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The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) is a widely applied theoretical framework for predicting individual intentions and behaviors. However, its application in the knowledge payment domain remains limited. Existing studie...

The use of “theory” is a common concern in public health and anthropology. However, the term can have quite distinct meanings. In this piece, we seek to name and characterize some tendencies in anthropological theori...

We reconstruct “the classical transformational theory” of Chomsky, and fit it into the structuralist theory of science. We describe both the formal and the empirical features of this classical account, so that one ba...

In the modern globalized world, political processes increasingly occur as a result of interactions between individual actors who form networks. Contemporary political processes are examined through the lens of Policy Net...

Abstract The increase in vehicle ownership and urban population puts a strain on roads and increases traffic congestion within developed and developing nations. Congestion affects an individual’s time and increases an ...

The public sphere often struggles with a trade-off between authentic, small-scale discourse and broad, superficial debate dominated by influential entities. This study explores how media and information literacy (MIL) ca...

IntroductionThis study investigates how multimodal metaphors convey two core Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) concepts— “Yin Xu” (Yin deficiency) and “Yang Xu” (Yang deficiency)—in short science communicati...

Learning enjoyment among university students has shown signs of decline in recent years, raising growing concerns about student motivation and engagement in higher education. Although previous research has identified sev...

Nonlinear Schrödinger equations with power-law nonlinearities have attracted considerable attention recently. Two previous proposals for these types of equations, corresponding respectively to the Gross– Pitaievsky eq...

Carbonyl sulfide (COS) is a dangerous gas produced from fossil fuel combustion and petrochemical procedures, so proper adsorbent and sensors are required for removal and detection. In this work, we study by Density Funct...

A systematic approach to the synthesis of compliant mechanisms starting from the problem requirements is proposed. The method uses as topological solution space several atlases of compliant mechanisms specialized from ri...

Concrete-filled steel tubular (CFST) truss arch bridges are widely used in long-span bridge construction due to their high strength, good stiffness, and excellent durability. However, arch rib joints, as critical load-be...

Although the literature on China’s rising to proeminence has almost become a field in itsself, rather few studies dwell upon the bilateral relations between world’s still hegemon and its challenger. The present study...

This Campbell systematic review examines the empirical research on the effectiveness of female genital mutilation/cutting (‘FGM/C’) interventions to reduce the occurrence of FGM/C practices in the 28 African countrie...

Amid the convergence of technological, macroevolutionary, and demographic singularities, conventional approaches to analyzing and forecasting economic growth are increasingly losing relevance and predictive power. The su...

This paper suggests that the sociological theory of emotional labour is a useful way to interpret how teaching practices in Higher Education often involve the simultaneous management of both staff and student wellbeing. ...

Abstract Background The lack of systematic aesthetic education in prosthodontics training leaves undergraduate interns inadequately prepared to manage patients with aesthetic demands. To enhance the theory knowledge and ...

The classical micropolar constitutive theory is reformulated within the framework of the microplane concept in order to obtain constitutive equations and models including available and, hopefully, more precise informatio...

This study examines the epistemological, ontological, methodological and ethical challenges that the researchers of the new current of critical study on terrorism, put to the traditional research on this phenomenon. The ...

Automatic movement recognition is often used to support various fields such as clinical, sports, and security. To date, there is a lack of a classification feature that is both interpretable and not movement-specific. Pr...

NESTE artigo procura-se desenvolver um método para investigar histórias contrafactuais da ciência, isto é, histórias possíveis que não se realizaram. Desenvolvemos uma teoria da ciência baseada na noção de "ava...

El objetivo de este artículo es presentar una reconstrucción de la teoría de los grupos de referencia. La teoría, desarrollada por Robert K. Merton, ha sido largamente utilizada en los más variados campos de las cie...

Simmel’s social theory, namely his formal sociology, has long been considered if not dead, then of little relevance for contemporary sociological theories. This study is an attempt at proving the contrary. Our aim is t...

Multiculturalism is the most recent member of political theory family and also the most contested across Western Europe. Four prime ministers publicly acknowledged the failure of „multikulti” and this contrast with t...