The unabated energy crisis, growing volume of wastewater and poor waste management system have been an issue of utmost concern. In this research, biogas production potentials from wastewater sludge of the two wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) plants A (Aladinma) and B (Ikenegbu) of Owerri Municipality were examined, evaluated and the socio-economic benefits were evaluated by using BioWin and MATLAB softwares. The chemical oxygen demand (COD), biochemical oxygen demand (BOD₅), total ...

Environmental Sciences 

International students experience self-stigma associated with seeking psychological services. The current research tests a moderated mediation model in which hyper-visibility predicts self-stigma of seeking help through the mediating mechanism of stereotype threat, and growth mindset buffers the stereotype threat → self-stigma relationship. The survey was conducted among 344 international students enrolled at universities in China. According to moderated mediation analysis, the following e...

Pedagogy 

Excellent writing skills are crucial for communication, assessment, education, and employment. However, second language learners often avoid writing due to negative emotions such as anxiety and distress, resulting in low willingness to write (WTW). This paper starts with the concepts of writing anxiety and WTW, analyzes the relationship between the two, and proposes three strategies—writing planning, writing monitoring, and writing evaluation—at the pre-writing, writing, and post-writing stages,...

Psychology 

This paper proposes “Text-Voice Resonance” (wensheng gongzhen) as an analytical concept describing the cycle by which an affective utterance passes repeatedly between written and oral form and enlarges its body of respondents, and uses it to examine how the “Zuili” cultural sphere of Jiashan was linked to the affective network along the Grand Canal. The synchronic axis addresses the structural homology of affect across places, examining how bereft ministers, aggrieved wom...

Psychology 

With the development of consumer neuroscience, multimodal neuromarketing has increasingly been applied to advertising effectiveness evaluation. This review examines electroencephalography (EEG), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), eye tracking (ET), galvanic skin response (GSR), and facial electromyography (fEMG), focusing on what each measure contributes to the assessment of advertising responses and how their combination can extend conventional evaluation. Rather than treating multim...

Marketing 

This study focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship education in application-oriented local universities, and discusses the coupling relationship between teachers’ literacy and local industry demand. By analysing the current reality of the dilemma, constructing the core dimensions of teacher literacy, analyzing the coupling mechanism, and proposing the empowering path of literacy enhancement, the study aims to provide theoretical support and practical guidance for local colleges and univ...

Human Geography  Sociology 

This paper empirically investigates the impact of feedback from Large Language Models (LLMs) on the development of writing proficiency among university-level English learners. Employing a quasi-experimental pre-test/post-test design, the study assigned 52 non-English major freshmen to either an experimental group, which received LLM-generated feedback, or a control group, which received traditional teacher feedback, over a 15-week writing intervention. Writing samples were analyzed quantitativel...

Linguistics 

This study, conducted in Badougou Djoliba, aimed to investigate the optimal conditions for vermicomposting and to characterize the morphological traits of two earthworm species: the exotic or manure worm, Eisenia foetida, and the local strain, Eisenia eugeniae, within the agropedological context of Mali. Manure was collected from domestic livestock on peri-urban farms in Bamako. Two experimental setups were implemented: one in a natural environment and the other under...

Agricultural Science 

Satellite image time series (SITS) provide valuable information for agricultural monitoring, yet supervised learning approaches remain limited by the scarcity of labeled data, particularly in developing regions. To address this challenge, we propose SatMAE-Agri, a masked spatiotemporal autoencoder for self-supervised representation learning from multi-temporal Sentinel-2 satellite imagery. The proposed method extends masked autoencoding to spatiotemporal remote sensing data by jointly modeling s...

Applications of Communication Systems  Artificial Intelligence  Agricultural Engineering 

Over the years, the Kenyan political space has changed thanks to social media, with Kenyans on X, Tiktok and other digital platforms playing a key role in shaping the country’s political discourse. One of the new traits that has emerged is the use of political nicknames. This study is an investigation on the origin and meaning of nicknames used to refer to popular politicians in Kenya. In the study, sixteen popular political leaders in Kenya from different regions were purposively sampled ...

Linguistics  Politics