While existing studies have demonstrated the significant impact parents have on their child’s educational success, the models used in these studies do not provide enough data to measure how parental involvement influences educational outcomes when children are raised in poor and deprived communities such as informal settlements. This research examines the role of parental participation in the provision of primary education in Kibera, Mathare, and Korogocho informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya....

Early Childhood Education 

The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) is profoundly transforming the production, dissemination, and reception of music. For adolescents, who are in a critical period of musical aesthetic development, AI recommendation algorithms and AI music generation tools are reshaping their daily musical experiences. For school music education, AI-assisted instruction systems bring both pedagogical innovations and theoretical challenges. From the perspective of music education theory, this pa...

Music  Art 

Support for vulnerable students in vocational education is critical to safeguarding educational equity and enhancing the quality of technical and vocational talents, serving as an important guarantee for the high-quality development of vocational education and inclusive social progress. Vulnerable vocational students typically face overlapping challenges, including economic disadvantage, academic underachievement, psychological distress, behavioral deviations, and weak employment competitiveness...

Educational Psychology  Educational Reform 

Business failure is often simplistically attributed to poor products or weak leadership. However, a closer examination reveals that failure more frequently results from strategic misalignment with cultural contexts, technological shifts, or brand identity expectations. This article examines five illustrative cases: Nestlé in Japan, Nokia in the smartphone industry, Rihanna’s Fenty luxury fashion house, Montblanc and Massimo Dutti to explore why some firms recover and succeed while others stagnat...

Business Management  Business Analysis 

Bedding-parallel landslides in marl slopes in the Guilin area are prone to occur under the combined effects of dip-slope structural conditions, rainfall infiltration, and engineering disturbances, exhibiting significant structural control characteristics and distinct regional engineering geological features. Taking bedding landslides in marl slopes of Guilin as the research object, this study analyzes the fundamental characteristics of marl and the failure features of bedding rock slopes, and fu...

Civil Engineering 

As a key military financial management body during the late Ming dynasty, the Dongjiang Rations Bureau’s administrative mechanisms hold significant importance for the study of the military financial system during the transition from the Ming to the Qing dynasty. By examining historical documents, this paper explores the background and reasons for the establishment of the Dongjiang Rations Bureau, as well as its organisational structure and evolution, with the aim of revealing the characteristics...

History 

In recent years, the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone policy has been continuously promoted, and the scale has been continuously expanded, which has played an important role in China’s economic development. Based on literature research, theoretical exposition and empirical testing, this paper constructs a research framework to study the relationship between the establishment of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones and urban Green Total Factor Productivity (GTFP). Thi...

Business Communication 

The digital records preservation strategies used by public sector organisations in Botswana were evaluated in this study. Owing to technological advancements and the government of Botswana’s e-government initiative, the production of digital records has become inevitable. Consequently, the public sector should implement effective records management practices, including the preservation of digital records, to guarantee the accessibility of records in the long term. The purpose of this study was t...

Information Science 

This article explores the origin of the story of ancient Greek mathematician Thales transporting salt with mules. Through the investigation of Thales in historical works on mathematics, it was found that British historian of mathematics James Gow might first introduce this tale in A Short History of Greek Mathematics in 1884. Gow argued that the story originated from Plutarch or Aristotle, but such claims have not been accepted by Western historians of mathematics. American mathematician Howard ...

Pedagogy  History  History of Mathematics 

Purpose: Color Vision Deficiency (CVD) can interfere with educational performance and occupational participation; however, efficient school-based screening tools remain limited. This study evaluated four low-cost color vision screening tests against the Hardy-Rand-Rittler (HRR) Pseudoisochromatic Plates for detecting red-green CVD. Methods: Forty-nine adults (35 normal, 14 CVD; 18 - 59 years) completed HRR plates, crayon, color-board, paint-chip classification, and a psychophysical red-increment...

Ophthalmology