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Just adaptation at work: A framework for analysing occupational health and safety

This paper proposes a conceptual framework integrating labour process theory and climate justice to analyze occupational health and safety, arguing that just climate adaptation requires addressing power asymmetries and prioritizing workers' health to prevent maladaptive outcomes driven by conflicts between capital, productivity, and environmental protection.

Diego Velásquez, Patrizio Tonelli2026-06-25
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Urban Mobility, Demographic Change, and Spatial Mismatch in African Cities: Rethinking Transportation and Inclusive Development. The Case of Greater Accra, Nairobi, and Lagos.

This study utilizes a comparative analysis of Greater Accra, Nairobi, and Lagos to argue that rapid urbanization, demographic shifts, and fragmented informal transport systems create severe spatial mismatches in African cities, necessitating integrated, equitable, and sustainable mass transit policies to achieve inclusive development.

Emmanuel Owusu Agyei2026-06-25
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Exploring the Accessible Design of Virtual Reality Games of Different Intervening Purposes with People with Dementia at Different Stages

This study evaluates the accessible design of virtual reality games for people with dementia across different cognitive stages, revealing that single-purpose interventions have limitations and proposing future design strategies focused on multi-dimensional interventions, AI-driven difficulty matching, and emotionally intelligent social agents.

Hefeng Wang, Mingying Lan, Yangcheng Bu, Chenxuan Liu, Junhui Li, Li Gao, Tianyang Zeng, Jingqi Li, Jie Dong2026-06-25
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Feminist consciousness and intimate publics in reader reviews of women’s fiction: A comparative study of Goodreads and Douban

By analyzing over 200,000 reader reviews of four women's novels on Goodreads and Douban, this study demonstrates how feminist consciousness emerges as a situated, affect-driven awareness that converges on universal gendered frictions like marriage while diverging in culturally specific expressions of bodily experience and female solidarity.

CHENG LIU, Yinglei HE2026-06-25
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Psychosocial Challenges of COVID 19 on Adolescent Students in Awi zone, Ethiopia

This mixed-methods study of 1,026 secondary school students in Ethiopia's Awi Zone reveals that the COVID-19 pandemic caused significant, multidimensional psychosocial challenges—including loneliness, depression, and maladaptive coping—that varied significantly by gender, developmental stage, and family context, highlighting an urgent need for tailored mental health interventions in low-resource settings.

Mintesnot Fentahun2026-06-25
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Policy Coherence, Implementation Capacity, and Equity in Uganda’s School-Based Mental Health Policy Landscape: A Qualitative Policy Landscape Analysis

This qualitative policy landscape analysis reveals that while Uganda's existing national policies offer foundational entry points for school-based mental health, the current framework remains fragmented, poorly operationalized, and inequitable due to a lack of coherent definitions, weak implementation mechanisms, and insufficient support for teachers and vulnerable students.

Lydia Namatende-Sakwa, Frederick Murunga Wekesah, Agnes Kiragga, Shem Mambe, Bonface Ingumba, Silas Ooko, Simeon Kintu (…)2026-06-25
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Beyond Technical Drilling: Student Engagement and Aesthetic Learning Under Performance-Oriented Higher Education

This study reveals that in China's performance-oriented university dancesport programs, students' active participatory engagement, rather than the mere institutional provision of aesthetic curriculum or instructional strategies, is the key factor modestly associated with their perceived aesthetic learning experiences, highlighting a significant tension between aesthetic provision and actual aesthetic realization.

WEIWEI YIN, WEI LIU2026-06-25