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All Green Industrialists Now? EU Climate Policy Discourse from the EGD to the Clean Industrial Deal

Using text-as-data methods to analyze EU policy documents from the European Green Deal to the Clean Industrial Deal, this study finds that while green industrial policy has become more prominent and embedded in the EU climate agenda, it functions as a dispersed network of topics across various fields rather than forming a single, integrated framework for net-zero policies.

Frank Wendler2026-08-19
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Navigating Students’ Growth Mindset and Connectivist Learning Experience With Dynamic Technologies

This mixed-methods study of 265 student teachers reveals that while they possess high digital growth mindsets and utilize dynamic technologies for learning, their collaboration skills and connectivist experiences remain modest, with growth mindset and collaboration skills significantly predicting technology use despite no gender differences in overall digital practices.

Assefa Gebre Miko2026-08-19
📄 social_science

Teaching Practice and Pedagogical Reform of Basic Medical Courses for Intelligent Medical Engineering Majors Under Cross-Institutional Integration

This study implements and evaluates a cross-institutional, full-cycle teaching reform framework for the "Introduction to Basic Medicine" course in Intelligent Medical Engineering, demonstrating that integrating interdisciplinary content and a closed-loop pedagogical model effectively enhances engineering students' medical literacy and innovative capabilities while identifying areas for future optimization.

Weiwei Yang, Fengyan Xu, Yan Yan, Yanshuang Wu, Yingli Song, Bo Cao2026-08-19
📄 social_science

Public Attention to Athlete Mental Health: An Exploratory Google Trends Analysis of Seasonal Patterns and High-Profile Events, 2019-2025

This exploratory infodemiology study analyzes Google Trends data from 2019 to 2025 to reveal a significant upward trajectory in public search interest regarding athlete mental health, which correlates with seasonal sports injury patterns and shows a specific, measurable spike following Simone Biles' Tokyo Olympics withdrawal but not Naomi Osaka's French Open withdrawal.

Charles Kakkanatt2026-08-19
📄 social_science

Pedagogical strategies to integrate Computational Thinking and Artificial Intelligence in Science and English Literature

This empirical study demonstrates that integrating Computational Thinking and Artificial Intelligence into both Science and English Literature significantly enhances secondary students' critical thinking, creativity, and overall academic achievement, with these factors collectively explaining over 70% of the variance in learning outcomes.

Manjeet Singh, Anita Negi2026-08-19
📄 social_science

The Cost of Segregation: Using Transfermarkt Values to Model Counterfactual Outcomes in Soccer

Using Transfermarkt valuations and counterfactual modeling, this study demonstrates that racially exclusive selection strategies would significantly reduce the England men's national soccer team's performance, highlighting that the primary benefit of diversity in elite sports stems from access to a larger talent pool rather than diversity itself driving productivity.

Georgy Shukaylo, Stefan Szymanski2026-08-19
📄 social_science

Lecturers’ Experiences in Human Expertise and Generative AI in Developing Communicative Speaking Materials for English Foreign Language (EFL)

This qualitative case study reveals that EFL lecturers effectively balance their professional expertise with generative AI by using the technology as a complementary tool for brainstorming and drafting while retaining ultimate pedagogical control to ensure materials remain learner-centered, culturally relevant, and communicatively meaningful.

Ishak Ishak, Mujammilatul Halimah, Ungku Kairunnisa BT Ungku Mohd Nordin2026-08-19
📄 social_science

Interoperability as Governance Capacity: Digital Infrastructures and the Mediation of Rights in the United Kingdom

This paper argues that interoperability functions as a critical governance capacity in the UK that, by linking disparate digital systems, amplifies classification and diffuses responsibility, thereby creating an "accountability gap" that challenges existing legal frameworks and necessitates democratic oversight of inter-system relationships.

Michael Sadowski2026-08-19