The effects of religiosity on organizational behavior have become a topic of interest in the fields of management and religion. However, whether religiosity is associated with green-related innovation has not been explored, and the underlying economic channels remain unclear. This study addresses this gap by conceptualizing both regional religiosity and industry peer effects as distinct dimensions of informal institutions that jointly shape corporate green innovation. Using Chinese listed companies in 2020 as research subjects and employing a spatial econometric model, this study systematically tests these relationships. A positive link between religiosity and green-related innovation in firms is observed, and a positive peer effect on green innovation is also identified. To reveal the economic channel, the mediating role of business performance is tested. The results clearly indicate that business performance mediates the link between religiosity and green innovation in firms: regional religiosity fosters a pro-social business environment that enhances business performance, which in turn provides the resources necessary for green innovation. Furthermore, this association is shown to be heterogeneous, with the effect being pronounced in non-state-owned enterprises but muted in state-owned enterprises, where managerial atheism may offset religious norms. Evidence is provided by this study that religion, as an informal institution, is conducive to firms’ green innovation, and the understanding of the role of informal institutions in shaping corporate environmental strategy in transitional economies is deepened.
Global climate change is an increasing challenge to healthy aging because extreme heat, air pollution, sleep disruption, and ecological instability can weaken physiological homeostasis in older adults. As aging reduces thermoregulatory, cardiovascular, immune, endocrine, and autonomic reserves, repeated climate stress may lead to delayed recovery and a biological resilience cascade that increases the risk of frailty, cognitive decline, cardiovascular events, hospitalization, and reduced healthspan. This Perspective proposes an integrative framework that situates biological resilience within psychosocial and cultural contexts. We argue that cultural ethics do not directly alter physiological biomarkers, but may shape upstream social and psychological conditions, including stress appraisal, help seeking, community care, adaptive behavior, and recovery after exposure. Drawing on planetary health and cultural ethics, we examine how Zhi Wei Bing, Ren, Yi, and Tian-Ren-He-Yi can inform climate adaptation for older adults. These concepts support preventive action, care for vulnerable groups, fair distribution of resources, resilience literacy, and ecological planning. By linking physiological mechanisms with psychosocial resources and cultural values, this article offers a hypothesis-generating framework for climate-resilient aging and for policies that protect vulnerable older adults in a warming world.
We fabricated self-aligned quasi-vertical trench p-NiO/GaN merged p-n Schottky diodes with p-NiO guard-rings and investigated the effects of trench depth (dt) and n-region width (Wn) on the electrical characteristics. The MPS diode with Wn of 2 μm and dt of 1 μm exhibited a high forward current density of 1 kA cm−2 and a low differential Ron,sp of 1.4 mΩ·cm2. Guard-rings edge termination was introduced to improve the breakdown voltage from 330 V to 430 V. The average breakdown electric field was calculated to be 1.1 MV cm−1 for the MPS diode on a sapphire substrate.
Ensuring equitable access to healthcare services safeguards individual wellbeing and enhances society’s overall happiness. This study investigates the complex relationships between spatial hospital accessibility, spatial inequality, and urban wellbeing, focusing on the physical dimension of access measured by travel time. Using geospatial and economic data from 13,776 hospitals, this study reveals that inequality in hospital accessibility, as measured by the Gini coefficient, significantly and negatively impacts urban happiness. Additionally, the results reveal a nonlinear, inverted U-shaped relationship between hospital accessibility and city-level happiness, indicating an optimal threshold beyond which marginal benefits decline. Additionally, the results indicate a key mediating mechanism: unequal access drives population out-migration and reduces the permanent resident population. This outcome, in turn, partially transmits adverse effects to city-level wellbeing. These findings demonstrate substantial spatial and contextual heterogeneity, underscoring the need for policymakers to tailor urban health policies that prioritize enhancing accessibility and ensure equitable distribution to foster sustainable demographic stability and overall urban wellbeing.
Implementing Higher-Order Ambisonics (HOA) on consumer devices is hindered by their sparse, irregular microphone arrays, which challenge conventional methods with issues like spatial aliasing and ill-conditioning. This paper proposes a unified Spherical Harmonic Beamforming (SHB-AE) framework that recasts HOA encoding as a spatial filtering problem, enabling robust, signal-independent solutions. We develop two approaches: a frequency-domain (FD) method with compensation for high-frequency artifacts, and a time-domain (TD) methodthat holistically optimizes broadband FIR filters for enhanced stability. The framework is inherently scalable, allowing on-demand order expansion. Using a measured smartphone array, comprehensive objective and subjective evaluations demonstrate the clear superiority of theTD method. It excels in signal fidelity, spatial accuracy, and temporal consistency, outperforming baseline and FD approaches. The TD method also maintains its advantage in adverse conditions, showing remarkable robustness against noise, reverberation, and multi-source environments.It provides a practical, high-performance pathway for enabling high-fidelity spatial audio capture on ubiquitous consumer devices without requiring complex signal analysis or large datasets.
Chinese-domestic large language models such as Doubao, DeepSeek, and Qwen have become the primary LLM platforms, and have the potential to shape the digital environment for classical scholarship within Chinese digital domains due to their ubiquitousness, low-cost and ease of use. Yet their training data for ancient Greek and Latin philology is sparse relative to frontier Western models that remain regionally inaccessible. This paper reports a format-comparison experiment testing whether, and by what mechanism, the encoding format of a digital edition determines the scholarly quality of AI output when these models are queried about a disputed passage in the so-called Periplus Maris Erythraei §56 (line 537), where the phrase μεστὰ πλοῖα has attracted four competing readings. The paper tests whether, and by what mechanism, the encoding format of a digital edition can lead to good philological reasoning of complex textual phenomena. The study may bear implications for further efficient and AI-primed enrichment of digital editions within the Chinese domain that facilitates research and study of Classical Studies in the European tradition.
Awe, a self-transcendent emotion, has been theoretically posited as a precursor to wise reasoning. However, direct empirical evidence supporting this relationship and the underlying mechanism has been limited. In four studies (N = 3700), we examined the relationship between awe and wise reasoning, as well as the mediating effect of self-transcendence, employing cross-sectional, longitudinal, and experimental designs. We consistently found that awe had a lagged effect on (Study 1), enhanced (Studies 2 & 3), and was associated with (Study 4) wise reasoning. Furthermore, self-transcendence mediated this relationship (Studies 3 & 4). The impact of awe on wise reasoning and mediating effect of self-transcendence could not solely be attributed to awe’s predominantly positive nature, and the mediation model was established beyond the influence of self-smallness (Studies 3–4). These findings contribute to understanding the emotional trigger of wise reasoning, the cognitive implications of awe, and its role in promoting wise conflict resolution.