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Beyond the screen: enhancing ethnic cultural representation and engagement through immersive 360° documentary experiences in museums. 银幕之外：通过沉浸式的博物馆360度纪录片体验，加强民族文化的表现和参与。

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Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-04 DOI: 10.1057/s41599-025-05429-z

Xiaolin Sun, Eugene Ch'ng

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Addressing environmental harms in the health sector: environmentality as a lens to expose (neglected) sites of knowledge/power. 处理卫生部门的环境危害：以环境为视角暴露（被忽视的）知识/权力场所。

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Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1057/s41599-025-05307-8

Gabrielle Samuel, Stephen Roberts

{"title":"Addressing environmental harms in the health sector: environmentality as a lens to expose (neglected) sites of knowledge/power.","authors":"Gabrielle Samuel, Stephen Roberts","doi":"10.1057/s41599-025-05307-8","DOIUrl":"10.1057/s41599-025-05307-8","url":null,"abstract":"In an era of increasing calls for responsible environmental stewardship within health research and care, the concept of environmentality is a productive vehicle to theorise, analyse and critique the changing trends of environmental governance. Despite the usefulness of this approach, little to no literature has explored how this concept could apply to the health sector. In this paper, we examine three examples of emerging environmental governance in the health sector to illustrate and consider the usefulness of the environmentality lens. We show how environmentality provides a framework to interrogate different forms of governance and, in particular, how specific modes of environmental governance gain traction such that different types of knowledge/power (relations) are produced. We argue that using this analytical framework can draw attention to the regimes, techniques and technologies that are beginning to shape the forms of knowledge that are gaining power in health sector environmental management and can contribute to a better understanding of fields of environmental knowledge/power (in)visibility.","PeriodicalId":52336,"journal":{"name":"Humanities and Social Sciences Communications","volume":"12 1","pages":"963"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12213599/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144561912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Language experience influences performance on the NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery: A cluster analysis. 语言经验影响NIH工具箱认知电池的表现：聚类分析。

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Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-18 DOI: 10.1057/s41599-025-04360-7

Ashley Chung-Fat-Yim, Sayuri Hayakawa, Viorica Marian

{"title":"Language experience influences performance on the NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery: A cluster analysis.","authors":"Ashley Chung-Fat-Yim, Sayuri Hayakawa, Viorica Marian","doi":"10.1057/s41599-025-04360-7","DOIUrl":"10.1057/s41599-025-04360-7","url":null,"abstract":"Studies investigating the effects of bilingualism on cognitive function have often yielded conflicting results, which may stem in part from the use of arbitrary criteria to categorize participants into groups based on language experience. The present study addresses this limitation by using a machine learning algorithm, known as cluster analysis, to identify naturally occurring subgroups of participants with similar language profiles. In a sample of 169 participants with varying degrees of first- and second-language proficiencies and ages of acquisition, the cluster analysis yielded four bilingual subgroups: late-unbalanced, early-unbalanced, late-balanced, and early-balanced. All participants completed the NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery. Results revealed that early-balanced and early-unbalanced bilinguals scored higher than late-unbalanced bilinguals on the cognitive flexibility and inhibitory control subtests of the NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery, whereas late-unbalanced bilinguals scored higher than early-balanced bilinguals on the verbal working memory subtest of the NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery. Bilingual language experience did not impact performance on measures of processing speed, episodic memory, and English vocabulary. These findings demonstrate the utility of data-driven approaches to capture the variability in language experience that exists in the real world. We conclude that different bilingual experiences can shape a wide range of cognitive abilities, from working memory to inhibitory control.","PeriodicalId":52336,"journal":{"name":"Humanities and Social Sciences Communications","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11883892/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143574662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Greenlash in the media. 媒体大肆抨击。

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Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1057/s41599-025-05324-7

Yingnian Tao, Mark Ryan

{"title":"Greenlash in the media.","authors":"Yingnian Tao, Mark Ryan","doi":"10.1057/s41599-025-05324-7","DOIUrl":"10.1057/s41599-025-05324-7","url":null,"abstract":"This study uses metadata visualisation and corpus linguistics to examine patterns of representation of the emerging term greenlash in media reports, as retrieved from the Nexis news database. The metadata analysis reveals that media coverage of greenlash has surged since 2021, predominantly in left leaning European and North American media sources. Through Sketch Engine, collocation analysis identified core thematic areas surrounding greenlash: definition and resistance, status, actor, cause and impact, and location. Our findings indicate that greenlash is primarily a European phenomenon, which may be attributed to a lack of mainstream outlets through which actors can voice opposition to climate policies. The phenomenon is largely driven by economic concerns, in response to specific policies perceived to impose financial burdens on protesting groups. Moreover, our analysis reveals that media organisations often introduce the term greenlash as broad, generalised public opposition to environmental policies rather than a complex, economically driven opposition to specific policies, and portray this opposition in a negative light. We suggest that media organisations may downplay these elements in opposition to neoliberal or populist ideologies or to retain readership. This phenomenon thus highlights the complex intersection between environmental policies, economic burdens, and political divisions underscoring the broader tensions and paradoxes surrounding climate action and socio-economic disparities.","PeriodicalId":52336,"journal":{"name":"Humanities and Social Sciences Communications","volume":"12 1","pages":"970"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12213618/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144561913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Access to technology and foundational math proficiency among students: empirical evidence from India. 学生获得技术和基础数学能力：来自印度的经验证据。

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Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-04 DOI: 10.1057/s41599-025-05224-w

Prashant Poddar, Valentina Rotondi, Ridhi Kashyap

{"title":"Access to technology and foundational math proficiency among students: empirical evidence from India.","authors":"Prashant Poddar, Valentina Rotondi, Ridhi Kashyap","doi":"10.1057/s41599-025-05224-w","DOIUrl":"10.1057/s41599-025-05224-w","url":null,"abstract":"Digital resources such as laptops have the potential to improve access to educational resources and provide personalized and uninterrupted learning opportunities for students. The impacts of these technologies may be especially salient in contexts where classroom sizes are large and schooling quality is poor. Here, we study the impacts of access to laptops on foundational math proficiency in one such context, i.e., India, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in the implementation of the Tamil Nadu Free Laptop Scheme (TFLS). Introduced in 2011, the TFLS was one of the largest and targeted free laptop programs in the world, distributing over 5 million laptops. Using data from the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) and India Human Development Survey (IHDS) within a double difference design, we show positive effects of access to laptops on foundational math proficiency of students, with the largest improvements experienced by those in economically disadvantaged households. We further find that these positive effects on foundational math proficiency are complemented by improvements in other education-related outcomes of students, such as more time spent on learning, better comprehension of language, and a reduction in private tuition. We provide evidence that laptops are able to close economic and gender divides in education. Our results remain robust to a variety of falsification and sensitivity checks.","PeriodicalId":52336,"journal":{"name":"Humanities and Social Sciences Communications","volume":"12 1","pages":"1015"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12227312/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144576946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Making their minds up: flux and stability in young children's career aspirations in North East England. 下定决心：英格兰东北部幼儿职业抱负的变化与稳定。

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Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-08 DOI: 10.1057/s41599-025-05364-z

Carol Davenport, Annie Padwick

{"title":"Making their minds up: flux and stability in young children's career aspirations in North East England.","authors":"Carol Davenport, Annie Padwick","doi":"10.1057/s41599-025-05364-z","DOIUrl":"10.1057/s41599-025-05364-z","url":null,"abstract":"School career information advice and guidance in England has typically focused on pupils aged 13-18. However, pupils aged under 11 have already formed career aspirations. Career aspirations are used as a proxy for future occupational destinations. This study tracks the individual career aspirations over 3 years for 78 children aged 7-9 at the start of study, from three schools in the North East England taking part in a STEM outreach project. The data are also used to explore the applicability of aspiration development frameworks for younger children. The majority of children were able to name at least one career aspiration with nearly 70% naming more, although these aspirations were drawn from a relatively narrow pool of jobs related to children's interests and jobs they see around them. 38% of the children had the same aspiration over time, but 60% of children changed their careers aspirations completely over the 3 years of the study. Career aspirations were strongly gendered, with boys naming a smaller pool of jobs most often. Between 2019 and 2021, there was an increase in STEM aspirations named by boys, and a decrease by girls. Thematic analysis of the reasons given for different aspirations identified four themes: self-actualisation, altruism, characteristics of the job, and role models. These themes were related to the aspiration frameworks. This study shows that there is both flux and stability in children's aspirations between the ages of 7 and 11. The gendered career choices at both time points indicate that there is a need for educators to challenge stereotypes about who can do what type of job from a much earlier age. All aspirations were drawn from a relatively small pool of job suggesting that introducing children to a wider range of jobs at an earlier age could support development of aspirations.","PeriodicalId":52336,"journal":{"name":"Humanities and Social Sciences Communications","volume":"12 1","pages":"1038"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12234352/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144602240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Letters of recognition: the spatial inscription of literature in the Romanian street nomenclature. 识别字母：罗马尼亚街道命名中文学的空间铭文。

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Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-25 DOI: 10.1057/s41599-025-05046-w

Mihai S Rusu, Stefan Baghiu

{"title":"Letters of recognition: the spatial inscription of literature in the Romanian street nomenclature.","authors":"Mihai S Rusu, Stefan Baghiu","doi":"10.1057/s41599-025-05046-w","DOIUrl":"10.1057/s41599-025-05046-w","url":null,"abstract":"Similar to other countries from Central and South-Eastern Europe, Romania's cultural field developed as a literature-centric system. Throughout the process of nation-making and state-building that unfolded starting with the early nineteenth century, literary figures (writers, poets, and other men of letters) have played a critical role in shaping Romanians' historical consciousness and national identity. This paper intersects the conceptual perspective derived from the tenets of critical place-name scholarship with historical contextualisation provided by literary studies to examine the patterns of spatial inscription of literary figures in Romania's urban street names. Using as dataset the entire collection of street names in Romania's cities and towns (N = 49,469), the article analyses who are the canonical writers commemorated in the country's streetscape and how the presence of writers had changed after Romania's regime change of 1989. It then charts the spatial distribution of writers' names across the country's geo-historical regions, investigates the gender disparity, as well as, the ethnic structuring of the literary namescape. The first to combine critical place-name research with literary studies in a quantitative approach to a large-N set of spatial data, the study contributes to several bodies of scholarship by mapping the memorial literaturisation of street nomenclature at the national level as well as its longitudinal dynamics, regional variation, gender disparity, and ethnic structure.","PeriodicalId":52336,"journal":{"name":"Humanities and Social Sciences Communications","volume":"12 1","pages":"710"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12103299/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144152923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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General collections demography model with multiple risks. 具有多重风险的一般催收人口统计模型。

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Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-21 DOI: 10.1057/s41599-025-05325-6

Josep Grau-Bové, Miriam Andrews

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Socially assistive robots and meaningful work: the case of aged care. 社会辅助机器人和有意义的工作：以老年护理为例。

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Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-11 DOI: 10.1057/s41599-025-05498-0

Cristina Voinea, Tenzin Wangmo

{"title":"Socially assistive robots and meaningful work: the case of aged care.","authors":"Cristina Voinea, Tenzin Wangmo","doi":"10.1057/s41599-025-05498-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-05498-0","url":null,"abstract":"As socially assistive robots (SARs) become increasingly integrated into aged care, it becomes essential to ask: how do these technologies affect caregiving work? Do SARs foster or diminish the conditions conducive to meaningful work? And why does it matter if SARs make caregiving more or less meaningful? This paper addresses these questions by examining the relationship between SARs and the meaningfulness of care work. It argues that SARs should be designed to foster meaningful care work. This presupposes, as we will argue, empowering caregivers to enhance their skills and moral virtues, helping them preserve a sense of purpose, and supporting the integration of caregiving with other aspects of caregivers' personal lives. If caregivers see their work as meaningful, this positively affects not only their well-being but also the well-being of care recipients. We begin by outlining the conditions under which work becomes meaningful, and then we apply this framework to caregiving. We next evaluate how SARs influence these conditions, identifying both opportunities and risks. The discussion concludes with design recommendations to ensure SARs foster meaningful caregiving practices.","PeriodicalId":52336,"journal":{"name":"Humanities and Social Sciences Communications","volume":"12 1","pages":"1070"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12254036/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144627709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Beyond online disinformation: assessing national information resilience in four European countries 超越网络虚假信息：评估四个欧洲国家的国家信息复原力

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Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Pub Date : 2024-01-13 DOI: 10.1057/s41599-024-02605-5

Marius Dragomir, J. Rúas-Araújo, Minna Horowitz

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