1676 papers
This study of 419 business students at a South African university of technology reveals that class attendance is significantly shaped by life stage factors such as age, study level, and living arrangements rather than just motivation, suggesting that institutions should adopt more inclusive policies that accommodate diverse student circumstances.
This autoethnography examines the challenges and opportunities faced by a pregnant midwife conducting insider research in maternity care, emphasizing the importance of reflexivity and guidance for producing transparent and credible studies.
This study challenges conventional visibility-based definitions of slow tourism by analyzing Instagram content in Jharkhand, India, to reveal how "embedded slowness"—shaped by ecological rhythms and infrastructural conditions—manifests in peripheral regions despite the absence of explicit slow tourism branding, while highlighting how platform algorithms reinforce selective spatial recognition that obscures everyday socio-ecological practices.
This article critically examines the transformation of economic sanctions into instruments of geopolitical coercion, arguing that their proliferation and inadequate humanitarian safeguards disproportionately harm civilian populations and expose structural inequalities, thereby necessitating a reformed, multilateral framework grounded in international law principles such as proportionality, accountability, and human rights protection.
This study utilizes Cultural Model Theory to demonstrate that Chinese brand meanings across Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam are organized into five distinct cultural models that significantly influence brand trust and purchase intention, challenging the notion of a single cultural-attitude continuum in transnational consumer settings.
This quasi-experimental study demonstrates that implementing the jigsaw method significantly enhances translation skills and fosters positive socio-cognitive perceptions among Iranian pre-service teachers, suggesting its effectiveness as a collaborative educational strategy in translator-teacher training.
This article argues that China's mediatization of the low-altitude economy employs techno-nationalist narratives and flattened spatial metaphors to construct a "discursive closure" that normalizes the enclosure of urban airspace while marginalizing civic risks and silencing democratic contestation.
Drawing on interviews with Chinese women undergoing IVF, this paper introduces the concept of "suspended autonomy" to describe how women's reproductive agency is relationally constituted yet constrained by structural mechanisms that prevent them from critically reassessing the legitimacy and unequal weight of familial and clinical forces shaping their decisions.
By distinguishing between strong and weak constitutive norms, this paper argues that Davidson's theory of rationality, which links objective truth and maximal agreement to rationality, successfully reconciles his framework with the thesis of meaning normativity despite his apparent anti-conventionalist stance.
Using China Family Panel Studies data, this paper demonstrates that constant availability imposes a distinct psychological burden on workers that persists despite higher income and is uniquely mitigated in high-AI-exposure occupations, suggesting that technological context reshapes how temporal intrusion translates into mental strain.