Henan Opera, a key Chinese intangible cultural heritage, faces significant barriers in global dissemination due to profound cultural distance extending beyond language to include aesthetic and contextual gaps. Traditional outreach methods struggle to bridge this divide. Drawing on qualitative data from multiple stakeholder groups and comparative case analysis, the study develops the AI-VR Integrated Communication Model as a new paradigm for understanding technology-mediated intercultural engagem...

Culture  Art 

The best inheritance of history is to create new history. Zhejiang, an important stop along the ancient Maritime Silk Road, boasts a rich variety of relics of the Maritime Silk Road Culture and is currently protecting, inheriting and developing this culture through assorted activities. Promoting the global expansion of Zhejiang’s Maritime Silk Road culture requires a solid theoretical foundation: the key communication content of this culture should be refined from the perspectives of perceptible...

Culture 

This study systematically elaborates on the theoretical foundation, design principles, and implementation steps of a project-based “drip-irrigation” teaching model for ideological and political education within the College English curriculum. Utilizing a series of international media dialogues by Dr. Gao Zhikai in the realm of Sino-US relations as the core teaching resource, the study focuses on four key issues and presents detailed teaching case analyses. A four-stage cyclical teaching model—“P...

Pedagogy 

Central giant cell granuloma (CGCG) is an uncommon benign intraosseous lesion of the jaws characterized by the proliferation of multinucleated giant cells within a fibrovascular stroma. Although most lesions present as slow-growing and asymptomatic, aggressive forms may cause significant bone destruction and involvement of adjacent anatomical structures. Maxillary localization is relatively rare and may present diagnostic and therapeutic challenges due to the proximity of the maxillary sinus, na...

Dentistry 

As a ubiquitous linguistic symbol in modern society, linguistic landscape has become an emerging and popular research topic in the field of sociolinguistics. Against the background of the dissemination and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage (ICH), this project takes Shaoxing wine culture as a sample to examine the current state of the linguistic landscape throughout the entire production-dissemination-consumption chain both online and offline. It deeply explores the characteristics of t...

Linguistics 

Background: Periodontitis is a chronic inflammatory disease initiated by pathogenic biofilms, leading to the progressive destruction of periodontal supporting tissues. Green tea catechins, particularly epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), have emerged as promising therapeutic agents due to their potent antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and antimicrobial properties. Objective: This review aims to evaluate the clinical and biological efficacy of green tea catechins as an adjunct to scaling and root pl...

Dentistry 

Introduction: Epulis fissuratum (EF) is a benign inflammatory fibrous hy-perplasia of oral mucosa, caused by chronic mechanical irritation from an ill-fitting prosthesis. The aim of this report is to describe the medico-surgical management of fibrous hyperplasia and to demonstrate the continued rele-vance of conventional surgical techniques in insuring optimal clinical outcomes. Case presentation: A 43-year-old female patient presented with upper buccal mucosal growth caused by a traumatic prost...

Dentistry 

The ability to communicate effectively in English is fundamental to academic success in Nigerian universities, yet persistent low achievement in the compulsory “Use of English” course remains a concern, particularly in specialized institutions like maritime universities where proficiency underpins both academic performance and professional competence. This study addresses the limitation of reactive academic support systems by employing unsupervised machine learning to analyze English language le...

Artificial Intelligence  Language Education  Higher Education 

Background: Migration of healthcare professionals from low- and middle-income countries poses major challenges to health system performance. Workplace frustration, arising from structural and psychological constraints, may contribute to migration intention among healthcare workers. This study assessed the prevalence of workplace frustration and its association with migration intention among healthcare workers in a tertiary hospital in North-Central Nigeria. Methods: A cross-sectional analytical ...

Occupational Health 

Women in Montserrado are constrained by structural factors that weaken the effectiveness of CBO training on income, asset control, and household deci-sion-making, and ineffective interventions are seldom discovered in existing evaluations. This research investigated the association between financial in-clusion interventions conducted by CBOs and women’s economic empow-erment, specifically on microfinance access, entrepreneurship training, fi-nancial services, and savings accounts. Using the Capa...

Business Management  Business Analysis