Freshwater supplies remain more and more in lack corresponding to the increased demand for several human activities. Such difficult circumstances make desalination of saline water an obligation. Desalination to take out water from saline water has been proved as a safe non-traditional water supply. Nevertheless, like any human-founded method, desalination has conducted to several influences on nature. Charged with chemical products, brine is discharged back to nature. Greenhouse gases (GHGs) emi...

Chemical Engineering & Technology 

Hofstede, a renowned Dutch scholar, puts forward a concept called “culture dimension” in Culture’s Consequences. Four aspects are included in the concept: power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism and collectivism, masculinity and femininity. American anthropologist Edward Twitchell Hall advances high context and low context to analyse cultural diversity based on the two concepts. Professor Kluckhohn from Harvard University and Strodtbeck put forward the theory of time orientation. Th...

Culture 

Composed by China’s most celebrated star Li Yuchun, See the Next Intersection (下个, 路口, 见) is an extraordinarily popular song. Under the three rules of the Skopos theory, this paper explores the translator’s goal of integrating music and words through flexible translation techniques to achieve communication across cultural and language barriers. However, some slight flaws emerge during the process due to the translator’s extreme attention to the Skopos rule. Moreover, this paper provides some enl...

Information Science  Education 

Objective: To understand the undergraduates’ willingness to take postgraduate entrance examination in application-oriented university. This paper analyzes the influence of “postgraduate entrance examination craze” on students’ willingness to take postgraduate entrance examination, and analyzes its influencing factors, so as to provide reference for formulating the policy of postgraduate entrance examination and the goal of personnel training. Methods: The purpose of this study was to investigate...

Education 

Background: In Nigeria, the 2018 world malaria report shows that the country’s malaria surveillance system detects less than 20 per cent of the total malaria case. In malaria control programmes, the main source of data is health facility-based and reported routinely through the health information systems. The collected data is mainly for monitoring and evaluation at the programmatic level. Although the adoption of the District Health Information Software (DHIS2) has greatly improved the availabi...

Epidemiology  Infectious Diseases 

The World Health Organisation (WHO) independent monitoring report (IMR) for the Long-lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs) replacement campaign in Nigeria aims to ensure the campaigns met the minimum WHO standard through monitoring and guiding of the processs to achieve universal LLIN coverage and stop malaria transmission. The concept of an independent monitoring report was an innovation from the Independent Monitoring Board report of the Polio Elimination Programme. The independent monitoring repo...

Public Health  Epidemiology  Nursing  Infectious Diseases 

Patellofemoral pain (PFP) in the context of patellar instability is a frequent and often challenging clinical problem that affects a young and active population: females more than males. Diagnosis of the specific cause requires a rigorous clinical and paraclinical conduct. The treatment for PFP is first of all conservative on the basis of specific physical therapy program. In case of failure of the latter, surgical treatment which can be categorized on soft tissue techniques and bone procedures,...

Surgery & Surgical Specialties 

Mabira Central Forest Reserve in Uganda (MCFR) is facing biodiversity loss, especially other tree species in the paper mulberry dominated area due to Charcoal burning activities and the presence of paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera). Paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) in the family Moraceae or Morus papyrifera is found mostly in the production zone identified as hotspot of biodiversity in Mabira central Forest reserve. Several studies in western and East Africa have indicated that pa...

Environmental Sciences 

As the largest and most complete North Dong village in the southeast of Guizhou province, Baojing Dong Village has been included in the list of national traditional villages. A fire has destroyed the integrity and uniqueness of the Baojing Dong Village. The purpose of this paper is to sort out the status quo of the human settlement environment in Baojing Dong Village after reconstruction, observe whether there is a qualitative change due to reconstruction and think about it and put forward some ...

Architecture 

Since the report of the Fall armyworm (FAW) (Spodoptera frugiperda) in 2016 in Africa, the FAW has widely spread in Zambia, causing significant damage to maize, rice sorghum and other crops. The botanical extracts from Neem leaves, Garlic cloves and Chinaberry leaves efficacies were compared to Cypermethrin insecticide for FAW control in maize. A Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with four replications and Seedco SC 403 maize variety were used as a test crop. Ten FAW larvae were artificial...

Agricultural Science  Plant Science