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Co-creating Universities of Applied Sciences Models with the FAITH Toolboxes Capacity Building Training for Ethiopian Universities of Applied Sciences

This study demonstrates that the FAITH Toolbox capacity-building training significantly enhanced the competencies of Ethiopian university leaders and faculty in transforming institutions into Universities of Applied Sciences, as evidenced by a 34.3% increase in mean scores across key areas like industry collaboration and applied research, while highlighting the critical need for sustained policy, funding, and leadership support to ensure long-term reform success.

Demissie Dalelo Hankebo, Guchie Gulie, Adanech Teshome, Ephrem Tekle Yacob, Almaz Wasse, Abdela Kossa, Prof. Hans Vossen (…)2026-08-19
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Anatomy of politically homogeneous spaces: How and why even they fragment

By analyzing 100 million posts on Bluesky, this study challenges the notion of political "echo chambers" as monolithic, demonstrating that even highly homogeneous groups fragment into specialized factions because reduced external tension allows internal attention to splinter into complex, multi-centered epistemic systems.

Ali Salloum, Dorian Quelle, Letizia Iannucci, Titus Pünder, Alexandre Bovet, Mikko Kivelä2026-08-19
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Maternal Childhood Trauma and Adolescent Internalizing and Externalizing Problems: An Evolutionary Perspective on Intergenerational Transmission

This study demonstrates that maternal childhood trauma predicts adolescent internalizing and externalizing problems through indirect pathways involving both adolescent childhood trauma and fast life history strategies, offering an evolutionary-developmental perspective on intergenerational transmission.

xiaomin Wei, yufen Xu, Wei Lü2026-08-19
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Developing a Workforce-Aligned Quality Evaluation Framework for Undergraduate Health Services and Management Education in China

This study developed and weighted a workforce-aligned quality evaluation framework for undergraduate Health Services and Management education in China using a Delphi-AHP methodology, identifying employer satisfaction and competency alignment as the most critical indicators to shift focus from traditional input-process-output metrics to the explicit alignment between educational outputs and workforce requirements.

Jin Tian, Zengren Zhao, Yang Song, Yuqi Zhao, Zhiyan Chen, Longmei Tang2026-08-19
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Normative alignment and institutional constraints in Sustainable Development Goals implementation in Pakistan

This study argues that while Islamic ethical principles in Pakistan provide strong normative legitimacy for Sustainable Development Goals by aligning with social welfare and environmental stewardship, their practical implementation is significantly hindered by institutional constraints such as financing uncertainty, land disputes, and bureaucratic rigidity.

Rehab Iftikhar, Kate Davis, Shazia Nauman2026-08-19
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Beyond the clicks: a configurational fuzzy-set analysis of learner engagement in IIT MOOCs

This study utilizes a fuzzy-set configurational analysis of IIT MOOCs to demonstrate that while institutional prestige drives high viewership, genuine learner engagement is hindered by weak interaction, assessment, and feedback mechanisms, necessitating a shift from scalable content delivery to pedagogical designs that actively support learner thinking.

Priyansh Nagpal, Sayantan Mandal, Diptesh Banerjee2026-08-19
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Gift or Rent? How TikTok Reconfigures Value, Labor and Precarity for African Entrepreneur Creators

This mixed-methods study of Nigerian and Kenyan TikTok entrepreneur-creators reveals that the platform's gifting system functions as a hybrid value form where perceived gift-like relationality masks rent-like extraction, ultimately driving precarity primarily through income dependence and the strategic withholding of transparency rather than creator misrecognition.

Samuel Sunday, Uzoamaka Chioma Ogor, Stephen Chukwuebuka, Honesta Chidiebere Anorue, Tairu Nuhu Momoh, Anyakoha Chukwuno (…)2026-08-19
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Exploring Student Experiences With AI- Driven Tools for Speech Proficiency

This descriptive qualitative study of eighteen maritime students reveals that AI-driven tools like ELSA Speak, Praktika AI, and ChatGPT serve as effective, flexible supplementary resources that enhance speech proficiency, build confidence, and prepare learners for future maritime communication demands, leading to a recommendation for their integration into communication curricula.

Daniel A. Serundo, Lovern Grace E. Tapic, Jhunscent R. Turtogo, Enrico L. Fabricante, Drena Dorena Apao, Merliza T. Tayr (…)2026-08-19