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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions -- Chapter One. Social Formation Under State Domination in Modern China: An Introduction -- Chapter Two. Clearing Boundaries: The Founding of Shuangcheng Society -- Chapter Three. Building Boundaries: Land Allocation and Population Registration -- Chapter Four. Consolidating Power: Banner Government and Local Control -- Chapter Five. Community and Hierarchy: Banner Villages -- Chapter Six. Reinventing Hierarchy: Metropolitan Bannermen Family Strategies -- Chapter Seven. Sustaining Hierarchy: Wealth Stratification -- Chapter Eight. Social Formation in the Early Republic -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Names and Terms of Office of the Generals of Jilin -- Appendix B: An Estimation of the Number of Unregistered Households in Shuangcheng in 1876 -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index

Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the cognitive and physical impact of virtual reality (VR) integrated training versus traditional training methods in the domain of weld training. Background: Weld training is very important in various industries and represents a complex skill set appropriate for advanced training intervention. As such, there has been a long search for the most successful and most cost-effective method for training new welders. Method: Participants in this study were randomly assigned to one of two separate training courses taught by sanctioned American Welding Society certified welding instructors; the duration of each course was 2 weeks. After completing the training for a specific weld type, participants were given the opportunity to test for the corresponding certification. Participants were evaluated in terms of their cognitive and physical parameters, total training time exposure, and welding certification awards earned. Each of the four weld types taught in this study represented distinct levels of difficulty and required the development of specialized knowledge and skills. Results: This study demonstrated that participants in the VR integrated training group (VR50) performed as well as, and in some cases, significantly outperformed, the traditional welding (TW) training group. The VR50 group was found to have a 41.6% increase in overall certifications earned compared with the TW group. Conclusion: VR technology is a valuable tool for the production of skilled welders in a shorter time and often with more highly developed skills than their traditionally trained counterparts. Application: These findings strongly support the use of VR integrated training in the welding industry.

AbstractSTIRPAT (stochastic impact by regression on population, affluence, and technology) model is used to identify the influencing factors of agricultural carbon emissions in Jiangsu province. By referring to Kaya identity and combining with the actual situation of agricultural carbon emissions, four basic influencing factors were obtained: agricultural production efficiency, agricultural structure, agricultural economic development level, and agricultural population size. In addition, urbanization, mechanization, and natural disaster level were listed as influencing factors. The results demonstrated: (a) Urbanization was the first promoting factor of agricultural carbon emissions, indicating a 0.2510% increase in agricultural carbon emissions due to a 1% increase in urbanization. The other three positive factors were, respectively, agricultural mechanization, agricultural structure, and agricultural economic development and their influence indexes were 0.1481, 0.1163, and 0.0845, respectively. (b) Agricultural production efficiency was the most important factor to restrain agricultural carbon emissions. For every 1% increase in agricultural production efficiency, corresponding agricultural carbon emissions would be reduced by 0.3288%. Agricultural population size was also an important factor to reduce agricultural carbon emissions and its influence index was −0.045. Finally, we propose policy recommendations including implementation of orderly urbanization, dependence and development of low carbon technology, establishment of agricultural carbon compensation mechanism, etc.

We conducted 2 experiments in which we explored the influence mechanism of consumers' beliefs about both corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate social responsibility–corporate ability (CSR–CA) on their continuance intention for participation in virtual CSR cocreation
activities. We recruited 115 participants in Experiment 1. The results show that CSR–CA beliefs effectively decreased consumers' intention to continue participating in virtual CSR, which was affected by consumers' self-construal. Specifically, for consumers with an independent self-construal,
there was a significant correlation between their CSR–CA beliefs and participation continuance intention; however, the correlation between these variables was not significant for consumers with an interdependent selfconstrual. The Experiment 2 sample comprised 171 participants and the
results show that the interaction effect between self-construal and CSR–CA beliefs was mediated by flow. Thus, we recommend that marketers design CSR activities to activate an interdependent selfconstrual and enhance consumers' flow, which will increase their continuance intention.