A multi-agent based framework for the simulation of human and social behaviors during emergency evacuations.Xiaoshan Pan,Charles S. Han,Ken Dauber &Kincho H. Law -2007 -AI and Society 22 (2):113-132.detailsMany computational tools for the simulation and design of emergency evacuation and egress are now available. However, due to the scarcity of human and social behavioral data, these computational tools rely on assumptions that have been found inconsistent or unrealistic. This paper presents a multi-agent based framework for simulating human and social behavior during emergency evacuation. A prototype system has been developed, which is able to demonstrate some emergent behaviors, such as competitive, queuing, and herding behaviors. For illustration, an example (...) application of the system for safe egress design is provided. (shrink)
Parental awareness and perspectives on newborn screening in China: a questionnaire-based study.Xiaoshan Yin,Peiyao Wang,Ziyan Cen,Zinan Yu,Qimin He,Benqing Wu &Xinwen Huang -2024 -BMC Medical Ethics 25 (1):1-8.detailsLow parental awareness and knowledge about newborn screening have been identified as a public issue. This study explored Chinese parents’ self-evaluation of awareness, knowledge, and methods of receiving information about newborn screening. Using convenience sampling, we included 614 respondents who were expectant parents or parents of children aged 0-3 years. Our self-made questionnaire comprised four sections: sociodemographic characteristics, self-evaluation of awareness, detailed knowledge about newborn screening, and practical and expected methods of receiving newborn screening information. We found that 72.9% of (...) participants were classified as aware of newborn screening. However, only 14.2% of the participants received a passing score on the newborn screening detailed knowledge questions. Knowledge level about newborn screening was significantly associated with gender (P<.001), age (P<.05), education level (P<.05), residence (P<.05), family income (P<.05), and number of children (P<.05). The knowledge acquisition about newborn screening mainly came from hospital-related training (62.1%). Additionally, nearly half of the respondents (48.0%) expressed a preference for learning more about newborn screening through social media platforms, such as WeChat. While the majority of expectant or new parents were aware of newborn screening, only a minority had a thorough understanding of it. Various sociodemographic factors were associated with the level of parental knowledge about newborn screening. It is recommended to use hospital lectures or social media initiatives to educate parents in China. (shrink)
Southern Garden Poetry Society: Literary Culture and Social Memory in Guangdong. By David B. Honey.Xiaoshan Yang -2021 -Journal of the American Oriental Society 135 (3).detailsThe Southern Garden Poetry Society: Literary Culture and Social Memory in Guangdong. By David B. Honey. Hong Kong: the Chinese University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv + 258. $45.
Socioeconomic Status and Risk-Taking Behavior Among Chinese Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Psychological Capital and Self-Control.Xiaoshan Jia,Haidong Zhu,Guiqin Sun,Huanlei Meng &Yuqian Zhao -2021 -Frontiers in Psychology 12.detailsRisk-taking behavior is particularly widespread during adolescence, and negatively impacts the healthy growth and social adaptation of adolescents. Utilizing problem-behavior theory and the family stress model, the current study examined the relationship between socioeconomic status and adolescents’ risk-taking behavior, as well as the mediating role of psychological capital and self-control. A total of 1,156 Chinese adolescent students completed a series of questionnaires anonymously. The results showed that: Socioeconomic status was negatively correlated with adolescents’ risk-taking behavior; Both psychological capital and self-control (...) mediated the relationship between SES and adolescents’ risk-taking behavior independently; and Psychological capital and self-control also mediated the relationship between SES and the risk-taking behavior of adolescents sequentially. This study reveals the internal mechanism of risk-taking behavior during adolescence and provides theoretical support and empirical evidence for preventing and reducing such behavior in this age group. (shrink)
Periodizations of Tang Poetry and Choices of Models in the Late Southern Song.Xiaoshan Yang -2022 -Journal of the American Oriental Society 141 (3):505.detailsThis study investigates the literary-historical context of the attempts by late Southern Song critics to periodize Tang poetry. It demonstrates that the primary agenda of these critics was to establish High Tang poetry as the sole correct model. The insistence on the supremacy of the High Tang went in tandem with, and formed part of, the rebuke of contemporary poets for choosing Late Tang poetry as the object of emulation. The focal point of contention was whether Late Tang poetry could (...) or should serve as a useful model, at least for some in the initial stage of their poetic training. In this context, periodizations of Tang poetry functioned as an auxiliary to the discourse on choices of models in the late Southern Song. (shrink)
Bhagavadbādarāyaṇaproktottaramīmāṃsākhyabrahmasūtrasya śaktibhāṣyam.Pañcānana Tarkaratna -1984 - Dillī: Parimala Pablikeśansa. Edited by Bādarāyana.detailsCommentary on the Brahmasūtra of Bādarāyaṇa, aphoristic basic text of Vedānta philosophy, from Shakta point of view.
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Review of Du Fu Transforms: Tradition and Ethics amid Societal Collapse. [REVIEW]Xiaoshan Yang -2023 -Journal of the American Oriental Society 143 (1):233-235.detailsDu Fu Transforms: Tradition and Ethics amid Societal Collapse. By Lucas Rambo Bender. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center. Pp. xiii + 411. $65.
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: A Gender Perspective.Banu Ozkazanc-Pan &Susan Clark Muntean -2021 - Cambridge University Press.detailsBased on extensive fieldwork, this book demonstrates how gender is an organizing principle of entrepreneurial ecosystems and makes a difference in how ecosystem resources are assembled and how they can be accessed. By bringing visibility to how ecosystem actors are heterogeneous across identities, interactions and experiences, the book highlights the role and complexity of individual, organizational, and institutional factors working in concert to create and maintain gendered inequities. Entrepreneurial Ecosystems provides research-driven insights around effective organizational practices and policies aimed at (...) remedying gendered and intersectional inequalities associated with entrepreneurship activities and economic growth. Proposing a typology of four ecosystem identities, it highlights how some might be more amenable and organized towards gender inclusion and change, while others may be much more difficult to change, reorganize and restructure. It offers scholars, students, practitioners and policymakers insights about gender in relation to analyzing entrepreneurial ecosystems and for fostering inclusive economic development policies. (shrink)
Kapaṭanītī.Dājī Paṇaśīkara -2021 - Mumbaī: Mêjesṭika Pabliśiṅga Hāūsa.detailsArticles on Mahābhārata, Hindu epic; chiefly with reference to the violation of moral values and ethics; published earlier as a weekly column of the supplement "Utsava", in Sāmanā, Marathi newspaper, during January to December 2002.
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CSR as Gendered Neocoloniality in the Global South.Banu Ozkazanc-Pan -2018 -Journal of Business Ethics 160 (4):851-864.detailsCorporate social responsibility has generally been recognized as corporate pro-social behavior aimed at remediating social issues external to organizations, while political CSR has acknowledged the political nature of such activity beyond social aims. Despite the growth of this literature, there is still little attention given to gender as the starting point for a conversation on CSR, ethics, and the Global South. Deploying critical insights from feminist work in postcolonial traditions, I outline how MNCs replicate gendered neocolonialist discourses and perpetuate exploitative (...) material dependences between Global North/south through CSR activities. Specifically, I address issues of neocolonial relations, subaltern agency, and ethics in the context of gendered global division of labor through the exemplar of Rana Plaza and its aftermath. In all, I offer new directions for CSR scholarship by attending to the intersections of gender, ethics, and responsibility as they relate to corporate actions in the Global South. (shrink)
Development and Pilot Testing of an Evidence-Based Training Module for Integrating Social and Ethical Implications into the Lab.Lee Ann Kahlor,Xiaoshan Li &Jacy Jones -2019 -NanoEthics 13 (1):37-52.detailsIn this project, we explore perceptions of the social and ethical implications of nanotechnology among US scientists who work at the nanoscale, and develop and pilot test an online training module to foster consideration of social and ethical implications in the lab. To meet our first goal, we drew qualitative insights from open-ended survey data collected from scientists affiliated with the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network. Our data suggest that while the survey participants responded positively to the idea that consideration of (...) SEI should be a part of the work they do, there was confusion about whether SEI refers to lab safety, research integrity, or something more. This is something we sought to address in the online training module that we developed based on that qualitative data and on feedback collected from experts in nanoethics and lab management. We then pilot tested the module with undergraduate students studying nanotechnology in the National Science Foundation’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates program and with scientists registered to use a National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure-funded microelectronics research lab. The undergraduate data suggested that students appreciated the SEI training but wished professors and scientists would begin integrating the ideas therein into coursework and mentoring. The scientist data suggested that the module increased understanding of “social and ethical implications,” increased the perceived need to implement SEI into workplace routines, and, interestingly, heightened perceptions of risk associated with the scientists’ own work. The practical and theoretical implications of this work are discussed. (shrink)
Brahmāṇḍa-darśana.Paṅkaja Śāṃ Joshī -2008 - Vaḍodarā: Yajña Prakāśana.detailsWritings on Hindu cosmology and science.
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Temporal recall in the shadow of emotion: separate emotional contexts during encoding enhance the temporal source memory retrieval.Rong Pan, Di Wu,Jingwen Hu,Wenjie Dou,Chuanji Gao,Bao-Ming Li &Xi Jia -2025 -Cognition and Emotion 39 (1):196-209.detailsEpisodic memory, with its emphasis on temporal–spatial contexts, has been a longstanding focus in memory research. While previous studies have investigated the role of emotion in temporal source memory using emotionally charged stimuli, such as emotional words or images, the influence of a separated emotional context remains less explored. This study sought to understand the impact of separate emotional contexts on temporal source memory. Participants were shown Chinese characters alongside separate emotional contexts (i.e. a neutral or negative picture) and then (...) engaged in either a retrieval practice or a control condition. Finally, they were tested for recognition, temporal source memory, and emotional source memory for all the learned characters. Results revealed that a negative emotional context, unlike a neutral setting, enhanced the accuracy of temporal memory for adjacent neutral characters. However, this negative context reduced the accuracy of recalling the associated emotion. Importantly, the boost in temporal memory due to the emotional context remained even when participants were unsure or mistaken about the associated emotion. This study demonstrates the complex interplay between emotion and temporal memory, underscoring the enhancement effect of separated emotional contexts on temporal recall, irrespective of explicit emotional memory retrieval. (shrink)
Argumentative Patterns in Chinese Medical Consultations.Dawei Pan,Yanjin Chen &Shier Ju -2018 -Argumentation 32 (1):37-52.detailsMedical argumentation in non-Western societies has attracted little attention. In line with the pragma-dialectical approach to the study of argumentation, this article identifies a prototypical argumentative pattern in Chinese medical consultations. In addition to institutional preconditions, whose relevance to the argumentative pattern has been well cited, a factor that may be equally important has remained unnoticed: the preference for certain drugs, treatments or therapeutic measurements on the basis of folk interpretations of medical phenomena in individual ethnic groups. These preferences may (...) be seen as cultural preferences in the medical domain. In this paper, a prototypical argumentative pattern of Chinese medical consultations is provided. Two levels of the pattern are distinguished and discussed: a basic argumentative pattern as presented in the pragmatic-dialectical approach and its extensions due to cultural preferences as well as institutional constraints. Illustrated by an exemplary analysis on the basis of empirical data collected from Chinese consulting rooms, the impact of cultural preferences on physicians’ strategic maneuvering in argumentation is identified and recognized. It is argued that the existence and impact of cultural preferences require attention in medical argumentation. (shrink)
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When and How Knowledge Hiding Motivates Perpetrators' Organizational Citizenship Behavior.Wei Pan,Egan Lua,Zaoli Yang &Yi Su -2024 -Journal of Business Ethics 193 (2):325-344.detailsResearch on knowledge hiding has largely focused on its antecedents while overlooking its consequences. Drawing on moral cleansing theory, we adopt a “perpetrator-centric view” and posit that employees who engage in playing dumb and evasive hiding–two specific knowledge hiding behaviors that involve deception–will subsequently perform more organizational citizenship behavior directed toward individuals (OCB-I) because they perceive a loss of moral credits following their moral transgression. Further, we propose that the indirect effects are contingent on perpetrators’ moral identity internalization. We tested (...) our hypotheses using a time-lagged research design with a sample of 362 respondents from a large pharmaceutical group company. Consistent with our hypotheses, we found that employees who engaged in playing dumb and evasive hiding subsequently exhibited more OCB-I as they perceived a loss of moral credits, whereas employees who engaged in rationalized hiding did not. In addition, the positive relationships between playing dumb and evasive hiding with perceived loss of moral credits were stronger when perpetrators had high moral identity internalization, as were the indirect effects of playing dumb and evasive hiding on OCB-I via perceived loss of moral credits. Our research contributes to the understanding of when and how engaging in knowledge hiding affects perpetrators and their compensatory behaviors toward coworkers. (shrink)
What is so special about episodic memory: lessons from the system-experience distinction.Shen Pan -2022 -Synthese 200 (1):1-26.detailsCompared to other forms of memory, episodic memory is commonly viewed as special for being distinctively metarepresentational and, relatedly, uniquely human. There is an inherent ambiguity in these conceptions, however, because “episodic memory” has two closely connected yet subtly distinct uses, one designating the recollective experience and the other designating the underlying neurocognitive system. Since experience and system sit at different levels of theorizing, their disentanglement is not only necessary but also fruitful for generating novel theoretical hypotheses. To show this, (...) I first argue that accepting the phenomenally conscious contents of episodic remembering as metarepresentational does not necessitate a metarepresentational conception of the episodic memory system. In its stead, I sketch an alternative account on which the metarepresentational character of episodic remembering is generated through the interaction of first-order outputs of the episodic memory system with other neurocognitive components of the brain. Complemented with a first-order account of the memory system, the system-experience distinction further supplies a novel understanding of the human uniqueness of episodic recollection, one that is compatible with there being an evolutionarily conserved episodic memory system. Overall, by distinguishing the two equivocal senses of “episodic memory” in our theorizing, we unearth an opportunity to understand how the distinctive phenomenology of our episodic recollection is related to and implemented in the cognitive architecture. (shrink)
The Sovereignty of the Individual in Ernst Jünger's The Worker.David Pan -2008 -Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2008 (144):66-74.detailsIndividualism and nationalism are often held to be competing or even mutually exclusive concepts. Hannah Arendt, for instance, in The Origins of Totalitarianism, argues that a focus on the rights of the individual could have provided an antidote to the kind of racist nationalism established by the Nazis.1 According to this logic, the more firmly individual rights are defended, the less dangerously nationalist the resulting society will be, because individuals' goals and desires will not be subordinated to those of a (...) larger group. Studies of the work of Ernst Jünger have confirmed this assessment of the importance of the individual.. (shrink)
Studies in Sanskrit Śāstras.Ravīndra Kumāra Paṇḍā -2000 - Delhi: Paramamitra Prakashan.detailsCollection of research papers on various aspects of Hindu philosophy, Puranas and Sanskrit literature.
Bauddha darśanaya hā ṣaḍ darśana: tunanātmaka adhyayanayak.Hiripiṭiyē Paññākitti -2001 - Koḷamba: Goḍagē pot mădura, Es. Goḍagē saha Sahōdarayō.detailsComparative study of Buddhist philosophy and Hindu philosophy; with reference to India and Sri Lanka.
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Fan mei xue =.Zhichang Pan -1995 - Shanghai: Fa xing Xin hua shu dian Shanghai fa xing suo.details潘知常(1956~ ),湖南醴陵人,南京大学企业形象研究中心主任、教授,中国文艺理论学会理事,中华美学学会青年学术委员会副主任.