Yan Wang

The overseas reception of classical literature through online platforms presents a critical lens for understanding cross-cultural dynamics in the digital age. This study investigates the overseas reception of English translations of Journey to the West by analyzing a corpus of 1,795 reviews from Amazon and Goodreads to examine temporal dynamics, cross-platform sentiment patterns, and topic modeling. The analysis covers four celebrated translators: Arthur Waley, Anthony C. Yu, Julia Lovell, and W.J.F. Jenner. Methodologically, we developed a hybrid sentiment lexicon by integrating a domain sentiment lexicon with AFINN, NRC, and VADER through weighted fusion, addressing the limited adaptability of general sentiment lexicons in translated literature analysis. LDA modeling was further applied to enable data-driven theme extraction. Key findings reveal a consistent year-on-year increase in review counts across all translations. Notably, despite an overall positive sentiment, significant cross-platform divergences emerge, reflecting the distinct evaluative mechanisms of digital platforms. Thematic analysis identifies three central reader concerns: translation quality, plot acceptance, and character portrayal, with plot acceptance exhibiting markedly higher negativity. Furthermore, translator-level analysis reveals performance variations across these themes. This study demonstrates how digital platforms reconfigure the valuation of literary translation, and pioneers a methodological framework for capturing the dynamic interplay between reader perception, media infrastructure, and textual mobility, offering new pathways for digital humanities research in translation studies.

Author summary Copper is vital for healthy reproduction, but excessive copper levels can poison cells, especially the critical granulosa cell in the ovary that support developing oocytes. Until now, the exact process of how this copper-induced stress causes cell death and impairs fertility has remained a mystery. We discovered that excess copper paralyzes the energy-producing centers of these granulosa cells, causing a massive energy failure. In response to this stress, we show that the cells increase production of tiny RNA fragments. These fragments directly shut down a crucial gene required for energy metabolism, forcing the granulosa cells cuproptosis. Crucially, we found that the granulosa cell exosomes package these RNA fragments and send them directly into oocytes. This external delivery then wreaks havoc on the oocytes’s own energy centers, severely blocking its ability to mature and develop properly. By uncovering this unique communication pathway where damage signals are transmitted between cells, our findings offer new insights into how environmental heavy metal pollution can harm fertility and suggest new directions for protecting reproductive health.

Dr. Yan Wang Background: Elderly individuals commonly demonstrate weakened gastrointestinal mucosal barrier protection, impaired esophageal

This study elucidates the high-temperature dynamic response mechanisms of the functionalized interface in APTES-GO/PEEK composites at the atomic level, revealing the intrinsic “temperature–structure–...

College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, China

Submicron grain size Al2O3 has been considered to be an important transparent ceramic for windows, domes and nozzles for semiconductor etching machines. This study emphasized on density, pore size di...

This Reprint comprises one editorial and twelve contributions that focus on the design, fabrication, structural and functional regulation, and applications of various polymeric membranes, aiming to enhance their utilization in environmental science. The collected studies demonstrate that the rational design of polymer composition, microstructure, and surface functionality plays a pivotal role in improving membrane performance. Furthermore, the integration of emerging materials, scalable fabrication techniques, and multifunctional modification strategies is expected to significantly broaden the applicability of polymeric membranes in areas such as water treatment, energy conversion, gas separation, environmental remediation, and biomedical applications.

Abstract: In this paper, we prove that there exists an absolute constant g such that, for every integer k ≥ , every graph G with δ

Bird diversity is reflected in the abundance and variety of extraordinary plumages. Some of these include elongate, ornamental tail feathers that are typically attributed to either intraspecific communication in monomorphic species or sexual selection in sexually-dimorphic ones. Enantiornithines (Aves: Ornithothoraces) were the most diverse group of birds during the Cretaceous. Importantly, some enantiornithine fossils preserve soft tissues, most often in the form of feathers surrounding the body. Unlike any living bird, many enantiornithine specimens lack tail feathers (rectrices) all together, with the tail region consisting entirely of contour feathers. However, when present, enantiornithine rectrices typically consist of a pair of elongate, ornamental feathers with unusually wide rachises, referred to as rachis-dominated feathers. Here we describe Plumadraco bankoorum gen. et sp. nov., a new bohaiornithid enantiornithine with a pair of exceptionally long rectrices. These tail feathers measure twice the individual’s body length, ending in proportionally small pennaceous rackets, thus adding to the growing diversity of these unusual feathers. The fine preservation of these tail feathers, in comparison to other enantiornithine rectrices, reveals previously unrecognized structural variation that hints at their potential function in courtship displays. Although ornamental feathers in enantiornithines are widely considered sexually dimorphic, determining the selection pressures that shaped them is difficult due primarily to limited soft tissue data. Enantiornithine rectrices are likely the result of an interplay between both sexual and naturally selective pressures, similar to the processes which produce analogous structures in birds today.