Reading is essential for any country, and the promotion of children’s reading is an important part of “carrying out the nationwide reading activity”. By sharing some typical cases of children’s reading promotion activities in China, the author provides some references and inspirations for the library and other cultural departments to carry out children’s reading promotion activities, promote the theory and practice of children’s reading promotion research, and improve children’s reading level an...

Sociology  Public Policy 

The increasing amount of generated solid waste represents a great challenge to environmental engineers and scientists. Integrated solid waste management is highly required to control this important environment sector to reduce the possible negative impact on the environmental components (water, soil, and air). This study deals for the first time with solid waste management in Salt city. The evaluation of the current solid waste management program was carried out based on developed Decision Suppo...

Environmental Sciences 

Water Safety Plan (WSP) is considered as a collaborative approach dedicated to the risks of water impurity in a drinking water operating system, started at the catchment and finished at the end user, to protect people’s health. The aim of this study is to accomplish a WSP for the drinking water operation system of Azraq Spring. It is located in Fuhais in the northwestern part of Balqa, about 20 km west of Amman. The catchment area is 23.71 km² and it has a perimeter of 20.42 km. Semi-...

Hydrology 

The use of modern technologies in Civil Engineering is increasing in recent years. Due to the different aesthetic needs of people, the building of different shapes and sizes is in practice. Such building structure is more susceptible to seismic force. Numerous methods have been followed to reduce the severe effects. The shape of a building is one such method which changes the structural behavior. The objective of this research is to compare seismic properties of the seismic region of Nepal using...

Civil Engineering 

The study aims to analyze the determinants of health care seeking in households in Abidjan during an episode of illness. The data for this study came from a household survey in the city of Abidjan. Based on the data collected, univariate and multivariate analyses provided explanatory elements for the population’s health care utilization behaviors and the use and non-use of health services. The results of this research show the predominance of self-medication in the therapeutic use of young peopl...

Public Health 

It is of great significance to integrate course ideological and political education in college English classrooms. For the institutions featuring science and technology in particular, how to clarify the understanding of the course and implement it in practice, so as to cultivate socialist builders and successors with the scientific spirit, deeper love for our country and international vision, is an important way to implement the fundamental task of fostering virtues in higher education. This art...

Language Education 

The name of water is called life. Providing safe drinking water is one of the momentous public health precedencies and the drinking water quality is closely associated with human health. The most important human well-being is affordable, abundant, and clean drinking water. This study has been conducted for assessing the drinking water quality of various locations in Noakhali. Total of nine water samples have been collected from three different locations (Sadar, Begumgonj, and Hatiya). Each sampl...

Hydrology 

The paper assessed the perceptions of teachers and students with regard to the effectiveness of the Business Management curriculum in Senior High School (SHS) in Ghana. The cross-sectional survey design was employed for the study where the views of 351 students and 30 teachers were sought concerning the potential of the current business management curriculum in preparing students to acquire employable skills. Students and teachers from ten (10) public senior high schools in the Kumasi Metropolis...

Education Administration  Teaching and Learning Technologies  Educational Technology  Higher Education 

This work sets out to discuss the “principles” which qualify or characterize religious beliefs per se, as well as the “grounds” (i.e., reasons used as a justification), upon which religious beliefs and practices are based. In other words, what constitutes people’s fundamental aspiration or foundational motivation, in their religious beliefs or why people feel obligated to entertain certain religious beliefs and engage in certain kinds of religious practices or expressions. The rationale...

Philosophy 

As a traditional architecture of the Qiang nationality, the watchtowers are rich in culture and profound in value. The construction techniques and functional changes of the watchtowers deeply embody the Qiang people’s understanding of “functionalism”. However, since modern times, the Qiang watchtowers have been decreasing under the impact of economic construction. Professional scholars urgently need to conduct systematic research on watchtowers and propose protection and utilization strategies a...

Culture  Architecture