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Understanding Public Opinion Evolution in Extreme Rainstorm Disasters for Resilient Governance: A BERTopic-Based Event Logic Graph Approach

This study employs a BERTopic-based Event Logic Graph approach to analyze multi-platform social media data from the "23·7" Beijing rainstorm, revealing that while public attention focuses on disaster impacts and emergency response, critical information regarding warnings, preparedness, and recovery remains underrepresented, thereby highlighting the need for full-cycle risk communication strategies to enhance resilient governance.

Qiaoyan Ding, Cui Li, Qiyu Tian2026-09-15

📄 social science

Gaslighting Exposure, Cognitive Emotion Regulation, and Relationship Satisfaction in Pakistani Couples: An Actor–Partner Interdependence Study

This study of 100 married Pakistani couples reveals that both partners' exposure to gaslighting and the use of maladaptive emotion regulation are strongly and negatively associated with relationship satisfaction through significant actor and partner effects, while adaptive regulation offers limited protective benefits.

Filza Asif, Urooj Sadiq Sadiq, Rehana Mustaq, Samia Rani, Aqsa Yaqoob, Zeeshan Manzoor2026-09-15

📄 social science

Traffic Congestion, Academic Disruption, and Psychological Distress: A Quantitative Assessment of University Students in Dhaka, Bangladesh

This quantitative study of 402 university students in Dhaka, Bangladesh, reveals that severe traffic congestion significantly predicts academic disruption and psychological distress, with the latter partially mediating the impact of travel time on academic performance and disproportionately affecting female students.

Md. Alamgir Hossain2026-09-15

📄 social science

International Disorder and Polarisation in Small States: The Case of Armenia

This paper argues that the crisis in the international order has triggered ontological anxiety in Armenia, leading to severe domestic polarization where the government seeks to reorient the state's international position while the opposition clings to established narratives, thereby blurring the lines between internal rivals and external enemies.

Alen Shadunts2026-09-15

📄 social science

Chess in the Preschool Classroom: Associations with Children’s Mathematics Ability, Self-Regulated Learning, and Executive Functions

This study of 52 preschoolers reveals that higher chess proficiency is significantly associated with improved mathematics ability, executive functions, and self-regulated learning behaviors, with chess skills serving as a robust positive predictor of early math performance.

Atiye ADAK ÖZDEMİR, Ahmet EROL2026-09-15

📄 social science

Implementing Flipped Classroom in a Biomathematics Course Through Design-Based Research

This Design-Based Research study on implementing a Flipped Classroom model in a biomathematics course found that while students achieved exceptionally high academic performance, their self-assessed teamwork attributes generally declined, likely due to a "response shift" caused by the increased cognitive load of mastering complex software tools.

Gergő Sipka, Péter Gaszler, Mónika Ágnes Szütsné Tóth, Beáta Bugyi2026-09-15

📄 social science

On the epistemological model of fractions arithmetic: Learning the praxeologies from classroom works

This study, utilizing the Anthropological Theory of the Didactic to analyze sixth-grade classroom data, argues that understanding fractions as quantities of units and recognizing arithmetic operations as manifestations of a common organization are essential for developing a coherent and unified understanding of fraction arithmetic.

Sani Sahara, Tatsuya Mizoguchi, Nadya Syifa Utami, Yurniwati Yurniwati, Novi Andri Nurcahyono, Mira Amelia Amri, Wily Wa (…)2026-09-15

🧬 biology

The Scope and Signatures of History-Driven Attention: Perceptual Structures Shape Attentional Priorities

This paper demonstrates that history-driven attention is a distinct mechanism shaped by learned perceptual regularities rather than semantic ones, operating implicitly and persistently in contrast to the transient dynamics of stimulus-driven selection and the qualitative differences of goal-driven selection.

Ying Wang, Shuo Li, Shaoshuai Zhang, Yuxin Lu, Yuhao Tian, Yi Jiang2026-09-15

📄 social science

Love Addiction as Relational Regulation: A Clinician-Informed Framework for Psychotherapeutic Case Formulation

This study develops and preliminarily validates a clinician-informed framework comprising six "Relational Configurations" to better understand and formulate the diverse regulatory functions underlying love addiction, moving beyond traditional addiction or attachment models to guide psychotherapeutic practice.

Barbara Giangrasso, Ludovica Casini, Filippo Cantelli, Valentina Biondi, Riccardo Puccini, Massimo Giusti2026-09-15

📄 social science

Metacognitive Functioning, Academic Resilience, and Self-Regulated Knowledge among Ghanaian University Students: The Moderating Role of Gender

This cross-sectional study of 805 Ghanaian university students found that metacognitive functioning and academic resilience positively predict self-regulated knowledge, with gender moderating the resilience-knowledge relationship such that the association is stronger for males, though the findings are correlational and require further longitudinal validation.

Regine Kwaw, Jane Odurowaa, Inuusah Mahama, Joshua-Luther Ndoye Upoalkpajor, Julius Tigtig2026-09-15

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