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Students’ Evaluation of Lecturer Performance and Teaching Effectiveness in Basic Science Courses at a Nigerian Private Medical University: A Cross-sectional Descriptive Study

This cross-sectional study of 197 students at a Nigerian private medical university reveals that while core basic science courses are highly rated for teaching effectiveness, overall satisfaction is primarily driven by course delivery, engagement, and classroom management, highlighting a critical need for systemic improvements in lecturer responsiveness, punctuality, and feedback mechanisms.

Toluene A. Kolawole, David C. Nwachukwu, Magadan Nwokocha, Friday Saronee, Christie Mato2026-07-21

📄 social_science

Pan-Turkism in Crisis: Genetic Testing and Turkish Ethnic Identity Collapse in Iranian Digital Discourse

This study analyzes how Persian-speaking users on X leveraged viral genetic ancestry results challenging Pan-Turkist narratives of pure descent to celebrate their own ancestral narratives, thereby exposing the collapse of ethnic purity myths through a digital spectacle of performative identity and biopolitical boundary-work.

Ehsan Shahghasemi2026-07-21

📄 social_science

"It's Exhausting": A Qualitative Study of Social Emotional Learning and Student Lived Experiences in West Bengal's Higher Education Institutions

This qualitative study employs constructivist grounded theory to analyze interviews with 42 students across three West Bengal institutions, revealing how social inequalities and institutional structures shape the emotional navigation of university life and highlighting the critical need for culturally responsive Social Emotional Learning frameworks to address the mental health crisis among Indian college students.

Rupam Kumar Saha2026-07-21

📄 social_science

A Unified Framework for NATO Multi-Domain Operations

This paper addresses the fragmented conceptual foundations of NATO's Multi-Domain Operations by conducting a systematic literature review to synthesize diverse interpretations into a unified framework that clarifies the concept's essential mechanisms, including cross-domain integration and the synchronization of military and non-military instruments of power.

Joao Reis2026-07-21

📄 social_science

The Effect of Workforce Diversity on Employees Job Performance in Case of Woldia University

This study employs an explanatory research design and multiple linear regression analysis of 271 academic staff at Woldia University to determine that while age, gender, and education diversity positively impact job performance, ethnic and experience diversity negatively affect it.

Chekole Wubneh Negassi2026-07-21

📄 social_science

Adaptive Green Human Resource Management for Green Innovation in a Coastal Fishing Community: A Qualitative Case Study of Indonesia's Red-White Fishing Village Program

This qualitative case study of Indonesia's Red-White Fishing Village program develops an adaptive Green Human Resource Management model, termed the Eco-Governance Talent Loop, which demonstrates how trust-based recruitment, contextual training, and social recognition foster frugal green innovations and sustainable blue economy transitions in resource-constrained coastal communities.

Sri Widanarni, Roby Sambung, Usup Riassy Christa, Achmad Syamsudin2026-07-21

📄 social_science

The EP–Cap Instability: Why Cap-Based Evaluation Systems Converge to Pseudo-Scholarship — Implications for Global Research Integrity and Journal Quality

This paper argues that parameter vulnerabilities in cap-based research evaluation systems drive endogenous decay of penalties and the absorption of pseudo-scholarship by top journals, a global integrity crisis that can be resolved through specific policy levers like clawbacks, data escrow, and audit coupling without abandoning caps entirely.

Yiguo Zhang2026-07-21

📄 social_science

Preparing Teachers for the Margins? Contested Readiness, Mentoring, and Institutional Mismatch in Marginalized Philippine Teacher Education

This qualitative study of teacher education in marginalized Philippine contexts reveals that teacher readiness is not a fixed outcome of formal preparation but a contested, relational construct shaped by persistent misalignments between institutional definitions, mentoring practices, and the complex realities of rural, Indigenous, and conflict-affected schools.

Herford Rei Biscayno Guibangguibang2026-07-21

📄 social_science

The Spring Listens: Water Ethics among Gujjars of the Western Himalaya

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the Western Himalaya, this paper argues that Gujjar pastoral communities sustain a sophisticated water ethics rooted in Islamic theology and animistic reverence, where specific rituals and institutions translate moral obligations into environmental stewardship, though these practices face contemporary challenges from climatic shifts and internal social dynamics.

Mohd Junaid Jazib2026-07-21

📄 social_science

Measuring Curriculum–Labor Market Alignment at the Scale of a Program Portfolio

This paper presents a large-scale, taxonomy-anchored analysis of a computing program portfolio that compares 1,922 course learning outcomes against over 100,000 job competencies to reveal systemic curriculum gaps in key technical areas and a consistent misalignment where academic instruction falls roughly one Bloom level below market demands.

Sherzod Turaev, Saja Aldabet, Mary John, Namya Musthafa, Mamoun Awad, Nazar Zaki, Khaled Shuaib2026-07-21

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