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Learning in style: A typography × learning multi-layered model for digital learning environments from a PRISMA-ScR scoping review and expert interviews

This study integrates a PRISMA-ScR scoping review of German typography literature with expert interviews to develop a transdisciplinary multi-layered model that links six key typographic design principles to cognitive, metacognitive, and motivational aspects of learning in digital environments.

Charlotte Axelsson, Tino Enders, Mónica Santana, Sascha Schneider2026-07-24
📄 social science

Exploring the Critical Barriers to Successful Community-based Disaster Risk Reduction in the Sanyati District amid Zimbabwe’s Post-Devolution Framework

This qualitative study reveals that despite Zimbabwe's post-devolution framework, community-based disaster risk reduction in Sanyati District remains hindered by financial scarcity, political centralization, weak institutional capacity, and limited community participation, necessitating fiscal decentralization and governance reforms to achieve sustainable resilience.

Jabson Muringani, Alice Ncube, Olivia Kunguma2026-07-23
📄 social science

Sleep Initiation Symptoms and Network-Level Influence in Anxiety–Sleep Symptom Networks

This study demonstrates that while excessive worry and sleep onset difficulty are highly connected in anxiety-sleep networks, difficulty initiating sleep exerts a disproportionately large influence on overall symptom organization, suggesting that structural connectivity and exploratory influence are distinct characteristics that should both be considered to fully understand co-occurring anxiety and sleep disturbances.

Sanghee Kim2026-07-23
📄 social science

Longing for but also avoiding touch: a more nuanced view of our “hunger for touch” during the time of COVID

During the COVID-19 pandemic, social isolation did not increase the general desire for touch but rather narrowed tactile interactions to close networks, while the study found that receiving affective touch improved mood whereas an unmet desire for touch was linked to higher stress and loneliness, highlighting the distinct emotional roles of experienced versus desired touch.

Merle T Fairhurst, Justin Sulik, David Moore, Wenhan Sun, Francis McGlone2026-07-23
📄 social science

Data as Transcendental Stabilizations: Symbolic Mediation and the Pre-Semantic Conditions of Data

This paper argues that data are not ontological primitives or mere technical artifacts but emerge through historically variable symbolic stabilizations that transform differential configurations into operationally available differences, thereby reframing issues like algorithmic bias as disputes over competing regimes of intelligibility rather than simple technical management problems.

Rodrigo Garrido2026-07-23
📄 social science

Integrated Collaborative Learning and Polya Problem Solving Model for Enhancing Pre Service Teachers Critical Thinking through the Mediating Roles of Student Engagement and Attitudes and the Moderating Role of Prior Knowledge

This mixed-methods study demonstrates that an integrated instructional model combining collaborative learning with Polya's problem-solving approach significantly enhances pre-service mathematics teachers' critical thinking skills, a process mediated by student engagement and attitudes and moderated by prior knowledge.

Dookurong Dilor Isaiah, Yarhands Dissou Arthur, Akwertey Emmanuel2026-07-23
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Testing Circumscription in Iron Age Galicia, Spain: Computational Approaches to Conflict and Subsistence in the Castro Landscapes

This study challenges the applicability of circumscription theory to Iron Age Galicia by demonstrating through computational modeling that local resources were sufficient to support hillfort populations, suggesting that these communities maintained an egalitarian agrarian structure until the arrival of Roman influence.

Santiago Tuñas-Corzón, Brais Xosé Currás-Refojos, Inés Sastre-Prats2026-07-23