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          <p style="color:#ff0000; font-weight: bold;">【For judges】
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The content of this page include both gold-medal information and silver-medal information.
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The integrated human practice, which is a branch of the whole human practice contents, is shown on this section of our wiki page. For the complete contents of the human practice session, please click on the Human Practice icon in the navigation bar on the top right corner of our page.</p>  
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          <p style="font-size: 18px; color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">Integrated Human Practices</p>
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       <p style="color:#ff0000">Q: How did your Human Practices work to inform and shape your project at different stages?</p>
 
       <p style="color:#ff0000">Q: How did your Human Practices work to inform and shape your project at different stages?</p>
 
  <p style="color:#aa5500">With the improvement of technologies and the economy, industrialization caused uncountable environmental issues that are detrimental to people's health physically, as well as nature. Moreover, large quantities of trees are being cut, and a large proportion of contaminations are produced by paper production, which even pollutes the longest river in China. Hence, as the human practice group, we decided to focus on recycled paper. </p>
 
  <p style="color:#aa5500">With the improvement of technologies and the economy, industrialization caused uncountable environmental issues that are detrimental to people's health physically, as well as nature. Moreover, large quantities of trees are being cut, and a large proportion of contaminations are produced by paper production, which even pollutes the longest river in China. Hence, as the human practice group, we decided to focus on recycled paper. </p>
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  <p style="color:#00aaff">Also, the cooperation of us with many other teams benefitted each other when we were sharing ideas during offline meet-ups and online meetings. There experimental results helped us a lot when we try to “close the loop” of setting targets and designing methods to accomplish what we are after. The experimental team and the human practice group helped each other as well through communications and organizing activities.</p>
 
  <p style="color:#00aaff">Also, the cooperation of us with many other teams benefitted each other when we were sharing ideas during offline meet-ups and online meetings. There experimental results helped us a lot when we try to “close the loop” of setting targets and designing methods to accomplish what we are after. The experimental team and the human practice group helped each other as well through communications and organizing activities.</p>
 
  <p style="color:#00aaff">We hope to make the public aware that recycled paper is truly beneficial for the society and the environment. We desire that the society could hear our voice and notice all the environmental damage that the paper industry nowadays is causing, so we have our project designed to meet this common will of all teammates and, hopefully, all individuals of this society and those who should be responsible</p>
 
  <p style="color:#00aaff">We hope to make the public aware that recycled paper is truly beneficial for the society and the environment. We desire that the society could hear our voice and notice all the environmental damage that the paper industry nowadays is causing, so we have our project designed to meet this common will of all teammates and, hopefully, all individuals of this society and those who should be responsible</p>
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  <div class="title" style="color:#aa5500"><h2>We interviewed the manager of paper production industry</h2></div>
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  <p>•  In order to know more about the current situation of paper production, which will enable us to be more familiar with the necessity of our project and continue to progress to be more influential, we decided to interview the manager of the paper production industry.</p>
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  <p>•  In the beginning, we prepared several questions in the professional fields of paper production to ask the manager. Also, we discussed the application of recycled paper in the current market to realize the importance of our project. Those questions and answers are followed below:</p>
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  <p style="color:#ff0000">Q: Can you tell us the basic sources of paper-making materials that are being purchased directly or using the waste paper as the main sources?</p>
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    <p>A: In current times, waste paper has become the essential material in the paper-making process.</p>
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    <p style="color:#ff0000">Q: Compared to the traditional paper production process, what are the advantages of using recycled paper?</p>
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    <p>A: Technically, the two processes cannot be compared. This is because the raw materials that we have are different, as well as the current situation we are in. And to be honest, the government strongly recommends those industries use recycled paper to decrease the environmental issues in China.</p>
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    <P style="color:#ff0000">Q: Can you be more specific to introduce the process of the general method of raw material recycling and extraction?</p>
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    <p>A: Firstly, all of the waste papers will be accumulated in the station and centralized. Then, they will be packaged into the recycling process. Secondly, the paper will be outputted into pulp by using specific machines, and the next process is as same as the regular patterns.</P>
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    <p style="color:#ff0000">Q: What is the difference between the market positioning of recycled paper and original paper?</p>
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  <p>A: The recycled paper will be cheaper, and the original paper will be more expensive.</p>
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    <p style="color:#ff0000">Q: What is the difference between recycled paper and original paper in the domestic application?</p>
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      <p>A: In the industrial system, we will prefer those recycled paper to make the cartons, packaging utilizations. For live use, it is more favorable to use toilet paper and window paper. However, some people will prefer using recycled paper in daily work. For the high standard use, they still prefer the original paper-making.</p>
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      <p style="color:#ff0000">Q: How does the industry solve the discharge problem of pulping wastewater and recycled paper wastewater?</p>
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      <p>A: It depends on the condition of the materials. For the solid materials, they can be recycled in the whole production. For the liquid, it is completed by the water treatment companies.</p>
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      <p style="color:#ff0000">Q: Do you have any suggestions to improve the quality of the paper in production?</p>
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      <p>A: As we know, if the paper is recycled four to five times, its quality will become lower than before because the fibers become shorter and shorter. More importantly, those utilizations in daily life still required the high-pressure resistance that can package goods. Therefore, those papers will become useless after being recycled four to five times.</p>
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      <p style="color:#ff0000">Q: What substances are harmful to the environment, and how to deal with them?</p>
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      <p>A: The pigment and organic materials still need to be recycled precisely. Moreover, the strong alkali in the waste liquid is difficult to be degraded as well.</p>
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          <p>To deal with those issues, I highly recommend people to improve their awareness of refuse classification, which will be advantageous for not only the quality of paper but also the environment.</p>
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          <li style="color:#00aaff"><span>Eventually, we realize the current market situation that recycled paper is utilized for packaging in high percentage and our country highly recommend those industries to produce the recycled paper for solving g environmental issues. However, more and more liquid with alkali and other hazardous materials still need people to create the advanced technology to be degraded. Most essentially, our program is significant due to the mentioning of only being potentially recycled 4~5 times of the paper. Therefore, it is momentous for us to improve the quality of recycled paper to make it be used more times and help solve the environmental problems</span></li>
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    <p style="color:#550000">Welcome to our integrated human practice webpage! In this section, we will provide and analyze the data collected from our questionnaires and interviews. A total of 429 subjects completed our questionnaire. We believe that these data had provided a strong understructure for the direction of research and social acceptance.  Acknowledgements:
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We thank 问卷星 for providing the guidelines of this digital questionnaire. Our questionnaire consisted of 17 multiple choice questions. We divided our questionnaire to three sections. The first section is about the sample’s personal information, including 3 questions. These information were intended to help us analyze our results. For all questions in this section, there was one choice that is “confidential.” Through this method, we hope to protect the privacies of our samples as much as possible. The second section is about recycled paper, including 10 questions. The third section is about synthetic biology, including 4 questions. We made clear of our purpose at the start of the questionnaire in the picture following: </p>
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            <p style="color:#ff0000">Section 1:</p>
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      <p>Question 1:</p>
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      <p>This question explored the gender of research sample. We wanted to understand which gender of population is more interested in our field of research and is willing to complete this questionnaire. We suspected a higher percentage of the sample to be women because previous research done by the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) revealed that women are more likely to pay attention and take part in environmental actions. We believe that our data supported this point as it is shown that men only consisted 41% of total gender reveled population. This piece of evidence may suggest that our later questions that has is related to environmental problems will be reflected in a more positive way. Meaning that our data in terms of gender will be slightly different from the average population. </p>
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      <p>Question 2:</p>
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      <p>This question focused on the age group of research. Our sample were under the age of 60 for 99% of sample. In the 60-year-old range, there were two extremes of below 18 and above 60. The age group below 18 could be explained by friends and classmates of us. This group of people will be exposed to the future advances of technology and are more related to the recycled paper. The age group over 60 had a high percentage could e explained by the fact that they simply have more free time to do such questionnaires. The middle age group’s low participate rate could be explained for that they have to spend more time on their work and field of study and often spend less time doing questionnaires. </p>
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      <p>Question 3:</p>
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      <p>The last question was designated to see the sample’s level of education. This was an extension from the previous section. We see a small different between the number of samples’ education level to high school and below and age of below 18. The other portion of education level were are graduated or master’s degree and higher. This means that our samples were all highly educated. We suspect this to be that the more educated population are going to understand our questionnaire in a more comprehensive way. At the same time, most of the people we know are educated like us. Here, we are not stressing that the less educated population do not care about environmental issues, they have their own ways of saving the world, but they do not have the ability to understand many things we are trying to do; Therefore, we have later developed an education section for our human practice to teach others about our project. </p>
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      <p>Question 4:</p>
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      <p>This question is about the frequency of people recycling paper. Our results show that 49 of 429 people selected the option of “Almost every time”, they take the proportion of 11.42%; 110 of 429 people selected the option of “Often”, taking a percentage of 25.64%; 208 of 429 people selected the option of “Seldom”, taking a percentage of 48.48%; And 62 of 429 people selected the option of “Never considered”, they took a percentage of 14.45%. The result can be indicated that about half of the interviewees have the habit of collecting and recycling paper in their daily life, but the proportion of the interviewees still need to improve in order to protect the environmental health.</p>
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      <p>This question is about people’s opinion of the meaning of recycling paper’s effects on the environmental protection. In this question, 389 of 429 people selected the option of “Necessary”, having a proportion of 90.68%; 29 of 429 people selected the option of “Meaningful but not necessary”, taking a percentage of 6.76%; 7 of 429 people selected the option of “Less meaningful”, taking a percentage of 1.63%; And 4 of 429 people selected the option of “Meaningless”, taking a percentage of 0.93%. This question can be interpreted that almost all interviewees have the consciousness of the benefit of paper recycling and think it’s important to recycle paper to protect the environment.</p>
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      <p>This question is about the condition of people’s perceptions of recycled paper. In this question, 17 of 429 people selected the option of “Have deep perception, once especially made or researched”, taking a percentage of 3.96%; 204 of 429 people selected the option of “Have some perception”, taking a percentage of 47.55%; 184 of 429 people selected the option of “Have little perception”, taking a percentage of 42.89%; And 24 of 429 people selected the option of “No perception”, taking a percentage of 5.59%. From this question, we can see that the public doesn’t have a really comprehensive or professional understanding about recycled paper. There are some biases of their attitude toward the function and effect of recycled paper. It also shows the importance to propagandize the recycled paper.</p>
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      <p>This question is about the ways for people to know the recycled paper, and this question only opened to the interviewees who didn’t select the option “No perception” in the Question 6. In this question, 234 of 405 people selected the option of “The propaganda from government or commonweal organizations”, they takes the proportion of 57.78%; 85 of 405 people selected the option of “Monetization website promotion”, they takes the proportion of 20.99%; 144 of 405 people selected the option of “School propagation”, they takes the proportion of 35.56%; 96 of 405 people selected the option of “Other people’s introduction”, they takes the proportion of 23.7%; And 42 of 405 people selected the option of “Others”, they takes the proportion of 10.37%. From this question, we can indicate that the most of public perceptions are from official social propagation.</p>
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      <p>This question is about the ways for people to know the recycled paper, and this question only opened to the interviewees who didn’t select the option “No perception” in the Question 6. In this question, 234 of 405 people selected the option of “The propaganda from government or commonweal organizations”, taking a percentage of 57.78%; 85 of 405 people selected the option of “Monetization website promotion”, taking a percentage of 20.99%; 144 of 405 people selected the option of “School propagation”, taking a percentage of 35.56%; 96 of 405 people selected the option of “Other people’s introduction”, taking a percentage of 23.7%; And 42 of 405 people selected the option of “Others”, taking a percentage of 10.37%. From this question, we can indicate that most of the public’s perceptions are from official social propagation.</p>
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      <p>This question is about people’s attitude on some main disadvantages of recycled paper, and four options are listed: “Rough texture and poor writing experience””Thin and crisp paper, which is not conducive to preservation””The paper color is yellowish and is not suitable for writing”and “The process is complex and the cost is high”, and this question only opened to the interviewees who didn’t select the option “No perception” in the Question 6. The support rates of four disadvantages are all below 25%, but the opponent rate of the option ”The paper color is yellowish and is not suitable for writing”(170 of 405/41.98%) is obviously higher than other’s opponent rates. From this question we can see that the public generally not considered that recycled paper has obvious disadvantages, especially that it is not suitable for reading.</p>
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      <p>This question surveyed people’s attitudes toward the advantages of recycled paper, and this question only opened to the interviewees who didn’t select the option “No perception” in the Question 6. Four advantages are listed: Save the forest resources, Produce with low pollution, Low cost, Color is eye-protected. Obviously, Save the forest resources and Produce with low pollution received the over-half support rates, they are 93.83% and 64.94% respectively. It shows people’s general perception on the advantages of recycled paper.</p>
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      <p>This question is about what fields the interviewees would like to use recycled paper, and this question only opened to the interviewees who didn’t select the option “No perception” in the Question 6. The printed paper, newspaper and draft paper received the over-half support rates, they are 56.05%, 76.54% and 90.12% respectively. The public show that their favorite of recycled paper is to be used in the draft paper field.</p>
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      <p>This question requires the interviewees to select three main factors that would influence their propensities when they are choosing different paper. Three factors received the over-half support rates, they are Tenacity, Texture and Price. And their support rates are 51.52%, 79.49% and 71.79% respectively.</p>
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      <p>This question surveyed whether people would support the related activities of recycled paper. 419 of 429 people supported and 10 of 429 people opposed, they take the proportion of 97.67% and 2.33% respectively. It shows the public’s passion and support on paper recycling. </p>
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      <p>Question 14:</p>
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      <p>This question began our search for the level of understanding about synthetic biology. The result showed a majority (more than 80%) of the sample having limited understanding to this subject. This result is reasonable since that for someone that doesn’t major in biology, chemistry or related subjects, their understanding of synthetic biology will only be at high school level (understanding basic mechanisms). However, I do believe that there are defects of our phrasing of the question, as that we did not explain what the boundaries for “decent understanding” is and “limited understanding” is. But our results still reflects that there is a need for a bigger population to understand synthetic biology. </p>
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      <p>This was an exception of a multi-answer question where the samples were to pick how they came to know synthetic biology. We believe that this question will help us gain knowledge of how we could educate others. As expected, about 50% of the samples stated that they had learned some synthetic biology through the internet. The subject we are asking is relatively unconventional that had only emerged in recent years to the public view especially in China. Internet being also a new trend since the 21st century, helped people today to learn things at expeditious speed. Our data also showed a high percentage choosing school education and nonprofit advertisements. This revealed that society are becoming more and more aware of this field of study.</p>
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      <p>This question seeks to understand how willing people are to participate in activity of synthetic biology. 70% of the samples were willing to participate. We found this number higher than expected since that not everyone is interested in synthetic biology and that they also have their own business to do. But we were also happy to see that many have this enthusiasm towards this subject.</p>
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      <p>This last question touched on the things that would attract one to such activity mentioned in the previous question. It was meant to help us better organize our activities. We found that majority of the people wanted to learn the applications, possible future and experiment theories of synthetic biology while not many wanted to learn about related subject’s history. This fits well with our project as that we are doing something new that could help the society. However, both question 16 and 17’s result could be influenced if our sample’s age group or education level was different. But overall, we see a general support to what we are doing.</p>
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      <p style="color:#00aaff">At last, we believe that our questionnaire was successful in determining the general public’s view on recycled paper and synthetic biology. We find that there are defects in the current recycled paper that should be fixed and that many are looking forward to this kind of technology. These data explained the necessity of our research and led the direction to what kind of improvements are needed. We also found that synthetic biology is still a subject of unknown by many meaning that education is needed. We were happy to see that many are willing to take part in activities to learn more about this subject. This questionnaire had also helped us to plan our activities based on the samples’ needs.</p>
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