How do hawker vendors achieve upward social mobility despite low educational status? by Cheang, Joanne Zu Er, Khoe, Wei Jun, Lim, Yu Cheng

“…Hawkers also have to deal with precarity in their job including the rising cost of food and rents, as well as finding a good location for their business. This research underscores some of the factors that differentiate hawker vendors who achieve upward social mobility from those who do not. …”
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Tied up in a sticky situation : identity disclosure and stigma management strategies of BDSM practitioners in Singapore by Tan, Bridget Wei Jing, Leong, Eudy Wan Ting, Ong, Si Rong

“…In addition, the BDSM community is an important source for its practitioners to obtain emotional and practical support. Our findings suggest that due to the unique position of BDSM whereby it is technically legal yet not socially accepted in Singapore, the BDSM community employs a stigma management strategy which we termed as “pragmatic inconspicuity”.…”
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The influence of nostalgia on serious leisure participation to achieve personal growth and happiness by Low, Shirmin Li Min

“…In addition, serious leisure positively affected personal growth and indirectly affected happiness. These findings will provide a deeper understanding on the relationship between the constructs and aid in widening the extant literature on serious leisure and its outcomes.…”
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Impact of delay on the formation of high-order interactions and structural imbalance by Siboni, M. H. Hakimi, Jafari, Reza

“…Higher-order interaction is required by raising the value of delay. Our finding indicates that in the dynamics of Heider balance, increasing the delay period increases the order of interactions and the presence of imbalanced triangles even at temperatures close to zero.…”

Artificial intelligence and power in public service management by Vogl, TM

“…This chapter suggests that digital technologies can under certain circumstances condition decisions and disempower users and under different circumstances empower users and support and enhance decision-making. These findings suggest that in any technological implementation, the benefits of a digital tool should not be taken for granted.…”

Parent support adviser pilot evaluation: Second interim report by Lindsay, G, Cullen, M, Band, S, Cullen, S, Davis, L, Davis, H

“…This second Interim Report of the Parent Support Adviser Pilot reports the findings of interviews with 105 parents and 69 PSAs from the 12 case study LAs held between November 2007 and January 2008. …”

Road capacity, domestic trade and regional outcomes by Coşar, AK, Demir, B, Ghose, D, Young, N

“…We extend the model by endogenizing the labor supply decision to capture this finding. The model-implied elasticity of employment rates to travel time reductions captures about one-third of the empirical elasticity.…”

Gender identity in the 2021 census of England and Wales: how a flawed question created spurious data by Biggs, M

“…Confusion is manifested in the overrepresentation of people lacking English proficiency in the most suspect gender categories. These findings demonstrate how a faulty question can distort our apprehension of the social world.…”

Mapping inequalities in London by Hennig, BD, Dorling, D

“…Measures to tackle these problems are needed, but seeing them where they are most apparent is a first step in understanding them and finding appropriate solutions.…”

GPU accelerated image quality assessment-based software for transient detection by Li, X, Adamek, K, Armour, W

“…We accelerate the algorithms using GPUs, achieving kernel time of approximately 0.1 milliseconds for transient finding in 2048 × 2048 images.…”

Tapping into tissue bioelectromechanics: Electroactive biopolymers for dynamic tissue engineering by Burgess, MK, Nair, M

“…By highlighting the successes and current challenges in the materials development to support such dynamic devices, we summarize our findings with design guidelines to direct the future development of clinically translatable and efficacious tissue engineering constructs with the dynamic functionality of soft robots.…”

It’s the state, indeed! How state capacity facilitates social equality in authoritarian regimes by Vaccaro, A, Panaro, AV

“…Using static and dynamic regression models for over 120 countries from 1960 to 2016, our findings show that state capacity enhances social equality in authoritarian contexts through these three interrelated mechanisms. …”

Populist attitudes, subjective social status, and resentment in Italy by Melli, G, Scherer, S

“…Thus, using original data collected in 2021, this paper analyses populist attitudes in Italy and the relationship between subjective social status, status mismatch, and social resentment. This study finds that subjective status matters more than objective conditions for populist attitudes. …”

Strong and weak random walks on signed networks by Babul, SA, Tian, Y, Lambiotte, R

“…Comparing strong and weak walks on synthetic and empirical networks, we demonstrate that weak walks outperform strong walks in scenarios involving more than two communities or asymmetric link densities. Our findings suggest that replacing strong walks with weak walks could enhance other signed network random-walk algorithms, broadening their applicability to more realistic network structures.…”

Aged and wheeled mobility in transit-oriented development: the capabilities approach by Xu, Y, Chan, H-Y, Chen, A, Chim, T-Y, Liu, X

“…Our focus is on understanding these conversion factors, which highlight both environmental and individual constraints when converting resources into capabilities. Our findings reveal significant disparities in walking environments between the initially planned and the realized catchment areas, as well as disparities between individuals with and without physical limitations. …”

A manifesto for a globally diverse, equitable, and inclusive open science by Ghai, S, Thériault, R, Forscher, P, Shoda, Y, Syed, M, Puthillam, A, Peng, HC, Basnight-Brown, D, Majid, A, Azevedo, F, Singh, L

“…In this Perspective, we raise the spectre of Questionable Generalisability Practices and the issue of MASKing (Making Assumptions based on Skewed Knowledge), calling for more responsible practices in generalising study findings and co-authorship to promote global equity in knowledge production. …”

How coalitions shape legislative institutions in parliamentary democracies by Zubek, R

“…Procedural opportunities to use legislative committees to challenge ministerial proposals tend to be strengthened under multi-party cabinets in which preference divergence between coalition partners is substantial and in which parties have similar probability of making proposals to implement joint policies. These findings open interesting avenues for future work on how parties shape legislative institutions in parliamentary democracies.…”

Longitudinal effects of a scenario-based learning intervention on preservice teacher self-efficacy by Rushby, JV, Klassen, RM, Durksen, TL, Pfaffel, A, Bardach, L

“…Results from open-ended responses following the intervention showed how reflection on scenarios and feedback played a role in preservice teachers’ self-efficacy. The findings highlight the benefits of providing preservice teachers with low-risk, authentic classroom experiences bolstered by expert feedback and opportunities for reflection.…”

Testing the national identity argument by Miller, D, Ali, S

“…Using case studies from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, we suggest that the relationship between national identity and social justice varies between societies, and that a key factor is finding an appropriate balance between the strength of such identities and their inclusiveness.…”

Mental contrasting changes the meaning of reality by Kappes, A, Wendt, M, Reinelt, T, Oettingen, G

“…Importantly, the meaning of reality as obstacle mediated mental contrasting effects on goal pursuit (Studies 1, 2). The findings suggest that mental contrasting produces selective goal pursuit by changing the meaning of a person's reality.…”