Tourism signage plays a pivotal role in showcasing the image of a tourist destination or even an entire city or province. In recent years, Jinhua, a key city along the Belt and Road initiative, has been increasingly internationalized due to its strategic location advantageously connecting the Maritime Silk Road to the east and the Land Silk Road to the west. As a co-host city of the 19th Asian Games Hangzhou 2022, Jinhua’s tourism industry has flourished, attracting numerous overseas visitors fo...

Linguistics 

This study conducted a questionnaire survey to collect 202 college students’ perspectives on the washback effect of the listening test of College English Test Band 4 (CET4) on students’ self-regulated learning (SRL) and used SPSS 25.0 for data analysis. The findings indicate that a majority of the participants agree that the CET 4 listening test has a positive washback effect on their SRL attitudes, learning approaches, and learning habits. Additionally, some participants believed that the diffi...

Higher Education 

This study provides a comparative financial statement analysis of Alibaba and Jingdong, two leading companies in the e-commerce sector. By examining their financial statements, market strategies, and operational efficiencies for the fiscal year 2023, we aim to offer insights into their financial health, competitive positioning, and future prospects. Employing a mix of quantitative and qualitative analysis methods, including ratio analysis and SWOT analysis, this paper highlights the companies’ f...

Business Analysis  Advertising 

Objective: Nursing students were reported to hold discriminatory attitudes towards people with mental illness across various countries. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of the educational intervention, a mental health nursing course on reducing discrimination towards people with mental illness among nursing students. Methods: A quasi-experimental study with a before-after design was conducted, involving 57 nursing students from a public university in Chin...

Public Health  Sociology 

Aim: This study aimed to determine the risk factors for stroke in children hospitalized at the Kamenge University Hospital Center for a motor deficit of the limbs. Patients and methods: This was a descriptive and retrospective study conducted from January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2019 in the Department of Pediatrics at the Kamenge University Hospital Center. All records of children under 15 years who were hospitalized for a motor deficit of the limbs, isolated or...

Pediatrics 

Climate change is the most dangerous threat facing the world. This article analyzed near-future trends and changes in rainfall, temperature and wind speed over highlands and lowlands of Burundi, and their potential effects on water and electrical energy availability. Observed and gridded data were considered over the period 1981-2020 while forecasts from eight selected CMIP6 models were used over the period 2021-2045. A modified Mann-Kendall’s test was used to detect trends while Pettitt’s test ...

Atmospheric Sciences 

Waiting for Godot is a play by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett. There is a remarkable use of biblical material in Waiting for Godot by Beckett. A significant portion of the play is rooted in scriptural allusions. It should be noted that these biblical allusions are not intended to support religion, but rather to mock and challenge the validity of biblical doctrines. As some critics argue, references to biblical texts “may be ironic or even sarcastic”. Therefore, the article exp...

Literature 

Background: Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) is a group of rare diseases resulting in most cases from a dysfunction of nucleotide excision repair (NER). It is characterized by extreme hypersensitivity to ultraviolet rays and predisposes to malignant skin tumors that can appear as early as childhood. XP is rarely associated with internal neoplasms such as acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Case Report: A 5-year-old Moroccan Girl, a xeroderma pigmentosum patient, was diagnos...

Hematology  Oncology  Pediatrics  Medical Genetics 

In this work, a new ligand [13]aneN₄ with anthracene, pyrene and naphthalene was synthesized and characterized by mass spectrometry, NMR, UV-Vis and fluorescence spectroscopies. The fluorescence quantum yield of the ligands is significantly less than the chromophore group alone. This low value can be explained by the presence of a photoinduced electron transfer of the free doublet from the nitrogen atom of the functional group to chromophore group. The fluorescence studies were also p...

Inorganic Chemistry 

This article discusses the findings of a qualitative study conducted in South Africa on the healing memories, brokenness and wounding. The aim of this article is to stimulate conversation and debate on how to promote (w)holistic healing of the community and individual from brokenness and woundedness of African society today. This article makes recommendations on how various stakeholders, such as the government, education and training institutions, as well as the church, can contribute to the hea...

Sociology