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📄 social science

Algorithmic Exclusion of Informal and Migrant Construction Workers from Occupational Safety Governance in Türkiye

This paper critiques the assumption that digitalization inherently improves occupational safety governance by introducing the "Digital Shadow Labor" framework, which demonstrates how Türkiye's algorithmic OHS system systematically excludes informal and migrant construction workers through four filtering gates, thereby transforming their invisibility into a constitutive feature of governance rather than a temporary deficit.

Kaan Koçali2026-09-01
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Development and Preliminary Psychometric Evaluation of the WILAP Visual Short-Term Memory and Selective Attention Test

This paper describes the development and preliminary psychometric evaluation of the WILAP-VSTM-SA, a low-cost, physically administered test for visual short-term memory and selective attention, which demonstrated strong reliability and feasibility but requires further validation with larger, more diverse samples to establish full psychometric robustness.

Olawale Folarin, Ifeoluwa Fatoye, Omolayo Folorunsho, Faith Oloruntola., Praise Babalola2026-09-01
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Social support, bicultural acceptance, perceived health, and life satisfaction among multicultural adolescents in South Korea: a three-wave autoregressive cross-lagged mediation study

Using a three-wave longitudinal study of multicultural adolescents in South Korea, this research demonstrates that social support from parents, peers, and teachers sequentially enhances life satisfaction by first fostering bicultural acceptance and subsequently improving perceived health, with parental support showing the strongest indirect effects.

Shixuan Wei, Sunjoo Kwon2026-09-01
📄 social science

Effects of Fraction Relationships-Based Instruction on Primary School Learners’ Proficiency in Fraction Operations

This study demonstrates that a relationships-based instructional approach significantly improves primary school learners' proficiency in fraction operations by fostering a deeper conceptual understanding of fraction relationships, which serves as a stronger predictor of success than mere symbolic recognition.

Japhet Kwasi Osiakwan, Mavis Okyere, Forster Danso Ntow, George Adom2026-09-01
📄 social science

Understanding the Drivers of Environmental Inequality Through an Integrative Framework

This study synthesizes 1,039 global publications using bibliographic coupling and interpretive analysis to develop an integrative framework that identifies six interacting drivers—ranging from resource inequality to political-economic structures—explaining how environmental inequality is produced and sustained across diverse contexts.

Sanjeev Ramachandran, Leela Rani, Purnima Venkat2026-09-01
📄 social science

Pluralising Urban Design Theory through Institutional Practice: Agonistic Design Infrastructure in Ankara, 2019–2024

This paper argues that pluralising urban design theory requires transforming the institutional production of legitimate design knowledge, proposing an "agonistic design infrastructure" model derived from a 2019–2024 study in Ankara that reveals both the potential and limitations of integrating civic and academic actors into decision-making processes.

Savaş Zafer Şahin2026-09-01
📄 social science

Learning Energy for Sustainable Learning with Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education

This perspective article introduces the "Learning Energy" framework, a multidimensional model integrating five psychological theories to explain how generative AI can either deplete or energize higher education learners through resource appraisal, thereby offering a comprehensive approach to understanding and sustaining academic well-being in AI-mediated environments.

Van Huong Nguyen2026-09-01
📄 social science

Autistic traits are associated with psychological distress while coping strategies do not mediate these associations in Malaysian emerging adults

A study of 458 Malaysian emerging adults found that while higher autistic traits are significantly associated with increased psychological distress and the use of various coping strategies, these strategies do not mediate the relationship between autistic traits and distress, suggesting other mechanisms are responsible for the observed mental health challenges.

William Hoi Wei Yuan, Su Wan Gan¹, Wan Ying Lee¹, Poh Chua Siah2026-09-01
📄 social science

Improving the Quality of Practical Training for Officers Using Leadership Coaching Technology

This quasi-experimental study demonstrates that a custom-developed leadership coaching cycle significantly enhances the practical leadership skills of officers in training compared to standard methods, as evidenced by statistically superior improvements in teamwork, reflection, and decision-making among the experimental group.

Andrii Vitchenko, Roman Bakumenko, Stanislav Pavlushenko, Oleh Rybchuk, Svitlana Khrystiuk2026-09-01