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The effect of physical, social, and viewing context on art engagement at the Zapurza Museum of Art and Culture 

Three experiments conducted at the Zapurza Museum of Art and Culture reveal that while physical museum viewing enhances perceived beauty compared to digital viewing, neither social group settings nor specific viewing prompts significantly alter overall liking or aesthetic impact, suggesting that context selectively influences specific components of aesthetic experience rather than globally increasing engagement.

Shweta Allam, Sanjana Edwankar, Aalisha Jadhav, Jheel Desai, Samrddhee Pathare, Raju Sutar, Bhasker Malu, Kohinoor Darda2026-08-25
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The Social Architecture of Marginality: Deconstructing Disability and Hijra Identity in Mahesh Dattani’s Seven Steps Around the Fire and Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

This paper employs disability studies and crip theory to analyze Mahesh Dattani's *Seven Steps Around the Fire* and Arundhati Roy's *The Ministry of Utmost Happiness*, arguing that the hijra community's marginalization is a form of socially produced disablement that these texts resist through alternative kinship structures and crip aesthetics.

MD Shah Alam Shah Alam2026-08-25
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From Symbolic Erasure to Multispecies Justice: A Corpus-Assisted Ecolinguistic Analysis and Biocultural Ethical Reflection on Rodent-related Idioms in China

This study employs corpus-assisted ecolinguistics and biocultural ethics to demonstrate how Chinese rodent-related idioms perpetuate symbolic erasure and justify exterminatory governance, arguing that integrating ethological evidence to deconstruct these linguistic biases is essential for achieving multispecies justice and restoring an equitable "community of life."

Ziyi Wang2026-08-24
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‘Brewing a crisis’- Climate Change, Darjeeling Tea and Traditional Knowledge: Rethinking Legal Protection beyond Geographical Indications

This study examines how climate change threatens the traditional knowledge and livelihoods of Darjeeling tea communities, arguing that current Geographical Indication protections are insufficient and that stronger Access and Benefit Sharing mechanisms are needed to safeguard these indigenous groups.

Piyali Mukherjee, Shambhu Prasad Chakrabarty2026-08-24
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Gender Differences, Dilemmas and Gaps in Teacher Evaluation in Chile

This study analyzes a 2024 national database of 25,197 Chilean teachers to reveal statistically significant, albeit small-to-moderate, gender differences in evaluation scores across various regions and educational levels, highlighting the need for further investigation into the instruments and institutional conditions driving these disparities.

Bárbara Díaz-Gómez, José Francisco López-Gil, Jorge Olivares-Arancibia, Karen Núñez Valdes, Juan Pablo Zavala-Crichton (…)2026-08-24
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Pedagogical readiness in a structural equation model of generative artificial intelligence use and cognitive offloading among preservice teachers

This study reveals that among pre-service teachers, generative AI usage is primarily driven by performance expectations and leads to cognitive offloading, while pedagogical readiness (AI-TPACK self-efficacy) increases performance expectations but fails to reduce reliance on AI for cognitively demanding tasks, underscoring the need for teacher education programs to integrate clear institutional rules with metacognitive AI literacy.

Martin Dosedla, Karel Picka, Michal Hanzl2026-08-24