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Organizational Role Stress and Learned Helplessness in Higher Education: An Empirical study and its analysis

This empirical study investigates the significant relationship between Organizational Role Stress (specifically "Role Erosion") and Learned Helplessness among higher education educators, revealing that external-specific attributions explain over half of the stress variance and proposing a MATLAB-based diagnostic model to guide targeted interventions like job enrichment and attributional training for improved wellbeing and performance.

Sonakshi Goyal, Smaranika Mohapatra, Kusumlata Jain2026-07-30
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Breaking Barriers: Students with Foster Care Experience and Their Pathways to Paying for College

This mixed-methods study reveals that while financial aid and tuition waivers are critical for college access among students with foster care experience, overcoming the administrative burdens and psychological barriers—such as trauma, stigma, and fragmented support systems—requires coordinated, trauma-informed navigation across child welfare and higher education institutions.

Jacob P. Gross, Jennifer A. Delaney2026-07-30
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AI Dependency and Work Engagement: The Dual Roles of Cognitive Vigilance and Offloading under AI Hallucinations, evidence from Vietnam’s MNC Employee. Applying PLS-SEM, Artificial Neural Network, Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Necessary Condition Analysis method

Drawing on data from Vietnam's MNC employees and employing a pioneering multi-methodological approach (PLS-SEM, ANN, fsQCA, and NCA), this study reveals that while work stress drives both instrumental and emotional AI dependence, cognitive offloading serves as a critical job resource and the singular necessary condition for high work engagement, even in the presence of AI hallucinations which fail to mitigate reliance or heighten vigilance.

Jen Ching-Tsung, Wen-Min Lu, Tran Quoc Sang2026-07-30
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When the record cannot decide: a framework for functional inference in archaeology, with an application to moai transport

This paper introduces a six-stage component-diagnostic framework to distinguish between task-specific engineering and other causal factors in archaeological functional inference, demonstrating its utility by revealing that the proposed "walking" transport mechanism for Rapa Nui's moai lacks functional specificity and suffers from unresolvable observational equivalence due to record-formation biases.

LUCAS RIBEIRO, MARCOS ANDRE SIMONSSINI2026-07-30
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Contextualizing Bureaucratic Reform in Madura, Indonesia: Systematic Literature Review of Institutions, Digital Transformation, and Public-Service Outcomes

This systematic literature review argues that bureaucratic reform in Madura, Indonesia, succeeds only when formal digital and policy instruments are coupled with local contextual legitimacy—mediated by religious and patronage networks—rather than relying solely on standard administrative indicators.

Mohammad Afifuddin, Arie Wahyu Prananta2026-07-30
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Technological Stability Across 25,000 Years: Lithic Simplicity as an Adaptive Response at Txina-Txina, Limpopo Basin, Southern Mozambique

The study of the Txina-Txina site in southern Mozambique reveals a 25,000-year record of consistent lithic simplicity, demonstrating that stable, efficient flake production on local materials was a resilient adaptive strategy rather than a sign of limited technological capacity, challenging the regional expectation of cyclical shifts between flake and bladelet technologies.

Osama Samawi, Ana Gomes, Elena Skosey-LaLonde, Célia Gonçalves, Milena Carvalho, Jeffrey I. Rose, Mussa Raja, João Casca (…)2026-07-30