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- PublicationOccupational Stress And Its Impact On Sleep Quality And Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders (Wrmsds) Among Industrial Designers In Shenzhen, China(2025-08)Mao, YongchunAs a rapidly growing sector in China's industrial field, industrial design plays a key role in enhancing innovation and global market competitiveness. However, the nature of design work—high-intensity job demands, long working hours, and high cognitive load—has raised growing concerns about the occupational health and well-being of industrial designers. This study explores the occupational stress of industrial designers in Shenzhen, China, and its impact on sleep quality and work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSDs). This study investigated the occupational stress of 411 industrial designers and its impact on sleep quality and work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSDs).
- PublicationThe Effect Of Ai-Blended Learning On Efl College Students’ Motivation And English Academic Achievement In Hunan, China(2025-09)Liu, JingdanThe persistence of teacher-centered instruction in Chinese universities has been shown to diminish students’ goal orientation, self-efficacy, and perceived instructional support in English learning, which constrains their motivation and hinders language performance. In English Language Teaching (ELT), effective instructional approaches are essential to fostering meaningful learning. While conventional and blended instructional approaches remain common, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into blended learning (i.e., AI-blended) is gaining popularity. This study investigates the impact of conventional, blended, and AI-blended instructional approaches on students’ motivational constructs (i.e., goal orientation, self-efficacy, and perceived instructional support), and their English academic achievement. It also explores how these motivational factors influence English academic achievement and compares the strengths and weaknesses of blended and AI-blended instructional approaches.
- PublicationEnhancing Oral English Through An Online Interactive Platform: A Case Study Of A Chinese Vocational College(2025-08)Huang, RongrongThis study proposes an online interactive platform combining an eclectic approach to enhance oral communicative competence. The main objective of this qualitative case study is to explore how the eight students and a teacher used the online interactive platform to enhance the oral communicative competence of Chinese EFL students at a Chinese vocational college in Chengdu, China. This study also investigated the patterns of interaction that occurred in the online interactive platform, the students’ and teacher’s experiences and reflections on using the online interactive platform.
- PublicationMeasuring Global Airline Efficiency By Incorporating Innovation Capital, Co₂ Emissions, And Capacity Utilization Using A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach(2025-06)Rashid, Azwan AbdulThis thesis examines the efficiency, innovation capital, and sustainability of the global airline industry through three interrelated studies utilizing advanced data envelopment analysis (dea) frameworks. The first study introduces an effectiveness-based hierarchical dea (h-dea) method to construct an innovation capital index (inci) using a sample of 54 global airlines in 2017. Findings reveal that while airlines generally disclose moderate levels of innovation capital information (mean content analysis score of 21.778), the inci indicates a significant potential for improvement, with airlines, on average, having a 48% improvement opportunity (mean h-dea score of 0.520). Internal capital was identified as the primary factor contributing to underperformance, particularly in regions with low population growth rates such as oceania, while airlines in asia demonstrated better innovation capital performance. The flexible weighting structure of the proposed h-dea method enables airlines to target critical innovation capital categories, offering strategic insights for improvement.
- PublicationBoosting English Language Reading And Speaking Skills And Motivation Through Gamification: A Mixed-Method Study Of B40 Students In Buddhist Tzu-Chi Education Centre, Penang(2025-09)Soundrarajan, DeepaThis research studies the impact of gamification in boosting English language reading and speaking skills among B40 students simultaneously enhancing their motivation in learning the English language. On the whole, gamification has emerged as a promising tool to enhance motivation and foster language acquisition. This study employes a mixed-methods research design where data is collected both quantitatively and qualitatively through pre- and post-test, surveys and interviews.