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Humor, philosophy and Chinese culture -- Chinese and western views of humor -- Chinese ambivalence about humor -- Humor and Chinese personality -- Humor and chinese emotions -- Humor and Chinese mental well being -- Humor and Chinese creativity -- Workplace humor in Chinese society

chapter 1 Humor, philosophy, and Chinese culture -- chapter 2 Chinese and Western views of humor -- chapter 3 Chinese ambivalence about humor -- chapter 4 Humor and Chinese personality -- chapter 5 Humor and Chinese emotions -- chapter 6 Humor and Chinese mental well-being -- chapter 7 Humor and Chinese creativity -- chapter 8 Workplace humor in Chinese society.

"This book addresses the sustainability of happiness and well-being in Chinese societies. It starts by introducing the various conceptions of well-being, particularly in Chinese sociocultural context. The book then proceeds with the examination of the sustainability of well-being by scrutinizing the effects of sociocultural contextual and personal factors on well-being. The contextual factors are the aggregates or averages of personal factors at the contextual levels of the region and college in Mainland China, its special administrative region, and Taiwan. These factors cover personality traits, strengths, orientations, beliefs, values, and idolizing. By bringing together empirical studies and theoretical perspectives applied to Chinese societies, this book offers researchers in social science and humanities a valuable reference work on happiness and well-being in Chinese societies"--

We propose a model of volunteering and test its validity across four cultural groups. We hypothesize that individuals' explicit prosocial motivation relates positively to sustained volunteering, which is conceptualized as a latent factor comprising activity as a volunteer, service length, service frequency, and hours of volunteering. Moreover, we introduced implicit prosocial motivation and hypothesized that the relationship between explicit prosocial motivation and sustained volunteering would be amplified by implicit prosocial motivation. Data were collected from samples in China, Germany, Turkey, and the United States. Results confirmed our expectation that, across cultures, sustained volunteering was associated with explicit prosocial motivation and that the relationship between explicit prosocial motivation and sustained volunteering was strongest when implicit prosocial motivation was also high. By including implicit prosocial motivation, our study offers a novel approach to identifying sustained volunteer involvement, which can be of particular relevance for recruitment activities of voluntary organizations across various cultural contexts.

Min Qu,1,* Bijun Lian,1,2,* Yan Wang,1,* Wenhui Zhang,1 Feng Zhu,1,3 Tao Wang,4 Xiaodong Yue,5 Zepeng Jia,1 Huan Chen,1 Husheng Li,1 Jing Li,1,6 Xu Gao1 1Department of Urology, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China; 2Department of Urology, The 903th PLA Hospital, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China; 3Department of Urology, Tianyou Hospital, Tongji University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China; 4Department of Urology, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China; 5Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China; 6Center for Translational Medicine, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Jing LiCenter for Translational Medicine, Second Military Medical University, No. 800 Xiangyin Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai, 200438, People's Republic of ChinaTel +86 021-31161718Email ljing@smmu.edu.cnXu GaoDepartment of Urology, Changhai Hospital, No. 168 Changhai Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai, 200438, People's Republic of ChinaTel +86 021-31161717Email gaoxu.changhai@foxmail.comPurpose: Through an observational study to present a new approach for obtaining high-quality samples for the targeted therapy of prostate cancer.Patients and Methods: Parallel biopsy, which was defined as collecting the tissue from the same site by two biopsies, was performed on patients with elevated PSA. Each tissue was stained by ink to identify the pathological characteristics, including Gleason score and tumor tissue ratio. Kendall tau-b test and intraclass correlation coefficient test were used to compare the consistency between each paired sample. Then, based on the pathology of the biopsies, high-quality tissues would be selected for sequencing, and PyClone model was used to track the clonal evolution.Results: In total, 252 pairs of biopsies were collected. The consistency of Gleason score between each paired biopsy is 0.777 (p< 0.01), and the consistency of tumor tissue ratio is 0.853 (p< 0.01). With the application of parallel biopsy, on average five nonsynonymous mutations could be identified in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer. Six out of eight had at least one biology-relevant alteration in patients, guiding further treatment. Meanwhile, clonal evolution was constructed to investigate the progress of tumor.Conclusion: Parallel biopsy is a reliable approach to collect high-quality tissue and shows potential application in precision medicine.Keywords: prostate cancer, prostate biopsy, next-generation sequencing, clonal evolutionary tree, precision medicine

The universality versus culture specificity of quantitative evaluations (negative-positive) of 40 events in world history was addressed using World History Survey data collected from 5,800 university students in 30 countries/societies. Multidimensional scaling using generalized procrustean analysis indicated poor fit of data from the 30 countries to an overall mean configuration, indicating lack of universal agreement as to the associational meaning of events in world history. Hierarchical cluster analysis identified one Western and two non-Western country clusters for which adequate multidimensional fit was obtained after item deletions. A two-dimensional solution for the three country clusters was identified, where the primary dimension was historical calamities versus progress and a weak second dimension was modernity versus resistance to modernity. Factor analysis further reduced the item inventory to identify a single concept with structural equivalence across cultures, Historical Calamities, which included man-made and natural, intentional and unintentional, predominantly violent but also nonviolent calamities. Less robust factors were tentatively named as Historical Progress and Historical Resistance to Oppression. Historical Calamities and Historical Progress were at the individual level both significant and independent predictors of willingness to fight for one's country in a hierarchical linear model that also identified significant country-level variation in these relationships. Consensus around calamity but disagreement as to what constitutes historical progress is discussed in relation to the political culture of nations and lay perceptions of history as ...