Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

<title>Abstract</title> The constant increase in the use of virtual worlds in recent decades has raised concerns about their potential effects on users’ mental health. However, the great heterogeneity of the scientific literature on this topic makes it difficult to identify existing evidence, knowledge gaps, and the most relevant future research directions. To address this issue, the present scop…

How do women in the Global South negotiate AI-generated health information within their existing knowledge systems and social networks? As AI-Generated Content (AIGC) rapidly proliferates across global information landscapes, particularly in the Global South, this paper investigates how AIGC influences women’s cognition regarding Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) across selected st…

The objective of this research is to define the determinants of Energy Equity (EEQ) under the context of sustainable development goal SDG7, by considering the interplay role of Green Technology (GRT), Green Finance (GF), Environmental Regulation (ER), Energy Efficiency (EEF) and Technological Innovation (TI). This study attempts to fill the gap in research by investigating the under examined syne…

This study examined teachers’ and students’ perceptions of the factors influencing grading fairness in blended learning. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with teachers and students in Chinese universities. Social cognitive theory (SCT) was used to examine how personal and environmental factors shape students’ perceptions of fairness in the grading process. Both teachers and students have…

During China’s period of economic transition, its policy of fiscal decentralization (FD) has vigorously promoted China’s economic development, but it has brought about a mass of carbon emissions (CE) from its urban and industrial development. To solve environmental problems, the Chinese government has promoted land marketization(LM), hoping to reduce the contradiction between economic development…

Tourism commercialization poses growing challenges to the preservation of authenticity in historic districts. Current conservation practices often focus on physical spaces, yet may overlook the integrity of “Scenes” as an integration of material and intangible elements, potentially leading to a fragmented loss of authenticity. To systematically quantify the impact mechanism of authenticity in his…

The Journey to the West , a canonical work of Chinese mythology, has garnered centuries-long popularity both domestically and internationally. However, the portrayal of female demons in English translations of this novel remains significantly underexplored in academia, despite the fact that this topic encompasses intercultural, gender-related, and ideological complexities. To address this researc…

As twin pillars for mitigating the global climate crisis, the coupling coordination between urban resilience and low-carbon transition is of paramount importance. Using 48 cities across China’s three major urban agglomerations (2008–2022), this study applies the entropy-weighted TOPSIS method, Super-efficiency SBM, and coupling coordination degree models to measure the spatiotemporal evolution of…

The Third Front Construction (1964–1980) relocated major industrial and defence capacity to China’s inland regions under acute geopolitical tension. Existing scholarship has reconstructed the campaign’s political economy and built legacy, but has paid less attention to how architectural knowledge was produced when established planning models were rendered inadequate by mountainous terrain, secrec…

This PRISMA-compliant systematic review evaluates the current role of artificial intelligence (AI) in supporting employee physical safety, mental health, and ergonomics in manufacturing, office-based, and healthcare workplaces. Despite rapid technological advances, the majority of existing studies have focused narrowly on technical efficacy while largely neglecting ethical governance, algorithmic…

In an era of global sustainability challenges, design education faces inherent limitations when confined to monocultural contexts. While cross-cultural communication holds promise for transcending these limitations, its specific mechanisms for fostering conceptual innovation in sustainable design education remain underexplored. This study investigates how cross-cultural collaboration influences c…

Nostalgic travel imagery has often relied on black-and-white or desaturated visual conventions in both research and practice. However, Generation Z has grown up in a highly digitalized and color-rich media environment, raising an important question: do their nostalgic responses continue to conform to traditional visual conventions, or can they be more effectively elicited by contemporary color cu…

Abstract Skill mismatch is crucial for labour market outcomes and serves as a central indicator in labour market research. Existing objective measures of skill mismatch typically focus on single skill domains, failing to account for the multifaceted nature of individual skill sets and occupational requirements. Using data from the 2016/2017 wave of the German National Educational Panel Study (NEP…