Integrating the valence theory and the norm activation theory to understand consumers’ e-waste recycling intention

Electrical and electronic waste(e-waste)is a growing challenge,matching the widespread boom in the use of information and communication technology.Opposite to an alarming increasing amount of e-waste,a low rate of consumer engagement in ensuring the proper disposal of such materials intensifies the pressure on the exist‐ing e-waste crisis.To deal with this thorny problem,it is of great interest to grasp consumers’disposal and re‐cycling behavioral intentions.Therefore,this study attempts to understand complementary perspectives around consumers’e-waste recycling intention based on the integration of the valence theory and the norm activation theory.Four data mining models using classification and prediction-based algorithms,namely Chi squared automatic interaction detector(CHAID),Neural network,Discriminant analysis,and Quick,unbiased,efficient statistical tree(QUEST),were employed to analyze a set of the 398 data collected in Vietnam.The re‐sults revealed that the social support value is by far the most critical predictor,followed by the utilitarian value,task difficulty,and monetary risk.It is also noteworthy that the awareness of consequences,education background,the ascription of responsibility,and age were also ranked as critical affecting factors.The lowest influential predictors found in this study were income and gender.In addition,a comparison was made in terms of the classification performance of the four utilized data mining techniques.Based on several evalua‐tion measurements(confusion matrix,accuracy,precision,recall,specificity,F-measure,ROC curve,and AUC),the aggregated results suggested that CHAID and Neural network performed the best.The findings of this research are expected to assist policymakers and future researchers in updating all information surround‐ing consumer behavioral intention-related topics focusing on e-waste.Furthermore,the adoption of data min‐ing algorithms for prediction is another insight of this study,which may shed the light on data mining applica‐tions in such environmental studies in the future.

Evolution of Climate Policy in the UK before and after Brexit from the Perspective of Normative Power Theory and Its Enlightenment to China

As the host country of the 26 th United Nations Climate Conference,the United Kingdom(UK)fully carried out climate diplomacy at the conference,and intended to promote the green concept in the international community through diplomatic means,which shows its greater ambition in international climate governance.However,the UK,as the source of the Industrial Revolution,has not always followed the so-called green norms in history.In the interaction with the EU norms after joining the European Community,the UK gradually developed from an"opponent"of green norms to an"advocate"of green norms.After"Brexit",the British government did not stop at the previous green norms of the EU,and further gave the green norms a special brand of the UK on this basis.At present,during the term of Boris Johnson's government,the green norms shaped by the UK have been basically formed and disseminated within a certain mechanism.In this paper,based on the normative power theory and relevant historical facts,how the UK has shaped international norms and obtained normative power through a series of climate policy will be discussed,and some enlightenment to China's participation in the construction of international norms system today will be obtained.

Parameters Optimization and Performance Evaluation of the Tuned Inerter Damper for the Seismic Protection of Adjacent Building Structures

In order to improve the seismic performance of adjacent buildings,two types of tuned inerter damper(TID)damping systems for adjacent buildings are proposed,which are composed of springs,inerter devices and dampers in serial or in parallel.The dynamic equations of TID adjacent building damping systems were derived,and the H2 norm criterion was used to optimize and adjust them,so that the system had the optimum damping performance under white noise random excitation.Taking TID frequency ratio and damping ratio as optimization parameters,the optimum analytical solutions of the displacement frequency response of the undamped structure under white noise excitation were obtained.The results showed that compared with the classic TMD,TID could obtain a better damping effect in the adjacent buildings.Comparing the TIDs composed of serial or parallel,it was found that the parallel TIDs had more significant advantages in controlling the peak displacement frequency response,while the H2 norm of the displacement frequency response of the damping system under the coupling of serial TID was smaller.Taking the adjacent building composed of two ten-story frame structures as an example,the displacement and energy collection time history analysis of the adjacent building coupled with the optimum design parameter TIDs were carried out.It was found that TID had a better damping effect in the full-time range compared with the classic TMD.This paper also studied the potential power of TID in adjacent buildings,which can be converted into available power resources during earthquakes.

The Barrier of the Child and Parent Expected Models for Entering the School System-A Secondary Publication

The recognition of the positive value of student diversity and their right to full participation are key aspects of inclusion as a means of managing heterogeneity of the school population from an equality perspective.As the school cannot welcome the diversity of children without including their families,the same logic needs to apply to the relationship between the school and parents,particularly in the current environment where the school-family partnership appears as a privileged institutional leverage in the fight against inequalities at school.Based on an ethnographical study exploring how the relationship between the school and the families builds up in a Swiss school located in a context of strong cultural diversity,this paper interrogates how the school norm can be the main limitation to the inclusion of students and parents who are unfamiliar with the school.Derived from field observations and interviews,our results show how the teachers tend to approach their relationship with new students and their parents from the standpoint of narrowly defined expected models,leading them to engage in a vain attempt to conform the students and parents when they deviate from these models.The possibility of entering the school system for students and parents unfamiliar with school is hindered by the exclusive and excluding normativity on which the models of the child and the parent expected by the teachers are grounded.Based on these observations,we discuss how an inclusive approach seems to us to require in the first place a necessary process of decentering from the school and teachers,as a condition for recognition of the actual child and parent.

Hierarchical Media Ethics in the Digital Age: An Analysis of the “Primary School Student Lost Homework in Paris” Incident

In the digital age,traditional media ethics norms lack sufficient explanatory power and binding force in practice.This paper uses the“Primary School Student Lost Homework in Paris”incident as a case study to explore the ethical controversies surrounding the dissemination of this event.By adopting a hierarchical media ethics perspective,the paper dynamically examines the ethical conduct of various communicators,elucidates the ethical responsibilities of each party involved,and reveals the complexity of communication ethics in the digital age.

Norms in the Translation of Chinese Film Titles

A film title is an essential part of a film.Compared with the translation of book titles and news headings,film title translation has been received far less attention,especially the rendering of Chinese film titles into English versions.Therefore,the thesis aims to study Chinese film title translation in the framework of norm theory and investigate the strategies adopted by translators.

The Minimum Norm of Solutions of the Boolean Matrix-Equation A^k=J

设Ａ是一个布尔矩阵，γ（Ａ）是布尔矩阵方程Ａｋ＝Ｊ成立的最小整数ｋ，σ（Ａ）是Ａ中元素“１”的数目．本文考察了参数Ｍ′（ｋ，ｎ）＝ｍｉｎ｛σ（Ａ）｜Ａｋ＝Ｊ，ｔｒａｃｅ（Ａ）＝０｝，并得到Ｍ′（２，ｎ）和Ｍ′（ｋ，ｎ）ｆｏｒｋ≥２ｎ－６．另外，该文还完全确定了满足ｔｒａｃｅ（Ａ）＝０。

AN INTEGRAL ESTIMATE AND THE EQUIVALENT NORMS ON F(p, q, s, k) SPACES IN THE UNIT BALL

In this article, the authors give a typical integral＇s bidirectional estimates for allcases. At the same time, several equivalent characterizations on the F（p, q, s, k） space in theunit ball of Cn are given.

A Note on the Convergence of Orlicz-Bochner Spaces with the Luxemburg Norm

In this paper, the convergence of the Orlicz-Bochner function spaces with the Luxemburg norm was proved.

WEIGHTED NORM INEQUALITIES FOR THE COMMUTATORS OF MULTILINEAR SINGULAR INTEGRAL OPERATORS

In this paper, the authors consider the weighted estimates for the commutators of multilinear Calderón-Zygmund operators.By introducing an operator which shifts the commutation, and establishing the weighted estimates for this new operator, the authors prove that, if p_1 ∈ （1,∞）, p_2,…,p_m ∈（1,∞], p ∈ （0,∞） with 1/p =Σ1≤k≤ m 1/pk, then for any weight w, the commutators of m-linear Galderón-Zygmund operator are bounded from L P1（R n,M_l（logL） σw）× p2（Rn,M~w）×...×Lpm（Rn,Mw） to Lp（Rn,w）with σ to be a constant depending only on p_1 and the order of commutator

ON THE BOUNDEDNESS AND THE NORM OF A CLASS OF INTEGRAL OPERATORS

The boundedness and the norm of a class of integral operators Ta,b,c on Lλ^P spaces are studied in this paper. The author not only gives the sufficient and necessary condition for the boundedness of Ta,b,c on Lλ^P,but also obtains its accurate norm on Lλ^P for some range under the condition of c = n ＋ a ＋ b.

NEGATIVE NORM LEAST-SQUARES METHODS FOR THE INCOMPRESSIBLE MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC EQUATIONS

The purpose of this article is to develop and analyze least-squares approximations for the incompressible magnetohydrodynamic equations. The major advantage of the least-squares finite element method is that it is not subjected to the so-called Ladyzhenskaya-Babuska-Brezzi （LBB） condition. The authors employ least-squares functionals which involve a discrete inner product which is related to the inner product in H^-1（Ω）.

PROBABILISTIC NORM OF OPERATORS AND RESONANCE THEOREMS

In this paper, a simplified definition of boundedness of the sets in probabilistic normed linear space was introduced. By means of the probabilistic norm of linear operators, the linear operator theory on probabilistic normed linear space was further studied. On probabilistic normed linear operator space, some resonance theorems dealing with probabilistic bounded sets, probabilistic semi_bounded sets, and probabilistic non_unbounded sets are obtained.

The Trail Making Test in Morocco: Normative Data Stratified by Age and Level of Education

The purpose of this study is to design a Moroccan Trail Making Test B;explore the effects of age, education and gender on the performance of the Trail Making Test (TMT);and provide normative information in Moroccan subjects. Our normalization study was conducted on 348 subjects (156 female and 192 male). The subjects were classified into four groups based on age (18 - 39 years, 40 - 59 years, 60 - 69 years and ≥70 years), and three groups based on educational level (3 - 6 years, 7 - 10 years and ≥11 years). The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics through SPSS. The results displayed that increasing age and decreasing levels of education significantly result in a decreased performance on the Trail A, Moroccan Trail B and English Trail B. Only 229 bilingual subjects among the 348 initial subjects completed both versions of Trail B. There was no significant difference on performance between Moroccan Trail B and English Trail B for these subjects.

MONOTONICITY IN ORLICZ-LORENTZ SEQUENCE SPACES EQUIPPED WITH THE ORLICZ NORM

In Orlicz-Lorentz sequence space Aψ,w with the Orlicz norm, uniform monotonic- ity, points of upper local uniform monotonicity and lower local uniform monotonicity are characterized. Moreover, the monotonicity coefficient in Aψ,w are discussed.

NORRRM: A Free Software to Calculate the CIPW Norm

This work gives an introduction to the R package NORRRM whose main purpose is to calculate the CIPW Norm. Although there are many softwares and spreadsheets available to estimate the standard mineral assemblages in igneous rocks, this package has the following advantages: a) it has the ability to be run on any operating computer systems (BSD, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X®, Windows®);b) an input argument allows choose different procedures to set the Fe-oxidation ratio;c) the options to use whole-rock major as well as minor oxides and trace elements in the computation;d) the output data yields highly consistent results achieving absolute match between the sum of the input weights of oxides recalculated on an anhydrous basis and the sum of the weights of estimated normative minerals and;e) the functions are written in R language and released under terms that guarantee users the freedom to study, adapt, modify, and distribute the software.

On the Norms of r-Toeplitz Matrices Involving Fibonacci and Lucas Numbers

Let us define to be a r-Toeplitz matrix. The entries in the first row of are or;where Fn and Ln denote the usual Fibonacci and Lucas numbers, respectively. We obtained some bounds for the spectral norm of these matrices.

Negative Norms in Quantized Strings as Dark Energy Density of the Cosmos

The present short paper is concerned with accurate explanation as well as quantification of the so called missing dark energy of the cosmos. It was always one of the main objectives of any successful general theory of high energy particle physics and quantum cosmology to keep non-physical negative norms, the so called ghosts completely out of that theory. The present work takes the completely contrary view by admitting these supposedly spurious states as part of the physical Hilbert space. It is further shown that rethinking the ghost free condition with the two critical spacetime dimensions D1 = 26 and D2 = 25 together with the corresponding intercept a1 = 1 and a2 ≤ 1 respectively and in addition imposing, as in Gross et al. heterotic superstrings, an overall 496 dimensional exceptional Lie symmetry group, then one will discover that there are two distinct types of energy. The first is positive norm ordinary energy connected to the zero set quantum particles which is very close to the measured ordinary energy density of the cosmos, namely E(O) = mc2/22. The second is negative norm (i.e. ghost) energy connected to the empty set quantum wave and is equal to the conjectured dark energy density of the cosmos E(D) = mc2 (21/22) presumed to be behind the observed accelerated cosmic expansion. That way we were able to not only explain the physics of dark energy without adding any new concepts or novel additional ingredients but also we were able to compute the dark energy density accurately and in full agreement with measurements and observations.

The Review of Descriptive Norms in Translation Studies

The studies on descriptive norms in translation studies are of great significance because they spread the domain of norms and begin to consider the impact of the outside community so that they lead the study to a new field.Descriptive norms are discussed and studied systemically mainly by three scholars:Toury,Hermans,and Chesterman.The purpose of this article is to review this concept and try to point out some merits and demerits of their theory.

DERIVATIVES OF HARMONIC MIXED NORM AND BLOCH-TYPE SPACES IN THE UNIT BALL OF R^n

Let H（B） be the set of all harmonic functions f on the unit ball B of Rn. For 0 p, q ≤ ∞ and a normal weight φ, the mixed norm space Hp,q, φ（B） consists of all functions f in H（B） for which the mixed norm p,q, φ ∞. In this article, we obtain some characterizations in terms of radial, tangential, and partial derivative norms in Hp,q, φ（B）. The parallel results for the Bloch-type space are also obtained. As an application, the analogous problems for polyharmonic functions are discussed.