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Over the past three decades, the internationalization of higher education has evolved from a marginal position to a central focus for higher education institutions worldwide (Knight & de Wit, 2018). International students, as important actors in internationalization, contribute to academic, cultural, economic, and technological developments, and global competency and reputation of the destination countries and universities. Although internationalization and international student engagement have been addressed in universities' diversity, equity, and inclusion goals, few researchers have examined U.S. universities' organizational attitudes and underlying assumptions toward their international students. Through a combination of neo-racism and critical discourse analysis frameworks, we purposefully selected 10 public and private national universities with a broad geographic distribution and analyzed their website discourses of support in academic, social, and cultural adjustments provided for international students and discuss the promotion of intercultural awareness for both domestic and international students. Findings show that despite a relatively high level of intercultural awareness in supporting international students presented in some universities, more provide limited support and present deficit thinking and even overt discriminative discourses on international students. We argue the need for two-directional communications and understandings over one-directional demands and expectations from universities to students in the globalized era. Findings also reveal the necessity for universities to promote intercultural awareness, implement more inclusive university policies, and improve their support for international students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to develop ecological farming, China has established a unified basic pension insurance system for urban and rural farmers. Ecological farming is a pioneering, practical development which aims to create globally sustainable land management systems, and encourages review of the importance of maintaining biodiversity in food production and farming end products. This article takes Hangzhou as an example, to study the guarantee extent of the implementation of the basic pension insurance system on the objective security of rural residents' life. This paper also studies the subjective perception of rural residents' well-being, urban and rural integration and social fairness under the existing rural basic old-age insurance policy. A switch to ecological farming will benefit health and environment. The results show that the rural endowment insurance is not enough to meet the needs of life and the satisfaction of the endowment insurance policy and has a significant impact on rural residents' sense of happiness and social justice. The article reveals the possible shortcomings of the industrial agriculture and current basic old-age insurance in rural areas, thus providing a reference for the government to formulate an integrated urban and rural endowment insurance system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To evaluate the efficacy of straw and starch wastewater as biostimulation agents for the remediation of petroleumcontaminated saline soil, five remediation treatments with and without straw and starch wastewater were tested in laboratory. According to the total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) measurement and Sole carbon source utilization (BIOLOG) analysis, a large application of straw and starch wastewater could result in a satisfactory TPH biodegradation rate of up to 31.91% and an overall increase in microorganism activity. In addition, denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis analysis of 16s rDNA genes indicated that the straw caused significant changes in community composition while the starch wastewater triggered a higher petroleum biodegradation rate by offering nutrients for biodegradation. Thus, in this study, an inexpensive bioremediation method was developed for petroleum-contaminated saline soil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]