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        <pubDate>2026-09-07T08:49:50.836+00:00</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Climate-induced migration, livelihood vulnerability and associated adaptation strategies: a systematic literature review]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-09-07T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Systematic Review</category>
        <author>Md Shemul Sheikh</author><author>Jurian Edelenbos</author><author>Alberto Gianoli</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Climate-induced migration is widely acknowledged as a multifaceted phenomenon shaped by the interaction between climatic stressors and socioeconomic, environmental, political, and institutional conditions. This systematic literature review examines the relationship between climate-induced migration, livelihood vulnerability, and associated adaptation strategies, while recognizing that migration is rarely driven by climate change alone. Following the PRISMA framework, a rigorous selection process yielded 28 peer-reviewed articles published between 2008 and 2023 from Scopus and Web of Science databases. Integrative and thematic analysis were applied to synthesize the evidence and identify key dimensions of livelihood vulnerability and adaptation associated with climate-induced migration. Six themes were identified: economic, social, environmental, health, cultural, and political factors that mutually influence migration experience, livelihood vulnerability, and adaptive responses. Climate-induced migration could increase income insecurity, asset loss, food insecurity, social isolation, inadequate access to basic services, health risks, culture disruption, and insufficient institutional support. The results indicate that climate-related stresses can undermine livelihoods through financial losses and other socioeconomic pressures. Migration may facilitate adaptation through remittances, livelihood diversification, employment opportunities, social networks, and institutional support; nevertheless, it may also intensify vulnerability. The reviewed literature provides global coverage, with a strong focus on climate-vulnerable regions, specifically South and Southeast Asia, alongside evidence from Africa, Latin America, Pacific Islands, North America, and Australia. The review shows that climate-induced migration should be understood as a multidimensional and interactive process rather than as a direct consequence of climate change alone. Migration can function as an adaptation strategy and a source of strengthened vulnerability. The findings also highlight the need to use region-specific, gender-responsive, and institutionally coordinated perspectives in addressing the vulnerabilities and adaptive capabilities of climate migrants.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Algorithmic fatigue, human talent adaptation, and perceived digital competitiveness among general and financial services professionals: a configurational analysis]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-09-03T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Alexander Haro-Sarango</author><author>Silvia Cachay-Salcedo</author><author>Jessica Saavedra-Vasconez</author><author>Rosa Salcedo-Dávalos</author><author>Briseida Sotelo-Castro</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionDigital transformation has intensified the use of platforms, automated systems, artificial intelligence tools, online reporting, and algorithmic performance metrics in general and financial services. This study examines how algorithmic fatigue, human talent adaptation, digital organizational support, digital dynamic capabilities, and responsible algorithmic governance combine to explain high perceived digital competitiveness.MethodsA quantitative, non-experimental, cross-sectional, exploratory-configurational design was used. From an institutional population of 581 Business Administration students, 128 employed participants working in general or financial services met the inclusion criteria. A 60-item, five-point Likert instrument measured six constructs. Analyses in R included descriptive statistics, reliability, Spearman correlations, an auxiliary linear model, and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA).ResultsHuman talent adaptation was the only potentially necessary condition for high perceived digital competitiveness. Three sufficient pathways emerged: digital dynamic capabilities, responsible algorithmic governance, and the combination of human talent adaptation and digital organizational support, which was the most consistent pathway. Algorithmic fatigue acted as a risk condition but could coexist with high perceived digital competitiveness when compensatory resources were present.DiscussionThe findings indicate that perceived digital competitiveness arises through alternative combinations of human, organizational, technological, and governance resources, supporting a configurational rather than a single universal pathway interpretation.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A coordinated post-quantum mesh and route-aware zero-trust framework for smart-grid IoT communication utilizing simulation and attack evaluation]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-09-03T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Abed Alghawli</author><author>Ali Raza</author><author>Altahir Saad Ahmed</author><author>Suzan Hassan Bakhit</author><author>Muhammad Farman</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Smart-grid IoT networks require post-quantum protection, resilient routing, and continuous trust enforcement without excessive communication overhead. This study proposes a coordinated migration-oriented framework that integrates ML-KEM-1024 key establishment, ML-DSA-87 authentication, authenticated RPL mesh routing, and route-aware zero-trust validation. Its main novelty is the unified binding of post-quantum device identity with route admission, continuous trust scoring, compromised-node isolation, trusted failover, session rekeying, and controlled reintegration. The framework was evaluated using NS-3 simulations, Raspberry Pi cryptographic measurements, adversarial emulation, and ProVerif analysis across five controlled configurations with 75 legitimate nodes, four adversarial nodes, and 30 independently seeded runs. Under nominal traffic, the complete configuration achieved an RTT of 44.7±3.0 ms and a PDR of 99.2±0.4%. Under high load and primary-router failure, it maintained 99.1±0.6% PDR and recovered in 11.6±2.1 s. Relative to the post-quantum mesh configuration without continuous zero-trust enforcement, it reduced combined MITM and route-manipulation success by 82.6% and DDoS recovery time by 52.8%, with only a 1.5-percentage-point increase in control overhead. Compared with the reproduced ETX–Trust Secure-RPL baseline, PDR improved by 0.5 percentage points and DDoS recovery was 6.0 s faster, although RTT increased by 3.9 ms. ProVerif symbolically verified session secrecy, mutual authentication, replay resistance, route-admission integrity, failover, and post-rekey security. The framework provides a practical security and migration layer for AMI, DER, and substation communication, while full standards interoperability and utility-scale validation remain future requirements.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Correction: The impact of sustainable indigenous tourism on indigenous rights and community well-being moderated by empowering communities in Lake Toba, Indonesia]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-09-01T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Correction</category>
        <author>Tonny Pangihutan Situmorang</author><author> Bengkel</author><author> Triyono</author><author>Alwi Dahlan Ritonga</author><author>Putri Evi Oviyanti Batubara</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[Agentic AI in Latin America: characterization of the structural gap and proposal of a contextual adaptation framework]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-09-01T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>José Luis Vásquez-Correa</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are rapidly emerging as a dominant paradigm in applied AI. However, existing architectures are developed and evaluated predominantly in high-income, English-speaking, and well-connected contexts, embedding structural assumptions that do not apply to much of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). This article addresses the absence of a systematic characterization of the contrast between agentic AI architectures and the multidimensional constraints of the LAC operational context. To this end, a data-driven conceptual framework development methodology is employed, through which four structural dimensions are identified: (1) digital infrastructure heterogeneity, (2) linguistic marginalization of Spanish, Portuguese, and indigenous languages, (3) regulatory fragmentation, and (4) asymmetric access and adoption patterns. Building on this characterization, the LAC Contextual Adaptation Framework (LATAM-CAF) is proposed, a three-layer architecture comprising context profiling, an adaptive execution engine, and a contextual evaluation suite. The results suggest that deploying standard agent architectures in Latin America without contextual adaptation risks replicating and amplifying existing structural inequalities.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The role of social media in enhancing awareness in legal rights for women’s empowerment in rural areas of Jordan]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-09-01T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Nasaybah Walid Awajan</author>
        <description><![CDATA[The current study attempts to explore the level of the effect of the role social media plays in increasing the awareness of the legal rights of women living in rural Jordan. It also endeavors to highlight the role of social media in increasing women empowerment living in rural Jordan. A quantitative approach was used to answer the questions of the study. A descriptive analytical approach was used through a quantitative method. A group of females were interviewed about women's rights to help design and develop the questionnaire. The questionnaire was divided into three main parts. The first part aimed to collect the demographic data of the respondents. In the second part, the respondents were asked to respond to 19 points related to the rights of females using a 5-point Likert scale. These points were categorized into five main categories of women's rights: civil, political, economic, and cultural. The third part consisted of three open-ended questions for the respondents to answer related to women's empowerment. To help design the questionnaire, 20 females living in rural areas in Jordan were interviewed. They were chosen through the convenience sampling technique nominated by women leaders who work in networks and organizations related to women empowerment. The sample for answering the questionnaire, the quantitative approach, was chosen by a convenience sampling technique that consisted of 600 females/ women in rural areas all around Jordan. But only 460 female/ women responded. The study concluded that women have known and learned about their rights, whether civil, political, economic, social, or cultural, from different social media platforms, but especially Facebook. Moreover, this fact does not only relate to women who are not employed or educated. This conclusion can also apply to educated and employed women in rural regions in Jordan. The study also concludes with the importance of social media in increasing women's empowerment in different ways, such as learning from other women's experiences, and others. There is a lack in the studies that tackle the role of social media in women's empowerment and especially in spreading legal literacy among women in Jordan's rural regions. The current study filled the gap in this area.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Rebloom: translating research through multimodal interaction between social and felt worlds]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-31T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Brief Research Report</category>
        <author>Barbara Doran</author><author>Simone Clow</author><author>Andrew Lodge</author><author>Diane Macdonald</author><author>Paulina Larocca</author><author>Ann Dadich</author><author>Chloe Watfern</author><author>Katherine Boydell</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Self-harm among young women is increasing globally, yet many do not disclose their distress, leaving families and communities unsure how to respond. Research shows that small, attuned gestures of presence and connection are often the most meaningful forms of support. ReBloom, an immersive interactive installation, was co-created to translate these insights into a publicly accessible, multimodal encounter. Created through collaboration among mental health researchers, creative technologists, artists, and 27 young women with lived experience of self-harm, the project translated research evidence into a publicly accessible encounter designed for embodied, sensory, and relational engagement. Using gesture-responsive interaction, motion capture, color transitions, sound, and narrative movement, ReBloom enabled participants to enact metaphors of attunement, emotional openness, and care. Installed in a large metropolitan shopping center, the work engaged diverse publics across ages and cultural backgrounds, generating forms of interaction ranging from playful exploration to reflective and emotionally resonant encounters. Ethnographic observation and thematic evaluation revealed that participants intuitively recognized the emotional arc of the work and frequently linked the experience to their own understandings of support, empathy, and mental health. The installation also surfaced important paradoxes in public engagement, including the tension between visibility and the desire for more private, cocoon-like spaces for reflection. This case study demonstrates how immersive, distributed storytelling can function as a powerful mode of arts-based knowledge translation, offering new pathways for communicating sensitive mental-health research in accessible, non-stigmatizing, and emotionally meaningful ways.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The topology of a family tree graph and its members’ satisfaction with one another: a machine learning approach]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-28T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Teddy Lazebnik</author><author>Amit Yaniv-Rosenfeld</author>
        <description><![CDATA[BackgroundFamily members’ satisfaction with one another is an important component of family well-being, yet most quantitative studies examine specific dyadic or household-level variables rather than the overall topology of the family tree.MethodsWe present an exploratory machine-learning framework for studying whether family-tree topology contains predictive information about reported family satisfaction. In the proposed approach, each family is represented as a topology-only graph whose nodes correspond to family members and whose edges encode family relationships. A Variational Graph AutoEncoder (VGAE) is used to obtain latent graph representations, which are then used in supervised regression models to predict Extended Family Satisfaction (EFS) and Nuclear Family Satisfaction (NFS). The approach is evaluated on a self-selected online convenience sample of N=486 families recruited through social-media platforms, using a family-level train/test protocol.ResultsThe proposed topology-based representation showed predictive performance for reported family satisfaction and was compared with regression models based on established aggregate family variables and additional graph-based baselines. These results suggest that family-tree topology may contain information relevant to reported satisfaction, although the evidence remains predictive and exploratory.ConclusionThe findings provide preliminary evidence that graph-based representations of family structure can support the study of family satisfaction. However, the results should not be interpreted as causal or population-level conclusions, given the study’s sampling limitations, low response rate, and absence of sociodemographic control variables.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Towards sustainable viticulture: soil management decisions, technological adoption and gender equity in Mediterranean vineyards]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-28T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Andrés Caballero-Calvo</author><author>Rita Sobczyk</author><author>Francisco M. Ocaña-Peinado</author><author>Esteban Romero-Frías</author><author>Jesús Rodrigo-Comino</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionUnderstanding how winegrowers manage their land is essential for guiding transitions towards more resilient agricultural systems. Vineyards are one of the most relevant woody crops worldwide; however, land degradation processes such as erosion, loss of water retention capacity, decrease in biodiversity and increase in pollution threaten their sustainability. This threatens productivity and grape quality, increasing the risk of vineyard abandonment.MethodsThis study analyses the results of a structured survey (n = 103) conducted among winegrowers (n = 84) and oenologists and other technical staff (n = 19) in a southern Spanish winegrowing region to explore farm and farmer profiles, cropping practices, decision-making drivers, digital tool use, and the participation of women in farming activities.Results and DiscussionResults reveal a predominance of conventional practices(52.4%), with limited and often unstable uptake of conservation-oriented techniques. Economic performance and crop productivity remain the primary drivers of agronomic choices, while concerns related to erosion and long-term resource conservation are secondary and unevenly distributed across farmer groups. Digital tools are rarely used in practice, although a substantial proportion of respondents express interest in tailored applications supporting farm operations. Big generational differences are observed, with younger and more educated farmers showing greater openness to innovation. Women participate in approximately one-third of surveyed holdings, but their involvement is mainly concentrated in auxiliary roles, with restricted access to ownership and strategic responsibilities. We conclude that there is a coexistence of traditional and emerging logics within the sector and highlight the importance of advisory services, training, and institutional frameworks in promoting environmentally sound practices, digital integration, and social inclusion. The results can support the development of territorial strategies aimed at strengthening the long-term viability of winegrowing systems under Mediterranean conditions.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Mediating memory through immersive technologies and artificial intelligence: revisiting individual and collectively co-created pasts and futures]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-27T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Perspective</category>
        <author>Anandana Kapur</author><author>Carles Sora-Domenjó</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Extended Reality (XR) is transforming the ways in which memory, identity, and history are mediated and preserved, creating new possibilities for decentralised storytelling and inclusivity. In recent years, new ways of engaging with memory reconstruction through XR and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have emerged via collective, participatory, and co-creative design processes. These practices open new pathways for collectively rethinking and re-enacting the past. Through this lens, memory becomes both a mediated artifact and a living process, inviting individual and community participation in constructing shared pasts and speculative future realities. This perspective piece investigates how, through XR and AI, memory becomes both a mediated artifact and a living process, enabling new co-creative methodologies for reframing, reconstructing, and safeguarding individual and collective past. We propose a three-level conceptual framework—therapeutic-personal, community-cultural, and socio-political—to categorize these mediated memory practices. Our analysis draws on illustrative qualitative case studies integrating AI, XR, and participatory design, including Stay Alive, My Son VR (Ume Studios, 2024), Synthetic Memories: Live Reconstruction (Domestic Data Streamers, 2024), How to Find the Soul of a Sailor (Molga, 2025), and Un archivo inexistente (Rivas San Martín, 2022). These projects are examined for their approaches to co-authorship, affective memory reconstruction, archival absence, data ethics, and the translation of individual memory into collective narrative forms. Our critical reading of these projects suggests how AI-XR functions as an expanded format enabling diverse approaches to memory preservation and transmission across personal, political, and cultural contexts. These works demonstrate how projects that bring together XR and AI can democratise access to history and intimate past events, while also complicating ethical boundaries between remembrance, simulation, and spectacle.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Dull, dirty, and dangerous facets of human-AI collaboration for psychotherapy]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-26T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Nathaniel Swinger</author><author>Cynthia M. Baseman</author><author>Rosa I. Arriaga</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Despite an abundance of optimism surrounding the transformational potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in psychotherapy, it has become increasingly important to consider ethics and the risk-benefit tradeoff of these novel systems. Responsible AI (RAI) approaches within the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) have produced a number of principles and tools to support more ethical AI design. However, it remains difficult to apply these principles and tools in psychotherapy contexts that must consider both provider interests and patient safety. A paradigmatic shift from human-AI interaction to human-AI collaboration and teaming further complicates matters and makes it all the more important to discuss appropriate solution spaces for AI, especially as factors like autonomy, accountability, transparency, and trust become distributed across dynamic teams. Through the lens of an updated Dull, Dirty, and Dangerous (D3) framework, this perspective piece offers a way of navigating human-AI collaboration in psychotherapy and the likely risks that might occur in practice.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hunter-gatherer experiences of colonialism do not explain subsequent patterns of socio-economic development]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-26T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Mark Hudson</author><author>Timothy Amos</author><author>Koen Bostoen</author><author>Martijn Knapen</author><author>anne-elise lewallen</author><author>Joe Watkins</author><author>J. Alyssa White</author><author>Claudia Zancan</author>
        <description><![CDATA[How modern colonialism impacted socio-economic growth before and after independence is the subject of an extensive literature. Employing ideas from neoclassical institutional economics, a 2026 paper by J.M. Ramseyer proposes that places where colonisation did not promote economic growth had only recently transitioned from hunter-gathering to farming. Since, according to Ramseyer, hunter-gatherers lack concepts of land ownership and were ‘relentlessly violent’, they could not take advantage of ‘rational’ colonial legal institutions. He illustrates this claim through the Ainu people under Japanese colonial control after 1869. We critique Ramseyer's arguments on four grounds. First, in failing to specify the currency of fitness for his ‘cost/benefit’ approach, Ramseyer's study fails as evolutionary theory. Second, the paper displays a profound misunderstanding of hunter-gatherer history, subsistence planning and patterns of violence. Third, Ramseyer's claims are based on a narrative of Ainu history which over-simplifies or distorts numerous issues, including plant cultivation, territoriality, demography, violence and ethnic identity. Fourth, through his emphasis on the failures of the Ainu to adapt to colonialism, Ramseyer underplays the huge social disturbances that industrial modernity caused to the lives of millions of Japanese south of Hokkaido. A brief comparison with Italy—where a modern state was also established in the 1860s—shows that such disturbances were by no means unique to Japan: disputes over land ownership were a major source of friction in global trajectories towards modernisation. Our analysis rejects the argument that colonised peoples are responsible for their inability to enjoy economic success under modernity and industrialisation.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Retention of skilled health workers in Africa: the migration–governance–environmental nexus]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-26T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Perspective</category>
        <author>Limkile Mpofu</author><author>Zamokuhle Mbandlwa</author><author>Bismarck Shamuzumba</author><author>Nigel Manduleli Mpofu</author><author>Bhekisisa Dlamini</author><author>Simon Sebolao</author><author>Tabitha Chinyama</author><author>Maleshoane Kalake</author><author>Jarrot Mpofu</author><author>Dennis Egga</author>
        <description><![CDATA[BackgroundRetaining skilled health workers (SHWs) is a critical challenge for African health systems, where a high disease burden coincides with severe workforce shortages. Traditional Human Resources for Health (HRH) strategies emphasize economic incentives while overlooking the systemic complexities of the migration–governance–environmental nexus.ObjectiveThis study examines how governance, political, and environmental factors intersect to shape SHW mobility, evaluating retention strategies in Eswatini, Lesotho, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe to propose an integrated framework for workforce stabilization. As a perspective paper, the analysis is interpretive rather than statistically inferential, and its claims are scoped accordingly.MethodologyUsing a comparative, interpretive narrative synthesis, the study integrates 51 retained sources (39 peer-reviewed empirical studies, 12 policy documents) with reflections from 14 African scholars gathered through a rigorous three-round Delphi protocol.FindingsFinancial incentives offer only temporary relief and are consistently undermined by weak governance, institutional corruption, and environmental stressors. Recurrent droughts and floods act as localized threat multipliers, destabilizing rural livelihoods and degrading clinical workplace safety. The Delphi consensus corroborates and sharpens these findings: panelists identified governance failure, not low pay, as the proximate cause of attrition, and framed climate stress as an amplifier rather than an independent driver, substantiating the Migration–Governance–Environmental Nexus proposed here.ConclusionSustainable SHW retention requires moving beyond siloed health-sector interventions. Policies must address the health worker's lived reality by embedding climate resilience into facility planning and targeting explicit institutional stakeholders.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Payment method preferences and digital financial adoption among Ecuadorian consumers: a cross-sectional comparison of 2025 and 2026 survey samples]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-26T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Eduardo Javier Espinoza-Solis</author><author>Dennis Alfredo Peralta-Gamboa</author><author>Cecilia Jannet Solis-Rios</author><author>Washington Javier Guevara-Piedra</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionFinancial digitalization has transformed consumers' payment practices, although the adoption of electronic methods does not necessarily imply the disappearance of cash. This study compared payment method preferences and indicators of digital financial adoption among Ecuadorian consumers surveyed in two independent cross-sectional samples collected in 2025 and 2026.MethodsA quantitative, non-experimental, repeated cross-sectional comparative design was used, based on a consolidated analytic sample of 1,205 respondents (767 in 2025 and 438 in 2026). Descriptive analyses, chi-square tests, Cramer's V, multinomial logistic regression, a decision tree, and exploratory cluster analysis were applied to examine payment preferences, digital financial adoption indicators, and factors associated with payment-method choice.ResultsThe debit card was the most frequently preferred payment method, followed by cash and the credit card. A descriptive decrease in debit card preference and an increase in credit card preference were observed in the 2026 sample relative to the 2025 sample; however, the difference was not statistically significant. Familiarity with online payments, P2P payment use, and banking-app use also showed no statistically significant between-sample differences. Income, familiarity with online payments, use of banking applications, perceived security, and willingness to use mobile wallets were associated with preference for bank-based methods over cash.DiscussionThe findings indicate the coexistence of cash, cards, and digital financial tools among Ecuadorian consumers, with payment preferences conditioned by economic, technological, and trust-related factors. Because the surveys involved different participants and unequal sample sizes, the findings should be interpreted as cross-sectional contrasts between independent samples rather than as longitudinal evolution or individual-level change.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Do smart hotel technologies enhance guest experience? Evidence from online review analytics in the UAE Hospitality Industry]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-26T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Varinder Singh Rana</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionSmart hotel technologies are increasingly transforming guest experiences in the hospitality industry. However, limited evidence exists on how these technologies are reflected in online hotel reviews and how technology-enabled experiences influence customer satisfaction in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This study examines the representation of smart hotel technologies in online reviews and their relationship with customer satisfaction.MethodsThis study employed a quantitative secondary-data design using publicly available hotel review datasets and a structured coding framework for transparent text analytics. The analytical sample comprised 220 review-level observations, including ratings, city, review text, sentiment score, smart-technology theme indicators, smart-technology intensity, and experience-quality index. Descriptive statistics, sentiment classification, theme-frequency analysis, Pearson correlation, and ordinary least-squares (OLS) regression were applied.ResultsPositive sentiment represented the largest proportion of hotel reviews. Mobile check-in, keyless entry, smart-room controls, contactless services, digital concierge functions, and automated service systems emerged as the most frequently discussed smart-service themes. The mean customer rating was 4.05, the mean sentiment score was 0.45, the sentiment–rating correlation was 0.822, the smart-technology intensity–rating correlation was 0.682, and the OLS model explained 68.5% of the variance in customer satisfaction (R² = 0.685). The findings indicate that smart technologies positively influence customer satisfaction when they reduce service friction, support personalization, and complement responsive human service.DiscussionThe findings demonstrate that smart technologies enhance guest satisfaction when effectively integrated with human-centered service delivery rather than replacing it. This study contributes a transparent secondary-data methodology for smart hospitality research and provides a reusable coded dataset to support future replication and comparative studies.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Digital payment adoption, business transition, and socioeconomic upliftment among street vendors: evidence from Delhi-NCR]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-24T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Gayatri Mallick</author><author>Suraj Kumar Mallick</author><author>Sonia Singla</author><author>Ayush Varun</author><author>Morami Dutta</author>
        <description><![CDATA[This study explores the impact of digital payment adoption and blockchain-based supply chains on the integration of street vendors from Delhi-NCR into global e-commerce. The goal is to examine the potential of digital technologies in supporting business transition and socioeconomic improvement for informal-sector vendors. A mixed-method research design was employed, involving purposive sampling of 250 street vendors engaged in digital payment ecosystems. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) was used to examine hypothesized relationships between digital adoption, business transition, and socioeconomic outcomes. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) addressed multicollinearity, and non-linear predictive relationships were analysed using Random Forest modelling. The findings reveal that digital adoption has a significant impact on business transition (β = 0.64, p < 0.001), which, in turn, has a strong impact on socioeconomic upliftment (β = 0.58, p < 0.001). Digital adoption also has a direct impact on socioeconomic outcomes that is positive but smaller (β = 0.21, p = 0.033), suggesting partial mediation. Measurement reliability, validity, and predictive relevance were confirmed through structural model assessments. Digital payments have a limited direct impact on international trade, although they enable vendor inclusion and business transformation. By contrast, blockchain-based supply chain factors greatly enhance the efficiency of logistics, transparency, and supply chain-related performance. The study finds no direct income effects of digital technologies; instead, empowerment operates through entrepreneurial transition. The findings illustrate the need to go beyond financial inclusion and technological infrastructure to ensure the dynamic participation of the informal sector in global markets.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Dynamic routing with deterministic scheduling and self-healing recovery for industrial thermal storage networks in a hybrid physical emulation testbed]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-19T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Abed Saif Ahmed Alghawli</author><author>Ali Raza</author><author>Altahir Saad Ahmed</author><author>Suzan Hassan Bakhit</author><author>Evren Hincal</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Industrial thermal-storage systems require communication mechanisms that can prioritize control traffic according to both network conditions and the physical urgency of the associated thermal process. This study proposes a Thermal-State-Aware Dynamic Routing (TSDR) method that integrates thermal criticality with link delay, jitter, packet-delivery probability, congestion, energy cost, and fault risk in a constrained multi-criteria path-selection framework. The proposed method is deterministic and rule-based; it combines multi-criteria routing, deterministic queue scheduling, threshold-based fault detection, precomputed backup paths, route hysteresis, and explicit recovery-confirmation rules, and it does not employ a trained artificial-intelligence or machine-learning model. Evaluation was conducted in a hybrid physical–emulation Hardware-in-the-Loop environment comprising three physical 500-L thermocline tanks, 45 measurement devices, PLC-based control and industrial networking hardware, 14 physical communication endpoints, 146 NS-3-emulated nodes, and synchronized MATLAB/Simulink and reduced-order CFD thermal models. A total of 480 independently initialized runs were completed across four routing architectures and ten operating or fault conditions. Compared with the strongest baseline, namely TSN-enabled network-state adaptive routing, the proposed method reduced P95 end-to-end latency from 98 to 64 ms (34.7%), jitter from 32 to 24 ms (25.0%), and fault-recovery time from 6.1 to 2.9 s (52.5%). Packet Delivery Ratio increased from 97.3% to 99.1%, while deadline misses decreased from 5.8% to 1.9%. Physical temperature-tracking RMSE decreased from 0.81 to 0.62∘C, Energy Utilization Factor increased from 0.84 to 0.95, and measured auxiliary power decreased by 9.1%. Mixed-effects analyses identified statistically significant differences under the evaluated HIL conditions, with moderate-to-large effect sizes for the principal outcomes. Emulation-based scalability tests maintained the 100 ms routing deadline at 640 logical nodes; this result is EMU evidence and does not represent a physically deployed 640-node system. Under the base techno-economic scenario, the projected incremental investment produced an NPV of approximately USD 104,000, an IRR of 41.8%, a simple payback of 2.32 years, and an estimated annual reduction of 68.3tCO2e. These financial and environmental outcomes are scenario-based projections, while the technical findings apply only to the evaluated hybrid HIL configuration.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[India’s young tech professionals are investing more—but are they investing wisely?]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-19T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Perspective</category>
        <author>Ajith P. Mathews</author><author>Lucas Mariasavery</author>
        <description><![CDATA[India's rapidly expanding digital economy has transformed the investment behaviour of young technology professionals, making them one of the fastest-growing segments of retail investors. Easy access to app-based investment platforms, increasing disposable incomes, and greater exposure to financial technologies have significantly accelerated participation in systematic investment plans (SIPs), equity markets, and emerging digital assets such as cryptocurrencies. While this trend reflects a positive shift toward wealth creation and financial inclusion, increased market participation does not necessarily translate into informed investment decision-making. This perspective article argues that the primary challenge confronting young Indian tech professionals is not inadequate access to financial markets but insufficient financial literacy and behavioural preparedness. Drawing on recent evidence from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF), and contemporary academic studies, the article highlights a widening gap between technological competence and investment competence. It examines how behavioural biases, including overconfidence, peer influence, and dependence on social media finfluencers, often shape investment choices despite stated preferences for long-term financial security. The article further discusses the risks associated with speculative investment products, particularly cryptocurrencies and derivatives, which are increasingly popular among younger investors. It concludes that sustaining India's retail investment revolution requires a coordinated approach involving employers, financial institutions, investment platforms, and regulators to strengthen financial education, encourage evidence-based investment practices, and promote responsible participation in capital markets. Bridging the gap between digital access and financial literacy is essential for transforming enthusiastic investors into informed and resilient wealth creators.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Digital justice and social inequality: civil E-litigation and institutional adaptation in Jordan]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-14T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Ahmad Awwad Albnian</author><author>Ghazi Ayed Alghathian</author><author>Adel Salem Allouzi</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionThe digitalization of judicial systems has introduced e-litigation as a mechanism for improving access to justice and procedural efficiency. In Jordan, however, the coherence between formal legal frameworks and their practical implementation remains uncertain, particularly regarding electronic notification. This study examines the relationship between legal norms, judicial interpretation, and institutional adaptation in Jordanian civil e-litigation.MethodsA doctrinal and comparative legal approach was employed. The analysis examined the Jordanian Code of Civil Procedure, Regulation No. 95 of 2018, and two purposively selected Jordanian judicial decisions concerning electronic notification issued in 2022 and 2023. Exploratory consultations with five legal practitioners were used solely as supplementary contextual evidence. The analysis was informed by institutional isomorphism, procedural justice, and path dependency frameworks.ResultsThe analysis identified contrasting judicial approaches to the validity of electronic notification and verification of the intended recipient's telephone number, together with broader doctrinal fragmentation between traditional and electronic procedural rules. Institutional differences in infrastructure, training, and readiness may also affect implementation; however, the absence of publicly available court-level data prevents reliable quantitative comparison of adoption or performance across Jordanian courts.DiscussionThe findings indicate that the principal barriers to coherent e-litigation in Jordan are institutional and doctrinal rather than primarily technological. Greater legislative coherence, standardized electronic-notification procedures, clearer verification mechanisms, and coordinated institutional implementation are needed to strengthen procedural predictability, equitable access to justice, and the reliability of digital judicial processes.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Indigenous mobility and forced immobility in the Brazilian Amazon: rights, livelihoods, and policy gaps under environmental change]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-13T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Perspective</category>
        <author>Jianwei Gong</author>
        <description><![CDATA[This Perspective examines the coexistence of population mobility and forced immobility among Indigenous communities in the Brazilian Amazon under conditions of environmental change. It advances a single analytical argument: environmental shocks, particularly extreme droughts and deforestation, interact with path-dependent institutional constraints to narrow the range of viable adaptation strategies available to Indigenous peoples. Drawing on political ecology and historical institutionalism, the analysis shows that institutional weakening after 2016 created enforcement gaps that allowed land appropriation to advance, while subsequent climate shocks intensified livelihood pressures. These conditions simultaneously generate incentives for short-term mobility and powerful structural disincentives to leave, because departure carries a high risk of permanent territorial dispossession. Policy responses since 2023, although marked by renewed federal commitment to Indigenous rights and territory demarcation, continue to be filtered through congressional veto points, federal–local tensions, and informal patronage networks. As a result, even progressive policy intentions have limited effect on the structural conditions that produce constrained adaptation. The Brazilian case illustrates how climate-related mobility and immobility are jointly produced by environmental degradation and historically sedimented institutional arrangements, rather than by climate impacts alone. It calls for greater attention to the domestic institutional mechanisms that mediate the relationship between environmental change and Indigenous adaptation, and for stronger Indigenous participation in the decisions that shape territorial security and climate resilience.]]></description>
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