Kenyans on Kenyans on 𝕏 function as a community of language users where language is not just a tool of communication, but an instrument for achieving social goals where they use language to navigate social interactions, have fun, critique leaders and assert their social identities. This paper examines the use of mock politeness as a communicative strategy by Kenyans on 𝕏. With a focus on their language, the study discusses how mock politeness helps Kenyans on 𝕏 discuss va...

Linguistics 

The study examined the professional identity level of kindergarten teachers and the challenges affecting their identity formation in the Central Region in Ghana. The concurrent mixed method design using identical samples for both quantitative and qualitative data was used. The study comprised all Kindergarten teachers in the municipality. The census sampling procedure was thus employed in selecting 182 kindergarten teachers for the study. A questionnaire with some open-ended items was used to ga...

Educational Technology 

Sexual harassment in the workplace is still omnipresent in the workplace in Canada. It is even more ubiquitous in male-dominated industries, and women holding these “masculine” positions are the principal victims. Sexual harassment can take many forms, such as physical, verbal, or even virtual. Many Canadian women working in male-dominated industries are victims of this type of harassment in the workplace, which causes them intense stress and substantial emotional distress. Whether it’s in the C...

Sociology  Psychology  Women’s Health 

Corporate dividend policy is one of the most challenging issues in the corporate finance field. The decision of dividend policy is considered an important managerial decision as it could have a serious impact on firm performance and firm value. Many researchers have investigated the association between dividend policy and firm performance in different countries and contexts. Different theories and a large body of theoretical and empirical literature have addressed the relationship between divide...

Finance 

Despite the alarming situation of the waste generated by street food services, their WTP is also reported to be low, which makes waste management more challenging, especially in developing countries, particularly Tanzania. This study analyzes the factors influencing willingness to pay for improved waste management in Mzumbe ward, Morogoro District. A quantitative, cross-sectional study was used to obtain a sample of 196 food vendors in the Mzumbe ward. The study questionnaires for data collectio...

Hydrology 

Objective: To evaluate the potential causal relationship between 182 gut microbiota and childhood obesity by two-sample Mendelian randomization. Methods: The data source was the summary data of genome-wide association study (GWAS), and 182 intestinal microbiota contained 874 single nucleotide diversity (SNPs). The childhood obesity data contained 2,442,739 SNPs. Mendelian randomization analysis was performed using three methods: inverse variance weighting (IVW), weighted median,...

Public Health  Microbiology  Pediatrics  Bioinformatics 

Oral health is an important aspect of athletes’ overall health, yet it is often overlooked. Dental pain and its pharmacological treatment can have an impact on athletic performance, leading sports medicine physicians to include dental consultations in the management of athletes. However, athletes lack information and dental surgeons are often not well-informed about the specific needs of athletes. This literature review focuses on the peculiarities of athletes, dental trauma, barotrauma, focal c...

Public Health  Health Policy  Dentistry 

Introduction: The computerization of medical records reveals a capital importance not only in the care of patients but also in the conservation of data for subsequent research. The objective of our study is to report on the computerized management of patient files in certain hospitals in the city of Kananga in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Methodology: We carried out a cross-sectional descriptive study, by direct interview, which included 86 health professio...

Public Health 

The names of cultural relics have distinctive national characteristics and abundant cultural connotations. The accuracy and standardization of the translation of cultural relics in museums directly affects the effect of culture’s translation and dissemination. Taking cultural relics’ name from Xi’an Museum as the research object and by means of field investigation method and text analysis method, this study summarized and concluded that there were three types of problems in the translation of cu...

Linguistics 

INTRODUCTION: Nasal anthropometry plays a pivotal role in assessing nasal size and shape within the context of overall craniofacial structure. However, defining the ideal nasal aesthetic remains complex. Anthropometric variations in nasal morphology across populations, shaped by environmental adaptations, contribute to diverse perceptions of facial harmony among different ethnic groups. AIM: To define average nasal values in a harmonious Moroccan population; to ...

Dentistry