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AbstractFamily domain is crucial for language maintenance. It is also a critical avenue for children's language acquisition. In Spolsky's language management theory, family is one of the key domains for language management. In this study, we focus on family language management in Hakka families in Balik Pulau, Penang. Structured-interviews were conducted in November 2012. In total, 14 Hakka families were interviewed. In each family, one parent and one child were interviewed. This article examines family language policy from three perspectives: ideology, practice, and management. The results show that Hakkas in Penang give great importance to Mandarin and almost abandon Hakka in the family domain. However, they still have strong Hakka identity and some parents have restarted to speak Hakka with their children consciously. Multilingual capacity is a common expectation from parents. With multilingual input in the family domain, most of the children become passive bilinguals or multilinguals. The regional prestige dialect Hokkien is part of the repertoire of these Hakka families. However, there are no intentional efforts from the parents to teach Hokkien to their children. Conscious language management is only found for Mandarin and sometimes for English. This results from the parents' language ideology that Mandarin is the most important language for Chinese Malaysians and English is an international language for their children's future career. Findings from the current study contribute to the understanding of language maintenance and language shift in general.

This study aims to broaden the current knowledge on the effect of entrepreneurial commitment on entrepreneurial performance. Specifically, this study investigates how entrepreneurial commitment affects entrepreneurial performance through the mediation effect of family-work conflict, and the moderation effect of organization-family support. Using survey data collected from 246 China's entrepreneurs, this study finds that entrepreneurial commitment affects entrepreneurial performance through family-work conflict/enhancement. In addition, organization-family support has a negatively moderating effect on the relationship of family-work conflict and entrepreneurial performance, and a positively moderating effect on the relationship of family-work enhancement and entrepreneurial performance. This study contributes theoretically to the literature on the relationship of entrepreneurial commitment and entrepreneurial performance through family-work conflict/enhancement, which can help entrepreneurs balance the entrepreneur and family identities.

AbstractThis article introduces multilingualism in Malaysia and examines how the language management of the multilingual society there is challenged by interactions among global, regional, national, and local language orders. These orders and their interactions give rise to various language ideologies, which are struggling to maintain a hierarchy of their respective choice. From this perspective, this introductory article reviews the seven contributions in this issue and analyzes the impact of conflicting language ideologies on language policies, use, maintenance and development in families and communities in Malaysia. The analysis suggests that in Malaysia global and regional language orders have significantly influenced the national and local language orders while the national order has a relatively weak impact on the local language order. Malaysia's diverse and sometimes conflicting language ideologies reflect the existing language orders and support them. The combination of the existing language orders and ideologies seems to be a perfect fit for unity in diversity regarding nation-building, but it is not necessarily a fit for diversity in unity in Malaysia. The lesson from the Malaysian experience is that language management and nation-building have to take full consideration of the interaction among global, regional, and national language orders within the communities involved.

Chapter 1: The Rule of Law in China: the Situation in 2017 and the Prospect in 2018 -- Chapter 2: Development of Court Informatization in China: the Situation in 2017 and the Prospect in 2018 -- Chapter 3: Report on the Index of Legislative Transparency in China (2018) -- Chapter 4: Report on the Index of Government Transparency in China (2017) -- Chapter 5: Report on the Index of Judicial Transparency in China (2017) -- Chapter 6: Third-party Assessment Report on Court Informatization in China (2017) -- Chapter 7: Report on the Index of Procuratorial Transparency in China (2017) -- Chapter 8: Report on the Index of Transparency of Police Affairs in China (2017) -- Chapter 9: Report on the Index of Maritime Judicial Transparency in China (2017) -- Chapter 10: The Protection of the Rights of the Child in China: Current Situation and the Third-party Assessment Index System.

Objective This article analyzes the changes in downloads and activity of users of select popular mental health mobile applications (mHealth apps) during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Background The outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis has shown a negative impact on public mental health. Mobile health has the potential to help address the psychological needs of existing and new patients during the pandemic and beyond. Method Downloads data of 16 widely used apps were analyzed. The quality of apps was reviewed using the Mobile Application Rating Scale (MARS) framework. Correlation analysis was conducted to investigate the relationship between app quality and app popularity. Results Among the 16 apps, 10 were meditational in nature, 13 showed increased downloads, with 11 apps showing above 10% increase in the downloads after the pandemic started. The popular apps were satisfactory in terms of functionality and esthetics but lacked clinical grounding and evidence base. There exists a gap between app quality and app popularity. Conclusion This study provided evidence for increased downloads of mental mHealth apps (primarily meditation apps) during the COVID-19 pandemic but revealed several gaps and opportunities to address deficiencies in evidence-based design, usability and effective assessment, and integration into current workflows. Application The COVID-19 pandemic is a potential turning point for mHealth applications for mental health care. Whereas the evidence suggests a need for alternative delivery of care, human factors and ergonomics methods should be utilized to ensure these tools are user-centered, easy to use, evidence-based, well-integrated with professional care, and used sustainably.

This paper examines characteristics of the linguistic landscape (ll) in Chinatowns in Belgium and the Netherlands. Fieldwork was conducted in four cities in the Netherlands (Amsterdam, Utrecht, The Hague, and Rotterdam) and two in Belgium (Brussels and Antwerp). All these cities are situated in the Dutch language area, but Brussels is officially bilingual French-Dutch. In the study, the traditional approach in linguistic landscape studies was combined with an ethnographic approach, in which shopkeepers were interviewed about language and script choice in their signs. The quantitative analysis shows that Chinese shows up in more than three quarters of all signs and that in almost 60 per cent of the signs Chinese is the dominant language. Dutch (the language of the region) and English (the international language) show up in almost half the signs. French shows up almost exclusively in Brussels, where Dutch is less used in signs. The analysis also shows interesting differences in script types between the cities. The presence of different types of Chinese character and pinyin systems indexes the Chineseness of the community, the origin of the local Chinese population, the position of the different establishments in the host countries, and the tendency of these Chinese immigrants to localize. We will show how these small overseas-Chinese communities construct and express their new identity by means of multilingualism and multiscriptualism.

The concept of approaching psychological capital (PsyCap) as an influencer on behaviors and results at both an individual and an organizational level is gaining support from a growing body of research. However, to date, the construct and impact of the PsyCap on adolescents' behavioral outcomes have not been tested. If tested, an understanding of the psychological construct and its impact could be helpful for teachers and administrators in adjusting institutional methodology in accordance with the mental health status of the students. We explore the impact of PsyCap and the moderating role of perceived social support. We also adopt an innovative perspective to detect how to reduce problem behaviors. A construct of PsyCap of adolescents and the relationships among PsyCap, perceived social support, and behavioral problems is proposed. The findings provide a strong evidence-based recommendation for the use of PsyCap in a public school education management.

AbstractAfter a general introduction to the aboriginals of Peninsular Malaysia, the so-called Orang Asli, this article introduces the ethnic group upon which the research focused: the Mah Meri, a Senoi group living in the state of Selangor, not far from Kuala Lumpur. The research is based on a survey on language use and attitudes carried out in four different Mah Meri villages on Carey Island. The results are then analysed in general terms and compared with those provided by similar research carried out among the Bidayuh, a Dayak ethnic group in Borneo, showing a rather high degree of vitality for the Mah Meri language, even though lower than in the case of the Bidayuh. In contrast, when the answers given by the younger speakers of the language are compared with those provided by older speakers, a pattern of slow but steady ongoing language shift clearly emerges. The article closes with some general considerations on the state of linguistic and cultural endangerment Orang Asli are facing, including further comparisons between the results of this research and those of another study conducted in a different Mah Meri village and some suggestions on possible revitalization strategies. The evidence seems to show a relatively high degree of endangerment for the languages spoken by the Orang Asli in general, and for the Mah Meri in particular.

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This paper reports on the organization of Malaysia's linguistic landscape and the implications of this situation
for contacts between providers of medical service and patients. The main purpose of this study is to clarify the position of
Chinese private clinics in Malaysian society and to better understand language use between Chinese medical personnel and Chinese
patients. The fieldwork focused on clinics in the Klang Valley, Malaysia and was carried out between December 2016 and March 2017.
The results reveal the complex linguistic situation in the medical domain reflecting the general hierarchical social structure in
Malaysia. Chinese patients have different wishes as regards their preferred language environment in these clinics, but generally
prefer to use Mandarin Chinese for interaction with doctors. Medical staff also tend to prefer the use of Mandarin Chinese but
also understand the need for dialect based interactions to create a feeling of harmony and belonging. The data are used to clarify
existing problems in doctor-patient interaction and contribute to the debate of communication discordance in the healthcare
domain.

We examined how construal level and job insecurity affect employees' responses to perceived external employability (PEE). Participants were 494 employees from enterprises in China. Multigroup analysis results showed that construal level moderated the effect of PEE on quantitative job
insecurity and work engagement. Specifically, participants with concrete (low-level) construals experienced less quantitative job insecurity and displayed higher work engagement when they had higher PEE. In contrast, participants with abstract (high-level) construals reported the same amount
of quantitative job insecurity and work engagement regardless of their PEE level. In addition, qualitative job insecurity mediated the relationship between PEE and work engagement. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

People experience regulatory fit when their strategy of how to achieve a goal accords with their regulatory orientation. It has been widely documented that regulatory fit could create value enhancement. We conducted 2 studies and our results showed that this was not the case when people
were functioning at a high construal level (HCL) rather than a low construal level (LCL). Specifically, we found that for the HCL group of participants the effects of regulatory fit on both consumption intention (Study 1) and environmental intention (Study 2) were mitigated. Depending on construal
level, the effect of fit versus nonfit on intention was mediated by processing fluency (Study 2). These results provided support for the proposal that an HCL helps people to distinguish objective information from subjective feelings, whereas an LCL is not implicated in making such a distinction.