Cross-border e-commerce (CBEC) is reshaping how consumers engage with global markets. While most prior studies focus on CBEC purchase or repurchase intentions, little is known about the factors that drive consumers to switch from domestic e-commerce platforms to CBEC platforms. To address this gap, this study employs the push–pull–mooring (PPM) framework to investigate the factors underlying consumers’ switching intention toward CBEC. A mixed-methods approach was used. First, qualitative interviews helped identify relevant constructs. Subsequently, a quantitative survey that received 727 valid responses was used to empirically test the proposed model. A partial least squares (PLS) analysis was conducted, and the results revealed that push factors (perceived high domestic prices), pull factors (product uniqueness, pricing competitiveness, CBEC platform reputation, the general country image of the CBEC platform, and consumer informedness), and mooring factors (perceived behavioral control and variety seeking) significantly drive consumers’ intentions to switch to CBEC platforms. Furthermore, mooring factors moderately influence the relationship between push factors and switching intentions and the relationship between pull factors and switching intentions. This research deepens our understanding of the factors influencing consumers’ switching intentions toward CBEC platforms. Additionally, the findings of this research offer practical guidance that can help CBEC managers and practitioners develop strategies that effectively attract and retain more consumers.
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, Social Sciences
Teachers continuously make numerous judgments and engage with various educational stakeholders, whose perspectives are eventually integrated into their judgments. Given the differing viewpoints of these stakeholders, one may ask how receptive teachers are to diverse perspectives. In the present study, a German adaption of the Minson's Receptiveness to Opposing Views scale for German-speaking teachers and non-teachers was introduced as the first German instrument for cross-cultural comparisons. To evaluate the scale, a cross-cultural comparison was conducted (358 US and German teachers). After the validity and reliability of the German version of the Receptiveness to Opposing Views scale were confirmed, English- and German-speaking teachers significant differences between their overall scale results and their results for the subscales of Intellectual Curiosity, Derogation of Opponents, and Taboo Issues were found. A research agenda and its implications for practice, teacher development, and education is presented.
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, Social Sciences
This paper explores the 1948–1949 exhibitions showcasing Polish folk art, initially held in Poland and then sent westwards: to Paris, Brussels, and Amsterdam. They were organised by Polish Communist authorities under the ‘Recovered Territories’ campaign that aimed to assert Poland’s historical and ethnographic ties to its new territories that before World War II had belonged to Germany. This propagandist effort sought to reinforce the post-war European status quo, with the exhibitions in question serving as an important element of the campaign. This case study constitutes therefore one of the earliest manifestations of the East-West Cultural Cold War. Analysing exhibition catalogues, press reviews, and archival documents, this study investigates the extent to which the propagandist objectives were achieved in the West. Additionally, it examines how French, Belgian, and Dutch representatives of the field of culture responded to Communist propaganda and mitigated its effects.
Sarah Schnyder, Josua Dubach, Lucas Dall’Olio
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Abstract Immersive virtual reality (IVR), as presented through headsets, is becoming increasingly relevant in education, especially in STEM fields, due to its potential to make complex concepts more accessible. Despite empirical evidence revealing the potential of IVR, its adoption in primary schools remains low. The objective of this paper is to examine the level of acceptance and intention to use IVR among different stakeholders in Swiss primary schools. To achieve this, we conducted online questionnaires with directors (n = 37), teachers (n = 70), and parents/caregivers (n = 202). The results indicated considerable variability in the responses, with a general resistance to integrating IVR being detected across all groups. Common reasons for this resistance included high costs, technical challenges, and uncertainty about IVR’s pedagogical value. However, we found that individuals who saw value in IVR were more likely to express the intention to integrate it into their schools. We discuss the importance of bridging the gap between IVR research and the reality of school implementation through targeted projects to encourage its integration into primary education.
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, Social Sciences
Adonías Julia Villa Calderón, Edwin Daniel Félix Benites, Jorge Augusto Gutiérrez Mendoza
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El presente estudio se desarrolló con el objetivo de analizar la percepción que los docentes tienen de su desempeño, en relación con los cambios curriculares. En cuanto a la metodología, esta se orientó al enfoque cualitativo bajo un diseño de estudio de caso; como técnica de recopilación se usó la entrevista. Como resultado, los docentes sienten que el constante cambio curricular les demanda mucho tiempo y menoscaba su voluntad para gestionar actividades, debido a diferencias sobre concepciones que entienden como adecuadas y que están sujetas a la educación tradicional. Como conclusiones se detectó que la percepción docente conlleva a una experiencia negativa que incide en su ejercicio profesional y se desarrolla en condiciones que les impiden participar de manera activa como gestores creativos del proceso de enseñanza. El valor principal del presente artículo es impulsar el seguimiento sobre el currículo como orientador del proceso educativo actual.
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, Social sciences (General)
This article re-evaluates Derek Jarman’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s <i>The Tempest</i> (1979) based on archival research into the cinematic and historical intertexts that influenced the film. Specifically, it focuses on the impact of Pier Paolo Pasolini on Jarman’s aesthetics, particularly the Italian filmmaker’s last work: <i>Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom</i> (1975). The article explores how Jarman used Pasolini’s work as a filter through which to frame his adaptation of Shakespeare’s play. In so doing, he produced a decidedly Pasolinian twist on <i>The Tempest</i>, which he explicitly referred to in his notes as “Shakespeare’s <i>Salò</i>.” Bridging the gap between the Renaissance and Jarman’s contemporary moment, Jarman’s film offers a meditation on ideas of captivity and captivation in <i>The Tempest</i>, which extends from the play and film’s literal representations of imprisonment to their exploration of the affective power of performance and spectacle.
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities
¿Cuáles son los ministerios más importantes para el gobierno paraguayo de Mario Abdo Benítez? Este artículo hace una evaluación del gabinete a partir de la propuesta teórica de Camerlo y MartínezGallardo (2017) al analizar cuatro dimensiones clave con base en una metodología cualitativa que combina el estudio de la normativa vigente, los presupuestos generales del Estado, una revisión hemerográfica y el juicio de expertos. Los principales hallazgos revelan que actualmente en Paraguay existen cuatro tipos de ministerios, según la importancia que se les da: a) los que son altamente prioritarios; b) los que son considerados importantes, pero con capacidades más heterogéneas; c) los que en términos generales poseen capacidades medianas; y d) los que no tienen ningún tipo de importancia para la actual administración. Asimismo, es posible asegurar que se trata de un gabinete partidario con orientaciones conservadoras en cuanto a sus políticas públicas. El trabajo busca identificar: 1) cuáles son los ministerios más importantes para el presidente Mario Adbo Benítez; 2) los atributos que determinan que un ministerio sea considerado importante en la administración presidencial en Paraguay (2018-2013).
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, Social sciences (General)
AbstractThis article suggests ways scholars may be able to deploy digital techniques in contexts without readily available quantitative data. Using the Mapping Black London (MBL) project in World War II as a case study, the article proposes ways scholars can ‘reverse engineer’ qualitative information in order to generate the data needed to make meaningful digital maps. The MBL project conducted a staged approach to digitally map the black presence in London during World War II. In contrast to other phased approaches where work typically begins with a lengthy stage of database construction and data entry followed by ‘traditional’ analysis toward the end, MBL sought to minimize the lengthy and costly lead times common to many Historic Geographic Information Systems (HGIS) projects. Work progressed through three alternative stages where the MBL team ‘mapped the topic’, before mapping selected aspects of the secondary literature and primary evidence. This article discusses the benefits drawn from such an approach, as well as suggesting some circumstances where similar methods might be deployed by others seeking to ‘reverse engineer’ qualitative sources to create digital maps.
This paper discuses the work of children in Blue Nile State. The results of the study state clearly the necessity of enlightening the families to fully shoulder their roles of caring for children and their perfect social growth and supporting them. The results also reflect that too many children suffer from diseases like: typhoid, dysentery, malaria, cholera, chest diseases,…etc. This makes it, the duty of the State responsible personnel to take care of children and to enlighten and socially counsel the phenomena; its causes, its means and ways of combating, its reformation and the strengthening of social work entities and civil community organizations and the serious interference of relevant bodies in caring for and the successful commercial exchange between Sudan and its neighbouring countries to stand against the phenomena. The researcher uses the analytical descriptive method, and the data is collected by first resources such as: observation, interview, annual reports from the relevant organizations and the secondary resources.
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities
Zaheer Allam, Simon Elias Bibri, Didier Chabaud
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Numerous urban models are emerging in response to climate urgencies, as pointed out in COP26, resulting in a call for urgent and deep decarbonization policies. One emerging model, responsive to the need for more sustainable urban outcomes, is that of the ‘15-Minute City’. The quest for more sustainable and smarter cities is urgent, as cities contribute more than 60% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and thus demands a redefinition of some contemporary urban policies, especially around mobility. The ‘15-Minute City’ is an emerging concept, currently in application in major European Cities, such as Paris and Barcelona, and quickly gaining popularity as a potent solution for encouraging urban sustainability transitions. As the model approaches urban planning via humane socio-economic dimensions, it can be further developed to benefit urban communities, globally in an equitable fashion. In doing so, the model can be crafted to respond to the challenges of the other geographies, including those of the Global South, specifically relating to urban infrastructural financing. This approach recognizes the need for models that can contribute to deep decarbonization agendas, while being contextually responsive with sound financial mechanisms—including both Public and Private parties. In this paper, we argue that the ’15-Minute City’ concept can be poised as a potent solution to re-structure cities for increased sustainability, inclusivity, and economic equity, through locally implemented fiscal mechanisms.
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, Social Sciences
The article focuses on the study of the mechanisms that create nomination of wordcombinations and nomination of composites on the material of compound structured formations in flora namings. This study is relevant, because in theoretical works external (accent-graphical, distributive - va-lent, structural-morphological) properties of nominative flora wordcombinations and nominative flora composites have been considered. External onomasiological presentation of lora surroundings have been thoroughly studied. But there is internal presentation of nomination which is explained by the aspects of logic-semantic codimension and semantic volume of a defining component and a defined component in compound structured formation. Components' content of such a formation is represented in terms of logical binary oppositions of hyponyms and hyperonyms. Direct volume nomination of wordcombinations is archieved by codimension of nominative properties of their components without deinition information. On the contrary, composite nomination of plants' objects of the world is both non-direct and indirect in endocentric composites. Nominative codimension of components in en-docentric composites is achieved not only by the volume of their codimension, but also by the relevant information of the initial elements in the deinition. The irst modiied components, as a rule, are explicited by the phenomena of case semantics (non-direct nomination) and by metaphors (indirect nomination). Composite nomination in exocentric composites of lora namings is wholly indirect from nominative viewpoint. Cod-imension of implicitly expressed modiied component and basic component is achieved exclusively by the extensive relevant information of vocabulary deinition.
Law, History of scholarship and learning. The humanities
Abstract This study examined the impact of a variable, facial expression, on the social perception and personality trait stereotypic inferences made to age and gender. Twelve facial photographs of young and old female and male models posing with either smiling, scowling, or neutral facial expressions were presented to participants who judged various social perceptions and personality traits. Results indicated that facial expression is strongly associated with two very different inference groupings. Smiling induced positive inferences, creating a Halo Effect, scowling induced negative inferences, creating a Horns Effect. Smiling influenced the age and gender inferences in a positive direction, and scowling did the opposite. The age and gender stereotypical inferences made to the neutral facial expression were in-between smiling and scowling. In all model configurations, the impact of smiling or scowling on the inference process was much stronger than either age or gender. However, significant age and gender inference differences were found in all three facial expression conditions, indicating that facial expressions did not completely subdue the use of these variables as inference inducers. The results are discussed in terms of how specific facial expressions can be used to positively or negatively influence age and gender stereotypes.
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, Social Sciences
The importance of studying the novel exile comes from the fact that it evokes the problem of the relationship between the self and the other in a different civilizing context. The study aimed to reveal representations of the immigrant self-Arab in its interaction with the new civilizing reality in the exile. It also sought to reveal the representations of the other (the different) from the point of view of the self. It selected Al-Balad Novel, as one the Arabic novels written in the exile by the Arabic writer Tahir bin Jelloun, who chose France as a last homeland and French as a language of his writing. Since cultural criticism is best able to examine the civilizational problems resulting from the encountering the other, and is best able to study representations in the novel discourse. It was adopted as a systematic method of reading in this study. It has shown that the conservative self-Arab represented in this novel has had a great difficulty in combining its adherence to its cultural identity and integration into its new environment, leading to isolation and self-sufficiency as shown by the generation of parents, whose position is expressed through self-conservative representations. The renewed self-Arab, represented by the second generation of immigrants, has strived to connect with its new environment, and expressed great boldness in its interaction with the other, and in human relations exceeded the expectations of their predecessors, as evidenced by the self-renewed representations. The representation of the other stands between these two positions, as far as the ugliness of other image shown to the self-conservative, this image itself changed a lot and appeared in a large degree of normality in the reflection of the self-renewable.
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, Social Sciences
کتابهای متعددی در حوزههای تاریخ، جامعهشناسی و فلسفه علم، تحت عنوان انقلاب علمی وجود دارد. ممکن است گمان برود همانگونهکه مورّخان، تاریخ جنگ ویتنام را نوشتهاند، چیزی به نام انقلابِ علمی وجود دارد که مورّخان آن را ثبت کردهاند. در این مقاله نشان داده میشود که این تصور اولیه را تا آنجا باید تصحیح کرد که پرسید: آیا اساساً میتوان تاریخی از علم جدید به نگارش درآورد که در آن انقلاب وجود داشته باشد؟ به بیان دقیقتر، آیا امکان دارد که یک مورخ و نه فیلسوف یا دانشمند، سیر تحولات علم جدید را ثبت کند و در آن به کشفِ تاریخیِ انقلاب نائل آید؟
پاسخ ما بر اساس معانی متفاوت از انقلاب علمی یکسان نیست؛ دستکم به دو معنا از انقلاب علمی، انقلاب شبهسیاسی و انقلابهای علمی تامس کوهن، چنین امکانی وجود ندارد. در اینجا نشان داده میشود تاریخنگاری علم بر مبنای انقلاب علمی به دو معنای فوق از انقلاب یا بر پایه شواهد روشن تاریخی شکل نگرفته و یا با پیشفرضهای فلسفی انجام شده است؛ اما امکان تحقق تاریخی معنای سوم از انقلاب، انقلاب علمی پسینی، بدون پیشفرض فلسفی و مستند به تحقیقات تاریخی وجود دارد.
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities
Pedagogy in Slovenia gradually won its recognition as an academic science, and therefore obtained improved possibilities for its conceptualization, when the university in Ljubljana was established in 1919. The time between the two world wars was marked with three principal pedagogical concepts: Herbartianism, geisteswissenschaftliche pedagogy, and reform pedagogy. The first of these to be theoretically conceptualized in Slovenia was the geisteswissenschaftliche , or cultural pedagogy. Ideas of reform pedagogy, especially its social-critical movement, interpreted, represented, and defended primarily left-oriented pedagogues and teachers, who were convinced that actual school reform would be possible only after (revolutionary) changes of social conditions. In the first decades of the 20th century, numerous conflicts and disagreements occurred in the process of establishing individual pedagogical currents and orientations in Slovenia. The strongest and most productive polemics were held between geisteswissenschaftliche , or cultural pedagogy, and some currents, or just individual representatives, of reform pedagogy (e.g., theory vs. praxis, old vs. new school). Unfortunately, the postwar Marxist pedagogical concept was highly unfavorable to the prewar orientations and prevented their further development.
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, Social Sciences
Up to the World War II in most European countries there were no violent assimilation attempts like those that had already been in progress in Nazi Germany. With the beginning of World War II and the spreading of Nazi influence on many European countries, either directly because of occupation, or indirectly as ally countries, some parts of Nazi anti-Roma model started to be implemented. The analysis of this paper deals with Central European governments such as Hungarian, Croatian, Czechoslovak and Polish and their attitude to minority Roma population during World War II. A separate part of analysis focuses on the question whether and to which extent Nazi government had an impact on the attitude of the abovementioned governments to the Roma.
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities
In the paper, we address the question of the relation between language and culture from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective. While accounting for the role of language as an aid to cultural transmission in maintaining the community’s conceptual order, we address the question of whether the concept of a linguistic worldview aptly captures the interplay between language and culture. We suggest that, due to cumulative cultural evolution spurred by the incessant development of human knowledge, layers of conceptualisations accumulate over time. It is proposed that this palimpsest of conceptualisations results from human interaction that transcends the constraints of the present moment, encompassing the past and present, as well as delineating possible developments of the community’s future conceptual order.
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities
<div style="text-align: justify;"><p> </p><p>Los procesos integracionistas no son exclusivamente económicos, pues tienen un basamento axiológico que los orientan en el plano ideológico. Así los valores que fundamentan un proceso integracionista serán los que definan si este es o no un proceso inclusivo, por lo que el estudio de los valores del pensamiento integracionista latinoamericano y su contrastación en los escenarios actuales posee gran significación práctica y debe ser enfrentado en toda su magnitud, para lo cual proponemos una estrategia metodológica general.</p><p> </p></div>
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, Social sciences (General)
From the research on the words of Mrs. Fatima, daughter of Imam Al-Hussein I, I reached the following:
1- The uses of the crowds by Mrs. Fatima bint Imam Al-Hussein I came in agreement with the words of the eloquent Arabs.
2- All plurals were mentioned in the words of Mrs. Fatima, daughter of Imam Al-Hussein I, as a sign of abundance, so the research did not prove the existence of special buildings for the plural of few and many. For the lack or abundance, and the evidence is the coming of the weights of the crushing masses. And the plurals of the masculine and feminine are safe for few and many, in addition to the singular indication in places of linguistic uses of the meaning of the plural.
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, Arts in general