Inflation targeting has become a cornerstone framework for contemporary monetary policy governance, yet its effectiveness varies significantly across countries. This study employs panel data from five countries—New Zealand, Canada, South Korea, Poland, and South Africa—over the period 2010 to 2020 to empirically examine the impact mechanisms of central bank independence and policy transparency on inflation dynamics. The findings indicate that institutional independence of central banks significantly contributes to curbing inflation levels, enhancing policy credibility and implementation stability. Meanwhile, policy transparency effectively reduces inflation volatility by stabilizing publ... More >

In view of the increasing incidence of minor offenses committed by adults, the proper management of adult criminal records has become a pivotal issue in the reform of China's criminal justice system. This paper undertakes a theoretical inquiry into the normative foundations for establishing a record sealing system for adult minor offenses, drawing upon the theory of social defense, the concept of human rights protection, and the principle of penal minimalism. Through a comparative analysis of the legal frameworks in countries such as the United States, Germany, and Japan, the study identifies valuable insights regarding the scope of record sealing, procedural safeguards, and mechanisms for t... More >

This study conducts a bibliometric and scientometric analysis of global research trends in medical ethics education from 2000 to 2025. Drawing on 443 English-language articles retrieved from the Scopus database, the analysis employs VOSviewer to map knowledge structures, identify thematic clusters, and reveal intellectual trajectories. Results show a sustained growth in publication volume and increasing scholarly attention to ethics education across multiple dimensions. Keyword co-occurrence and clustering analysis identify five core thematic areas: ethical identity formation, student engagement with bioethical dilemmas, moral development in early education, public health ethics in policy co... More >

The signals of economic recovery are getting stronger and serial entrepreneurship is increasing. Focusing on how to improve the quality of serial entrepreneurship, learning about entrepreneurial failure experiences has become a top priority. Based on the imprinting theory perspective, this study conducted a questionnaire survey among entrepreneurs in the Wuling Mountains to answer the following questions: first, how entrepreneurial failure experience affects entrepreneurial behaviours; and to understand how entrepreneurial failure experience affects entrepreneurial behaviours. Second, how resource bricolage as a mediating variable affects entrepreneurial actions of entrepreneurs in order to... More >

In Olympic competitions, the dynamic changes in the medal standings are influenced by a variety of factors. We predict the medal distribution for the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Olympics by analyzing historical data. In Task 1.1, we formulated predictive models for the overall medal count, as well as the individual counts for gold, silver, and bronze medals. These models integrated lagged variables and employed multivariate linear regression to ascertain the weightings of various indicators, thereby enabling the projection of the 2028 Olympic Games' medal table. The United States was projected to secure the top position with a total of 145 medals, including 50 gold medals. In Task 1.2, we deploy... More >

Student dropout prediction is a critical challenge in higher education that requires accurate identification of at-risk students to enable timely interventions. This study presents EASE-Predict (Ensemble-SHAP Explainable Student Prediction), a comprehensive ensemble learning framework with SHAP-based explainable AI to predict student academic outcomes. We evaluated five machine learning algorithms (Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, Extra Trees, Logistic Regression, and SVM) and developed voting and stacking ensemble models on a dataset of 4,424 students with 36 features encompassing academic performance, socioeconomic factors, and demographic information.EASE-Predict achieved superior perfo... More >

With the wide application and rapid development of the Internet, online virtual property has become an important form of asset, and its protection has attracted more and more attention. At present, there are many deficiencies in the legal protection of online virtual property in China, whether it is legislative, judicial or administrative supervision, and it needs to be improved urgently. This paper first discusses the legal attributes of online virtual property, and analyzes the significance of legal protection of online virtual property based on survey data. Subsequently, the main problems in legal protection in this field in China were analyzed, and some suggestions for improvement were p... More >

The global sustainability paradigm, catalyzed by environmental degradation since the 1960s, has positioned green consumption as a critical strategy to reconcile economic growth with ecological preservation. While international scholarship extensively explores this field, China's unique socioeconomic trajectory---marked by rapid industrialization, centralized governance, and the ``dual carbon'' (carbon peak and neutrality) targets---necessitates a dedicated investigation into its indigenous knowledge system. Leveraging CiteSpace, this scientometric study systematically analyzes 2,793 core journal articles from the Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI, 1994--2024) to map the intelle... More >