Background: This study aimed to determine the seroprevalence and risk factors for Toxoplasma. gondii infection in women seeking antenatal and medical care in the Logbaba District Hospital, Littoral Region of Cameroon. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study from January to December 2022 consecutively enrolling 449 consenting pregnant women aged 16 to 51 years attending antenatal care at the hospital. A survey questionnaire was administered to study participants and pot...

Women’s Health  Public Health 

Vegetation cover change is a key indicator of ecosystem health, soil moisture availability, and land degradation at global, regional, and local levels. Assessment of these changes is crucial to ensuring the sustainability of terrestrial ecosystems such as the Nzeeu River Catchment. The study aimed to determine land use and land cover changes, as well as drivers, in the Nzeeu River catchment for the period 2000 - 2023. The study employed a remote sensing workflow to analyze vegetation dynamics us...

Ecology  Environmental Sciences 

Antidepressant safety surveillance in bipolar disorder requires large, multi-site patient populations to achieve reliable pharmacovigilance signal detection yet the raw patient data necessary to train centralized machine learning models are subject to strict privacy regulations (GDPR, HIPAA) that prohibit cross-site data sharing in most jurisdictions. Federated learning (FL) offers a principled solution: locally trained models share only gradient updates or model weights with a central aggregati...

Artificial Intelligence  Psychiatry & Psychology 

Distal arthrogryposis type 5D (DA5D) is a rare autosomal recessive congenital contracture disorder caused by biallelic variants in ECEL1. We describe a consanguineous family with three affected brothers showing a highly concordant DA5D phenotype with variable clinical severity. The index patient was a 3-month-old male infant with bilateral genu recurvatum, adducted thumbs, bilateral hip flexion contractures, congenital ptosis, micrognathia, high-arched palate, cryptorchidism, and mild facial dys...

Pediatrics 

Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered personalization is reshaping how consumers in emerging digital economies encounter, evaluate, and commit to market offerings, yet prevailing scholarship continues to treat personalization as a uniformly trust-enhancing stimulus. This study challenges that assumption by advancing a capability-trust contingency model in which the effect of AI-powered personalization on purchase intention is neither direct nor uniform but routed through two analytically distinct...

Marketing 

Foreign language enjoyment (FLE), a key affective variable grounded in positive psychology, has received increasing attention in L2 acquisition in recent years. Based on a review of the conceptualization and classification of FLE, and drawing on theoretical models of willingness to communicate in the second language (L2 WTC), this paper explores the mechanisms underlying the relationship between FLE and L2 WTC. Findings indicate that FLE is positively associated with L2 WTC through pathways such...

Language Education 

Introduction: Community participation is a fundamental principle of health promotion and primary health care. Since the Declaration of Alma-Ata, involving populations in matters concerning their health has been viewed as a way to align interventions more closely with local needs and enhance their acceptability. Objective: To analyze the perceptions of community stakeholders regarding the implementation of the Community-Based Nutrition (CBN) project in the Kadutu urban health zone, ...

Health Policy 

Mencius, as a classic work of Confucianism, holds an important position in Chinese traditional culture. Toury’s theory of translational norms posits that translators are constrained by preliminary norms, initial norms, and operational norms during translation activities, providing a new perspective for translation studies. From this theoretical perspective, this paper compares and analyzes the English translations of Mencius by James Legge and D. C. Lau, exploring the differe...

Linguistics  Literature 

Heritage tourism is central to Sri Lanka’s cultural identity and tourism economy, yet university students, despite being frequent, engaged social media users who generally express favorable attitudes toward heritage destinations such as Sigiriya, Anuradhapura, and Kandy, continue to visit these sites infrequently. This study examines the mechanism through which social media exposure is associated with heritage tourism participation among undergraduate students at the University of Sabaraga...

Sociology 

The cross-cultural communication of celadon culture has long been constrained by the cognitive dilemma of “separation of Dao and vessel,” wherein overseas audiences tend to be captivated by the formal beauty of celadon objects yet struggle to apprehend the underlying East Asian philosophical foundations embodied in their “jade-like, mirror-like” aesthetics. This challenge is compounded by mistranslations of culturally loaded terms such as “jiangxin” (craftsman...

Culture