1804 papers
This mixed-methods study of Tanzanian primary schools reveals that while most teachers recognize the importance of noncognitive skills and primarily use observation checklists, their assessment practices remain largely informal and subjective due to a lack of standardized national guidelines and training.
This qualitative study of Mogadishu's post-conflict judiciary reveals that while livestreaming court proceedings shifts public perception from hearsay to direct observation, its impact on public trust is conditional, enhancing legitimacy only when courts demonstrate visible neutrality and professionalism, but potentially eroding it if proceedings appear biased or flawed.
A 2024 national survey in Ukraine reveals that while protracted war has caused widespread high stress among the population, a significant gap exists between the perceived need for psychological help and actual care receipt, driven primarily by barriers such as cost, skepticism about effectiveness, access difficulties, and cultural stigma.
This study integrates a PRISMA-ScR scoping review of German typography literature with expert interviews to develop a transdisciplinary multi-layered model that links six key typographic design principles to cognitive, metacognitive, and motivational aspects of learning in digital environments.
This review synthesizes findings from 48 studies to identify six interrelated factor groups and proposes a hexagonal conceptual model as an integrated diagnostic framework for optimizing the quality of adaptive reuse in cultural heritage buildings.
This qualitative study identifies how family dynamics, cultural stigma, and systemic barriers in Upper Chitral, Pakistan, significantly shape adolescent mental health outcomes, highlighting the urgent need for culturally sensitive interventions to address these unique sociocultural challenges.
This qualitative study reveals that despite Zimbabwe's post-devolution framework, community-based disaster risk reduction in Sanyati District remains hindered by financial scarcity, political centralization, weak institutional capacity, and limited community participation, necessitating fiscal decentralization and governance reforms to achieve sustainable resilience.
This study demonstrates that while excessive worry and sleep onset difficulty are highly connected in anxiety-sleep networks, difficulty initiating sleep exerts a disproportionately large influence on overall symptom organization, suggesting that structural connectivity and exploratory influence are distinct characteristics that should both be considered to fully understand co-occurring anxiety and sleep disturbances.
This study demonstrates that "My Story Cards," a novel visual elicitation tool, effectively enables adults to intuitively identify, prioritize, and articulate their salient wellbeing needs by integrating emotional insight with cognitive reflection, thereby offering a holistic, person-centered alternative to conventional self-report measures.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, social isolation did not increase the general desire for touch but rather narrowed tactile interactions to close networks, while the study found that receiving affective touch improved mood whereas an unmet desire for touch was linked to higher stress and loneliness, highlighting the distinct emotional roles of experienced versus desired touch.