Title: Waring-Goldbach Problem: One Square, Four Cubes and Higher Powers,
Abstract: Let $\mathcal{P}_r$ denote an almost-prime with at most $r$ prime factors,
counted according to multiplicity. In this paper, it is proved that, for
$12\leqslant b\leqslant 35$ and for every sufficiently large odd integer $N$,
the equation \begin{equation*}
N=x^2+p_1^3+p_2^3+p_3^3+p_4^3+p_5^4+p_6^b \end{equation*} is solvable with
$x$ being an almost-prime $\mathcal{P}_{r(b)}$ and the other variables primes,
where $r(b)$ is defined in the Theorem. This result constitutes an improvement
upon that of Lü and Mu.