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Articles by Yan Cong
Federal Circuit Refuses To Construe "Configured For" As More Than "Capable Of"
In In re Blue Buffalo Enterprises, Inc., No. 2024-1611 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 14, 2026), the Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB's decision affirming the Examiner's obviousness rejection after rejecting Blue Buffalo's narrow construction of the claim term “configured for”. Assigned to Blue Buffalo Enterprises Inc., the '152 application, filed December 29, 2020, relates to a wet pet food product.
Aposta chinesa em startups da América Latina põe a tecnologia na disputa geopolítica
Bloomberg Opinion — Enquanto os Estados Unidos exibem sua força militar no Caribe com navios de guerra e bombardeiros B-1, a China trava uma batalha mais discreta na América Latina: a corrida para apoiar as startups mais promissoras da região. Para os empreendedores latino-americanos, a chegada de investidores chineses com muito dinheiro disponível em meio a uma grave escassez de financiamento é uma notícia bem-vinda.
Case Report: Prenatal diagnosis of 10 fetuses with 15q11-q13 duplication and pregnancy outcome in a cohort of Chinese women
Prenatal Diagnosis Center, Quzhou Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital, Quzhou, China Ultrasonic Department, Quzhou Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital, Quzhou, China Rehabilitation Department, Yiwu Maternity and Children Hospital (Yiwu Hospital of Children's Hospital Zhejiang University School of Medicine), Yiwu, China The chromosome 15q11-q13 duplication (dup15q) is defined as the presence of three or more copies of 15q11.2-q13.1. The features of the chromosome 15q11-q13 duplication...
Tencent supera previsiones y refuerza su apuesta por la IA y los videojuegos
Bloomberg — Los ingresos de Tencent Holdings Ltd. aumentaron un 15% más de lo previsto, lo que refuerza las expectativas de los inversores de que su creciente cartera de juegos y redes sociales impulsará sus esfuerzos en una carrera global de inteligencia artificial. La empresa más valiosa de China reportó ingresos de 184.500 millones de yuanes (US$25.700 millones) durante el trimestre finalizado en junio, aproximadamente un 3% más que las proyecciones de los analistas.
Machine Learning‐assisted Ultrasensitive SERS Immunoassays Across Wide Concentration Ranges Toward Clinical Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis
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Na batalha do delivery, chinesa Meituan chega ao Brasil com plano de R$ 5,6 bi
Bloomberg Línea — Maior empresa de delivery da China, a Meituan anunciou neste domingo (11) sua entrada oficial no mercado brasileiro. A chegada da Meituan ao Brasil ocorre em um momento de aumento dos investimentos no setor de delivery de alimentos: isso inclui movimentos estratégicos de players como Rappi, 99 e iFood, controlado pela Prosus - holding que também detém cerca de 4% de participação na própria Meituan.
Caída del dólar: exportadores chinos traen sus reservas de efectivo de vuelta a casa
Bloomberg — Los exportadores de China, entre las compañías más expuestas globalmente a la guerra arancelaria, están comenzando a preocuparse por la tenencia de dólares de EE.UU. y procuran repatriar sus ganancias en el extranjero tan pronto como sea posible. En un sondeo realizado este mes por Bloomberg entre dieciocho exportadores chinos, todos ellos manifestaron que ya habían convertido, o cambiarían de inmediato, sus tenencias de billetes verdes al yuan.
Acupuncture as an adjunctive therapy to etoricoxib for patients with a
Back to Journals » Journal of Pain Research » Volume 18 Study Protocol Integrative/Acupuncture Authors Wang YR, Liu CZ, Cong Y, Xi YW, Xu YY, Li B, Zhou Y, Tu JF , Fu YM, Chen W, Wang LQ, Shi GX Received 19 February 2025 Accepted for publication 22 May 2025 Published 9 June 2025 Volume 2025:18 Pages 2889—2900 DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/JPR.S523657 Checked for plagiarism Yes Review by Single anonymous peer review Peer reviewer comments 2 Editor who approved publication: Dr Houman Danesh...
Manner implicatures in large language models - Scientific Reports
Abstract In human speakers’ daily conversations, what we do not say matters. We not only compute the literal semantics but also go beyond and draw inferences from what we could have said but chose not to. How well is this pragmatic reasoning process represented in pre-trained large language models (LLM)? In this study, we attempt to address this question through the lens of manner implicature, a pragmatic inference triggered by a violation of the Grice manner maxim.
AI Language Models: An Opportunity to Enhance Language Learning
1. Introduction Rapid progress in large language models (LLMs) has enabled the deployment of many downstream natural language processing (NLP) applications. How can LLMs enhance education and language learning, particularly second language (L2) writing assessment? Despite LLMs’ broad popularity in several domains outside of computer science [1], to what extent these LLMs can be used to better our understanding of L2 writing development is a relatively unanswered question.
The impact of high proportions of financial investments on the refinancing of A-share listed companies
A-share listed companies should exercise care when identifying their financial investments and keeping their proportions within compliant limits This article aims to explore the impact of high-proportion financial investments on the refinancing of A-share listed companies, and to summarise treatment methods for financial investment under special circumstances.
How China’s hottest social media app turned Düsseldorf into a foodie destination
At 10 a.m. on a Saturday, all the deep-fried youtiao at Wenzhou Dim Sumare sold out. Customers queuing inside the casual eatery, located across the Rhine river from Düsseldorf’s Old Town, groan in disappointment. Some consider meat buns instead. A cover of Taiwanese star Cyndi Wang’s classic song “Love You” plays in the background.
S02 Episode 6: Hot Dry Noodle Takes
In the house this week: Yan, Zoe, Jason, Krish, Tianyu, Lisha, Aaron, Caiwei, Jaime, and Simon. Tianyu: Happy Year of the Tiger! Let’s talk about food. Illustration by Lisha Jiang. Krish: Our two stories this week are about the everyday life of Chinese food, and how malleable, inclusive and wonderfully creative local adaptations of national food cultures can be.
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Visualizing China’s Anti-Corruption Campaign “Catching Tigers and Flies” is ChinaFile’s interactive tool for tracking and, we hope, better understanding the massive campaign against corruption that Xi Jinping launched shortly after he came to power in late 2012.
S01 Episode 5: How Idol Fans are Made / King of Fairy Tales, King of Posts
[In the house this week: Yan, Sridala, Tianyu, Light, Simon, Jaime, Yi-Ling, Caiwei, Xuandi, Krish, Boyuan, and Henry.] Krish: Welcome to Episode 5. This one is our most ambitious yet—three stories swirling around the themes of fandom, legacy, and strong poster’s energy. Tianyu: A reminder that we are now open for pitches! Two parts of this episode—Light’s illustration and Sridala’s story—came out of our open call. As always, email us at hello AT chaoy.ng for questions, ideas, and hot takes.
S01 Episode 2: Advanced Lesbianism / Luo Xiang Detective Club
In the house this week: Ting, Yan, Tianyu, Caiwei, Yi-Ling, Krish, Jaime, Henry, and Simon. Krish: Welcome back to the house that Chaoyang built (we're trapped here, help). This is episode 2 of season 1. Tianyu: Every fourth episode will be for paid subscribers only—and that’s in just a month! Please consider subscribing to support our contributors and keep Chaoyang Trap going. Also, we’re throwing a launch party in Beijing this Saturday, the 27th.
‘A Letter to My Friend under Quarantine in Wuhan’
In this edition of Depth of Field, we highlight Chinese visual storytellers’ coverage of COVID-19 inside China. Some of these storytellers were on the ground documenting the experience of residents and medical workers in Wuhan, the city where the virus first emerged. Other storytellers were not able to travel to the outbreak’s epicenter because of Wuhan’s lockdown, which lasted from January 23 to April 8.
S01 Episode 6: Being Cute in WeChat’s "Moodboard Industrial Complex"
In the house this week: ZhiShu, Maomao, Yan, Krish, Tianyu, Simon, Jaime, Christina, Caiwei, Aaron, Henry, ████, and Yi-Ling. Krish: Yan and I are obsessed with WeChat stickers. All of China is. 40 billion messages are sent on WeChat everyday, and if our conversations are any indication, at least 10 billion of them are stickers. They’re the vanguard of expressive language online. A moodboard of the country. They’re how memes replicate, how slang terms seep into daily use. How the *felt* is *said*.
Hotel Quarantine through a Peephole by Yan Cong
I made this project while under a 14-day mandatory quarantine in a hotel in Beijing, after I had traveled back from overseas. I took a mandatory COVID-19 test during quarantine and was tested negative.
‘Our Daily Media Consumption Is Completely Different’
Agree to Disagree Before the Hong Kong protests, my cousins and I rarely had deep conversations, let alone heated debates over politics. The seven of us—our ages ranging from mid-20s to early-40s—have a WeChat group to arrange family events and exchange basic pleasantries. But what’s happening in Hong Kong has turned our conversations upside down. Hong Kong is a place close to the heart of my Cantonese family.
Dual LSPR of Au/W18O49 heterostructures for Upconversion Enhancement and Application of Molecules Detection
Dual LSPR of Au/W18O49 heterostructures for Upconversion Enhancement and Application of Molecules Detection A nano-heterostructure composed of noble metal Au and semiconductor W18O49 enhances the localized electric field due to a strong coupling of localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR). The Au/W18O49 nano-heterostructures have been further explored to enhance the upconversion luminescence (UCL) of NaYF4:Yb,Er nanoparticles.
Depth of Field: ‘Nowhere to Dock’
A Roundup of China’s Best Visual Journalism In 2019, Depth of Field showcased stories covering a range of topics: Shi Yangkun’s nostalgic exploration of China’s last collective villages, Zhu Lingyu’s careful and artistic portrayal of survivors of sexual violence, and cities seen through the eyes of food delivery men. In this work, we see photographers as well as visual editors’ efforts to find new ways to tell stories visually despite shrinking budgets and tightening censorship.
‘Nowhere to Dock’
Title A Roundup of China’s Best Visual Journalism by Ye Ming, Yan Cong, Beimeng Fu December 31, 2019 In 2019, Depth of Field showcased stories covering a range of topics: Shi Yangkun’s nostaglic exploration of China’s last collective villages, Zhu Lingyu’s careful and artisitic portrayal of survivors of sexual violence, and cities seen through the eyes of food delivery men.
For China’s delivery drivers, it's big risks and bigger pressures to keep the nation fed
} This browser does not support the video element. China's food delivery industry offers a vision of the gig economy taken to a chaotic extreme. Story by Gerry Shih | Photos by Yan Cong Videos by Beimeng Fu & Megumi Lim | Nov. 26, 2019 This browser does not support the video element. China is becoming a food-delivery nation. This browser does not support the video element. Across China, hundreds of millions of smartphone users order piping hot meals to their doorstep every day.
Yuyang Liu
A Brooklyn Gospel Choir Goes to China Jocelyn Ford & Yuyang Liu Pastor Frank Haye was quietly nervous as he paced the lawn around the temporary stage at one of China’s biggest rock festivals.It was the last day of concerts by rock, electronic, and metal bands, and in a few hours, his Brooklyn gospel choir would... Sea Change Yuyang Liu When photographers look for images to capture the effects of China’s nearly three-decade-long economic boom, most often they point their lenses toward the sky.
"Chongli 2022" exhibited at Indian Photo Festival by Yan Cong
1 of 2 © 2019 Yan Cong 2 of 2 © 2019 Yan Cong "Chongli 2022" exhibited at Indian Photo Festival Credits: yan cong Updated: 10/07/19 As part of World Press Photo's 6x6 exhibition at Indian Photo Festival, some photos from my on-going project "Chongli 2022" is exhibited between 19 September - 20 October 2019.
Trafficked into Wedlock
When Buntha left Cambodia to marry a Chinese man, she did so for money, not for love. Thirty-two years old at the time, and never married, she had few opportunities to earn money for her family in her village in Kampong Cham, Cambodia. The China she saw on TV was a wealthy country, so when a marriage broker, an older woman from her village, offered her a Chinese husband in rural Jiangxi, she thought she was signing up for a brighter future.
To fight K-pop’s influence in China, a club teaches young boys to be alpha males
Boys recite a pledge before group activities. Yan Cong Los Angeles Times Beijing, China It is 14 degrees the morning two dozen boys gather at a Beijing park to be transformed into alpha males. A reluctant winter sun casts silver light between treacherously cold shadows. The wind bites, worsening nerves as the boys — the youngest 7 — prepare to strip to their waists for a run. One of the watching mothers is worried. She wants her son to grow into a macho male, but it’s so cold.
What is the state of photojournalism in China? – Witness
Photojournalism has had a late start in China. The profession, which only began to thrive in China in the 1990s, hasn’t enjoyed the long and celebrated status it has in the West. Today, under the pressure of tightening censorship, stagnating income, and technology disruption, photojournalists are exiting the field in large numbers. But a small group of photographers are still dedicated to telling stories about China in a time of sweeping change.
Staying on Point in Rural China
As part of a national campaign to recover farmland, local authorities demolished more than 50 private schools in Zhoukou, a city in China’s Henan province. Amid rapid economic growth, unapproved building on farmland has boomed in Zhoukou over the past decade. For years, local authorities were content to levy fees, taxes and fines for these violations of building rules. Now, as the central government pushes them to reclaim farmland, they are racing to make amends.
Love song for Fuzhou
The city of Fuzhou has a superpower: Everything under its sunny skies transforms, slowly taking on the local quality of xiu xian (休闲, pronounced see-you-see-an). It’s a slippery word to translate. “Leisurely” comes close, but xiu xian is much more than that. In Fuzhou, it’s an aesthetic, a philosophy, a way of being. Buildings can be xiu xian, with their moss-covered walls, rusting façades and banyan tree branches curling into the windows.
Slow Trains, Shrinking Boomtowns, and Men Who Know Ice
In June 2017, an arson case in Hangzhou grabbed the nation’s attention. A nanny, Mo Huanjing, deep in gambling debt, made a plan to set fire to her employer’s home and then extinguish it, hoping the family would reward her financially. Things didn’t go as planned: The fire killed the three children she cared for and their mother. The father, Lin Shengbin, was spared, as he was away on a business trip at the time.
Fake Girlfriends, Chengdu Rappers, and a Chow Chow Making Bank
China consumes more fish than any other country in the world. In 2016, Greenpeace documented the intense overfishing of juvenile and “rough” fish—fish of little or no market value as human food—in Shandong province, one of China’s busiest fishing regions. Up to one third of China’s total annual catch, or 4 million tons, is “rough” fish. Unfit for human consumption, rough fish is used as feed for China’s aquaculture industry, the largest in the world.
Is China Ground Zero for a Future Pandemic?
Yin Shuqiang, a corn farmer in hardscrabble Sichuan province, sits on a rough-hewn wooden bench, surrounded by concrete walls. The only splash of color in his house is a crimson array of paper calligraphy banners around the family altar. It displays a wooden Buddhist deity and a framed black-and-white photograph of his late wife, Long Yanju.
China Has a New Domestic Violence Law. So Why Are Victims Still Often Unsafe?
In rural Hunan province, about two hours from the city of Changsha, a young woman named Zhang Meili married a violent man. According to local police, Zhang had trouble coping with her husband’s strong sexual appetite and he became jealous and controlling. Often, he lashed out at her in a jealous rage, threatening to kill her and himself. He beat her and more than once tried to strangle her.
From the Inside Looking Out
Title A Monthly Roundup of China’s Best Photojournalism by Ye Ming, Yan Cong, David M. Barreda May 1, 2017 Each March, Beijing hosts the “Two Sessions,” massive meetings of the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. Members of the two bodies of the nation’s legislature meet for a week in the Great Hall of the People and in breakout sessions in luxury hotels around the capital, usually in roped-off areas and behind closed doors.
Refugees from Myanmar, Migrant Workers, and the Lantern Festival
On China’s southern border, in Yunnan province, there is a school for refugees from Myanmar (also known as Burma). After a 17-year ceasefire in the internal fighting that has gone on since Myanmar’s independence from Britain in 1948, fighting erupted again in 2011 and has raged off and on ever since.
House Calls on the Tibetan Plateau, Children of Divorce, Celebrity Secrets
In 1995, 20-year-old Nie Shubin was sentenced to death and executed for the rape and murder of a woman in his native Hebei. In 2005, another man confessed to the crime, and Nie’s case became a rallying cry for lawyers and other advocates pushing for criminal justice reform in China, where more than 99 percent of those tried for crimes are convicted.
From West Africa, the Czech Republic, and Home
In this month’s Depth of Field, Chinese photojournalists explore foreign terrain, both beyond China’s borders and within them. Independent photographer Yuyang Liu traveled the open seas to document the lives of Chinese and African workers who fish the Atlantic waters off the coast of West Africa.
Depth of Field | ChinaFile
In October, several publications marked the 80th Anniversary of the Chinese Communists’ Long March. We have chosen two stories that revisited this event and that were standouts, visually. Elsewhere, photographers followed stories both large and...
Dongbei’s Last Match Factory, Capital Straphangers, Retracing the Long March...
Li Junhui, a staff photographer at China Youth Daily, spent a month traveling along the route of the Long March with medium format film cameras. It has been more than 80 years since Mao Zedong led his supporters in the fledgling Communist Party 6,000 miles from their embattled base south of the Yangtze River to the desert caves around Yan’an.
Creating Internet Celebrities, Personal Shoppers, Queer Life, and More
Title The Month’s Best Chinese Photojournalism by Ye Ming, Yan Cong, David M. Barreda August 8, 2016 Natural disasters and trend stories are the bread and butter of photojournalists and July was no exception. We bring you the work of photographers who explored the burgeoning world of cellphone celebrities, waded into flood-struck areas, and reflected on the tragedy of two of the biggest earthquakes ever to strike modern China.
Tornados and Drag Queens
Being a photojournalist involves reacting to breaking news, a dedication to long-term projects, and everything in between.
Families, Weddings, and Beekeepers
This month’s Depth of Field column brings the stories of Chinese adoption; the marriage ceremony of Hu Mingliang and Sun Wenlin, a gay couple who filed the first civil rights marriage lawsuit to be accepted by a Chinese court (they lost); beekeepers in Yunnan; the lonely life of an 11-year-old with AIDS; and archival photos from China in the 1970s. Depth of Field highlights the new and newsworthy photojournalism published in Chinese media by Chinese photographers.
April’s Best Chinese Photojournalism
An estimated 16 million women in China are married to gay men. Most of these women entered their marriages unaware of their husbands’ sexual orientations. Discrimination and parental pressure are key reasons why these unions persist. Gay men and lesbian women often resort to marrying each other to hide their sexuality and to please their parents.
Meet ‘Depth of Field’: The Month’s Best Chinese Photojournalism
Welcome to ChinaFile’s inaugural “Depth of Field” column. In collaboration with Yuanjin Photo, an independent photo blog published by photographers Yan Cong and Ye Ming on the Chinese social media platform WeChat, we will highlight new and newsworthy photojournalism published in Chinese media by Chinese photographers. For each column, Yan, Ye, and ChinaFile’s David M. Barreda choose one image from each featured body of work, describe the project, and provide a link to the original piece.
Depth of Field
If the stories in this edition of Depth of Field share a common thread—apart from their distinguished photographic storytelling—it’s their interest in the flux and churn of life in China in 2019, where nothing seems fixed and pressure of constant...
Spoils of the ‘Tiger’ Hunt
Early this week, the Chinese Communist Party announced the expulsion from its ranks of Xu Caihou, who before his retirement in 2012 was one of the highest ranking officers in the . He also became the highest-ranking member of the Chinese military to have been put under investigation for corruption in three decades. Xu’s ouster comes on the heels of a host of dismissals and investigations of other occupants of lofty political office since Xi Jinping became China’s leader a year and a half ago.
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