2026 February - 23 articles
The Neuroaesthetics-informed approach to the urban environment examines how the sensory properties of buildings, streets, and public spaces are processed by the human brain, and how this processing affects health, well-being, and behavior. Drawing on...
Fintech populism is an analytical and metaphorical concept that describes a pattern of digital financial participation. In this pattern, financial technologies are framed as enabling broad, direct engagement with financial systems. This engagement is...
Migration is often viewed through an economic lens, but it also drives a profound transfer of intangible resources, including ideas, attitudes, beliefs, practices, values, and norms. This review examines the emerging literature on social remittances...
Rural tourism is defined as a tourism activity in which the visitor’s experience is linked to agricultural activities, rural lifestyles, and traditional cultures. In many geographical contexts, especially in Europe, because the rural economy is...
Translation primarily refers to interlingual translation here, i.e., the transfer of texts (broadly understood) between distinct languages. Wordplay is used synonymously with puns, while language-play is a broader concept referring to the intentional...
This entry paper explores the multifaceted oral health crisis in the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu, a remote archipelago of nine coral atolls. It delves into the severe burden of oral diseases, such as early childhood caries (ECC) and periodontitis...
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used in all branches of the media system and has transformed the way specialists in this field work in recent years. Currently, applications of artificial intelligence are used across a range of processes...
The career anchor (CA) is a metaphor created by Edgar Schein to illustrate the role of patterns of self-perceived talents, motives, and values in guiding, stabilizing (i.e., anchoring), and integrating a person’s work career. With the early yea...
The concept of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) was introduced by Shulman in 1986 as a distinctive form of teacher knowledge that transcends mere content expertise or general pedagogical skills. Shulman described PCK as “the amalgam of conte...
Value is the result of the combined, conscious, and creative actions of caring, which promote sustainable prosperity. Despite its centrality in marketing theory, value is treated in the literature as a self-evident, abstract term denoting concepts as...
Schrödinger’s path to the quantum mechanical wave equation was heuristic and guided more by physical intuition than formal deduction. Here we derive the Schrödinger equation for the particle’s wave function
The Sexual Intent Perceptions Questionnaire (SIP-Q) is a 25-item instrument designed to measure interpretations of women’s sexual willingness communicated via various behaviors. The instrument demonstrates high internal consistency using a 7-po...
Inclusive AI-mediated mathematics education for students with learning difficulties refers to a human-centered approach to mathematics teaching and learning that uses artificial intelligence (AI), adaptive technologies, and data-rich environments to...
The high costs and time-consuming nature of space exploration missions are among the major barriers to studying deep space. The lack of samples and limited information make such studies challenging, highlighting the need for innovative solutions, inc...
Therapeutic approaches using virtual reality (VR) have been effective in recovering function against various physical and cognitive disorders. Given its programmability and precise activity tracking, VR is a powerful tool for therapists to personaliz...
With the understanding that language variation, whether synchronic or diachronic, is, for the most part, not random but systematic and predictable, linguists and philologists have long engaged with the task of providing accounts and explanations for...
The digital labour economy is a system where work is mediated through digital technologies and online platforms. Work is often also called platform labour or gig work. China has brought out new labour protections to promote and support these new form...
The Philosophy of Education investigates the epistemological, anthropological, and ethical–normative foundations of education. It examines the meaning, purposes, and conditions of possibility of educational processes, bringing to light the impl...
In the present qualitative study, we first synthesize research to clarify the concept of error in science as developed by epistemologists, philosophers, and historians. We also examine the concept of error in educational science, drawing from studies...
Digital mental health resources have expanded rapidly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, offering new opportunities to improve access to mental healthcare through technologies such as AI chatbots, mobile apps, and online platforms. Despite this gr...
Auxology is the scientific discipline dedicated to the study of human growth and development, with particular emphasis on the patterns, timing, and biological regulation of physical growth from infancy through adolescence. It integrates medical, biol...
MMC has been globally recognised as a promising solution for the current global social housing crisis, although persistent challenges remain in relation to limited early-stage design coordination and chronic design inconsistencies, which often cause...
Extremes of the Edgeworth box concern corner allocations and their relationship to the contract curve in a two-good, two-agent exchange economy. In the standard pure-exchange setting with well-behaved preferences, the contract curve comprises all Par...
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