This study investigates the effectiveness of formative assessment in senior high school English writing teaching, with a focus on its impact on students’ writing competence and their attitudinal acceptance. Adopting a quasi-experimental design, the research selected two second-year classes from a provincial high school in Z Province in China as participants. The experimental group underwent a one-month formative assessment intervention in writing instruction, while the control group maintained c...

Pedagogy 

Background: Infectious processes are the leading cause of pediatric consultation, and recurrent or severe infections may indicate primary immunodeficiencies (PIDs), which comprise more than 484 rare diseases affecting the immune response. The nature and severity of infections depend on the component of the immune system affected, with defects in humoral immunity being a frequent cause of severe respiratory infections. Evaluation of blood immunoglobulin (Ig) levels is essential for the identifica...

Microbiology  Infectious Diseases  Biochemistry  Immunology  Pediatrics 

This article aims to address the problems encountered in the teaching of the course “Fundamentals of Cloud and Precipitation Physics and Lightning Science” by improving and optimizing classroom content, teaching methods, experimental methods, and assessment methods. The goal is to enrich teaching content, enhance teaching effectiveness, stimulate students’ interest, and cultivate comprehensive talents for the field of atmospheric science through curriculum reform (especially including knowledge ...

Atmospheric Sciences 

Breast milk is crucial for an infant’s nutrition and immunity, especially in the first six months. When direct breastfeeding is not possible, expressing milk becomes essential, yet many mothers face challenges due to limited awareness. The study aimed to assess awareness and attitude on storage and feeding of expressed breast milk among postnatal mothers attending a tertiary hospital, Pokhara. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 335 postnatal...

Gastroenterology & Hepatology  Women’s Health 

This paper investigates the behavior of a prey-predator system in continuous time obtained by non-linear differential equations arising from diabetes of type one. We study the stability of equilibrium points, dissipativity multistability, Wave Form, state space analysis Lyapunove exponents, and bifurcation. A new Lyapunove function is constructed, and the analysis of stability is consistent with other methods of stability. The analysis shows that the predator-prey system is unstable and chaotic ...

Mathematics 

As the research subject of historical pragmatics continues to expand, this study attempts to explore the semantic change that is occurring these days from the perspective of historical pragmatics. Taking the highly dynamic internet slang term “放鸽子” (literally “release pigeons”, meaning to stand someone up) as an example, aim of this article is to investigate the diachronic evolving mechanism of its semantic shift from its literal meaning to “stand someone up” with the consideration of regional v...

Linguistics 

Partial tongue amputation is a serious complication that can present with pain, inability to articulate and massive intraoral bleeding that could be life-threatening within minutes due to difficulty in controlling the bleeding and shock and the direct threat to the airway. It is a life-threatening challenge for the medical staff. A 52-year-old patient was received after an emergency evacuation following a fall from a vehicle during a military patrol. On clinical examination, he presented with fa...

Dentistry 

We present a rare and potential life-threathning case of a 58-year-old man who came in with pruritic skin lesions that were intensively painful, small erythematous pustules that were sterile and scaly, located on both upper and lower extremities and lower back that gradually increased and spread to the limbs, trunk, face and scalp, alongside he was with nail thickening, yellow and white nail discoloration and onycholysis. These symptoms had persisted for over 20 years with multiple recurrences a...

Dermatology 

Introduction: Oculocutaneous albinism (OCA) is a rare genetic disorder affecting the production of melanin, with significant consequences for skin, dander and visual function. This article explores the clinical and therapeutic aspects of OCA, with an emphasis on associated refractive abnormalities. Methods: We conducted a bicentric retrospective study in two private pediatric ophthalmology referral centers in Abidjan over a period of two years, analyzing the records of patients with OCA seen for...

Ophthalmology 

Organizational culture in a company is a system that includes values and beliefs that must be respected by all members of that company and that they have in common, because through the organizational culture in the company, among employees at all levels, a sense of community and belonging is created. Organizational culture is a special form of behavior and guidance of individuals within the company, and the basic indicators of organizational culture are the tradition and history of the organizat...

Human Resource Management  Sociology