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Patients Experience of Telemedicine in Saudi Arabia: A Review of User Perspective Background: In today’s world, one of the requirements is the urgent need to provide fast, low-cost, affordable, and high-quality medical services. These demands have led to the invention of ways in
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February 12, 2026 at 8:44 PM
What Drives Corporate Carbon Transparency? A Systematic Literature Review The purpose of this research is to identify what drives carbon emission disclosure practices using a systematic literature review approach. Then, map and group the variables used from various previous studi
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February 12, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Monitor Digital Working Society—Brief report on the second wave of surveys: Increasing awareness and collegial support through AI The brief report presents key findings from the second of four representative survey waves conducted as part of the Opinion Monitor Artificial Intelli
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February 12, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Miscarriage reporting in longitudinal and cross-sectional surveys in Great Britain Objective: To examine the quality and patterns of miscarriage reporting across different surveys administered in Great Britain (GB).

Design: Comparative descriptive analysis of pregnancy and misca
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February 12, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Sovereign Wealth Funds and Economic Growth in High Income Countries Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are increasingly used by diverse countries to support large-scale economic development. However, limited evidence exists regarding their national effects. I investigate SWF effects o
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February 12, 2026 at 5:06 PM
China is Not the New Rome: An Agent-Based Model Test of the Supply-Side Theory Nationally representative surveys suggest Chinese Christian growth has plateaued at 2–5%, contrasting with supply-side predictions of 7–10% annual growth and an eventual Christian majority. Using an ag
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February 12, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Socioeconomic and Urban-Rural factors influencing BCG Vaccination coverage in Pakistan: Evidence from MICS6 (2017-2020) Despite Pakistan’s high tuberculosis burden, BCG vaccination coverage remains suboptimal (71.8%) with pronounced urban-rural disparities. This study analyses I
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February 12, 2026 at 1:42 PM
When Do We Bury Our Close Kin? Understanding The Kinloss Over Life Course in India Mortality shapes the human life course, yet its relational dimensions are underexplored. This Study examines the timing and likelihood of kin loss in India using data from the fifth Demographic and
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February 12, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Companionship with Social Chatbots by People with Learning Disabilities This research studies the experiences of companionship to social chatbots by people with learning disabilities (LD). Due to the increased risk of loneliness and the social barriers people with LD encounter, c
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February 12, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Enhancing geospatial precision in conflict data: A stochastic approach to addressing known geographically imprecise observations in conflict event data The proliferation of large-scale, geographically disaggregated data on armed conflicts, protests, and similar events has opened
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February 12, 2026 at 1:34 PM
From Rejection to Mandate: Electoral Gender Quotas in India This chapter traces the evolution and persistence of electoral gender quotas, focusing on India's transformation from categorical rejection to constitutional mandate. Early women's movements opposed reservations, viewing
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February 12, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Deconstructing the Gender Binary: A Butlerian Analysis of Gender Performativity in The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin explores the fatal flaws of assigned gender roles and challenges heteronormative structures in The Left Hand of Darkness. She uses the science fiction ge
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February 12, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Collective Sexuality Frames as Unambiguous Settings: Event Descriptions and Participant Reactions in Germany This exploratory study examines organized sexual events in Germany as structured leisure formats rather than as expressions of identity, morality, or relationship ideology
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February 12, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Food Security and a Child’s Diet Quality Across Households in Rural and Urban Nigeria The substantial number of food-insecure households in Nigeria and the problem of regional and socioeconomic disparities in food security are raising issues of food system transformation and just
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February 12, 2026 at 8:57 AM
Successful reduction of bear bile consumption in Vietnam using behavior change Bear bile is a highly demanded medicinal product in certain areas of Vietnam, which contributes to the decline of Asiatic black bears and sun bears. Multiple conservation strategies, such as closing be
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February 12, 2026 at 5:36 AM
The Ludic Paradox: Why Behavioral Change Through Games Requires Agency, Not Control The global games industry engages nearly three billion players, yet instrumental applications of
games for behavioral change, from gamification to serious games, demonstrate a puzzling
inconsisten
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February 11, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Measuring Individual-level Issue Importance with Repeated Binary-choice Questions Measuring individual-level issue importance is crucial for the study of voting behavior and public opinion, yet existing methods struggle to balance estimation accuracy with respondent burden. Stand
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February 11, 2026 at 5:11 PM
2. Learner Agency, Cognitive Constraint, and Pedagogical Design in Digital Language Learning This study addressed a critical gap in the literature concerning the specific cognitive challenges and cultural intricacies involved in non-alphabetic language learning. The research exam
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February 11, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Energy Transitions and Political Transformation: Evidence from the Shale Oil Revolution An outstanding question in climate politics is how oil-exporting governments will respond to a global clean energy transition. I argue that persistent oil revenue shortfalls strain social cont
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February 11, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Physiotherapy rehabilitation manifesto declarations designed to assure that quality clinical delivery can flourish in a UK urban hospital facility: Results from the first decade (2014-2023) Background: Global demand for rehabilitation is high and projected to rise, driven by an i
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February 11, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Off-time leaving home transitions and life satisfaction across young adulthood in the UK Leaving the parental home is a key transition milestone, often coinciding with the adoption of major adult roles. Reaching it off-time may diminish young adults’ well-being due to non-complia
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February 11, 2026 at 9:03 AM
Assisted Housing and Changes in Household Composition Socius, Volume 12, January-December 2026. Changes in household composition are detrimental to children’s well-being and outcomes. Unaffordable or unstable housing may lead to changes in household composition. The author uses d
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February 11, 2026 at 8:59 AM
Epistemic Legitimacy in Interaction: Refusal, Indirectness, and Restraint as Sequential Pragmatic Action This study challenges intervention-centred models of accommodation in contact interaction by showing that the withholding of accommodation can constitute normatively accountab
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February 11, 2026 at 5:39 AM
Monitor Digital Working Society—Brief report on the first wave of surveys: Between interest, ambivalence, and uncertainty: How workers evaluate and use AI The brief report presents key findings from the first of four representative survey waves conducted as part of the Monitor Di
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February 10, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Evidencing the relational and situated aspects of complex social systems affecting health: introducing an integrated mixed methods approach to understand school mental health Existing strategies for assessing adolescent mental health overlook the complex social and emotional cont
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February 10, 2026 at 9:03 PM