Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University (JXSTNU; Chinese: 江西科技师范大学; pinyin: Jiāngxī Kējì Shīfàn Daxue) is a teacher training college located in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, People’s Republic of China, and is currently the only university in Jiangxi Province to offer undergraduate degrees in occupational education. The university was first established in 1977 as the Nanchang Campus of Jiangxi Normal University and was among the first in the PRC established to educate teachers in occupational and technical specialties.As of 2010, JXSTNU enrolled over 20,000 students and an educational staff of 1,386 including 135 full professors and 306 associate professors. The university occupied a campus of roughly 145 hectares (0.56 square miles) and included roughly 5.2 million square feet (483,900 square meters) of floor space. Students were separated into 21 academic departments and 49 baccalaureate degree programs including natural science, engineering, medicine, foreign language, history, philosophy, law, economics, management, and education.[citation needed].
Heritage sites are designed to foster in-depth cultural experiences for tourists at destinations and are well suited for promoting slow travel. However, cultural differences and tourist’ limited awareness often hinder its practice. While augmented reality (AR) is typically used to provide immediate destination information, its potential to build cultural competence and influence slow travel intentions has not been examined. Grounded in zone of proximal development theory, this study reveals that the perceived enjoyment of AR is positively associated with cultural competence, but only for highly engaged users. For less engaged users, personal innovativeness moderates the relationship between perceived advantage and cultural competence. Across both groups, cultural competence strengthens both empathy and slow travel intentions. These findings offer guidance for implementing slow travel initiatives at cultural heritage sites.
Conductive hydrogel-based strain sensors, as key components of electronic skins, have garnered significant attention for the development of advanced human-machine interfaces and flexible electronics. However, their intrinsic limitations of large hysteresis and poor mechanical robustness pose significant challenges for achieving the high accuracy and long-term stability required for advanced sensing systems. Here, we achieve hysteresis suppression and structural stability by constructing a microphase-separated interlocking network within a 3D-printable poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA)/conductive carbon black (CCB) hydrogel. The resulting conductive hydrogel strain sensor possesses low electrical hysteresis (0.82
Individuals vary in musical emotional responses, possibly due to empathising ability. But how it impacts audio-listening emotions (basic or aesthetic) remains unclear, and few prior studies measured dimensional and discrete emotion models together. This study screened 40 subjects (22 females) into high- and low-empathy groups via the Interpersonal Reactivity Index. They listened to 14 Chinese Pipa music excerpts (7 positive, 7 negative) in a naturalistic setup. Emotional reactions were measured using three-dimensional (valence, energy, tension) and discrete (6 basic, 9 aesthetic emotions) models, along with recording autonomic nervous system changes. Behavioural results showed that the high empathy group had stronger emotional arousal and produced more basic and aesthetic emotions than the low empathy group. Physiological results showed higher activation of skin conductance in the high empathy group than in the low empathy group, stronger respiratory responses in the high empathy group than in the low empathy group when listening to positive music, a more significant degree of difference in the activation of skin temperature in the high than in the low empathy group in the two music genres, and greater sensitivity to the perception of emotional valence.
With the continuous advancement of the new energy sector, direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) have attracted significant research interest. However, the development of DMFCs is hindered by the reliance on platinum-based anode catalysts, which suffer from high cost, intermediate-induced poisoning, and rapid performance degradation. Herein, this study develops a low-cost NiO/CuO composite for efficient methanol oxidation reaction (MOR) through defect engineering and heterojunction strategy. The NiO/CuO composite exhibits higher concentration of oxygen vacancies and interface lattice distortion compared to their individual counterparts. The NiO/CuO composite exhibits exceptional photoelectrochemical MOR activity and stability. The enhanced performance is attributed to the synergistic effect of the NiO/CuO heterojunction and the high concentration of oxygen vacancies, which together improve light absorption, increase the electrochemically active surface area, provide more active sites, and accelerate charge transfer kinetics. This work presents a promising strategy for designing cost-effective, high-performance photo-assisted anode catalysts for DMFCs.
Traditional phase change materials (PCMs) are limited in electronic device thermal management due to leakage and rigidity. This study develops a novel composite phase change material (CPCM) using a simple, efficient strategy that combines high latent heat (155.4 J/g) with ultra-flexibility at room temperature. The introduction of olefin block copolymers (OBC) and styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene (SEBS) into a paraffin wax (PW) matrix forms a dynamic three-dimensional enhanced network. This structure is synergistically reinforced with polydimethylsiloxane mixed rings (SO) and carbon nanotubes (CNT), enabling ultra-flexibility at room temperature (elongation: 240.2 %, hardness: 61.9 HA, energy storage modulus: 176.92 MPa), high thermal conductivity (1.12 W/m & sdot;K), excellent shape stability, photothermal conversion efficiency (92.6 %), and thermally induced multifunctional response. Innovatively integrating carbon cloth into the CPCM system enables full-stage battery thermal management. Under high-temperature heat dissipation conditions (30-40 degrees C), the maximum battery temperature is reduced by 21.7 degrees C, ensuring that the temperature remains below the safety threshold of 55 degrees C across all discharge scenarios. During low-temperature preheating (-10-10 degrees C), the maximum discharge time is extended by 53.1 %, with a maximum heating rate of 9.64 degrees C/min. This material exhibits considerable potential for engineering applications in the field of thermal energy storage and management.
