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📄 social science

Cultural Heritage Mapping: Charting Tourism Potentials and Inscribing Calabanga’s Tangible Heritage

This study utilizes integrated cultural mapping to demonstrate that Calabanga's tangible heritage sites—the Amang Hinulid Chapel, the Teacher's Monument, and the La Inmaculada Concepcion de Quipayo image—are sustained by their interwoven intangible practices, offering a framework for conservation-led tourism that balances community identity, education, and sustainable development.

Richard Gavina Castor2026-09-20
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The Darma Valley at the Himalayan Trijunction: Community, Territoriality, and Security Dynamics in the Borderland of India, China and Nepal

Drawing on diverse historical and contemporary sources, this paper examines the Darma Valley as a microcosm of Himalayan frontier governance, illustrating how the region's transformation from a historic trade hub to a militarized borderland reflects the complex interplay of territorial disputes, securitization policies, and the critical role of community agency in defining sovereignty at the India-China-Nepal trijunction.

Rishabh Verma2026-09-19
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Islam and Feminism: A Qualitative Documentary Analysis of Gender, Marital Rights, and Public Authority in Selected Islamic Texts and Juristic Traditions

This qualitative documentary analysis argues that while significant tensions exist between modern feminist norms and classical Islamic jurisprudence regarding gender, marital rights, and public authority, a nuanced understanding requires distinguishing between scripture, diverse interpretive traditions, and historical contexts rather than viewing Islam as a monolithic entity.

AHMED Arar ALATAWNA2026-09-19
📄 social science

Organizational Embedding, Responsibility Decomposition, and High-Level Promotion: The Implementation Mechanism of Special Task Forces in Collaboratively Enhancing Organizational Effectiveness

This study utilizes a case study of the Hainan Free Trade Port to demonstrate how special task forces enhance organizational effectiveness in government data sharing through a mechanism of triple organizational embedding, decomposed responsibility systems, and high-level promotion.

Xinshui Xie, Guichun Dai, Xinye Wang2026-09-19
📄 social science

Conversational AI as a Cognitive Scaffold or a Substitute for Thinking: A Dual-Path Model of Cognitive Offloading, Post- Response Deep Processing, and Critical Thinking

This study proposes a dual-path model demonstrating that conversational AI enhances university students' critical thinking primarily when it serves as a scaffold for cognitive offloading that prompts post-response deep processing, rather than acting as a substitute that discourages further reflection.

Yiding Bu, Zhentai zhang, Shuyi Wang, Yuxin Li2026-09-18
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Experiences and Consequences of Working Mothers in Healthcare Settings: A Qualitative Content Analysis

This 2025 qualitative study of Iranian healthcare workers reveals that employment among mothers generates a complex duality of consequences, simultaneously creating challenges like role conflict and family strain while offering benefits such as economic stability, improved health literacy, and social support, thereby underscoring the need for gender-sensitive workplace policies.

Somayeh Jalilvand, Kianoush Abdi, Maryam Latifian, Sahar Esmaeili2026-09-18
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Why caught in the cycle of victimization? The role of heightened irritability and diminished social support

This longitudinal study of 2,741 Chinese adolescents reveals that childhood maltreatment predicts subsequent physical and relational bullying victimization, particularly among boys, through the mediating mechanisms of heightened irritability and diminished social support from teachers and peers.

Rong Bai, Mingyangjia Tian, Yumeng Wang, Yiting Liang, Shuchang Han, Xia Liu2026-09-18
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Restorative Justice as a Pedagogical Intervention Embedded in Social Work Education, to Combat the Post Removal Child Welfare Experience

This theoretical paper argues that integrating restorative justice into social work education can disrupt harmful "rescue narratives" in child welfare by addressing systemic inequities and preparing future practitioners to prioritize accountability, relational repair, and justice-oriented practices for marginalized youth.

Christina Barksdale2026-09-18
📄 social science

Policy Gaps in Indonesia’s Caregiver Training Curriculum and Their Impact on International Care Worker Mobility

This study utilizes a comparative documentary analysis and theoretical frameworks of liminality and power to identify critical gaps between Indonesia's non-formal caregiver training and Australia's qualification standards, revealing that structural policy misalignments rather than individual incompetence drive placement failures, and proposes a Bilateral Curriculum Alignment Framework to facilitate dignified labor mobility.

Tri Suminar, Pearl Subban, Mintarsih Arbarini, Indri Ajeng Setyoningrum, Arini Dwi Cahyani, Fatona Suraya, Yudi Siswanto (…)2026-09-18