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Announcing this year’s Exploration Research Symposium

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Announcing this year’s Exploration Research Symposium.

The purpose of this Exploration Research Symposium is to encourage student research, so we hope you will participate in this year’s competition.

You are free to choose your own research topic, and there is no limit on the format and length of the submission. We accept papers or abstracts.

Please include your name and email address and submit your entries to admin@explorationjournal.org.

The deadline is May 1, and we will announce the finalists by June 1.

Pop Tech! – Seeing is believing!

English Reports, 世界, 科技

Technology has advanced much through the ages and adapted loads to the current trends. With new inventions constantly being produced to satisfy the fickle tastes of the public, something as fundamental as vision has thus been revolutionised as well. Here are some examples of how innovation has changed the way we see things:

Instagram sunglasses:

With the rise of filter usage for photo sharing on social media, this new invention known as the Instagram sunglasses are basically a pair of shades that are marketed on providing real-life filters, like the Valencia effect on Instagram. Though it has been criticised for being just a pair of boring brown tinted glasses, its popularity can easily be seen from the way it was about to reach over 1,000% of its pre-planned crowd source funding!

Night vision contact lenses:

How these contact lenses work is via Graphene – a type of carbon that reacts to photons, that is placed within the lens. As such, dark images brighten up instantly, especially in low light areas. This makes the night vision contact lenses a perfect item to use by party-goers having a late night out. Why? You can easily gauge the attractiveness of others in the clubs under the low light too! The result? No more ugly hook ups!

Virtual Omni:

From the virtual shot function of the Galaxy S6, to Samsung 3D glasses, virtual reality systems are coming into play and in trend these days. The Virtual Omni is a system that has remodelled the idea of screens everywhere. With the aid of Oculus Rift and Sixense STEM, a system that tracks body movement, people can now be fully submerged into a separate world. Imagine being able to follow the wanderlust trend of touring the world in full panoramic view – all without the need to suffer agonizing crowds or long distance travel. The system has also successfully impinged upon the gaming industry and this gives a whole new meaning to first person shooter games. If you recall those moments where you merely relied on your fingers to press the keys so your characters could duck in when they encounter danger, well those reflexes would now have to include your whole body too!

 

Student: Hidir Koh

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Urbanization in China

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China has always boasted that the basic labor forces are the most respected and greatest people in the society, which was actually favored and supported from around the 1960s to the 1980s. Yet, as the society becomes globalized and modernized, the so called greatest labor forces are at the risk of being put aside by the society and paid much less attention than other work forces. They usually make the most efforts physically to build the society but enjoy relatively basic or even poor levels of social welfare and financial income as a whole.

Migrate workers, for instance, are among the most representative in this growing trend. They spend more than a third of their life making contributions to the community by experiencing working in different fields and industries, ending up being not eligible to reside legally in these crowded metropolis. Getting an official identity in these big cities has become so important while so difficult that they have been categorized by the local people as customary simple visitors to the cities that are vaguely focused on. Without legal identity to live in the big cities, even if they have helped urbanize the cities to the largest extent, they have to face immense troubles in their daily life, posing significant threats to their own quality of life and the future of their offspring.

Having reached the retirement age, these migrate workers can only rely on their pension to survive if they didn’t manage to accumulate enough wealth in the earlier stages of their life. For the luckiest groups of people, they choose to live in the suburbs of the cities or even in cities around to live peacefully and relatively without financial constraints and concerns for the rest of their life. Nevertheless, things do not turn out this way for the majority of these disadvantaged groups of people. To be specific, they face the problem of not enjoying legal medical coverage over their physical problems as they age since they are not legal residents in the cities. Their future generations don’t have access to tertiary education as those of local people even if they have worked hard enough to build the cities for their life.

In conclusion, while it has to be admitted that admissions and tickets available for people to be legal residents to live in big cities are limited and cannot be granted to each individual, local authorities should try to find a balance to help these people get the most out of their contributions, ensuring a sustainable and fair social system.

Ziluo Cheng

Case International Relations Through International Trade

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International trade allows countries to expand their markets and access goods and services that otherwise may not have been available domestically. As a result of international trade, the market is more competitive. This ultimately results in more competitive pricing and brings a cheaper product home to the consumer. International trade is the exchange of goods and services between countries. Trading globally gives consumers and countries the opportunity to be exposed to goods and services not available in their own countries, or more expensive domestically. This not only avoids the inflated prices of some companies, but also makes companies in the world competitive, thereby promoting the development of the world. Although many people think that this is unfavorable for some small countries, the survival law of this world itself It is not easy, competition is the fastest way to promote the development of social science and technology. The existence of some patents also better protects the safety of major enterprise products. After all, international trade is about transparency and openness, so that not only some state officials cannot obtain illegal benefits from it, but also ensures the survival of some small and medium-sized enterprises with strong innovation. And some technologies are also used as diplomatic means by major countries, and in order to maintain their advantages in this field, there will always be a sense of crisis, which is also a major condition for social progress. Each country has its own advantages and maintains the balance of all countries in the world.

JUNFU (DAMON) HUANG

Vietnam may decriminalize drug use

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Vietnam may decriminalize drug use

The National Assembly of Vietnam is taking everything into account to cease by legislation to treat drug use as illegal, lowering the private use of illegal drugs from a lawbreaker to an executive offense. The chairwoman of the assembly’s Committee on Social Affairs, Thi Mai mentioned her council had suggested discarding Article 199 of the Criminal Code which promotes two-year-imprisonment of for those who found guilty of illegal drugs. The use of illegal drugs would still be a serious illegal act, subject to death penalty.

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Vietnam conveys illegal drug dependency through obligatory drug detoxification institutions, where drug addicts are confined for about two years and five years when it comes to few institutions. The officers in local government keep their list of those drug addicts in their regions and deliver cases to the detoxification institutions at their preference.

The government promotes support groups in the community for previous drug dependents; however, it is only available in Hanoi.

Heroin drugs are the very well-known recreational drug in Vietnam which causes the country to spread HIV because of the shared syringes.

When it comes to prohibiting the illegal drugs in the market, Vietnam has firm laws against it. During the year 2007, eighty five people were convicted a death penalty because of illegal drugs and additional nine illegal drug addicts for the following year.

Mai who is the officer of National Assembly said that the program to failed to completely remove illegal drug operations.

T.P. Nguyen

Health Implications of Dirty Drinking Water

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The human body contains 70% water, which is present within every single cell in the body. Water is an essential building block for all organisms. However, not everybody is fortunate enough to have access to clean water. Children in developing countries die due to either lack of access to water or drinking contaminated water. According to UNICEF, 760,000 children died in 2011 along from consuming contaminated water. And according to the World Health Organization and UNICEF, 768 million people live on unimproved water, a type of water containing high levels of pathogens and thus unsafe for drinking.

Risk factors in normal childhood include poor water, sanitation, and hygiene. A major health implication of drinking dirty water is contracting diarrheal diseases such as cholera and environmental enteropathy. Both chronic diarrhea and enteropathy cause stunted growth, both physical and mental, due to poor nutrition absorption, and therefore they are detrimental to young children. Environmental enteropathy leads to chronic anemia and growth failure in children. Therefore, children not just experience stunted growth and diarrhea but also face iron deficiency. Further, children drinking contaminated water are exposed to roundworm, hookworm, lymphatic filariasis, Hepatitis A, B, E and F, jaundice, and typhoid, some of which are lethal to children.

Some key solutions to this urgent problem include piped water, privatized water supply, and in-house water treatment, but these are difficult to achieve in developing countries, the countries that need such solutions the most. In this regard, there is an urgent need to come with cheap but effective solutions to keep children away from dirty drinking water.

Y.S. Hong

Interesting Info on Anabolic Steroid Legality in Japan

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Interesting Info on Anabolic Steroid Legality in Japan
Japan carries a strict attitude when it comes to eliminating almost every substance on the US scheduled list of drugs. But not with anabolic steroids.
In Japan, private ownership and use of anabolic steroids is permitted by law. But the use of anabolic steroids is illegal in the regulations of many sports during Olympics. There was never been a case of Japanese athlete being caught in Olympics using prohibited drugs. Therefore, it is believed that the rate of steroid use in Japan is lower compared to other countries.
Since the ownership of steroids is authorized by law, there are users of steroids who purchase online. Data about comprehensive medicinal figures and steroid series are also available on the internet but the accuracy of these contents cannot certainly provide a formal assurance.
You can bring into Japan the AAS available for a two-month-supply. The catch is that you are not allowed to bring medical syringes but if you can find them in local areas, you are not restrained to stick away.
J. Tanaka

Impact of Twitter

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Take a sip of tea, sit relaxed on chair and think for a while how far Twitter has come since its release. It is difficult to conclude your impressions in a single day without referencing internet, TV or radio stations.

If you wanted to find some old friends through internet then search on “FACEBOOK”

If you want to search any information on any of the keywords then “GOOGLE” it

If you wanted to share your random thoughts with the world or you wanted to deliver some interesting news to the world then “TWEET” it.

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This social networking site has more than one million active users today. You would be shocked to know that almost half of them logging in everyday. Twitter has changed the way how news can be delivered or shared with the people.

We are not saying that Twitter is the only social networking Company across the world but it has certainly reached a level that cannot be attained by everyone.

Increase Self-Confidence through Volunteering

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Nowadays, it has become difficult to volunteer for serving our community due to our busy schedules. This requires our ability of effective time management to take out some time for community service.

Volunteering for community service is not just for doing good for others, but also a wonderful sources of gaining enormous benefit for one’s own self. It adds such traits to our personality which can’t be learnt through books, but can only be attained through practical experience of serving others by volunteering ourselves. The experience not only improves your own behavior and personality, but also positively affects your family and people around.

It boosts your confidence tremendously as you get a comfortable platform to make new friends, meet different people of the community, get opportunity to learn new skills and even get help in the advancement of your career.

The act of volunteering also helps in strengthening one’s mental and physical health while enhancing one’s self-esteem, confidence level and satisfaction from life. It certainly blesses you with a natural feeling of accomplishment while adding a sense of pride and positivity in your personality.

Tim So

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Impacts of Globalization on Asian Developing Economies

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Impacts of Globalization on Asian Developing Economies

Developing countries in Asia come after the influence of Taiwan and South Korea to economic growth. The “developmental state model” has extended over a large area of Southeast Asia and China with some changes made. Even though it is labeled that these Asian countries have the same strong authoritarian system like Taiwan and Korea, it is seldom known that the outward circumstance they experienced in the 1990s was not similar from 1960s.

The most important major change ten years ago was globalization which gave extreme influence on the policies of nation, financial status and the development of economic institution. As a result, the action and process of the growth of state model for the second line NICs (newly industrializing countries are issues to different outcome caused by globalization.

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During the year 1997, when Asia experienced a financial difficulty, it became an opportunity to take another assessment to the model of the state’s development. The financial crisis serves as attest of globalization to the model and the various effect of financial instability on East Asian developing countries emphasize that the globalization might give them different challenges and the cause of different outcomes, given that they all acquire the developmental state model.

As an advance messenger of industrialization, the challenges that Taiwan and Korea encountered in coping with globalization may serve as a lesson learned for other developing countries in Asia.

W.Chao

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