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This study investigated how personality traits mediated the relationship between the parental Internet mediation and Internet usage (time and engagement) of Chinese children. A sample of 975 children from two Chinese primary schools, average age was 10.26 years old, was asked to report their Internet use time (daily and weekend), Internet engagement (information, entertainment and social interaction), parental Internet mediation, and their personality traits (extraversion and neuroticism personality). Results indicated: 1) the restrictive mediation was negatively linked to children’s Internet use time, and the other two mediation dimensions (active and co-use) were positively linked to children’s Internet engagement. 2) The extraversion personality mediated the association between the three mediation dimensions and children’s internet engagement, and the neuroticism personality only mediated the relationship between active mediation and use time. The present study highlights the importance of children’s personality as a link between parental role and children’s Internet-related behavior.

Since China’s access to the Internet, the Chinese governments are always playing a leading role in the governance of cyberspace by using a regulative way, which formed the traditional cyberspace governance model. However, such model has many disadvantages and leads to many problems in the governmental practice. In order to solve these problems, the governance model should renewed from the perspective of Xi Jinping’s thought on cyberspace governance, that is, the “one main power and three auxiliary participators” cyberspace synergetic governance model.

This study aimed to investigate the construct of the Internet fiction reading motivation scale for Adolescents, and examine its reliability and validity in Chinese adolescence. 747 adolescence finished the prior scale to complete exploratory analysis and 1648 adolescents completed the final scale and the criterion scale for confirmatory analysis. Exploratory analysis and confirmatory analysis supported the three-dimension model of the scale, the internal consistency coefficients of the total scale and three dimensions were 0.91, 0.81, 0.82 and 0.83 respectively. There were significant positive correlations between the total score, three dimensions and Internet fiction frequency and type. In conclusion, The Internet fiction reading motivation scale is a reliable and valid scale for assessing fiction reading motivation in Chinese adolescence.

MADS-box proteins, a well-conserved family of transcription factors in eukaryotic organisms, specifically regulate a wide range of cellular functions, including primary metabolism, cell cycle, and cell identity. However, little is known about roles of the MADS-box protein family in the fungal pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. In this research, the S. sclerotiorum MADS-box gene SsMADS was cloned; it encodes a protein that is highly similar to Mcm1 orthologs from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and other fungi, and includes a highly conserved DNA-binding domain. MADS is a member of the MADS box protein SRF (serum response factor) lineage. SsMADS function was investigated using RNA interference. Silenced strains were obtained using genetic transformation of the RNA interference vectors pS1-SsMADS and pSD-SsMADS. SsMADS expression levels in silenced strains were analyzed using RT-PCR. The results showed that SsMADS mRNA expression in these silenced strains was reduced to different degrees, and growth rate in these silenced strains was significantly decreased. Infecting tomato leaflets with silenced strains indicated that SsMADS was required for leaf pathogenesis in a susceptible host. Our results suggest that the MADS-box transcription factor SsMADS is involved in S. sclerotiorum growth and virulence.

The vaginal microbiome is an emerging concern in prenatal health. Because the sampling process of vaginal microbiota may pose potential risks for pregnant women, the choice of sampling site should be carefully considered. However, whether the microbial diversity is different across various sampling sites has been controversial. In the present study, three repeated swabs were collected at the cervix (C), posterior fornix (P), and vaginal canal (V) from 34 Chinese women during different pregnancy stages, and vaginal species were determined using the Illumina sequencing of 16S rRNA tag sequences. The identified microbiomes were classified into four community state types (CSTs): CST I (dominated by L. crispatus), CST II (dominated by L. gasseri), CST III (dominated by L. iners), and CST IV-A (characterized by a low abundance of Lactobacillus, but with proportions of various species previously shown to be associated with bacterial vaginosis). All individuals had consistent CST at the three sampling sites regardless of pregnancy stage and CST group. In addition, there was little heterogeneity across community structures within each individual, as determined by LEfSe, indicating high vaginal microbiome homogeneity at the three sampling sites. The present study also revealed different beta diversity during pregnancy stages. The vaginal microbiome variation among women during trimester T1 (9 ± 2.6 weeks) is larger than that of non-pregnant women and women from other trimesters, as demonstrated by the UniFrac distance (P < 0.05). In particular, the present study is the first one that demonstrates the notably difference of vaginal microbiome of postpartum women compare to women in gestation. These results will be useful for future studies of the vaginal microbiota during pregnancy.