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Reconciling Most Favoured Nation Obligations with Geo Economic Discrimination in the World Trade Organisation through a Functional Neutrality Framework

This paper argues that to address the structural paradox of the Most-Favoured-Nation principle amidst rising geo-economic fragmentation, the World Trade Organisation should retain MFN as a core rule while introducing a new, legally formalized "Geo-economic Fragmentation Clause" with enhanced procedural safeguards to balance legitimate security concerns against discriminatory trade practices.

Mohammad Owais Farooqui, Tahir Qureshi, Dhananjay Kumar Mishra, Manvendra Singh2026-10-13
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Investigating the Adaptive Capacity of Anchovy Fisheries to Changing Conditions and Its Implications for Livelihoods in Tanga and Zanzibar, Tanzania

This study reveals that the adaptive capacity of anchovy-dependent communities in Tanga and Zanzibar, Tanzania, is unevenly distributed and constrained by unequal access to financial, technological, and market resources—particularly for women—necessitating integrated policies that combine sustainable fisheries management with gender-responsive support for livelihood diversification.

Victoria H. Moshy, Anselm R. Mwajombe2026-10-13
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Predisposing, Enabling, and Reinforcing Factors in the Normalization of Intimate Partner Violence: A qualitative study of Afghan Refugee Women's Experiences in Torbat Jam Camp, Iran, 2025

This 2025 qualitative study of 24 Afghan refugee women in Torbat Jam, Iran, identifies that the normalization of intimate partner violence is primarily driven by predisposing factors rooted in historical-cultural structures and gender inequality, followed by enabling factors related to displacement challenges, and minimal reinforcing factors, necessitating interdisciplinary interventions focused on gender justice.

Mohammad Rahimian, Masoumeh AbbasiShavazi, Mohammad Ali Morowati Sharifabad, Sara jambarsang, Zohreh Nasiri2026-10-13
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Governing low-altitude security: a comparative analysis of the safety–security nexus in unmanned aircraft governance across the United States, the European Union and Singapore

This paper employs an institution–technology–ideation framework to compare how the United States, the European Union, and Singapore govern the intertwined safety and security risks of unmanned aircraft, revealing that institutional configurations are shaped by administrative concentration and threat perception, and arguing that integrating these dual security dimensions is the critical challenge for emerging low-altitude economies.

Wenhao Gao2026-10-13
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Working Conditions and Teacher Performance in Public Primary Schools: Evidence from a Fragile Education System in Mogadishu, Somalia

This study of public primary school teachers in Mogadishu, Somalia, reveals that compensation adequacy, job security, and professional support are significant positive predictors of teacher performance, collectively explaining nearly 67% of the variance in performance within this fragile education system.

Dahir Mohamed Ahmed, AHMED MOHAMED FARAH, Leila Mohamed Warsame, Abdirahim Hussein Ali, Mohamed wali Hussein2026-10-13
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The Smart City in South Africa: The Conflicts of a Developmental Transformation and Urban Optimisation The Smart City and Urban Optimisation

By integrating developmental-state scholarship with critical smart urbanism, this paper argues that in post-extractive South African municipalities like Matjhabeng, the transformative potential of smart city technologies is fundamentally constrained by pre-existing territorial deficits in employment, fiscal capacity, service delivery, and governance.

kentse Sesele2026-10-13
📄 social science

AI-Generated Evidence and the Future of Digital Justice: An Empirical Study of Legal Acceptance, Forensic Reliability, and Regulatory Challenges

This empirical study utilizes survey data and PLS-SEM analysis grounded in the Technology Acceptance Model and Institutional Theory to investigate the legal acceptance, forensic reliability, and regulatory challenges of AI-generated evidence, ultimately offering evidence-based recommendations for policymakers and judicial bodies to establish responsible protocols for its use in digital justice systems.

Navtika Singh Nautiyal, Aakansha Mishra, Siddharth Kumar Bansal, Raman Pal2026-10-13
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What a Multimodal Information Density Shapes Audience Engagement: Evidence from Sports Event Mascot Short-Form Videos

Grounded in cognitive load theory, this study analyzes 173 sports mascot short videos from Bilibili to reveal that visual, textual, and audio information densities exhibit inverted U-shaped relationships with audience liking, where textual density is most influential overall but its impact is moderated by video source type, with official content favoring text and user-generated content favoring audio and visual elements.

YuKun Li, Yu Shan, ZhengHao Peng, Ping Nie, Hong Wang2026-10-13
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Perception of Cross-cultural Garden Tourism: A Case Study of the New York Chinese Scholar's Garden at Snug Harbor

This study analyzes textual reviews and photographs of the New York Chinese Scholar's Garden to reveal that while architecture and vegetation are common themes in both media, the visual composition of visitor photos and their verbal sentiment evaluations are largely independent, with visual elements explaining less than 7% of the variance in review sentiment.

Lin Zhou, Fan Yang, Hainan Yan, Peijun Jia2026-10-13