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After the Fall of Assad: Property Conflicts, Legal Pluralism, and the Remaking of Home in Syria

Drawing on 2025–2026 fieldwork, this article argues that post-Assad housing, land, and property conflicts in Syria are the cumulative result of pre-war legal pluralism, regime-led weaponization of property fragility, and the current institutional vacuum, necessitating a shift from mere physical reconstruction to the reconstitution of social relations and legal recognition for successful return.

Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf, Huda Zein2026-08-20

📄 social_science

The Restoration of Strength: Bodily Capital Reconstruction and Family Reciprocity Repair through Resistance Exercise Participation among Older Adults with Sarcopenia—A Qualitative Study

This qualitative study of 24 older adults with sarcopenia in China demonstrates that resistance exercise not only restores physical strength but also reconstructs "relational bodily capital" by transforming muscle soreness into hope, re-establishing movement fluency, and repairing inter-generational reciprocity, thereby suggesting a need for exercise prescriptions that integrate physical training with meaningful social roles.

Li Peng, Yongxia Lin2026-08-20

📄 social_science

Media Learning Behavior Analysis Research Report Study on Learning Duration, Course Completion Rate, and Grade Distribution

This study analyzes online learning behaviors through learning duration, completion rates, and grade distributions using advanced predictive models to identify distinct learner patterns and proposes multi-level optimization strategies for platforms, teaching design, and management to enhance educational quality and reduce dropout rates.

Yunyi Wang2026-08-20

📄 social_science

Employer-Informed Employability Competencies: Development and Initial Validation of the Student Employability Competency Scale for Pakistani Business Students

This study develops and initially validates the Student Employability Competency Scale (SECS) for Pakistani business students through a mixed-methods approach, identifying a four-factor model grounded in employer perspectives that universities can utilize to assess competency gaps and guide curriculum improvements.

Shaguta Ghuari, Nadia Ayub, Saba Gulzar2026-08-20

📄 social_science

Enhancing Young Children’s Perceptions of Environment: Evidence from Forest School Experiences

This phenomenological study of 30 Turkish kindergarten children demonstrates that a 10-week forest school program significantly enriches young children's perceptions of nature, as evidenced by more diverse elements in their forest-themed drawings and verbal descriptions compared to those following a standard curriculum.

Perihan Tugba SEKER, Fatma Betül ÖZTÜRK2026-08-20

📄 social_science

Dimensions of Consumer Expectations and Sustainable Food Service Practices in Cloud Kitchens

This qualitative study of 19 cloud kitchen consumers in Chennai, India, utilizes Expectation Confirmation Theory to identify sustainability as a primary concern and proposes a comprehensive framework categorizing consumer expectations into three dimensions—fundamentality, precision, and feasibility—to guide strategic improvements in sustainable food service practices.

Sivapriya A, Sujatha Manohar2026-08-20

📄 social_science

Online learning motivation and social adaptation among older adults: the serial mediating roles of flow experience and basic psychological need satisfaction

This study of 1,020 Chinese older adults reveals that online learning motivation enhances social adaptation primarily through the serial mediation of flow experience and basic psychological need satisfaction, while the direct effect of motivation on adaptation becomes negative when these psychological mechanisms are accounted for.

Yuhao Liu, Shufei Yin, Zizhuo Chen, Biner Chen2026-08-20

📄 social_science

Sibship size relates to empathy and creativity in adolescents: the buffering effects of family resources and national wealth

Based on a 2022 PISA cross-national analysis, this study reveals that adolescents with one sibling exhibit peak creativity mediated by empathy, while larger sibships show diminished creativity due to resource competition, with both family resources and national wealth buffering these effects only up to two siblings.

Zhifang Xiao, Tan Lyu, Qingke Guo2026-08-20

📄 social_science

Disaster-dependent effects of social network structure on risk communication

This study analyzes social media networks during the 2012 US wildfires and drought to demonstrate that while individual characteristics primarily drive information diffusion in both disaster types, the structural differences between centralized wildfire and fragmented drought networks yield distinct gains in the extent and speed of risk communication, thereby revealing disaster-specific pathways for optimizing intervention strategies.

Jonghun Kam, Jiam Song, Woi Oh2026-08-20

📄 social_science

Learning from Informal Settlements through a Multidimensional Analysis of Delhi Slums

This study analyzes the social, physical, and economic dimensions of Delhi's Kathputli Colony and Majnu ka Tila informal settlements to develop a comparative framework that guides architects and policymakers in creating inclusive, people-centered rehabilitation strategies under India's Housing for All initiative.

Riyazul Samad Binmohammad, Wahaj Akathar Abedeen, Zia Ul Haque, Anjali Gidwani2026-08-20

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