566 papers
This scoping review reframes childcare as essential gender-responsive labor infrastructure, arguing that accessible, affordable, and flexible care services are central to enabling low-wage women's employment and decent work, while highlighting significant gaps in research regarding informal, migrant, and shift-working populations.
This study demonstrates that in West African pastoral conflict zones, the effectiveness of AI-assisted governance depends less on technical optimization and more on ethical legitimacy, as evidenced by findings that algorithmic bias against herder communities and declining system precision can be significantly mitigated through participatory safeguards and hybrid tribunals.
This mini review synthesizes evidence from 21 studies to demonstrate how structural inequities in funding, spatial access, and digital infrastructure systematically disadvantage low-income, rural, and minority communities, revealing that achieving genuine information equity requires systemic reform beyond incremental funding adjustments.
This mini-review synthesizes empirical evidence from 2000 to 2024 to demonstrate that public library funding and services are systematically stratified by neighborhood socioeconomic status, race, and geography, creating compounded disadvantages for low-income and minority communities that exacerbate educational and social inequities while highlighting critical gaps in policy evaluation and future research directions.
This narrative review synthesizes evidence demonstrating that public library resources and services are disproportionately allocated away from lower-income, rural, and minority neighborhoods due to socioeconomic predictors and ostensibly neutral policies, while highlighting the need for advanced geospatial modeling and longitudinal studies to address these structural inequities.
This systematic synthesis of twenty-one studies reveals that neighborhood disparities in public library access persist due to a mutually reinforcing cycle of socioeconomic-driven funding inequities, operational policies that inadvertently favor well-resourced branches, and spatial barriers, necessitating targeted interventions and advanced methodological approaches to address these structural inequalities.
Drawing on Merleau-Ponty's ontology and ethnographic research with the Guarani people in Palhoça, Brazil, this paper argues that place is not a static container of meaning but a dynamic, sensible field where individual, collective, and emancipatory modes of experience intertwine to sustain identity and interrupt relations of domination.
This study demonstrates that while AI-generated marketing content for heritage baked goods often strips away essential cultural depth and ritual significance in favor of commercial metrics, targeted prompts can successfully retrieve and preserve these authentic narratives.
This paper employs a mixed-method empirical study of Gulf migration in India to argue that integrating non-parametric statistical tests with qualitative socio-metric tools is essential for overcoming methodological limitations and effectively measuring Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within migration research.
This study of 178 employees in Indonesian manufacturing SMEs demonstrates that human capital significantly mediates the positive relationship between entrepreneurial leadership and knowledge management on employee innovation behavior, thereby extending Social Cognitive Theory to the context of developing economies.