United front work in universities is an important component of the Communist Party of China’s united front work. It plays an irreplaceable role in uniting people, pooling strength, and serving the overall reform, development, and stability of higher education institutions. This study selects 911 core academic papers on university united front work published in the CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure) database between 2014 and 2024, and employs the CiteSpace visualization tool to ...

Politics  Sociology 

Existing scholarship on the Grand Canal takes “circulation” (tong) as its sole measure of value, ranking riverside localities into core, close, and radiating tiers by their distance from the trunk line and treating off-trunk regions as a graded diminution of relevance and resource concentration. This article argues that in the Ming and Qing the Canal was the material form of the current of the times: grain barges went north, boats bearing prisoners under escort went north, and after ...

Linguistics 

Since recent years have witnessed with the acceleration of industrialization and urbanization, environmental discourse has become increasingly prominent in the scholarly circle. In this study, CiteSpace and VOSviewer are employed to gain holistic insights into environmental discourse research and capture the recent research foci. Through a detailed review of literature on environmental discourse, this research aims to describe and analyze the research progress of environmental discourse as objec...

Linguistics 

Aim: To evaluate the association between common comorbidities and the clinical severity, radiological findings, and in-hospital outcomes of patients admitted with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) at a tertiary care center in South India. Subject and Methods: This retrospective observational study included 202 adult patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 admitted to Princess Esra Hospital, Hyderabad, between February and November 2021. Clinical data, comorbidity status, comp...

Radiology & Medical Imaging  Diabetes & Endocrinology  Respiratory Medicine  Diagnostics  Infectious Diseases  Internal Medicine 

Skopos theory provides the theoretical framework for a comparative study of two canonical Chinese translations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, namely those by Zhu Shenghao and Liang Shiqiu. Working from the same source text, the two translators produced different versions, a divergence attributable to their distinct translational purposes, shaped by differing historical contexts, target audiences, and cultural missions. Zhu Shenghao, translating during the War of Resistance, aimed to popul...

Literature 

Completion reports are central to the oil and gas exploration and development process, in which formation names serve as fundamental entities for geological modeling and reserve calculation. However, general-purpose Chinese named entity recognition (NER) tools do not include formation names as an entity type, and the petroleum domain lacks Chinese corpus annotation at the sequence labeling level. Based on the World Oil Outlook 2026 (WOO 2026) published by OPEC, this study employs AntConc frequen...

Linguistics 

Objectives: To review the current methods and techniques used in endodontics, including both mainstream and less widely used approaches. To describe the current status of artificial intelligence and its future directions. To discuss tissue engineering. Materials and Methods: Our literature search was conducted using PubMed, ScienceDirect, Scinapse, and Cochrane as databases. The selection was based on recent studies from the past 10 years. Eligible articles included those relevant ...

Dentistry 

Introduction: Acute respiratory infections (ARIs) remain a major cause of morbidity in children, particularly in disadvantaged communities where living conditions and access to healthcare are precarious. In the Kamina Health Zone, the factors associated with these infections remain poorly documented. This study aimed to identify the determinants of ARIs in children aged 0 to 14 years. Methods: A community-based cross-sectional analytical study was conducted with 384 children aged 0...

Public Health 

Industrial dumpsites can impose complex pressure on nearby water sources through dissolved ions, oxygen demanding substances, microbial inputs and toxic metals. This study assessed the physicochemical quality, Water Quality Index, toxic metal burden and human health risk of water sources around fertilizer, dye, battery and paint dumpsite vicinities in Makurdi, Nigeria. Water categories comprised fertilizer dumpsite water sample (FDWS), dye dumpsite water sample (DDWS), battery dumpsite water sam...

Environmental Sciences 

Against the backdrop of comprehensively advancing the digital transformation of education and implementing the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education, the deep integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technology with primary mathematics teaching offers new possibilities for addressing practical dilemmas such as the absence of emotional education and the singularity of teaching strategies in traditional classrooms. This paper presents a conceptual framework rather than an empir...

Pedagogy