Mass Communication Technologies and the Progressions of Democratic Backsliding in El Salvador
Alberto Najarro Chavez
In El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele has continuously increased his efforts to dismantle democracy and set the country down a road of democratic backsliding.
This paper looks at the classical problems of gerrymandering and districting under the framework of Topological Data Analysis (TDA), a newly developed tool from algebraic topology, which helps to a...
Feminist Progress or Patriarchal Deeds in Disguise: The Policy of The New Life Movement of China Towards Three Subaltern Women Groups, 1934-1949
Qingyi Yin
This research is interested in the attitudes and policies of the Guomindang party-state towards subaltern female groups - female sex workers, female farmers, and female factory workers - in the New...
The Economic Cost of War: A Cross-Country Analysis & A Case Study of The Vietnam War
Laura Navarro Gonzalez
War affects people's lives on almost every economic, social, and political dimension. This complexity has prompted many researchers to focus solely on measuring the costs of war to aggressor countr...
Constructing Modesty: Veiling Practices Amongst the Lahori Middle Class
Hajra Farooqui
This paper examines the implications of a gendered middle-class consciousness amongst Pakistani women and how they understand the interrelated themes of modesty, piety, morality, and kinship ties. ...
Revisiting The Origin of Chinese Communist Party: New Village Movement From 1919 To The 1920s
Xueyi Liu
The project is paper-based and explores the relationship between the New Village movement and the birth of CCP. This study examines a wealth of first-hand historical materials, such as newspaper ar...
Mass Communication Technologies and the Progressions of Democratic Backsliding in El Salvador
Alberto Najarro Chavez
In El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele has continuously increased his efforts to dismantle democracy and set the country down a road of democratic backsliding.
Bird Sound Classification in China Region Based on Deep Learning Methods
Ziang Zhou
A close relationship exists between birds and humans regarding their production and life. As a subdiscipline in zoology, ornithology has received long and extensive attention from researchers at ho...
A Philosophical Discussion of Equality and Inequality in China’s Hukou System and Points-based Hukou Registration Policy
Ziyu Zhou
China's Household Registration System, also known as the hukou 户口 system, is a key marker of contemporary Chinese social structure. The hukou system has gradually become the most vital factor aff...
My signature work is about deep learning on Ising model. I basically talk about the history of the Ising model, the basic idea, how to solve the one-dimensional Ising model by using transfer matrix...
CDIDANN: A Few-shot Learning approach for Fourier Phase Retrieval
Zechen Yuan
Recent works have shown that deep neural networks can be applied in the Fourier phase retrieval for images in real time. In particular, a structure named CDINN successfully conducted real-time Four...
Traffic Flow Prediction Related Issues and Improvement
Zepu Wang
To achieve efficient management and control of the transportation system for improving its traffic efficiency and traffic safety, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) have been introduced and r...
A Glance at Natural Language Processing: Theories and Practices
Zhengge Tang
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is an important subbranch of data science with a vast prospect of application and various techniques. In addition, deep learning architectures such as transformer ...
The Dependence of Ice Nucleating Particle Concentration on Aerosol Size Distribution
Zhongyi Zhang
The immersion freezing activity of aerosol particles in the Arctic (79°N, 12°E) has been parameterized using data from atmospheric measurements. Descriptive statistics are used to summarize how the...
Governance Decentralization and Performance of Blockchain Platforms
Ziliang (Lewis) Tian
With blockchain technology getting wide adoption, digital platforms built on blockchains have also dramatically increased in scale. One crucial determinant of platforms' performance is its governan...
Microfinance and Fintech in Pakistan – Using New Technology for Inclusive Finance
Zarfishar Tayyab
A report that lays out the fintech space in Pakistan, and zooms into microfinance, its opportunities for growth, and the challenges it faces, complimented by 2 case studies of successful microfinan...
#GEN-Chinese Youth Virtual and Physical Identity Navigation and the Future of Clothing
Zhuoran (Ann) Ma
"#GEN" reimagines how future Chinese clothing may be produced under the influence of social media and socio-cultural interference. Today's Chinese youths need to navigate complex cultural landscape...
Urban Green Space as Social Capital: How Does Connectedness to UGS Polarize Public Response to COVID-19
Zhaozhi (Claire) Li
With prevalent "stay at home" orders implemented in the United States since the breakout of the COVID-19 pandemic, human mobility was greatly limited. Under lockdown, urban green space (UGS) as an ...
Spatial and Temporal Distribution Characteristics and Mechanisms of air pollutants in China Using Mathematical Modeling and Big Data Analysis.
Zikang Jia
Since 2010s, China has experienced a large-scale air pollution issue; the underlying mechanisms are yet to be fully understood. To capture the spatial and temporal variation of air pollutants, we e...
Egg Freezing: The Knowledge, Attitude, and perceptions of barriers among Chinese Women
Zhiyi Jiang
Egg freezing has long been treated as a controversial technology given the nature that it could preserve female reproduction potential while imposing financial burdens and potential harms on women....
Expression and Comparison of Different DNA-Dependent RNA Polymerases
Ziting Huang
RNA polymerase is necessary for in vitro transcription. Several transcription systems like T7, T3, or SP6 were identified, and the T7 RNA polymerase system is one of the most widely used among thos...
Small-scale Production Line Digitalization Transformation Research Case — Comparison of Digital Twin and Process Mining in bottleneck analysis
Zeying Huang
This study is a research & practice project collaborating with Startup Factory Kunshan, a business incubator for small and medium-sized European companies. The main task is to explore how to fa...
An Adventure Game Reflecting “Neijuan” in Chinese Education
Zhexuan Huang
The research theme of this project is the aggravating peer pressure in China's education. Recently, the word "neijuan" (involution) has gained rising popularity in China. Though all Chinese student...
A Study on The Deep Learning-Based Speaker Diarization Algorithms
Zhiyue Feng
My signature work project focuses on one state-of-art end-to-end model in the field of speaker diarization, which aims to recognize the speakers in an audio and when and what they said. The speake...
In this industry report, we will analyze the China's NEV market from both policies and innovation perspectives, as well as the key players in the market. We will also propose our financial forecast...
Agent-Based Modeling for Blockchain Automated Market Maker and Economic Applications
Ziqiao Ao
Trading through automated market makers (AMMs) on Ethereum is gaining a significant tendency in Decentralized finance (DeFi). However, the mechanism of slippage tolerance set by trades in AMM offer...
Design and Implementation of a Group-Based Film Recommendation System Based on Profile Merging Strategies and Low Rank Matrix Factorization
Yixuan Zhang
As the world enters the era of big data, the data generated by the film industry shows an exponential growth. The increasing number of users and films on the film rating platform makes it increasin...
My project primarily deals with why low-income countries have high levels of corruption. To study this, my research is based within the context of Nigeria, which is a low-income country in West Afr...
Amiable Ally? Memory of World War II Us-China Alliance in Contemporary Chinese Memorial Halls
Ruihan Wan
In the 2010s, China's memory of World War II played an essential role in promoting nationalism domestically and constructing China's international identity in the global society. As China's ally du...
Vestments of Empire: Modernity, Ethnicity and National Dress in Republican Era China
Hao Tan
Previous studies have documented the rapid and intense changes in Chinese clothing and fashion in the late Qing and early Republican periods. Meanwhile, recent attention has also been paid to the c...
As the exploration of machine learning continues, various automation projects based on machine learning have become very popular, such as autonomous driving, automatic cruising, and so on. The focu...
Rhetorical Frameworks of a Chinese Non-Governmental Think Tank
Yidian Liu
Chinese non-governmental think tanks have been given fairly little attention in both Chinese and Western academic contexts. The unique positions of Chinese non-governmental think tanks give them th...
Study of Folin-Ciocalteu Method for Determination of Phenolic Compounds in the System of Pomegranate Juice
Haoyang Tang
Folin-Ciocalteu (F-C) method has been widely applied in the determination of total phenolic compounds (TPC) in plants and plant-based products. However, the Folin-Ciocalteu procedures are rarely an...
Ripples in Spacetime: The Geometry of Gravitational Waves
Huyue Yan
Gravitational waves (GW) are solutions of the field equations of Einsteins's general relativity (GR) and can be thought of as propagating ripples in spacetime. Since the first direct detection of a...
AI Choreography: Music-conditioned Dance Generation Using a Novel 3D Dataset
Shuyi Guan
Dance choreography has often been viewed as a creative manifest rather than a scientific problem. Yet we recognize that dances are permutations and combinations of fundamental body movements, and t...
AI Choreography: Music-conditioned Dance Generation Using a Novel 3D Dataset
Yu Leng
Dance choreography has often been viewed as a creative manifest rather than a scientific problem. Yet we recognize that dances are permutations and combinations of fundamental body movements, and t...
Assessing The Mental Health Consequences of Political Violence and Exploring the Risk and Protective Factors of Worse Mental Health Outcomes in Konso in Southern Ethiopia: A Mixed-Methods Study
Metasebiya Ayele (Mia) Mamo
This Signature Work project examines the psychological impact of ethnic violence, the broader determinants of mental health in post-conflict settings, and the factors that are associated with adver...
The Maoist Model: Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in Theory and Practice
Corinne Southern
This three-part essay expounds on the uniqueness of the central guiding ideology of the People's Republic of China: Socialism with Chinese Characteristics.
Rice Journey: An Interactive and Educational Dining Installation for Spreading Food Culture of Rice Preparation in China
Tong Wu
Rice Journey is an interactive dining interface and installation that aims to educate the public on the history and culture of rice preparation in China through multi-sensory design methods. Rice J...
Harness is an Agri-project that aims to address the issue of food insecurity by introducing modern technology, best agronomic practices, and investment to the agricultural value-chain. Harness is b...
Harness is an Agri-project that aims to address the issue of food insecurity by introducing modern technology, best agronomic practices, and investment to the agricultural value-chain. Harness is b...
Harness is an Agri-project that aims to address the issue of food insecurity by introducing modern technology, best agronomic practices, and investment to the agricultural value-chain. Harness is b...
Large-Scale Reforestation Scenario Generation And Financial Valuation Methodology: A Case Study in Peninsular Malaysia
Ie Huan Chong
This project seeks to develop the fields of nature-based solutions and nonmarket valuation with the goal of creating an outcome that drives climate change abatement policy. Focusing on the benefits...
Diabetes and Glycemic Response Predictions Using Machine Learning Techniques
Julia Sulstarova
Diabetes is one of the most dangerous conditions of the 21st century, being the 8th leading cause of death in the world as of 2015 (Tao et al., 2015). Even though there are various genetics, lifest...
Policy Solutions to Urban Stray Animal Problem: A Literature Review and A Case Study in Kunshan
Yian (Ethan) Xiong
The problem of urban stray animal is a large-scale and critical one. Taking stray dogs for example, according to World Health Organization (WHO), there are currently more than 200 million stray dog...
Free Energy Calculations on The Stability of Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticle Superlattice
Dingning Li
Mesoparticles consisting of a hard core and a soft corona like polymer-grafted nanoparticles (pgnps) can assemble into various superlattice structures, in which each mesoparticle assumes the shape ...
"In the introduction to "Wicked Are The Roots Of This Twisted Tree," a collection of short stories, I explore my authorial voice, questioning what voice is and how it is constructed. Considering ho...
Aerosol Jet Printing and Characterization of Three-Dimensional Graphene Structures
Peter Ballentine
The fabrication of conductive three-dimensional (3D) structures is of great interest for electrochemical applications, include the creation of high sensitivity electrochemical sensors and high-capa...
The Political Economy of Chinese Vaccine Diplomacy Under the COVID-19 Era: Evidence from Cross-country Patterns
Qunyi Zhao
COVID-19 hit the world affecting millions of people’s life, as well as increasing international demands for protective vaccine. Regarded as the source of the coronavirus, China began its “vaccine d...
The Commercial Success of BL Culture in China and Chinese Homosexual Community.
Leyu Sun
This essay deals with the contradiction between the commercial success of BL cultural products in China and the state's political restrictions on queer communities. Previous studies have mainly dis...
Feminist Progress or Patriarchal Deeds in Disguise: The Policy of The New Life Movement of China Towards Three Subaltern Women Groups, 1934-1949
Qingyi Yin
This research is interested in the attitudes and policies of the Guomindang party-state towards subaltern female groups - female sex workers, female farmers, and female factory workers - in the New...
The Economic Cost of War: A Cross-Country Analysis & A Case Study of The Vietnam War
Laura Navarro Gonzalez
War affects people's lives on almost every economic, social, and political dimension. This complexity has prompted many researchers to focus solely on measuring the costs of war to aggressor countr...
Constructing Modesty: Veiling Practices Amongst the Lahori Middle Class
Hajra Farooqui
This paper examines the implications of a gendered middle-class consciousness amongst Pakistani women and how they understand the interrelated themes of modesty, piety, morality, and kinship ties. ...
Revisiting The Origin of Chinese Communist Party: New Village Movement From 1919 To The 1920s
Xueyi Liu
The project is paper-based and explores the relationship between the New Village movement and the birth of CCP. This study examines a wealth of first-hand historical materials, such as newspaper ar...
Mass Communication Technologies and the Progressions of Democratic Backsliding in El Salvador
Alberto Najarro Chavez
In El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele has continuously increased his efforts to dismantle democracy and set the country down a road of democratic backsliding.
Bird Sound Classification in China Region Based on Deep Learning Methods
Ziang Zhou
A close relationship exists between birds and humans regarding their production and life. As a subdiscipline in zoology, ornithology has received long and extensive attention from researchers at ho...
A Philosophical Discussion of Equality and Inequality in China’s Hukou System and Points-based Hukou Registration Policy
Ziyu Zhou
China's Household Registration System, also known as the hukou 户口 system, is a key marker of contemporary Chinese social structure. The hukou system has gradually become the most vital factor aff...
My signature work is about deep learning on Ising model. I basically talk about the history of the Ising model, the basic idea, how to solve the one-dimensional Ising model by using transfer matrix...
CDIDANN: A Few-shot Learning approach for Fourier Phase Retrieval
Zechen Yuan
Recent works have shown that deep neural networks can be applied in the Fourier phase retrieval for images in real time. In particular, a structure named CDINN successfully conducted real-time Four...
Traffic Flow Prediction Related Issues and Improvement
Zepu Wang
To achieve efficient management and control of the transportation system for improving its traffic efficiency and traffic safety, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) have been introduced and r...
A Glance at Natural Language Processing: Theories and Practices
Zhengge Tang
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is an important subbranch of data science with a vast prospect of application and various techniques. In addition, deep learning architectures such as transformer ...
The Dependence of Ice Nucleating Particle Concentration on Aerosol Size Distribution
Zhongyi Zhang
The immersion freezing activity of aerosol particles in the Arctic (79°N, 12°E) has been parameterized using data from atmospheric measurements. Descriptive statistics are used to summarize how the...
Governance Decentralization and Performance of Blockchain Platforms
Ziliang (Lewis) Tian
With blockchain technology getting wide adoption, digital platforms built on blockchains have also dramatically increased in scale. One crucial determinant of platforms' performance is its governan...
Microfinance and Fintech in Pakistan – Using New Technology for Inclusive Finance
Zarfishar Tayyab
A report that lays out the fintech space in Pakistan, and zooms into microfinance, its opportunities for growth, and the challenges it faces, complimented by 2 case studies of successful microfinan...
#GEN-Chinese Youth Virtual and Physical Identity Navigation and the Future of Clothing
Zhuoran (Ann) Ma
"#GEN" reimagines how future Chinese clothing may be produced under the influence of social media and socio-cultural interference. Today's Chinese youths need to navigate complex cultural landscape...
Urban Green Space as Social Capital: How Does Connectedness to UGS Polarize Public Response to COVID-19
Zhaozhi (Claire) Li
With prevalent "stay at home" orders implemented in the United States since the breakout of the COVID-19 pandemic, human mobility was greatly limited. Under lockdown, urban green space (UGS) as an ...
Spatial and Temporal Distribution Characteristics and Mechanisms of air pollutants in China Using Mathematical Modeling and Big Data Analysis.
Zikang Jia
Since 2010s, China has experienced a large-scale air pollution issue; the underlying mechanisms are yet to be fully understood. To capture the spatial and temporal variation of air pollutants, we e...
Egg Freezing: The Knowledge, Attitude, and perceptions of barriers among Chinese Women
Zhiyi Jiang
Egg freezing has long been treated as a controversial technology given the nature that it could preserve female reproduction potential while imposing financial burdens and potential harms on women....
Expression and Comparison of Different DNA-Dependent RNA Polymerases
Ziting Huang
RNA polymerase is necessary for in vitro transcription. Several transcription systems like T7, T3, or SP6 were identified, and the T7 RNA polymerase system is one of the most widely used among thos...
Small-scale Production Line Digitalization Transformation Research Case — Comparison of Digital Twin and Process Mining in bottleneck analysis
Zeying Huang
This study is a research & practice project collaborating with Startup Factory Kunshan, a business incubator for small and medium-sized European companies. The main task is to explore how to fa...
An Adventure Game Reflecting “Neijuan” in Chinese Education
Zhexuan Huang
The research theme of this project is the aggravating peer pressure in China's education. Recently, the word "neijuan" (involution) has gained rising popularity in China. Though all Chinese student...
A Study on The Deep Learning-Based Speaker Diarization Algorithms
Zhiyue Feng
My signature work project focuses on one state-of-art end-to-end model in the field of speaker diarization, which aims to recognize the speakers in an audio and when and what they said. The speake...
In this industry report, we will analyze the China's NEV market from both policies and innovation perspectives, as well as the key players in the market. We will also propose our financial forecast...
Agent-Based Modeling for Blockchain Automated Market Maker and Economic Applications
Ziqiao Ao
Trading through automated market makers (AMMs) on Ethereum is gaining a significant tendency in Decentralized finance (DeFi). However, the mechanism of slippage tolerance set by trades in AMM offer...
Design and Implementation of a Group-Based Film Recommendation System Based on Profile Merging Strategies and Low Rank Matrix Factorization
Yixuan Zhang
As the world enters the era of big data, the data generated by the film industry shows an exponential growth. The increasing number of users and films on the film rating platform makes it increasin...