Introduced to China in the late 1990s, narrative therapy faces a persistent gap between theoretical endorsement and practical implementation. Cultural tension between narrative therapy’s individualistic self-conception and China’s relational cultural framework creates operational resistance. A fragmented training system fails to process practitioners’ experiences of operational difficulty, hindering the accumulation of localized knowledge and evidence needed for institutional reform. Institution...

Sociology 

The study explores challenges and opportunities of self-employment in Dukem Town, southwest of Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia, among Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) graduates. This study used a sequential explanatory mixed-method research design with qualitative data that were used to explain quantitative findings. Questionnaires, interviews and focus group discussions are common methods for data collection. Out of 264 questionnaires distributed, three were excluded; consequentl...

Higher Education 

Cauda Equina Syndrome (CES) is a rare but serious neurological emergency resulting from compression of the lumbosacral nerve roots within the spinal canal. It typically presents with bilateral lower limb weakness, saddle anesthesia, and bladder or bowel dysfunction. However, atypical or incomplete clinical presentations may occur and can pose significant diagnostic challenges for clinicians. We report the case of a 32-year-old male who presented with acute unilateral right-sided foot drop as the...

Orthopedics 

The study of extreme winds in Madagascar is essential not only for understanding severe climatic phenomena and their impacts on infrastructure, but also for assessing human thermal comfort. This work proposes an innovative approach to estimating the return periods of maximum winds, based on the analysis of the 90th, 95th, and 99th percentiles and modeling using the Generalized Extreme Value (GEV) distribution. Hourly data from the ERA5-Land database, with a spatial resolution of 9 km and coverin...

Environmental Sciences 

Vacuum-assisted resin transfer molding (VARTM) offers potential advantages for producing large-scale composite structures, including relatively low-cost processing and the ability to achieve high fiber volume fractions. However, for many aircraft applications, VARTM currently faces challenges in providing consistent repeatability and controlling process variability. Understanding and minimizing the sources of this variability is essential to reliably produce aircraft-quality parts. Models have b...

Materials Engineering 

The deforestation has far-reaching effects on aerosol characteristics and climatic variables. Deforestation disrupts the local climate by altering temperature, aerosol optical properties, and impacting air quality. Further, it also modifies precipitation patterns at varied scales. Nevertheless, the long-term impacts of deforestation on climate variables and aerosol properties over Mau remain not very well explored, especially considering the context of altered natural emissions and anthropogenic...

Environmental Sciences 

The contemporary business environment has fundamentally altered the nature of innovation. In earlier industrial and post-industrial eras, firms could still aspire to breakthrough products and processes emerging largely from internal capabilities, vertically integrated structures, and tightly controlled research and development functions. That assumption is no longer sustainable. Today, innovation increasingly takes place across organizational, disciplinary, technological, and regulatory boundari...

Business Management  Managerial Economics  Business Analysis 

The purpose of this study was to investigate the security of archives and records managed through the National Archives and Records Management System (NARMS) at Botswana National Archives and Records Services (BNARS). The study is a qualitative case study, where for sampling and the selection process of study respondents, the study adopted and used a purposive sampling method. Data collection was conducted through the use of observations, interviews and document analysis. While for data analysis...

Big Data Search and Mining 

With the rapid development of cross-border agricultural e-commerce, consumer reviews have become a critical data source reflecting product quality and service experience. This study focuses on consumer reviews of agricultural products on cross-border e-commerce platforms and employs natural language processing techniques, specifically LDA topic modeling and BERT-based sentiment analysis, to explore consumer feedback on language services—including product translation, cultural adaptation, and cus...

Culture  Language Education  Linguistics 

Objective: This systematic review aimed to evaluate the validity of artificial intelligence (AI)-based models applied to orthodontic diagnosis. Materials and Methods: A comprehensive electronic search was conducted in five databases—PubMed, ScienceDirect, Google Scholar, Web of Science, and the Cochrane Library—using the MeSH terms artificial intelligence, orthodontics, orthodontic diagnosis, neural networks, and machine learning. After applying predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria, nine ...

Artificial Intelligence