2920 papers
This paper proposes the Nocturnal Affiliation Craving (NAC) as an evolutionarily shaped safety-monitoring mechanism that triggers a specific craving for companionship during nighttime solitude when safety signals are absent, distinguishing it from general loneliness and offering a framework of testable hypotheses for future research.
This study applies Kabeer's framework to 150 women in a Philippine resettlement community, revealing that while cooperative microfinance resources significantly enhance women's agency and household achievements, the extent of this empowerment is strengthened by education and length of residence but not by employment status.
This study employs a qualitative case study of a Nigerian university to reveal how interconnected systemic gaps—spanning governance, pedagogy, networks, and institutional logics—create self-reinforcing feedback loops that render entrepreneurship peripheral, arguing that effective solutions require context-adapted, multidimensional institutional transformation rather than piecemeal interventions.
The paper argues that recent U.S. federal nutrition policies are concerning because they rely on the scientifically ambiguous concept of ultra-processed foods while simultaneously rejecting a health-equity lens that addresses systemic barriers related to race and socioeconomic status, a situation further exacerbated by the "Make America Healthy Again" movement and potential cuts to programs like SNAP and WIC.
This paper proposes the concept of the "Kafkaesque experience" to describe the profound distress and loss of agency felt by involuntarily detained psychiatric patients due to procedural opacity and epistemic asymmetry, arguing that alleviating this suffering requires restoring procedural intelligibility rather than merely disclosing legal rights.
Through a qualitative study of 32 women entrepreneurs in Rajasthan, India, this research identifies how psychological, socio-cultural, and institutional factors interact to shape "bounded growth aspirations," reconceptualizing venture growth intentions as socially negotiated outcomes rather than individually formed goals within a patriarchal context.
This article defends the coherence and relevance of *jus cogens* in contemporary international law by arguing that its perceived operational difficulties stem from an overly restrictive consent-based methodology, and instead advocates for a "constrained teleological" interpretative framework that embraces the International Law Commission's non-exhaustive approach to peremptory norms while synthesizing insights from leading scholars to navigate the tensions between state consent, geopolitical selectivity, and the need for systemic adaptability.
This paper argues that the delegation of sensing and sense-making to digital networks and AI fundamentally transforms warfare by establishing these systems as political actors and constitutional infrastructures that structure perception and distribute agency, thereby redefining control, responsibility, and the very nature of war.
Using data from 2008 to 2024, this paper argues that as political power becomes more concentrated, voters increasingly rely on durable social identities rather than socioeconomic status as informational shortcuts, thereby shifting political mobilization from structural economic cleavages to constructed identity-based divisions.
This action-research study demonstrates that implementing interactive and cooperative problem-solving strategies significantly improves senior high school students' ability to translate natural language word problems into linear equations by bridging the gap between linguistic understanding and algebraic modeling.