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Civil and Criminal Liability for Unsafe Food Donations in Bangladesh: Lessons from the United States, European Union, and Singapore

This article argues that Bangladesh should establish a clear statutory framework for civil and criminal liability regarding unsafe food donations—drawing on comparative lessons from the US, EU, and Singapore—that balances donor protection with recipient safety by rejecting charitable intent as a blanket defense and instead linking responsibility to operational control and culpability.

ABU NOMAN MOHAMMAD ATAHAR ALI2026-10-14
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The Institutional Afterlife of Labour Products: Collective Bargaining and Generative AI in the Writers Guild of America

This article examines the "institutional afterlife" of labour products by analyzing how the Writers Guild of America leveraged collective bargaining in its 2023 and 2026 agreements to extend claims over completed work into new commercial and AI-driven activities, thereby reshaping remuneration, reporting duties, and procedural rights through negotiated institutional connections.

Benjie Wang2026-10-14
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The Dual Role of Social Media in Crisis Communication: Evidence from a Sexual Harassment Case on Indonesia’s Commuter Line

This qualitative case study applies Situational Crisis Communication Theory to a sexual harassment incident on Indonesia's Commuter Line, revealing that social media serves a dual role as both a catalyst for crisis escalation through insensitive responses and a mechanism for organizational recovery when utilized with empathy, accountability, and transparency.

Erman Anom, Marhisar Simatupang, Erya Puput, Tulus Suyatno2026-10-14
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Training and Pedagogical Use of Digital Technologies by Languages Teachers in Brazil

This quantitative study of Brazilian Languages teachers reveals that while nearly all utilize digital technologies for lesson preparation and engage in independent learning, formal professional development remains limited, and significant barriers such as insufficient hardware hinder the integration of technologies into student-centered pedagogical practices.

Murillo Edson de Carvalho Souza, Joao Gabriell Morais de Sousa dos Santos2026-10-14
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Assessing Service Delivery Gaps in Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Services in Mumbai Using CAG Audit Reports

This study utilizes a qualitative analysis of CAG audit reports and secondary data to identify significant gaps in Mumbai's urban water supply and sanitation services—particularly in sewage treatment, collection efficiency, and metering—and proposes an evidence-based framework for improving governance, infrastructure, and financial management.

Vedant Jagtap2026-10-14
📄 social science

L1 Typological Distance and Arabic L2 Writing Development in a Multinational Saudi University Program: A Cross-Level Learner-Corpus Study

This cross-sectional learner-corpus study of a multinational Saudi university program demonstrates that first-language typological distance from Arabic significantly influences L2 writing development, with learners from typologically closer backgrounds exhibiting greater orthographic and morphosyntactic accuracy, higher phraseological density, and reduced transfer-sensitive errors compared to those from more distant language backgrounds.

Bunder Alshammari, Khaled Alfraidi2026-10-14
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Governance Responsibility in Fragmented Small-Lot Urban Regeneration: Evidence from Taipei

Using Taipei as a case study and the DPSIR framework, this paper argues that the stagnation of small-lot urban regeneration in high-density cities stems not from a lack of incentives but from fragmented governance structures that create responsibility gaps, necessitating a repair framework centered on intermediary actors to realign distributed roles and restore process continuity.

Shih-Wei Huang, YI-Chang Chiang2026-10-14