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Perceptions, acceptance and educational use of generative artificial intelligence among health professions students and educators: a rapid systematic review

This rapid systematic review of 20 studies involving nearly 9,553 health professions stakeholders reveals that while generative AI is generally accepted as a conditional learning aid for productivity and feedback, its integration requires robust AI literacy, verification skills, and ethical governance to address concerns regarding hallucinations, critical thinking erosion, and clinical accountability.

Adesegun Nurudeen Osijirin, Mohammed Sada Shamsudeen, Felicia Nonye Egbeh, Phina Chinelo Ezeagwu, Deborah Ngozi Umah, Ch (…)2026-08-03
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Decolonial Bosadi Ecosystem Critique of Male IPV and Human Capital Erasure in SADC

This paper employs a decolonial Bosadi framework to critique the systemic erasure of male intimate partner violence victims in the SADC region, arguing that Eurocentric gender paradigms and colonial legacies within judicial and forensic institutions silence subaltern male trauma and necessitate a culturally informed, inclusive African jurisprudence to restore dignity to all victims.

Jacob Tseko Mofokeng2026-08-03
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Community perception of institutional failure in flood early warning systems in South Africa.

This qualitative study of Walmer Airport Valley in Gqeberha, South Africa, reveals that the failure of flood early warning systems stems not from technical malfunctions but from a compound crisis of institutional indifference, infrastructural exclusion, and perceived corruption that erodes community trust, necessitating a shift from technological upgrades to relational trust-building and multi-modal communication strategies.

Mosekama Osia Mokhele, Andiswa Mvanyashe2026-08-03
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The Cascading Failure Chain: A Scoping Review of Barriers to Disruptive Digital Technology Adoption in South African Disaster Management

This scoping review identifies that South Africa's failure to adopt disruptive digital technologies in disaster management stems not from technological limitations but from a cascading chain of infrastructure deficits, capacity gaps, and governance failures, necessitating a prioritized framework centered on mandatory data-exchange governance to achieve national integration.

Mosekama Osia Mokhele2026-08-03
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From Village Control to Corporate Enclave: Tourism Governance and Livelihood Resilience in Indonesia

This systematic literature review analyzes how Indonesia's tourism governance models, ranging from community-based to corporate enclaves, shape multidimensional livelihood resilience, revealing that hybrid community-dominant models offer the most comprehensive benefits while highlighting a critical research and policy gap regarding spatial rights and private-dominant enclaves.

Pramudya Bumishambara, Rheina Meuthia Ashari2026-08-03
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Relativisation in Swahili and Safwa: A Contrastive Analysis of Subject and Object Relative Clauses

This study employs a contrastive analysis of subject and object relative clauses in Swahili and Safwa to demonstrate how these Eastern Bantu languages, despite sharing noun-class agreement systems, exhibit distinct morphosyntactic strategies for relativisation that reflect varying stages of grammaticalisation within the Bantu Relative Agreement Cycle.

CLAUDIO GEORGE KISAKE, PENDO MWASHOTA2026-08-03
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Understanding Continuance Intention Towards E-Learning Platforms: A Structural Model Based on Expectation Confirmation and Individual Innovativeness

This study utilizes a structural model based on Expectation Confirmation Theory and individual innovativeness to demonstrate that satisfaction fully mediates the impact of expectation confirmation and perceived usefulness on students' continuance intention toward e-learning platforms in India, while also revealing a significant negative direct effect of innovativeness and a moderating role of gender.

N. Fardhana Begum, D. Venkatesan2026-08-03
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Psychological Detachment as a Mediator Between Nonwork Time Work Connectivity and Work-Family Conflict Among Clinical Nurses: A Cross-sectional Study

This cross-sectional study of 203 clinical nurses reveals that after-hours work connectivity exacerbates work-family conflict by undermining psychological detachment, which partially mediates this relationship, highlighting the need for nursing managers to optimize scheduling and support work-life boundaries.

Fayun Zhang, Jianqun He, Lingling Wu, Jiongbin Zheng2026-08-03
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Reciprocal Flourishing and Collective Embeddedness: A Qualitative Exploration of Chinese Well-Being

This qualitative study challenges Western individualistic models by proposing a four-domain framework of Chinese well-being—Collective Embeddedness, Cultivated Resilience, Active Meaning-Making, and Reciprocal Flourishing—that emphasizes relational, process-oriented, and culturally grounded experiences derived from interviews with 44 Chinese adults.

Wanyan Hu, Xie Xie, Xihan Jia, Yinyin Zang2026-08-03