are given.","PeriodicalId":269540,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122530217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Assessing the Effects of Material Properties on Load Behavior in Dry Ball Mills Using DEM 用DEM评估物料性能对干式球磨机负荷行为的影响

2018 International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research Pub Date : 2022-12-30 DOI: 10.26803/myres.2022.21

Fortune Nkomo, F. Mulenga

{"title":"Assessing the Effects of Material Properties on Load Behavior in Dry Ball Mills Using DEM","authors":"Fortune Nkomo, F. Mulenga","doi":"10.26803/myres.2022.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26803/myres.2022.21","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding how the mill load behaves is crucial for enhancing ball mill effectiveness. This study aimed to create a discrete element method (DEM) model to simulate the motion charge in ball mills and to analyze how the simulation material properties affected the load behavior. The steel balls were modelled as a collection of distinct particles, each of which was subject to Newton’s laws of motion and tracked in a Lagrangian manner. Hertzian contact law was used to describe inter-particle collisions. Then, this numerical model was coded using the open-source C++ program LAMMPS Improved for General Granular and Granular Heat Transfer Simulation (LIGGGHTS) to mimic laboratory and pilot-scale ball mills. The load positions measured from the DEM simulations were compared to the published experimental data and empirical models of comparable laboratory and pilot-scale experiments to validate the findings. The angular shoulder position ranged between 137° to 154° for the range of Young’s modulus of 0.5 to 1000 MN/mm2. Angular shoulder and toe positions had a variation of less than 10% from the laboratory and pilot-scale experimental data. The outcomes demonstrated a significant relationship between load position and material characteristics such as Young's modulus in DEM simulation. This preliminary model can be used for choosing the appropriate material parameters for ball mills both with DEM and coupled CFD–DEM multiphase simulations. This assessment concluded that material properties affect the load behavior in computer simulations of ball mills.","PeriodicalId":269540,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133487376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Innovative use of social media for teaching and learning: A case study at the University of Johannesburg 社会媒体在教学和学习中的创新应用:约翰内斯堡大学的案例研究

2018 International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research Pub Date : 2022-12-30 DOI: 10.26803/myres.2022.03

Nazreen Dasoo

{"title":"The Innovative use of social media for teaching and learning: A case study at the University of Johannesburg","authors":"Nazreen Dasoo","doi":"10.26803/myres.2022.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26803/myres.2022.03","url":null,"abstract":"Covid 19 forced lecturers and students to accept that inspirational and beneficial teaching and learning does not necessarily rest within the four walls of a lecture hall. When higher education institutions had to transition rapidly from face-to-face to online education, social media platforms became a powerful catalyst for effective teaching and learning. Undoubtedly social media platforms have influenced our lives in an unprecedented manner. It has also altered the teaching and learning landscape by taking on an innovative role in online education. This investigation explored students' experiences of learning module content via TikTok. TikTok was adopted as a teaching tool because it is considered an appealing social media platform for Gen Z users, with its central attraction being short video content. This investigation primarily relied on Bandura’s social learning theory as the theoretical lens applied to the data as it points to the importance of an individual’s self-regulation and the external situation in terms of learning. It also offers an alternative view of social learning by seeing it as situated in communities of practice. Through a qualitative inquiry, teacher education students' reflections on being taught using TikTok were gathered. Evidence from the survey administered to 80 students strongly suggests that TikTok offered an efficient, fun, and exciting way of gaining unlimited access to learning content. It also enhances retention and creativity, making it a suitable 21st-century teaching strategy that promotes self-directed learning. It is a perfectly suited social media platform for a generation that prefers to consume content via rich video formats that act as confidence boosters. Hence making it an innovative teaching tool that encourages a new form of social learning.","PeriodicalId":269540,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127990703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Advertising International Students in the United States: Strategies to Face Intercultural Communication in NUC’s Tourism Undergraduate Program 在美留学生广告:北卡罗来纳大学旅游本科项目中面对跨文化交际的策略

2018 International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research Pub Date : 2022-12-30 DOI: 10.26803/myres.2022.25

Amna Bulhoon

{"title":"Advertising International Students in the United States: Strategies to Face Intercultural Communication in NUC’s Tourism Undergraduate Program","authors":"Amna Bulhoon","doi":"10.26803/myres.2022.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26803/myres.2022.25","url":null,"abstract":"This research paper aims to reflect on the strategies used by ten academic advisors to deal with intercultural conflicts. These strategies include being respectful, demonstrating patience and empathy toward international students, creating rapport to foster mutual understanding, and fostering a positive attitude toward other cultures. This paper also analyzes conflicts emerging from cultural differences and language barriers between international students and advisors by considering a qualitative social research approach, which includes interviews and thematic analysis as data collection and interpretation methods. In addition, this paper provides essential information about how international students' poor understanding of the educational system can lead to potential conflicts with advisors. Advisors apply strategies to overcome challenges derived from miscommunications in multicultural educational contexts, like providing emotional support and offering information about the university. Moreover, advisors participating in this study explain how important it is to get training to deal with challenges in advising international studies. Therefore, the primary contribution of this paper to educational and social science research is to propose interculturality and intercultural communication as concepts and pedagogical tools to promote a mutual understanding between advisors and educational students that enhance learning and teaching initiatives within universities. Furthermore, introducing interculturality in the education advising process allows respect for cultural differences between teachers, professors, and students, resulting in more inclusive learning and teaching initiatives.","PeriodicalId":269540,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122736998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Fragmenting and defragmenting gender identity: An analysis of intersex gender identity performance in Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex 性别认同的碎片化与碎片化:《杰弗瑞·尤金尼德斯·米德尔塞克斯》中双性人性别认同的表现分析

2018 International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research Pub Date : 2022-12-30 DOI: 10.26803/myres.2022.17

Meghan Simpson

{"title":"Fragmenting and defragmenting gender identity: An analysis of intersex gender identity performance in Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex","authors":"Meghan Simpson","doi":"10.26803/myres.2022.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26803/myres.2022.17","url":null,"abstract":"Jeffrey Eugenides’ novel Middlesex is a hermaphrodite coming-of-age narrative often critiqued in the literary field for its depiction of unstable gender identity performance from the intersex perspective. The novel depicts its main protagonist, Cal, as having an unstable gender identity throughout the narrative, performing his gender in ways that conform to extreme heteronormative gender standards. However, little scholarly attention is given to how Cal’s gender identity is fragmented in this unstable portrayal and how his exploration of gender identity performances in the narrative allows for the defragmentation of his gender identity. This paper aims to highlight Cal’s gender metamorphosis in Eugenides’ Middlesex, working through his gender identity performances in their various states using Irvine Goffman’s presentation of the self and Judith Butler’s gender identity performance theory. Selected instances of Cal’s gender performances from childhood, adolescence and adulthood were textually analysed to examine the gender norms conformed to in each performance. Cal’s performances of gender during childhood and adolescence conformed to extreme heteronormative standards of feminine beauty, female heterosexuality, and female biology. However, in young adulthood Cal begins exploring gender identities, allowing for the onset of his metamorphosis. During adulthood, Cal’s gender is presented in ways that conform to heteronormative standards of masculine appearance, male heteronormativity, and male biology. It is this dramatic gender metamorphosis that allows Cal to stabilise his gender identity and that allows Middlesex to present the intersex condition as having a stable gender identity. It is this perspective of the novel’s depiction of gender that should be.","PeriodicalId":269540,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research","volume":"228 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115558639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Intellectualization of Indigenous Languages of South Africa: Translation Twists and Turns 南非土著语言的智能化:翻译的曲折

2018 International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research Pub Date : 2022-12-30 DOI: 10.26803/myres.2022.19

Phindile A. Dlamini

{"title":"Intellectualization of Indigenous Languages of South Africa: Translation Twists and Turns","authors":"Phindile A. Dlamini","doi":"10.26803/myres.2022.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26803/myres.2022.19","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides an overview of the intellectualization of the indigenous languages of South Africa through a translation of academic texts and using isiZulu by way of example. The intellectualization of a language means the advancement, upliftment, and enrichment of a language, enabling it for use in different domains as a language of research, science and technology, and teaching and learning. The point of departure for this paper is the value of translation as an enabler for the intellectualization of languages. Using Nord’s functionalist theory, this paper seeks to provide an overview of the process of translation of doctoral abstracts from English into isiZulu as a contribution towards the intellectualization of isiZulu at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), South Africa. The aim of this qualitative study, therefore, was to explore the intricacies involved in the journey to the intellectualization of languages that belong to different language families, specifically English and isiZulu. The data used were 12 doctoral dissertation abstracts randomly selected from a pool of abstracts from various disciplines submitted for translation from English into isiZulu at UKZN as part of the initiative of intellectualizing isiZulu. The study established an acknowledgment of the intricacies involved in the translation of academic texts and suggests possible practices to be followed to contribute successfully to the intellectualization of indigenous languages of South Africa, isiZulu in particular.","PeriodicalId":269540,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123464052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Exploring drivers of academic integrity violation in e-assessments by students during the emergency remote teaching 探讨紧急远程教学中学生电子评估中学术诚信违规的驱动因素

2018 International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research Pub Date : 2022-12-30 DOI: 10.26803/myres.2022.06

John Mangundu

{"title":"Exploring drivers of academic integrity violation in e-assessments by students during the emergency remote teaching","authors":"John Mangundu","doi":"10.26803/myres.2022.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26803/myres.2022.06","url":null,"abstract":"The unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic has suddenly driven higher education institutions towards emergency remote teaching (ERT) to save academic programmes. Despite the benefits brought by remote teaching, it has the potential to bring negative consequences such as compromised academic integrity resulting from the use of e-assessments in environments lacking sufficient pandemic response readiness and mechanisms. A few studies have been conducted on the academic integrity challenges of e-assessments during ERT in universities from a developing country perspective. This quantitative study aimed to examine challenges to the academic integrity of e-assessments during ERT through a literature survey and an online survey questionnaire, collecting and analysing data from a randomly selected sample of 201 students in a South African university. Through confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), findings revealed that individual and institutional factors negatively impact the lack of academic integrity when doing e-assessments. However, technological factors do not impact the academic integrity of students using e-assessments. Gender differences caused significantly different findings, but age differences did not. The study concludes with recommendations for improving policy and research around the academic integrity of e-assessments. This work reveals how university communities can be assisted to improve their understanding of academic integrity challenges and adopt measures to solve them.","PeriodicalId":269540,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research","volume":"162 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122866399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Faculty perceptions of Blackboard Learn as the main platform for teaching and learning 教师对Blackboard Learn作为主要教学平台的看法

2018 International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research Pub Date : 2022-12-30 DOI: 10.26803/myres.2022.16

Afrah Almansoori

{"title":"Faculty perceptions of Blackboard Learn as the main platform for teaching and learning","authors":"Afrah Almansoori","doi":"10.26803/myres.2022.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26803/myres.2022.16","url":null,"abstract":"During the past decade, higher education in the United Arab Emirates has seen increased integration of the newest educational technologies to facilitate the learning process. This can be a costly endeavor, often-substantial training is required to use the technologies, and improvements to educational quality because of their implementation are not easily measured. Research has found higher education faculty lack technological knowledge and skills, but less is known about how faculty perceive specific technologies. Learning management systems, such as Blackboard Learn, have previously been used to support the teaching and learning process, but during the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent move to online learning, such systems often became the platform for all teaching and learning activities. This study aimed to investigate how BlackBoard Learn was being utilised and the perceptions held by faculty during this time in a higher education institute in the United Arab Emirates. Faculty were asked to assess items on a five-point scale and to write detailed answers to open-ended questions via an online survey. The results were generally positive; faculty were able to continue many of their teaching and learning activities. Faculty also reported on obstacles faced, however these challenges often referred to the online learning mode, rather than specifically to BBL. Implications and recommendations are discussed.","PeriodicalId":269540,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research","volume":"5 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128733568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Towards an Integrated Approach for Preserving Data Utility, Privacy and Fairness 一种保护数据效用、隐私和公平性的综合方法

2018 International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research Pub Date : 2022-12-30 DOI: 10.26803/myres.2022.24

M. Bargh, Sunil Choenni

{"title":"Towards an Integrated Approach for Preserving Data Utility, Privacy and Fairness","authors":"M. Bargh, Sunil Choenni","doi":"10.26803/myres.2022.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26803/myres.2022.24","url":null,"abstract":"Data reusability has become a distinct characteristic of scientific, commercial, and administrative practices nowadays. However, an unlimited and careless reuse of data may lead to privacy breaches and unfair impacts on individuals and vulnerable groups. Data content adaption is a key aspect of preserving data privacy and fairness. Often, such content adaption affects data utility adversely. Further, the interaction between privacy protection and fairness protection can be subject to making trade-offs because mitigating privacy risks may adversely affect detecting unfairness and vice versa. Therefore, there is a need for research on understanding the interactions between data utility, privacy and fairness. To this end, in this contribution, we use concepts from causal reasoning and argue for adopting an integrated view on data content adaption for data driven decision support systems. This asks for considering the operation context wholistically. By means of two cases, we illustrate that, in some situations, local data content adaption may lead to low data quality and utility. An integrated wholistic approach, however, may result in reuse of the original data (i.e., without content adaption, thus in higher data utilization) without adversely affecting privacy and fairness. We discuss some implications of this approach and sketch a few directions for future research.","PeriodicalId":269540,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121424957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Improving Service Delivery: A Namibian Local Authority Case Study 改善服务提供:纳米比亚地方当局个案研究

2018 International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research Pub Date : 2022-12-30 DOI: 10.26803/myres.2022.15

S. Norris, K. Ramdass

{"title":"Improving Service Delivery: A Namibian Local Authority Case Study","authors":"S. Norris, K. Ramdass","doi":"10.26803/myres.2022.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26803/myres.2022.15","url":null,"abstract":"Local government assumes a fundamental role in the life of every citizen by providing services classified as physiological needs. Deficiencies in the delivery of such services to the citizens is viewed as a contravention of their fundamental human rights. The consequences of such deficiencies trigger frustration and unrest in the citizens, exhibited in political instability, damage to state property, and at its pinnacle the loss of lives. This research study investigated the concerning levels of organizational performance at the Arandis Town Council in the Erongo region of Namibia. The investigation was motivated by a need to determine the factors that affect service delivery, with the objectives to provide recommendations to improve service delivery and organizational performance. We employed a quantitative research method to collect the primary data for the study. An illustrative logical research configuration was selected, and data were gathered with the primary purpose to obtain a quantitative understanding on the topic. The data were processed utilizing SPSS version 25 statistical software to present the data in graphical format. In a bid to reduce inefficiencies in service delivery, certain recommendations are made to the town council for consideration. These include implementing a risk register, compiling a maintenance plan, applying for maintenance grants, providing training programs to its employees, commercializing the servicing of land and the development of affordable housing, developing additional revenue streams, and prioritizing the creation of employment.","PeriodicalId":269540,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128474074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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