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Technological Stability Across 25,000 Years: Lithic Simplicity as an Adaptive Response at Txina-Txina, Limpopo Basin, Southern Mozambique

The study of the Txina-Txina site in southern Mozambique reveals a 25,000-year record of consistent lithic simplicity, demonstrating that stable, efficient flake production on local materials was a resilient adaptive strategy rather than a sign of limited technological capacity, challenging the regional expectation of cyclical shifts between flake and bladelet technologies.

Osama Samawi, Ana Gomes, Elena Skosey-LaLonde, Célia Gonçalves, Milena Carvalho, Jeffrey I. Rose, Mussa Raja, João Casca (…)2026-07-30

📄 social science

Competing Proximities: How Host-City Conditions Reorganise International News in Chinese Urban Press

This study of China's APEC host cities reveals that international summit coverage in the urban press does not follow a linear path toward local authorship as proximity increases, but instead fluctuates based on a complex interplay of host-city conditions, newsroom staffing levels, and selective domestication strategies that determine whether local or wire-sourced content dominates.

Jia'nan Tang, Qiulin Li2026-07-30

📄 social science

Numerical distance modulates the SNARC effect: evidence from Mahjong numerals and Arabic numerals

This study demonstrates that numerical distance dynamically modulates the SNARC effect, with the spatial-numerical association emerging only in far-distance conditions and being absent in close-distance conditions, a behavioral interaction that is neurally reflected in conflict-monitoring processes indexed by frontal N2 latency.

Ping Zhang, Yue Kang, Bingxin Zhuo2026-07-30

📄 social science

Influence of the Force Account Approach on the Implementation of Educational Infrastructure Projects in Government Secondary Schools in Tanzania

This qualitative case study in Tanga City, Tanzania, finds that the Force Account approach effectively improves the delivery of educational infrastructure in government secondary schools by enhancing cost efficiency, transparency, and community ownership, though its success depends on strong institutional capacity and oversight mechanisms.

HASSAN IDRISA ABDUL2026-07-30

📄 social science

Understanding Parenting Interventions in Preschool Years: A Qualitative Study in Greek Settings

This qualitative pilot study in Greece evaluated the acceptability and feasibility of the "Parenting Pathways" intervention for preschool parents, confirming its viability while identifying specific refinements—such as improved time management and facilitation strategies—to optimize the protocol for a subsequent large-scale trial.

Evmorfia Nefeloudi, Eleni Tympa, Maria Tsitiridou - Evangelou, Athanasios Gregoriadis2026-07-30

📄 social science

Exploring the Determinants of Parents’ Perceptions of Bullying Victims: A Mediated and Moderated Model

This study of 426 Malaysian parents reveals that parenting style, emotional support, and parental involvement reduce adolescent bullying primarily by improving the parent-child relationship, with positive attitudes toward family counseling further strengthening this protective effect.

MOHD IZWAN MAHMUD, ABU YAZID ABU BAKAR, DHARATUN NISSA PUAD MOHD KARI, NOOR SYUHADA ADENAN2026-07-30

📄 social science

Job stress, moral disengagement and minor workplace deviance among knowledge-service employees

This study of 465 knowledge-service employees reveals that job stress increases minor workplace deviance through motivational, capability, and strain-based pathways, with moral disengagement acting as a critical intensifier that strengthens these relationships primarily through motivational and strain mechanisms rather than capability beliefs.

he yuda, Mazuwin Maideen2026-07-29

📄 social science

Invisible Care, Unequal Trajectories: University Student Caregivers in Italy

Drawing on qualitative data from the University of Parma, this study reveals how Italian university student caregivers face cumulative disadvantages and emotional burdens due to institutional misrecognition, which naturalizes care as a private responsibility and obscures the structural inequalities disrupting their academic trajectories.

Annavittoria Sarli, Clelia D'Apice, Marco Carradore2026-07-29

📄 social science

An AI Driven Assessment Framework for Educational Equity in STEM Education

This study proposes the AI-Driven Assessment in STEM Education Conceptual Framework for Educational Equity (ASEAF), a three-pillar sociotechnical model that reorients automated assessment from purely computational efficiency to active bias mitigation through adaptive profiling, rigorous auditing, and human-in-the-loop governance to ensure educational justice in STEM.

HAJAR Al-Amari, Reem Al-Ahmari, sahar AL-Mousa2026-07-29

📄 social science

Awareness and Usage of Folklore in Teaching at Foundational Stage

This exploratory study of teachers in Odisha, Bihar, and Jharkhand reveals that the frequent integration of folklore elements like folktales, songs, and dances in foundational stage education significantly enhances students' cultural knowledge, moral development, and 21st-century skills, offering a valuable framework for designing culturally responsive curricula.

Satyavati Sunaina, V Sasikala2026-07-29

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