📄 social science

Networked resilience at a distance: how the scientific diaspora sustains Ukrainian higher education in wartime — and why military education remains disconnected

This article examines how displaced Ukrainian scholars have sustained higher education research through feminized, dual-present personal networks despite wartime funding losses, while highlighting the structural exclusion of military education due to secrecy regimes and a lack of connective tissue in non-classified domains.

Svitlana Bondarenko, Andrii Hupalo, Vitalii Anisimov, Anzhela Gelbak, Natalia Tsumarieva, Oksana Lapa2026-07-08
📄 social science

How Psychological Change Unfolds During Online Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: A Convergent Mixed-Methods Study of Daily Processes in Depression

This convergent mixed-methods study reveals that while online Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy yields consistent symptom improvements across both synchronous and asynchronous formats, the underlying psychological processes of developing mindfulness and self-compassion are highly individualized, effortful, and characterized by faster daily gains in asynchronous delivery.

Jan Wardęszkiewicz, Paweł Holas, Magdalena Budziszewska2026-07-08
📄 social science

Repress, Tolerate, or Redesign? A Systematic Review and International Comparative Matrix of Strategies Against the Indefinite Occupation of Public Roads and Sidewalks in San Juan de Miraflores, Peru

This systematic review and international comparative analysis of strategies to address indefinite public road and sidewalk occupation in San Juan de Miraflores, Peru, concludes that while no single solution is universally transferable, combining physical redesign with market-based mechanisms yields better outcomes than enforcement alone, though their local applicability depends on institutional conditions yet to be consolidated.

PAUL RICARDO PRUDENCIO GALVEZ2026-07-08
📄 social science

Overall, emotional and social loneliness and their associated factors: a large-scale cross-sectional study of young and middle-aged adults in Germany

This large-scale cross-sectional study of 14,443 German adults reveals that while overall loneliness remains stable across young and middle adulthood, emotional and social loneliness follow distinct age-related trajectories and are primarily influenced by social relationships, mental health status, and migration background rather than physical health or gender.

Pauline Kleinschlömer, Helena Ludwig-Walz, Sabine Diabaté, Martin Bujard2026-07-08
📄 social science

Language Vitality Beyond Speaker Counts: A Large-Scale Application of the LAR-II Framework across Fifty Indian Languages

This paper challenges the reliance on speaker population counts as a sole indicator of language health by applying the LAR-II framework to 50 Indian languages, revealing that demographic size often masks structural fragility and demonstrating that intergenerational transmission and variation fragmentation are critical, independent predictors of language vitality.

Sibansu Mukherjee2026-07-08
📄 social science

Understanding Municipal AI Governance: Practitioner Perspectives on AI Policy and Enactment

Drawing on grounded theory and interviews with practitioners across five regions, this study reconceptualizes municipal AI governance as a cyclical, adaptive process shaped by practitioner judgment and institutional context, identifying five interrelated dimensions that explain how policy meaning is constructed in everyday practice rather than merely implemented as static rules.

Anne David, Tan Yigitcanlar, Pauline Hope Cheong, Karen Mossberger, Rita Yi Man Li, Rashid Mehmood, Juan Corchado2026-07-08