Child Labor and Environmental Health: Government Obligations and Human Rights by Joseph J. Amon, Jane Buchanan, Jane Cohen, Juliane Kippenberg

“…Nonetheless, child labor continues to be common in the agriculture and mining sectors, where safety and environmental hazards pose significant risks. Drawing upon recent human rights investigations of child labor in tobacco farming in Kazakhstan and gold mining in Mali, the role of international human rights mechanisms, advocacy with government and private sector officials, and media attention in reducing harmful environmental exposures of child workers is discussed. …”
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Supporting Homeownership and Naturalizing Debt<subtitle>The Housing Discourse in Swedish Newspapers 2005–2022</subtitle> by Chiara Valli, Neil Dunne

“…We analyze the media discourse around the Swedish housing market drawing on selected articles from the five main national newspapers. …”
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A Framework for a Capabilities-Based Approach to Copyright by Megha Jandhyala

“…Abstract This article highlights the importance of an analysis of copyright law from a human development perspective. Drawing on Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum’s Capabilities Approach, it outlines why copyright scholarship and policymaking should address human capabilities. …”
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The Popes as guardians of human dignity by Gerhard Ludwig Müller

“…The text addresses the contemporary challenge of protecting human life at all stages and emphasizes the Church’s historical commitment to the value of every individual. Drawing on Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclicals, it asserts that the Church is inherently charitable and actively engaged in promoting human development, education, and well-being. …”
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The iconography of persuasion by Shepherd Mpofu, Trust Matsilele, Tawanda Nyawasha

“…Specifically, the paper examines messages on the posters, the parties’ manifestos and speeches at different rallies before the elections. Drawing on our analysis, we make a claim in this paper that the 2019 election in South Africa for the ANC, DA and EFF was largely about “unresolved questions”. …”
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Harmonising careers: opera, hospitality and tourism industries unite to elevate graduate students employability by Sakhiseni Joseph Yende

“…Through participant feedback, it illuminates how this integration markedly advances graduates’ skill sets and career trajectories. Drawing on Social Exchange and Human Capital Theories, it showcases how this model enhances employability, bestowing graduates with a unique fusion of artistic flair and practical hospitality expertise. …”
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AN ERROR ANALYSIS OF THE TRANSFORMATION FROM DIRECT TO INDIRECT SPEECH by Zahratul Idami

“…With the intention of drawing representative sample, simple random sampling was applied. …”
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A social dynamics of the development of community network: problems raised by two cases of community network development by Dong Hee Shin

“…Qualitative data were collected primarily through in-depth interviews, drawing on the retrospective data of diverse stakeholders: strategic policy groups, user groups, technical groups and functional groups. …”
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The Roles of Islamic Content Quality and Physical Attractiveness of Muslim Influencer on Social Media Consumption: Likeability as Mediator by Robiansyah Robiansyah, Khusnul Khotimah, Aisyah Trees Sandy, Saida Zainurossalamia

“…This study examines the role of Muslim influencers in presenting high-quality Islamic content and influencer physical attractiveness on social media consumption, with a focus on the mediating effect of influencer likeability. Drawing on Uses and Gratifications Theory (UGT), the research contributes to theory development by exploring how Muslim influencers fulfill the social and religious needs of their audience through engaging content and physical attractiveness. …”
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The Politics of Language in Constructing Civil Identity: Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina by T. I. Popadeva

“…The article studies the Bosnian language policy, which, contrary to forming a common civil identity, as a result of the politicization of linguistic norms becomes a factor in creating a “forge of hatred”. Drawing on constructivist social theories, the author summarizes Bosnian linguistic practices and examines them through the prism of symbolic interactionism and negative feedback systems. …”
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Development of Teacher’s Professional Competence through Action Research as a Form of Professional Development by Janka Ferencová, Ivana Pirohová, Valentina Šuťáková, Monika Miňová

“…This review study aims to provide an empirically grounded perspective on action research as a means of stimulating the development of teachers’ professional competence. Drawing upon the analysis of 28 empirical studies from the Scopus, WoS, EBSCO, ProQuest, and Science Direct databases over the past five years, the study identifies the contributions of action research to the development of both core and key professional competences among teachers. …”
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Simona Bozhinovska, Mise en œuvre de politiques monétaires en régime d’accumulation des réserves de change : une approche par la monnaie endogène. Aperçus des opérations des banque... by Simona Bozhinovska

“…The dissertation proposes an endogenous money interpretation of the operations of central banks that pursue some type of exchange rate policy and accumulate foreign reserves as a result, by drawing on recent insights from monetary policy implementation. …”
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Sectarian and Secular: Lay Perspectives in <i>Stūpa</i> Burials at Mount Zhongnan During the Tang Dynasty (AD 618–906) by Wen Sun

“…This article examines lay participation in the <i>stūpa</i> forest at Mount Zhongnan in Chang’an during the seventh and eighth centuries, drawing primarily on inscriptions evidence. By reassessing funerary <i>stūpas</i> erected for laypeople at Mount Zhongnan, this article calls for a reconsideration of the traditional sectarian view of lay-oriented funeral rituals. …”
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Arnold Bennett’s Naturalistic and Democratic Interiors in The Old Wives’ Tale (1908) by Laurent Mellet

“…This type of Edwardian fiction reveals a political agenda buoyed up by an empirical narrative praxis. Drawing on Bennett’s The Old Wives’ Tale (1908), we show that Edwardian literary interiors turn into literary tools from which considering oneself, the others and the world out there, differently. …”
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The Roles of Men in the Dating Violence Phenomenon by Vivin Septiani Jatmiko, Diyah Ayu Amalia Avina

“…Dating violence is one of the phenomena that has been drawing attention to various researchers since 1990s due to the high percentage of dating violence cases in various countries and the negative effects it has caused to the involved parties. …”
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ChatGPT and CLT: Investigating differences in multimodal processing by Michael Cahalane, Samuel N. Kirshner

“…Drawing on construal level theory, recent studies have demonstrated that ChatGPT interprets text inputs from an abstract perspective. …”
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Coopératives de production : quelle spécificité du rapport social d’activités coopératif à l’aune du rapport salarial ? by Justine Ballon, Sylvain Celle, Anne Fretel, Delphine Vallade

“…This article analyses worker cooperatives by questioning their capacity to produce a relatively autonomous and protective social relationship of activities for their members as compared to the dominant wage labor nexus. Drawing on regulationist works on the wage labor nexus and the social relationship of activities, we propose a reading based on the conceptualization of a specific “cooperative social relation of activities”, based on the principle of double quality. …”
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Structured Dynamics in the Algorithmic Agent by Giulio Ruffini, Francesca Castaldo, Jakub Vohryzek

“…Then, adopting a generic neural network as a proxy for the agent dynamical system and drawing parallels to Noether’s theorem in physics, we demonstrate that data tracking forces the agent to mirror the symmetry properties of the generative world model. …”
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Modeling students’ intentions to learn data science: Using an extended theory of planned behavior by Ram B. Basnet, David J. Lemay, Paul Bazelais

“…Yet scholarly understanding of what motivates students to learn data science is still limited. Drawing on the theory of planned behavior, we propose a research model to examine the determinants of behavioral intentions to learn data science. …”
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