China is currently undergoing a demographic transition toward an aging society of unprecedented scale and speed, making this issue a focal point of mainstream media discourse. Based on Cap’s Proximization Theory, this study conducts a critical cognitive discourse analysis (CCDA) of aging-related reports in China Daily to explore how the media cognitively constructs the issue of population aging through spatial, temporal, and axiological dimensions. The findings suggest that in the spatial...

Linguistics 

This paper critically reviews Kato Yoko’s Why Did the Japanese Choose War, aiming to assess the book’s explanatory power and limitations from a social-psychological perspective. Through a close reading of Kato’s historical narrative and comparative analysis with existing scholarship (e.g., Maruyama Masao, Iriye Akira), this review argues that while Kato’s social-psychological approach offers a valuable new lens, it suffers from underdefined key concepts, insufficient critical engagement w...

History 

Aim: This systematic review aimed to identify and synthesize the risk factors associated with orthodontic relapse. Methods: A comprehensive electronic search was conducted in PubMed, MEDLINE, Embase, Cochrane Library, Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science to address the research question. The methodological quality of the selected articles was assessed using STROBE-based criteria. Results: The analysis of the eighteen studies included, identified several major risk fact...

Dentistry 

Chinese high school students have long been under heavy academic pressure in English, and the rational use of learning strategies is particularly crucial to improving their English learning outcomes. Psychological resilience, as an important psychological resource, can influence the practical application of students’ language learning strategies; however, the specific mechanism of action between the two has not yet been clearly elucidated. Therefore, this study systematically explores the overal...

Language Education 

Mucinous breast carcinoma is a rare malignant tumor (1% - 4% of breast cancers), generally associated with a favorable prognosis. Its management is multidisciplinary; adjuvant radiation therapy aims to reduce the risk of locoregional recurrence. Short hypofractionated regimens, including the FAST-Forward protocol, are increasingly used in older patients due to their convenience and demonstrated efficacy in standard series of ductal carcinoma. We report the case of an 86-year-old female patient w...

Gynecology & Obstetrics  Oncology 

This paper investigates the closability of closed compact linear operators on Hilbert spaces. It establishes that under certain conditions, every closed compact linear operator is closable. Additionally, it investigates the properties of closable operators and highlights their stability under limits and algebraic operations. We establish a non-closability criterion based on sequences in the domain and demonstrate that the limit of bounded compact operators need not be closable. Moreover, we exam...

Algebra 

Healthcare chaplains, alongside those serving in palliative, dementia-care, displacement, and correctional settings, increasingly accompany people whose losses occur while the person still lives—losses that progressively strip away autonomy, agency, identity, and coherent life narrative without offering the closure that bereavement following death affords. Standard spiritual assessment frameworks (FICA, HOPE, SPIRIT, and Spiritual AIM) were designed for broad clinical application rather than for...

Sociology 

Slope failures due to rainfall are one of the main factors that cause damage to transportation infrastructures, embankments, and earth structures even with reinforcement in the tropical and sub-tropical areas. This paper uses combined experimental and numerical methods to study the hydro-mechanical behavior of geosynthetic reinforced slopes as well as the morphing of the damage process as a result of rainfall infiltration. The new research method is making use of instrumented rainfall flume benc...

Environmental Sciences 

Against the backdrop of “Greater Ideological and Political Education”, the systematic integration of ideological and political elements into classroom teaching has become a core educational task for colleges and universities. However, college physics courses are characterized by high abstraction and long logical chains. The traditional “story + slogan” model of ideological and political instruction often leads to issues such as rigid “labeling” and disconnection from real life, resulting in low ...

Pedagogy 

Introduction: Access to healthcare services remains a major challenge in developing countries, particularly in disadvantaged neighborhoods where social inequalities translate into disparities in the use of healthcare services. In Lubumbashi, numerous barriers limit children in disadvantaged neighborhoods’ access to healthcare: precarious socioeconomic conditions, lack of or distance from healthcare services, and geographical disparities, leading to the use of informal alternatives ...

Public Health  Health Policy