1852 papers
This cross-sectional study in Obio-Akpor, Rivers State, reveals a 31.2% gambling prevalence driven primarily by sports betting among educated young men, highlighting significant financial risks and the urgent need for targeted regulatory and healthcare interventions.
This quasi-experimental study demonstrates that a teacher-facilitated WhatsApp Community of Inquiry significantly enhances perceived learning and engagement among students in overcrowded Somali informal settlement schools, provided that teacher workload is managed and structured prompts are effectively utilized.
This qualitative study of 55 stakeholders across Tanzania reveals that Early Childhood Development implementation is hindered by interrelated systemic barriers, including fragmented policies, weak governance, inconsistent multisectoral coordination, and untrackable financing, necessitating stronger institutional leadership and integrated accountability mechanisms.
This study demonstrates that among university students, the perceived usefulness of AI-generated music significantly enhances learning engagement and flow experiences by fostering greater attention and trust in AI, thereby validating an extended Technology Acceptance Model within educational contexts.
This comparative legal-policy review finds that while CAFTA-DR imposes significantly stricter TRIPS-plus pharmaceutical exclusivity measures—such as data exclusivity and patent linkage—that could hinder biosimilar access in Central America and the Caribbean compared to the more flexible EU trade agreements, the actual empirical impact on medicine prices and availability remains unmeasured.
Based on a large-scale analysis of 347,960 students across 54 countries, this study reveals that while a growth mindset generally promotes mental wellness, its positive impact is significantly stronger in low-uncertainty avoidance cultures and may be negligible or even negative in high-uncertainty avoidance contexts.
Using nationally representative data from 2024, this study finds that chronic pain shapes the specific forms of political participation among U.S. adults rather than uniformly suppressing engagement, with low-impact pain increasing intentions to discuss politics on social media while high-impact pain initially correlates with reduced voting and donating intentions before socioeconomic factors are accounted for.
This mixed-methods study involving 53 Iranian high school students demonstrates that a gamified, AI-driven listening instruction system incorporating adaptive feedback and motivational scaffolding significantly improves EFL learners' listening proficiency, self-efficacy, and engagement compared to a non-gamified conversational AI approach.
This paper employs a cusp normal-form model to demonstrate that the Old Copper Complex represented a stable, non-state "extractive asabiya" regime capable of sustaining large-scale copper mining and long-distance exchange through seasonal aggregation and ritual valuation, rather than indicating a failed transition to statehood.