Despite the numerous importance of taro, it still remains an underutilised crop in Ghana with little information on many aspects of the crop, especially agronomic practices. In order to obtain data that can be used to improve and sustain taro production, an experiment was conducted to study growth, yield, and other agro-morphological traits of three promising taro accessions (BL/SM/80, BL/SM/16, and KA/019) with the objective of comparing the growth and yield on wetland and upland and identify e...

Agronomy 

Tennis is a high-investment, long-cycle sport with extremely high professionalization thresholds. Family capital serves as the core supporting factor for athletes’ initial training, professional transformation and long-term competitive development. Taking 200 ATP and WTA top 100 active overseas professional tennis players as well as 50 top 50 domestic active professional tennis players registered with the Chinese Tennis Association in 2025 as research samples, this paper adopts research me...

Sociology 

The study aims to examine the explanatory power of Reception Theory to the “Pleasure Principle” in literary translation proposed by Australian sinologist Bonnie S. McDougall, and to investigate the concrete realization of this principle through an analysis of McDougall’s translations. The study finds that the core concepts of Reception Theory provide robust theoretical support for this principle and offer a basis for evaluating McDougall’s translation effect. It is argued...

Literature 

Introduction: The objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence of heart failure among patients with chronic kidney disease, to describe their sociodemographic, clinical, and echocardiographic characteristics, and to identify prognostic factors associated with heart failure in the context of chronic kidney disease. Methodology: We conducted a prospective, descriptive cross-sectional study from May 1 to October 31, 2024. We included all patients aged 18 yea...

Nephrology 

If Information and Communication Sciences largely mobilize concepts from psychology, their psychological foundations often remain implicit or fragmented. This article proposes a theoretical structuring of the psychological foundations of communication by articulating three central dimensions: cognition, affectivity and sociality. Drawing on contributions from cognitive psychology, affective psychology and social psychology, the study shows that communicative acts are based on interdependent ment...

Psychology 

Background: Adolescent smoking remains a critical public health issue due to its long-term health consequences and strong association with nicotine dependence in adulthood. Despite global tobacco control efforts, smoking and emerging nicotine use behaviours, including e-cigarette use, continue to be prevalent among young people. In England and comparable international contexts, adolescent smoking is shaped by a complex interaction of socioeconomic inequalities, peer influence, parental be...

Public Health 

Background: Acute respiratory infections (ARIs) remain a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among children in low- and middle-income countries. Identifying their epidemiological, clinical, and environmental determinants is essential for designing effective prevention and control strategies. This study aimed to assess the prevalence, clinical characteristics, and determinants of ARIs among children aged 0 - 14 years in the Kamina health zone, Democratic Republic of Congo. M...

Public Health 

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the landscape of college English teaching. However, current blended teaching mostly remains at the superficial integration stage of “online resources plus offline instruction”, with a lack of genuine collaboration between AI and teachers. This paper aims to construct the internal mechanism and operational model of AI-teacher collaborative teaching, rather than merely exploring its application effects. Based on collaborative teaching theory, activity theory an...

Linguistics 

Recognition-oriented chaplaincy reframes grief in contexts of ongoing loss not as a problem to be resolved but as a threshold to be inhabited, and it identifies liminal competence—the capacity for sustainable threshold-dwelling—as the clinical capability this work requires. Yet naming a capacity does not explain how practitioners acquire it. Standard Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) remains structured around an expert-intervention logic poorly matched to the formation of presence without master...

Pedagogy  Sociology 

The image of the “madwoman” has gone through a series of changes in English and American literature. The “madness” of women in literature not only refers to pathological mental breakdowns but also reflects the social oppression suffered by women. The “madwoman” in British and American literature has gone through a series of changes from the image of “madness” under patriarchal oppression to the image of awakening and “madness” resistance, and to the image of various ethnic groups of women resist...

Literature