Shanghai International Studies University

Hydrogen-Bond-Mediated Solvation Reconfiguration Homogenizes Ion Flux for Stable Sodium Metal Batteries

Abstract Anode-free sodium metal batteries (AFSMBs) offer the promise of high energy density and low cost; however, dendrite growth caused by nonuniform Na deposition severely compromises the battery’s cycling stability. In this study, the Na+ solvation structure is dynamically o...

The Pursuit of Security: How Loneliness Shapes Consumers' Preference for Simple Versus Complex Packaging Designs

ABSTRACT This research examines how loneliness influences consumers' preferences for the design (simple vs. complex) of product packaging and uncovers the underlying mechanisms across 7 studies, including 1 survey and 6 experimental designs ( N = 1636). The results show that lone...

Social presence matters: unveiling the impact on knowledge hiding in enterprise social media collaboration

Purpose This study investigates how enterprise social media (ESM) design can mitigate knowledge hiding by enhancing social presence, particularly through cognitive and affective dimensions, and explores the mediating role of emotional empathy in this process. Design/methodology/a...

Reconfiguring automated mobility: lived experiences of robotaxi travel in China

China is one of the most advanced real-world contexts for robotaxi deployment. This study examines how Chinese people experience Luobo Kuaipao, a large-scale robotaxi service in Wuhan. Drawing on social media data, field observations, and in-depth interviews, we use reflexive the...

Underwater image enhancement via boundary-aware gradient domain reconstruction and intuitionistic fuzzy set similarity measure-guided wavelet fusion for lowlight conditions

Due to the light absorption and scattering effects of water in dark underwater environments, along with the sensitivity limitations of imaging devices, captured images generally suffer from color distortion, low contrast, blurred details, and uneven illumination. These issues sev...

Typographic Bodies and Cosmological Diagrams: Reframing the Gendered Binary in John Updike’s Fiction

Critical discussions of John Updike’s representation of women have often turned on the vocabulary of a moral “binary”—wife versus mistress, Madonna versus whore—which is frequently read as evidence of an underlying ethical taxonomy. This essay argues instead that Updike’s gendere...

“Drugs are a deep scar on the Chinese nation”: Discursive strategies of (de)legitimation regarding the sealing of drug use records in the digital sphere

The recent revision of China’s Public Security Administration Punishments Law, which permits the sealing of public-security administrative violation records, including drug-use records, has generated considerable fierce online debate. Designed as a step to reduce structural stigm...

Building-Scale GeoAI for Short-Horizon Urban Inundation Prediction Under Sparse Labels and Distribution Shift: A Multi-Event Evaluation of Predictive Capability Boundaries in Taipei

Urban inundation forecasting in high-density cities is complicated by sparse incident labels, nonstationary rainfall, and changing sensing systems. Using Taipei as a case study, we develop a building-scale GeoAI decision-support prototype that integrates 30,421 Level of Detail 1...

Bayesian Hierarchical Multinomial Modeling of Multifunctional Word Usage in Learner-Corpus Data: Evidence from the English Word That

This study applies a Bayesian hierarchical multinomial model to examine the functional distribution of the English word ‘that’ in learner-corpus data. The corpus consisted of 154,694 running words of learner-generated online comments and peer replies produced by 139 first-year Ch...

Spurious State Dependence, True State Dependence and the Fear of Floating

ABSTRACT To better understand the Fear of Floating phenomenon in exchange rate regime evolution, this paper advances the method to identify state dependence and establishes four new findings and explanations. First, the introduction of state dependence into multinomial discrete c...

Disentangling Elemental Roles in an Amorphous Medium‐Entropy Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution

ABSTRACT Understanding elemental cooperation in high/medium‐entropy electrocatalysts is essential for rational design but remains challenging due to their compositional complexity. Herein, an amorphous medium‐entropy catalyst, FeCoNiMo‐a, with a nanoring architecture, is develope...

Engineering Atomically Precise Cu 4 I 4 Nanoclusters With Integrated Adsorption and Hydrogenation Functions for Efficient Photocatalytic Nitrate‐to‐Ammonia Conversion

ABSTRACT Photocatalytic nitrate reduction to ammonia offers a sustainable route that couples environmental remediation with nitrogen resource utilization. However, this transformation suffers from sluggish kinetics and insufficient hydrogenation, leading to poor selectivity and e...

Understanding digital capabilities and their relationship in digital transformation

Purpose Enterprises face barriers in digital transformation due to an unclear way to build digital capability. However, existing research on digital capability lacks a unified theoretical framework. This study aims to establish a theoretical framework to explain the formation mec...

Temporal maintenance of an adolescent suicide attempt screening score in national surveys

Screening scores may retain risk ranking while their probabilities become inaccurate in later populations. The information needed to repair this temporal drift is rarely quantified for adolescent suicide screening. We analyzed 5 independent national Youth Risk Behavior Survey cro...

Not all charisma is created equal: socialized vs personalized charismatic leadership and subordinates' career growth

Purpose This study aims to examine how socialized and personalized charismatic leadership differentially shape subordinates' career growth opportunities (CGO), providing new insights into leadership's role in career development. Design/methodology/approach We collected three-wave...

Can the mitigation of water constraints promote regional entrepreneurial activity? Evidence from China

Traditional entrepreneurial choice models typically consider only entrepreneurial talent and capital inputs, neglecting natural resource endowments. The debate over whether the scarcity of natural resources affects regional entrepreneurial activity remains inconclusive. In countr...

Digital transformation and corporate green innovation: enhancing both quantity and quality through resource orchestration

Drawing on resource orchestration theory, this study investigates whether and how digital transformation (DT) affects corporate green innovation (GI) using panel data on Chinese A-share listed firms from 2010 to 2023. The results show that DT significantly improves both the quant...

Broiler Responses to a Phytogenic Nutritional Additive Under Different Dietary Nutrient Matrix Credit Strategies

This study evaluated the physiological and production responses of broilers to a phytogenic nutritional additive (PNA) applied under different dietary nutrient matrix credit strategies. The PNA contained star anise essential oil, thyme essential oil, and Quillaja saponaria Molina...