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As a Russian literary theorist, M.M. Bakhtin not only contributed greatly to the development of Russian structuralist semiotics, but also holds an important place in the international literary community. This article attempts to sort out the history of the acceptance of Bakhtin's theory in Russia, Europe and China, and to reconstruct the original shape of Bakhtin's theory of the "polyphonic novel" on the basis of a revision of his theory.

This study assesses agency-level performance evaluation reform in China.

Mega-events such as the World Cup and the Olympics have been used for economic development, urban transformation and global status enhancement. Beijing and Shanghai embraced these purposes when they won the bids for the 2008 Olympics and the 2010 World Expo respectively. This article examines the pre-event economic changes in Beijing and Shanghai that are associated with their pursuit of mega-events. Changes in a group of economic indicators are tracked from 1997 to 2006. It was found that after winning the bids for the Olympics and the World Expo, Beijing and Shanghai experienced greater growth in construction and tourism, a speeding-up in economic development and restructuring, and an improvement in physical infrastructure. However, the enhancement of global exposure was not accompanied by growth in foreign trade and in the finance, insurance and real estate (FIRE) industries. The empirical analyses place the mega-events in large economic contexts and provide a base for future post-event studies. (JCCA/GIGA)

Drawing on self-verification theory, our aim was to explore the main and interaction effects of utilitarian and long-term orientation on the Chinese millennial generation's in-role and extrarole performance. Participants (N = 208) were millennial-generation employees at 3 companies
in mainland China, who completed measures of utilitarian orientation, long-term orientation, in-role performance, and extrarole performance. The results showed that a utilitarian orientation positively predicted in-role and extrarole performance in the participants, and that a long-term orientation
significantly moderated this relationship. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.

[EN] Continuous ECG monitoring can play an important role in the rapid detection of pathological signatures and arrhythmias. Current systems use electrodes with limitations in wearable long-term applications and spatial selectivity. In this work, two sizes of textile concentric ring electrodes (TCRE42 and TCRE50) were developed and tested for monitoring cardiac activity. The low-cost devices were found to be easy to implement and to potentially have the advantages of textile electrodes for being lightweight, stretchable, adjustable, washable, and long-lasting. Both TCREs yielded similar signal detectability of different ECG waves. The optimal P wave recording area (OPA) for detecting signals was on the upper right chest. Although the absolute signal amplitude of TCRE records was smaller than that of lead II, normalized amplitude in the OPA is similar for T wave and higher for P wave. The TCREs also allowed better analysis of P wave morphology and were able to detect more right and left atrial depolarization waves. TCRE48 showed slightly better detectability, normalized amplitude, and spatial selectivity than TCRE50 within the OPA. The authors consider the TCRE suitable for use in ubiquitous mobile health care systems, especially for atrial activity monitoring and diagnosis ; This work was supported by grants from the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad and the European Regional Development Fund (DPI2015-68397-R) (MINECO/FEDER). This work was also supported by the Spanish Government/FEDERfunds (MAT2015-64139-C4-3-R) (MINECO/FEDER). ; Prats-Boluda, G.; Ye Lin, Y.; Pradas-Novella, F.; Garcia-Breijo, E.; Garcia-Casado, J. (2018). Textile Concentric Ring Electrodes: Influence of Position and Electrode Size on Cardiac Activity Monitoring. Journal of Sensors. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/7290867 ; S ; 2018