📄 social science

A Pluriversal Framework for Environmental Impact Assessment and Project-Level Decision-Making

This paper critiques the market-driven dominance in current Environmental Impact Assessments and proposes a "Pluriversal Framework" grounded in decolonial epistemologies and Political Ecology to integrate alternative sustainability definitions, non-substitutable capital, and the right to reject projects into infrastructure decision-making.

Guilherme Prado Alves, Tarse Barbosa Cabello, Robert J. Buschbacher, Tânia Pereira Christopoulos, Evandro Mateus Moretto2026-10-15
📄 social science

Prescribing Under Management: Psychotropic Drug Networks in Community Mental Health in Southern Chile

Drawing on an assemblage ethnography in southern Chile, this study argues that psychotropic drugs function as central actors within hybrid networks of documents, professionals, and technologies that sustain treatment surveillance and prescription, while largely marginalizing unwanted side effects in favor of expert-led decision-making.

Jimena Carrasco-Madariaga, Marcela Aapblaza-Santis, Tatiana Castillo-Parada2026-10-15
📄 social science

Human-AI Academic Co-Writing: A Systematic Review of Cognition, Authorship, and Responsibility

This systematic review of 45 primary studies from 2023 to 2026 synthesizes the evolving landscape of human–AI academic co-writing, revealing a multidisciplinary field where AI augments various writing stages while human judgment remains central, ultimately highlighting the tension between efficiency and epistemic costs and proposing a causal model to reframe authorship and responsibility based on configurations of intellectual control.

Vəhid Goruslu2026-10-15
📄 social science

When Ancient Epistemology Meets Augmented Reality: Designing a STEM–Catur Pramana Digital Pop-Up Book for Elementary Science

This study presents the design and validation of an augmented reality-assisted digital pop-up book for Indonesian elementary science that integrates the Hindu epistemological framework of Catur Pramana with STEM concepts, demonstrating the feasibility of using local knowledge systems as a structural foundation for learning materials despite moderate validity ratings and the absence of measured learning outcomes.

Ni Wayan Sri Darmayanti, Putu Beny Pradnyana, I Made Ari Santosa2026-10-15
📄 social science

From learning obstacles to reasoning: Didactical design of a problem-based electronic module on trigonometric ratios

This study presents the development and validation of a problem-based electronic module for trigonometric ratios, designed to address specific student learning obstacles, which significantly improved reasoning scores in a trial despite revealing persistent challenges in side identification and contextual problem-solving that guide future revisions.

Runisah Runisah, Nova Mulyana, Nandang Nandang, Rosyadi Rosyadi, Farid Gunadi, Naif Mastoor Alsulami2026-10-15
📄 social science

The Impact of Laboratory and Workshop Equipment Availability on Quality Management System Implementation in Public TVET Colleges: Evidence from North Wollo and Waghimra Zones, Ethiopia

This study demonstrates that in public TVET colleges within Ethiopia's North Wollo and Waghimra zones, the implementation of Quality Management Systems is severely hindered by critical shortages of laboratory and workshop equipment, post-conflict infrastructure damage, and inadequate maintenance, rendering quality initiatives largely symbolic without robust resource investment.

Addis Goshe, Shumye Girmay2026-10-15
📄 social science

“Leave my teeth alone” - the use of participatory drawing to widen inclusion in a community-based study of dental service-related knowledge

This study utilized participatory drawing to successfully include individuals with complex needs in dental research, revealing that while participants often conceal their fear and vulnerability regarding dental care, they are willing to express negative feelings about systemic injustices through visual narratives.

Anamitra Bhowmick, Terence Heng, Sandra Duncan, Marieke van der Zande, Prof Rebecca Harris2026-10-14