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This paper argues that while urban design theory has rightly shifted from master planning to self-organization, it must recover accountability by recognizing that authorship is distributed among agents with unequal weights, requiring a diagnostic framework that distinguishes configurations based on the concentration of agency rather than legal status.
This quasi-experimental study at Roma Tre University demonstrates that a 15-hour Circle Singing intervention significantly improves English pronunciation accuracy among higher education students compared to a control group, while also fostering engagement and confidence.
This qualitative study of marginalized adolescents in Kuala Lumpur reveals that their health-risk behaviors are not isolated acts of misbehavior but rather situated coping mechanisms and expressions of cumulative adversity stemming from disrupted care, poverty, unsafe environments, and structural neglect due to documentation insecurity, necessitating integrated, trauma-informed, and rights-based interventions.
Using a mixed-methods structural equation modeling approach, this study reveals that literacy habits, character value understanding, learning needs, and local cultural interest significantly shape elementary students' readiness for Riau Malay culture-based literacy education, with reading habits identified as the strongest predictor and folklore serving as an effective pedagogical bridge for moral and cultural development.
This article proposes "cyberphilic design" as a new theoretical framework derived from the contradictory interplay of forest, sponge, and smart city concepts in Indonesia's Nusantara (IKN), arguing that such tropical Global South contexts are essential for rethinking urban design theory beyond Euro-American paradigms.
Grounded in Agenda-Setting Theory and based on a quantitative survey of 200 Ghanaian respondents, this study concludes that while political communication strategies significantly influence voter behavior, their effectiveness is ultimately conditional on voter trust, which emerges as the strongest predictor of electoral decisions.
This descriptive qualitative study reveals that generative AI impacts Chinese nursing and medical students differently across academic levels, necessitating a tiered educational support framework that transitions from basic usage guidance to advanced critical reflection to foster appropriate competency development.
This action research study demonstrates that implementing a four-week sequential intervention combining Collaborative Strategic Reading, Modelled Reading, and Question-Answer Relationship strategies significantly improved reading comprehension performance among 50 Basic Two pupils in a Ghanaian public school, reducing the proportion of below-average performers from 60% to 14%.
This paper demonstrates that unfavorable outcomes produced by artificial agents are accepted more readily than those from human agents because people engage in less upward counterfactual thinking and intentionality attribution toward AI, a disparity that becomes more pronounced when the outcome carries high personal stakes.
Through an analysis of 17 semi-structured interviews, this paper proposes a new four-pathway framework (Challenging, Deep Surrender, What Goes Up, and Slow Flow) to better understand the diverse and non-linear processes of integrating psychedelic and other exceptional experiences, moving beyond existing single-pathway models.