Globally, digital planning platforms enable municipalities to identify economic opportunities and optimize infrastructure investment in Africa. Digital spatial planning has similar potential, particularly in addressing historical spatial inequalities and informal settlement challenges. For example, in South Africa, the digitalisation of SPLUMA enables municipalities to efficiently process land-use applications, plan township upgrades, and integrate economic nodes into development frameworks, the...

Rural Planning  Technology And Innovation 

As one of the key mediums for cultural transmission, film and television works not only highlight the core of cultural ideology but also contain the cultural value system followed by contemporary citizens. Taking the Chinese animation Ne Zha: The Devil Child Roars the Sea as an example, this paper explores efficient and high-quality translation methods for the current Chinese animation subtitles. First, it elaborates on Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) as a more intelligent translation...

Literature 

In the context of globalization, global competence has become an essential ability and quality for university students to adapt to changes and meet challenges. Against the backdrop of New Liberal Arts, cultivating students’ global competence has emerged as a core objective in university talent development. As a compulsory general education course, College English plays a pivotal role in fostering and enhancing students’ global competence. This paper constructs a framework for students’ global co...

Linguistics 

This study investigates the processing differences of emotional representation of negation between Portuguese and Chinese among African multilingual speakers, with a focus on the joint moderating effect of language type and language proficiency on negation processing. We recruited 60 quadrilingual speakers from African Portuguese-speaking countries, and conducted a lexical decision task based on the Affect Misattribution Procedure (AMP). The experiment adopted a 2 (language type: Portuguese/Chin...

Educational Psychology  Psychology 

In the context of globalization and informatization, vocational education is facing unprecedented development opportunities and challenges. With the rise of the “Chinese vocational education” model, how to effectively cultivate students’ subjectivity in vocational education has become a hot topic of concern in the current education field. Subjectivity refers to the autonomy, initiative, and creativity exhibited by individuals in cognitive and practical activities, and is an important indicator...

Vocational Education 

This study investigates the radiation shielding properties of newly synthesized Eu₂O₃-doped silicate glasses, specifically formulated as 40Li₂O-05BaO-05Gd₂O₃-(50-x) with doping concentrations of x = 0.0, 0.1, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0 mol%. Utilizing the WinXcom program, we theoretically computed key parameters including mass attenuation coefficients (μ_m), effective atomic numbers (Z_eff), effective electron densities (N...

Applied Physics 

Football serves as a powerful medium for shaping identities and fostering belonging across local, national, and transnational communities. In Zimba-bwe, Highlanders Football Club (FC), founded in 1926 by descendants of the founding King, Mzilikazi ka Matshobana, represents more than a sports institution; it embodies historical, ethnic, and political narratives that transcend the game. Using the Social Identity Theory, this study examines how Highlanders fosters a sense of belonging and cultural ...

Anthropology 

Background: The management of Class II malocclusion without extractions remains a therapeutic challenge, particularly in borderline cases where esthetic concerns and dentoalveolar compensation must be carefully balanced. Adequate control of lower anterior torque plays a pivotal role in achieving stable and esthetically satisfactory outcomes while avoiding undesirable proclination. Case presentation: This case report describes the orthodontic treatment of an 18-y...

Dentistry 

We report a rare case of breast myofibroblastoma diagnosed during the third trimester of pregnancy in a 32-year-old gravida 3 para 2 woman who presented with a progressively enlarging exophytic nipple mass. Breast ultrasound revealed a heterogeneous, vascularized lesion measuring 55 × 48 mm, classified as BIRADS 4C. Ultrasound-guided core needle biopsy demonstrated a spindle-cell mesenchymal proliferation with strong desmin positivity, focal CD34 expression, and absence of epithelial marker expr...

Gynecology & Obstetrics 

The increased advocacy for the consumption of vegetables such as spinach, kale and African nightshade to promote good health has led to the use of irrigation water polluted with industrial and household waste. Use of such water results in the vegetables being contaminated with PTEs like lead, cadmium, copper, and zinc. This study investigated the health risk assessment (HRA) of heavy metals (HMs), Cu, Zn, Pb and Cd from consuming vegetables grown along River Kabuthi in Nairobi City County, where...

Biochemistry