3012 papers
This qualitative study examines the rapid rural-urban migration to Katima Mulilo, Namibia, revealing that while migrants seek improved employment and services, most fail to achieve their livelihood goals due to inadequate infrastructure, prompting a call for enhanced collaboration between regional and local authorities to manage migration and foster inclusive development.
This study demonstrates that a leader's political skill fosters employee career growth by promoting knowledge sharing, a positive process that is significantly weakened when employees experience high levels of job insecurity.
This study of 3,429 undergraduate students in online sport courses reveals that while initial raw scores favored laissez-faire leadership, adjusting for instructor experience and class size demonstrates that democratic leadership significantly enhances student achievement compared to autocratic styles, whereas laissez-faire leadership shows no statistically significant advantage.
This longitudinal study of Icelandic adolescents found no evidence that digital media use drives declines in mental health, revealing instead that relationships between screen time and well-being are complex, often non-significant, and vary by gender and activity type.
This study argues that French and Francophone hip-hop subverts the non-racial and monolingual ideals of French universalism by highlighting the intersectional realities of Créolité and Third Culture Kids, thereby challenging the marginalization of multiculturalism and multilingualism in official French discourse.
This study applies Ager and Strang's integration framework to reveal how xenophobia in South Africa actively reverses the socio-economic integration of skilled African migrants through structural exclusion and insecurity, a process termed "xenophobia-induced disintegration."
This study employs the Kano model and Better-Worse coefficient analysis to classify 27 functional requirements of smart elderly care platforms, revealing a hierarchical structure of user needs that informs a four-stage optimization framework for enhancing service quality and user satisfaction.
Analyzing data from over 41,000 UK participants, this study establishes that social connectedness is best understood as a hierarchical, multidimensional construct comprising relational, community, and subjective disconnectedness factors, which collectively and strongly predict psychological wellbeing and life satisfaction.
This paper argues that while cosmic nihilism does not introduce a distinct burden to life or an independent reason against procreation in David Benatar's framework, it remains significant because the absence of cosmic meaning leaves life's inherent burdens unmitigated and unjustified, thereby closing potential defenses against the case for non-procreation.
This qualitative study of first-year students and lecturers at a Ghanaian university reveals that while generative AI is widely valued as a scaffold for academic writing, its potential as a substitute for critical thinking necessitates a shift toward dialogic AI literacy, clear institutional policies, and assessment designs that prioritize transparent authorship.