The purpose of this study is to evaluate the renewable energy potential in Bangladesh and examine the policies and challenges influencing its adoption. Bangladesh, with its abundant solar, wind, and biomass resources, holds significant promise for renewable energy development. However, the country faces critical challenges, including inadequate infrastructure, policy barriers, and limited financing, which hinder the widespread adoption of renewable energy technologies. In this study, we conducte...

Environmental Sciences 

Online learning became an essential part of K-12 education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Remote learning during the pandemic revealed specific challenges to student learning, such as students’ social presence and their engagement in online classes. Therefore, within the framework of community of inquiry (CoI) theory, the purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between social presence, engagement, and achievement of urban charter high school students in asynchronous online classes ...

Educational Technology 

The breathing exercises very well-known as “basic pranayama” are essentials for the wellness and health. Our breath, what Yoga calls “prana” or the vital force of life is a vehicle that moves us into subtle layers of our energy body. With the help of this vital force, we come contact with our core self-establishment, our true nature. The aim of this study is to analyze the role of pranayama in human health, as well as the different types of pranayamas, their methods of actions ...

Philosophy 

Joubert syndrome (JS) is a rare congenital autosomal recessive inherited disorder. The usual presentation of patients with JS is hypotonia, developmental delay, abnormal eye movement, ataxia, hyperapnea, or ischemic stroke. However, there have been very few cases of JS presenting with ischemic stroke. We describe a case of undiagnosed JS in a 7-year-old boy who presented with new onset left side weakness and irritability. The patient had apparent signs of motor and developmental delay. On physic...

Internal Medicine 

In the journey of the new era, telling the story of China well and disseminating the voice of China effectively are crucial paths to strengthen cultural confidence. Against this backdrop, cultivating students’ ability to spread Chinese culture has become a new mission of foreign language education today. As an essential part of China’s cultural heritage, regional culture not only enhances students’ cognition and emotional connection to local culture but also leverages its linguistic and cultural...

Pedagogy  Culture  Journalism and Communication  Linguistics  Literature 

This paper examines the discourse construction of the Grand Canal of China. The Grand Canal discourse system centered on “integration”, not only embodies the spiritual core of Chinese culture but also provides cultural support for the contemporary “Belt and Road” initiative. Constructing the Grand Canal's integration discourse helps to break through the limitations of Western heritage discourse, deepen the understanding of Chinese cultural heritage, and contribute Chinese wisdom to global govern...

Culture 

This study examines the changing role of religious factors in U.S. presidential elections from 2008 to 2020 and their impact on political violence. Through analysis of election data, policy shifts, and social events, this paper reveals the complex interplay between religion and political polarization. The research finds that religious voters’ political affiliations have become increasingly entrenched during this period, particularly the alliance between white evangelicals and the Republican Part...

Culture  Politics 

Recently, there has been an increasing interest in assessing basic health indications covering blood pressure, heartbeat, and breathing rate using remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) to obtain the results without direct contact with humans; rPPG has become essential to measuring vital signs while avoiding difficulties in many cases, such as transmission of infection through contact with persons who have serious diseases or disturbing people with sensitive skin or newborn babies. This technique ca...

Artificial Intelligence  Image Processing 

Symptom prescription is an intervention described by the school of Palo Alto and has been utilized in a myriad of clinical contexts as a psychotherapeutic tool. Although its utility in individual psychotherapy has been explored in the literature, its application in family therapy has been poorly explored with few descriptions in the literature. A brief narrative review of the available literature and databases, such as PubMed were consulted, through the use of the following keywords, in isolatio...

Psychology 

Background: The variety of impression materials and the diversity of clinical situations sometimes complicate the choice of impression technique. The objective of this article was to determine the impression techniques in fixed prosthodontics, the criteria for their selection, the causes of impression failures and the training needs expressed by private sector dentists in Casablanca regarding impression techniques. Materials and Methods: A descriptive cross-sect...

Dentistry