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Where sports facilities sit: Spatial inequality in access and residents’ mental health

This study demonstrates that in China, the spatial inequality of public sports facility access—not just the overall supply—is a significant determinant of residents' mental health, as uneven distribution increases depressive symptoms by reducing physical activity and neighborhood trust, with these adverse effects disproportionately impacting low-income, less-educated, and rural-registered populations.

Mengzhao Han, Haoran Huang, Jimi Liu, Heng Gao, Bailing Li, Qingtian Wang2026-08-27
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Evaluating knowledge co-production for transformative change

This paper presents an integrative evaluation framework and toolkit, featuring eleven "catalyst indicators" and a multi-phase methodology grounded in the Three Spheres of Transformation, to assess and support the transformative potential of knowledge co-production in nature-based solutions projects across Europe.

Violeta Furlan, Violeta Cabello, Irmelin Gram-Hanssen, Emma Enström, Leneisja Jungsberg, Hedda Thomson Ek, Mari Hanssen (…)2026-08-26
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Understanding teacher–child interaction quality through professional practice environments

This study of 465 Vietnamese early childhood teachers demonstrates that supportive professional practice environments significantly enhance teacher–child interaction quality by fostering occupational resilience and adaptive expertise, with the strength of these relationships varying across urban, rural, and disadvantaged contexts.

Thuy Tien Le, Thi Minh Hue Tran, Thi Trang Nguyen, Manh Tuan Kim2026-08-26
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Beyond parenthood: Parenting practices, not parental status, predict parental well-being

This study utilizes a co-twin control design to demonstrate that while the apparent well-being advantage of parenthood is largely explained by selection factors, the quality of everyday parenting practices—specifically emotional warmth and consistency—robustly predicts parental well-being, suggesting that how parents engage with their children matters more than parental status itself.

Valentina Rotondi, Joshua Zonca, Joseph Santos, Laurie Corna2026-08-26
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Real Individuals and Atomism: Marx’s Transcendental Path to Communism

This paper argues that Marx's communist thought, particularly its core of free and all-round human development, originated not merely with the signifier "Communism" but was cultivated early in his student years through a unique philosophical trajectory that synthesized Protestant ethics, Enlightenment rationality, Romantic critique, and German speculative philosophy to ultimately affirm the free spirit of the sensuous individual via Epicurean atomism, thereby establishing an independent foundation for his subsequent scientific theory of communism.

Zhang Zhongyuan, Liu Sunlin2026-08-26
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Exploring Predictive Power of Syntactic Complexity Indices for English Continuation Writing Quality of Chinese Senior High School Students

This study analyzes a corpus of 436 continuation writing texts by Chinese high school students to demonstrate that fine-grained clausal complexity indicators, particularly conjunctions and phrasal verb particles, are the most significant predictors of writing quality, accounting for 21.6% of the score variance.

Manku Guo, Taoyi Zhou, Jiehao Ji2026-08-26
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Developing Accessible Virtual Reality Sports Environments for Adolescents with Intellectual Disabilities: A Delphi–Analytic Hierarchy Process Study

This study utilizes a Delphi–Analytic Hierarchy Process approach to identify and prioritize key strategic factors for developing accessible virtual reality sports environments for adolescents with intellectual disabilities, highlighting user-friendly technology, financial sustainability, customized programming, effective communication, and safety protocols as essential components.

Kyung-Hwan Cho, Austin Kang, Yunah Jeon2026-08-26