Journals

New Countryside

ISSN: 2758-1403

Publication Frequency: Quarterly

New Environmentally-Friendly Materials

ISSN: 2758-3163

Urban Planning and Construction

ISSN: 2759-0410

Transportation Development Research

ISSN: 2759-0429

Food and Drug Safety

ISSN: 2759-0445

Classical Literature

ISSN: 2759-0437

Cultural Arts Research and Development

ISSN: 2436-8539

Publication Frequency: quarterly

Linguistic Exploration

ISSN: 2759-7199

Applied Behavioral Health and Psychology

ISSN: 2760-3830

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection

ISSN: 2759-7172

Journal of Education and Learning Environments

ISSN: 2760-201X

Cultural Conflict and Integration

ISSN: 2759-7180

Sustainable Business and Management

ISSN: 2760-3822

Banking and Digital Finance

ISSN: 2760-3814

Mathematical Methods in Data Science

ISSN: 2760-408X

Global Communication and Media Studies

ISSN: 2760-4098

Journal of Healthy Aging and Longevity

ISSN: 2760-4276

Asia-Pacific Studies in Economy and Society

ISSN: 2760-4284

Quantum Materials and Applied Physics

ISSN: 2760-5159

Aquaculture and Marine Biotechnology

ISSN: 2760-5140

Media Psychology and Digital Behavior

ISSN: 2760-5590

Smart Materials and Urban Systems

ISSN: 2760-5604

Journal of Behavioral Economics and Policy

ISSN: 2760-2001

Plant Genetics and Diversity

ISSN: 2760-5612

Journal of Embodied Intelligence

ISSN: 2760-5701

Future Foods and Technologies

ISSN: 2760-571X

Journal of Intelligent and Autonomous Control

ISSN: 2760-5728

What Might Gadamer and Confucius Say About Educational Research? Towards a Better Understanding

This paper challenges the dominance of tacit empiricism in educational research by drawing on Gadamerian hermeneutics and Confucian modes of interpretation. Rather than grounding inquiry solely in measurable outcomes or predetermined procedures, the paper argues for cultivating historical and philosophical awareness as foundational to understanding educational experience. Through a commitment to methodological dynamism, it highlights how research can unfold through a dialogical movement that rejects prefabricated templates and resists the rigidity of linear empirical models. The paper further advocates for recognizing the multiplicity of embodied, relational, and moral truths that emerge across diverse contexts. Such truths cannot be fully captured by narrow empirical frames. They require modes of inquiry that intertwine understanding and acting, and that honor the unpredictable and evolving character of educational life. By integrating empirical resources with philosophical depth rather than positioning them in opposition, the paper proposes a more generous and expansive orientation to inquiry. Ultimately, the paper calls for reconsidering dominant research paradigms and disrupting entrenched dichotomies between the empirical and the conceptual. It calls for a more holistic, context attentive, and ethically informed approach to educational research, one that understands inquiry as an ongoing interpretive journey rather than a process of determining fixed truths.

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Cultural Conflict and Integration
Article

Chronocide by Science? Bioarchaeology and Archaeogenomics Rewrite Ancient History to Specification

The Cultural Warfare goes back many millennia and strives to weaken an enemy and to make a subject docile. Assimilation derails the future of a culture by diverting the population in the future to other practices. The Chronocide, a rather modern concept as a term, attacks the Past, so that the manipulation within the Future of an orphaned population is much easier and without any potential for recurrence. A new iteration seems to emerge, using multi-domain scientific methods to perform such tasks and abusing the notion of evidence-based research: biomedical technology for analyzing human remains requires the fusion of scholarship and experimentation. The combination of Isotopic Analysis/Bioarchaeology and Archaeogenomics was used to a small sample of human remains from a grave site near the ancient battle site of Himera to track the lineage of deceased individuals. The suggested high percentage of alien adult males to natives for burials of 480 BC opposed to natives-only burials of 409 BC, led researchers to revise Ancient Greek military practices of the 5th century BC. Foreign mercenaries, many from East Europe, are supposed to have played prominent, hitherto shushed, role, within the ancient Greek world. The discrepancy of this theory with the own findings, which do not prove or suggest such association, would suggest that a flawed interpretation was expanded first to a fact and then to a paradigm, to promote politicized agendas. Whether this constitutes Chronocide or not is debatable.

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Linguistic Exploration
Articles

What Clinicians Should Listen for in the Speech of Latino Families: Communicative Concordance

Language is a critical consideration for practitioners working with Latino children and their families. These families display a wide range of linguistic backgrounds—from recent immigrants with limited English proficiency, to extended families who speak only Spanish, to bilingual households, to those who primarily speak non-standard ethnic English with some Spanish influence. In this review article, the authors propose that the central goal for practitioners should be to achieve “communicative concordance,” the ability to understand and be understood by Latino families. This extends far beyond merely speaking Spanish, which scholars call linguistic competence. Even bilingual practitioners in the fields of healthcare, education, law, and other services may unintentionally raise communicative barriers in their professional practice if they retain layperson’s misconceptions about language that trigger harmful language ideologies. To address this, this article first offers a linguist’s perspective on language, charting key concepts needed to optimize service to Latino families. These concepts are drawn from syntax, language acquisition, multilingualism, language socialization, indexicality, as well as cultural values, social capital, identity, and power differentials that are expressed via language. This article is structured into sections addressing these distinct aspects of language, each with its own recommendations. The key takeaway is that professional practitioners should develop deep functional awareness about how communication takes place across language and cultural boundaries to best understand and be understood by Latino families. Communicative concordance does not simply mean being able to speak Spanish. In short, effective communication with Latino families requires a nuanced, context-specific understanding of language diversity.

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Journal of Education and Learning Environments
Research Article

Understanding Communication Skill during Blended Learning: A Partially Mixed-Methods Analysis

The present study executed blended learning to develop students' communication skills. The study aimed to explore how blended learning enhances the communication skills of secondary school students. The participants were 29 secondary school students who were selected using a purposive sampling technique. The study mainly explores communication patterns collected from qualitative data. Qualitative data were collected through field notes, focus group interviews, and students’ learning logs. Quantitative data on communication skills were collected using a standardised tool administered to 29 participants. The scale encompassed four key dimensions: (1) awareness of one's own communication style, (2) understanding and valuing others' communication styles, (3) practising empathy, and (4) interaction during blended learning. Responses were recorded on a 5-point Likert scale: 5 (Always), 4 (Very often), 3 (Sometimes), 2 (Seldom), and 1 (Never). The accumulated scores of each participant were quantitative in nature. The communication scale served a supplementary, exploratory purpose to triangulate qualitative findings. Hence, the study used a partially mixed sequential dominant status design. The results identified eight themes: listening to others, supporting others, accepting others' views, writing ability, online sharing, responding, encouraging others, and making gestures. Integrated findings depicted that blended learning enabled students to have positive experiences in improving their communication skills. Thus, blended learning should be designed to allow learners to practice what they have learned from face-to-face instruction anytime and anywhere.

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Journal of Behavioral Economics and Policy
Article

Price Distortions in Capital Markets and Corporate Employment—A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis Based on Microdata

Employment, as the cornerstone of societal well-being, is a critical economic issue that concerns the immediate interests of the general public and the broader national development. However, existing research has generally overlooked the significant role that factor input prices play in the employment process of enterprise employees. Therefore, based on data from the China Industrial Enterprises Database, this paper focuses on examining the impact of capital price distortions on enterprise employee employment. The study finds that capital price distortions suppress firms’ labor demand and reduce their spending on employee training, which is detrimental to both employment and the improvement of employee quality. In terms of the transmission mechanism, capital price distortions increase firms’ returns on capital, thereby generating a substitution effect of capital for labor, and suppress labor demand by reducing firms’ production efficiency. In terms of firm heterogeneity, the negative impact of capital price distortions on employee employment is more pronounced in capital-intensive firms, firms not receiving government subsidies, large-scale firms, state-owned enterprises, and export-oriented firms. These findings indicate that national policies prioritizing the improvement of factor market price determination mechanisms and employment training subsidies are of great significance for promoting labor employment and reducing fluctuations in the labor market.

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Cultural Conflict and Integration
Article

Systemic Conflict in Federal Research Funding: Empirical Indication of Bias against Brown South Asian Hindu Canadian Citizens in Canadian Doctoral Scholarship Selection

Canada is globally recognized as a multicultural and developed nation, yet its foundations lie in the colonial displacement of Indigenous peoples, a history that continues to shape contemporary institutional structures. This study investigates cultural conflict and systemic inequities within Canadian academic institutions, focusing on doctoral scholarship selection processes at national, provincial, university, and foundation levels. Using five years of publicly available NSERC‑CGRSD data from four Canadian universities, the analysis identifies recurring patterns of underrepresentation affecting Brown South Asian Hindu Canadian citizens. Evidence gathered in this research, along with student reports, indicates that this demographic, along with other racialized groups, consistently experiences as marginalized citizens in academic evaluation contexts. These patterns appear to manifest in scholarship and funding decisions where Canadian research contributions may be undervalued, while applicants perceived as white are viewed as receiving disproportionate advantages. Such disparities suggest that historical colonial power structures may continue to influence access to academic opportunities, raising concerns about fairness, transparency, and institutional accountability. Although Canada has recently expanded protections related to religious rights, questions remain regarding the extent to which these policies will be meaningfully implemented within academia and research organizations. Addressing these inequities is essential to ensuring that all qualified domestic scholars, including Brown South Asian Hindu Canadian citizens, receive equitable access to doctoral scholarship opportunities and are not subjected to systematic conflict within academic evaluation systems.

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New Environmentally-Friendly Materials
Article

Investigation on Ficus carica and Punica granatum Extracts as Eco-Friendly Corrosion Inhibitors for C1018 Carbon Steel in Acidic and Marine Environments

This study evaluates the corrosion behavior of carbon steel in acidic medium and seawater in the presence of natural plant extracts derived from pomegranate peels and fig leaves as environmentally friendly corrosion inhibitors. The weight loss technique was employed to determine the corrosion rate and inhibition efficiency after an immersion period of 624 h, in the absence and presence of different inhibitor concentrations ranging from 12.5 to 100 ppm. The results demonstrated that pomegranate peels and fig leaves extracts were ineffective in the acidic medium, as negative inhibition efficiency values were recorded, indicating an increase in the corrosion rate compared to the blank solution. In contrast, the extracts exhibited noticeable corrosion inhibition performance in seawater, where positive inhibition efficiency values were observed and improved with increasing inhibitor concentration. Fig leaves extract showed superior performance, achieving a maximum inhibition efficiency of approximately 27.47% at a concentration of 100 ppm. This improvement is mainly attributed to the adsorption of organic compounds present in the extracts onto the steel surface. resulting in the formation of a protective film that reduces metal dissolution in the marine environment. The findings of this study indicate that pomegranate peels and fig leaves extracts are ineffective under the studied conditions in acidic environments but demonstrate promising potential as eco-friendly inhibitors in marine or saline conditions. These results highlight the critical influence of the corrosive medium on inhibitor performance and support the use of natural plant extracts as sustainable alternatives to conventional chemical inhibitors of corrosion.

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Transportation Development Research
Communication

Sustainable Management of Energy, Storage, and Wireless Transfer in Electric Vehicles Operating in an Ecological Environment

Electric vehicles are progressively being employed for ecological transportation in green environments, thereby preserving eco-friendly biodiversity and ecosystems. The involved energy storage batteries are a crucial item of green mobility. The storage capacity state is intensely allied to the interconnection with energy supplies and charging methodologies, as well as the involved complexity. In an outstanding green urban background, charging schemes would operate wirelessly to transfer clean energy. However, the concerned wireless power transfer tools can implicate intricate settings and undesirable electromagnetic interferences. In this context, sustainable management of the condition of batteries and wireless chargers can improve their operation and reduce adverse effects. This includes the sustainable use of clean energy sources as well as the design and monitoring of complex interconnected systems. This contribution aims to highlight and analyse the role of a sustainable, clean, and efficient energy approach in the design and monitoring of energy storage and wireless transfer systems integrated into electric vehicles for environmentally friendly applications. The paper includes sections covering an introduction, electric mobility in a green urban context, energy storage and wireless power transfer, wireless electromagnetic interference and adverse effects, charging mode strategies, sustainable energy management in electric mobility, discussion, and conclusions. The research presented in this communication is based on a narrative review of the literature.

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Announcements

Announcement: Change in Publication Frequency
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10 February 2026
Announcement: Change in Publication Frequency
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10 February 2026
Announcement on Change of Publication Frequency
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10 February 2026
Congratulations! Food and Drug Safety Is Now Indexed in CAS
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22 January 2026
Congratulations to New Environmentally-Friendly Materials Indexed in CAS!
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24 December 2025
Welcome Professor Yin as the Editor-in-Chief of New Countryside
Announcements
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Yin as the new Editor-in-Chief of New Countryside, an international open-access journal dedicated to advancing sustainable development in rural societies worldwide. Professor Yin is a distinguished scholar with extensive expertise in rural development policy, rural governance, agricultural economics, and sustainable livelihoods. His research has significantly contributed to the understanding of integrated rural-urban development and the practical implementation of rural revitalization strategies. With his deep academic insight and commitment to interdisciplinary dialogue, Professor Yin is ideally positioned to guide The New Countryside toward greater scholarly impact and global engagement. Under his leadership, the journal will continue to champion high-quality, cross-disciplinary research on critical rural issues—including rural policy, infrastructure, economic upliftment, agricultural innovation, rural tourism, and environmental sustainability. We warmly invite researchers, practitioners, and policymakers from around the world to submit their work, recommend potential reviewers, and collaborate in building The New Countryside into a leading platform for innovative and actionable knowledge on rural futures. Please join us in extending a heartfelt welcome to Professor Yin! New Countryside Editorial Office 20 November, 2025

20 November 2025
Welcome Our New Editor-in-Chief of Cultural Arts Research and Development
Announcements
We are pleased to announce that Prof. Emanuele Castano has been appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief of Cultural Arts Research and Development, effective September 25, 2025. Prof. Castano brings extensive expertise in cultural theory, social cognition, and literary studies. His scholarly contributions and editorial leadership have significantly advanced the field, and we are confident that he will guide the journal to new heights of academic excellence and international visibility. We would also like to express our sincere gratitude to the previous Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Ronald Eyerman, for his invaluable contributions to the journal’s growth and reputation. Please join us in welcoming Prof. Emanuele Castano and supporting the continued success of Cultural Arts Research and Development.

26 September 2025
Editor-in-Chief Communication Meeting Successfully Held!
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11 September 2025
New Journal Alert: Urban Planning and Construction
Announcements
We are excited to announce the launch of our new journal, "Urban Planning and Construction," dedicated to exploring the dynamic field of urban planning and construction. As we embark on this exciting endeavor, we invite scholars and researchers to join us as esteemed editorial board members and editors-in-chief. If you are passionate about urban planning and construction and would like to contribute to this scholarly platform, we welcome you to apply as a self-nominee or recommend suitable candidates for the positions. Kindly download the Scholar Information Form, fill it out, and submit it to the editorial department. For the inaugural issue, we are offering a special opportunity to submit manuscripts free of charge. Yes, you read that right! We are waiving all article processing fees for the first edition. To maintain consistency, please refer to our author's guidelines for formatting details, available at: https://ojs.bilpub.com/index.php/upc/about/submissions. Feel free to contact our editorial department at upc@bilpub.com for any queries, suggestions, or submissions. Join us on this exciting journey as we delve into the realms of urban planning and construction together! Urban Planning and Construction Editorial Team

14 September 2023
Pre-publication of the First Issue of Food and Drug Safety
Announcements
We are excited to announce the launch of a new journal, Food and Drug Safety, dedicated to the exploration of topics related to the safety of food and drugs. We are currently seeking qualified individuals to join our editorial board and serve as the chief editor. If you have expertise in this field, both self-recommendations and recommendations of others are welcome. To apply, please download the Scholar Information Form, fill it out, and submit it to the editorial office. For the inaugural issue, we are offering free manuscript handling and waiving all article processing fees. Authors are encouraged to submit their manuscripts in accordance with the guidelines outlined in the Author's Guide: https://ojs.bilpub.com/index.php/fds/about/submissions. For any inquiries or submissions, please contact the editorial office via email at: fds@bilpub.com. We look forward to your participation and contributions in promoting food and drug safety research! Food and Drug Safety Editorial Team

14 September 2023