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Organizing Intangible Cultural Heritage: How a Community-Based Organization Sustains Paper-Cutting Transmission in an Urban Community

This qualitative case study of a Beijing-based paper-cutting service team reveals how a locally embedded community-based organization sustains living intangible cultural heritage by institutionalizing practice, facilitating intergenerational training, integrating digital tools, and staging public recognition through the strategic mobilization of administrative and community resources.

Beibei Sun, Xiaomin Liu, Run Wang, Ziyi Wang, Han Jiang, Lin Tong, Fang Han2026-10-05
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Tracking thesis statement development in EFL argumentative writing: a four-year corpus- based study

This four-year corpus-based study demonstrates that undergraduate EFL learners show significant developmental progress in the explicit rhetorical realization and structural complexity of thesis statements over their academic program, highlighting the value of analyzing such micro-units to trace the interaction between genre knowledge and sentence-level complexity.

Donika Elezkurtaj Bërveniku2026-10-05
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Adverse Peer Experiences, Executive Function, and Emotion Regulation Difficulties Among Adolescents With Depressive Symptoms

This study validates the Indonesian version of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale and reveals that among adolescents with depressive symptoms, executive function difficulties serve as a significant indirect pathway linking adverse peer experiences to emotion regulation challenges.

Rini Setyowati, Nida Ul Hasanat, Edilburga Wulan Saptandari2026-10-05
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Lockstalgia: Reflective Nostalgia in Autobiographical Memories of COVID-19 Lockdown

This study employs an interpretative phenomenological approach to analyze in-depth interviews from Bangalore, India, revealing how individuals actively reconstruct their COVID-19 lockdown experiences into a form of "lockstalgia"—a reflective nostalgia that integrates disruption with adaptation, care, and ethical meaning-making.

Thomas A Mattappallil, Jasmine Mathew Research, Saji Varghese2026-10-05
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Beyond Retention: A Hybrid Bibliometric and Systematic Literature Review of Generation Z Workforce Engagement, Leadership, and Sustainable Employment Systems

This study synthesizes 97 Scopus-indexed articles through a hybrid bibliometric and systematic literature review to map the rapidly evolving research on Generation Z workforce engagement, revealing a shift toward psychological and relational drivers of retention and proposing a Human-Centric Workforce Ecosystem Framework to guide sustainable organizational strategies.

Piyush Jhalani¹, Ankita Chauhan², Shalini Sayiwal, Ajay Banerjee¹2026-10-05
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Bullying, Discipline or Authority? Parents’ and Teachers’ Understanding and Interpretation Examined

This study reveals that parents and teachers often struggle to distinguish adult-to-child bullying from legitimate discipline due to normalized behaviors and institutional dynamics, suggesting that expanding the definition of bullying beyond peer interactions is essential for a comprehensive understanding of harmful power dynamics in children's social environments.

Luca Laszlo, Eszter Salamon, Judit Horgas, Hildegunn Fandrem, Adrienne Katz2026-10-05
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Мэдрэмж as a Culturally Specific Form of Relational Competence: Toward an Indigenous Psychological Account of Social Intelligence in Mongolia

This study proposes an indigenous psychological framework for the Mongolian concept of *mэдрэмж*, identifying it as a culturally specific form of relational competence comprising perceptive awareness, empathic understanding, and situational appropriateness, which together constitute a distinct model of social intelligence that transcends Western definitions of emotional or social intelligence.

Jin Orchlon, Amanbyek Yerkyejan2026-10-05
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Physical activity and subclinical depression in Chinese university students: a three-wave longitudinal study of exercise enjoyment and reward sensitivity

This three-wave longitudinal study of 1,235 Chinese university students reveals that exercise enjoyment partially mediates the link between physical activity and reduced subclinical depression, with this protective pathway being significantly stronger for students with high reward sensitivity than for those with low sensitivity.

Fan Yi, Liang Zhu, Hailong Zhang2026-10-05
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Evaluation of Online Learning Models for Continuing Health Professions Education: A Case Study of the First Aid Training and Organization Methods Course for Military Health Personnel

This retrospective mixed-methods study demonstrates that a modular online learning model integrated with systematic teaching services significantly improves enrollment stability, course completion, and pass rates for military health personnel compared to self-directed learning, while maintaining high learner satisfaction.

jieqiong zhang, yan hua, rui wang, Yuhang dong, huoliang chen, wei zhang, yi wan2026-10-05