Community values toward landscapes, particularly before mining begins, are often overlooked in conventional social impact assessmentsin the mining industry. These emotional, cultural and relationalvalues tend to be intangible and difficult to incorporate into formal planning tools. We propose public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS) as an underutilized method toaddress this gap. Rooted in participatory planning and spatial analysis, PPGIS offers a unique way to integrate landscape values into social impact assessments. When applied early in the mine lifecycle, PPGIS can inform both project design and closure planning, ensuring that social and cultural dimensions of landscapes are considered from the outset. It aligns with regulatory requirements for meaningful community engagement, baseline assessment and closure visioning, and can strengthen both procedural fairness and social licence to operate. By combining technical data with local knowledge, PPGIS can support more inclusive, place-based and value-driven approaches to mine development and closure.

Machine learning for discovery of clinical pain biomarkers following spinal cord injury.

Aging is an irreversible physiological process, with the period of 65 years and older defined as old age. Suicide, a deliberate act of ending one’s life, is a complex global public health issue with multifaceted psychological, biological, social, cultural, and economic dimensions. This study aims to examine the risk factors associated with suicide in the elderly population and provide an overview of elderly suicides within the context of Türkiye. The World Health Organization (WHO) categorizes older adults into young-old (65–74), middle-old (75–84), and oldest-old (85+) groups, noting that mortality rates due to suicide increase significantly with advancing age. Key risk factors identified include depression, often underdiagnosed and presenting atypically in this demographic, social isolation, loneliness, chronic physical illnesses, and experiencing significant losses such as bereavement or loss of social status. The most common methods of suicide among Turkish elderly are hanging and firearms, with chronic disease being the most frequently cited reason. The findings underscore the critical need for a multifaceted prevention approach. This includes strengthening social support networks to combat isolation, improving accessibility and detection of mental health services within primary care settings, and implementing targeted, community-based suicide prevention programs. Addressing these factors through updated assessment tools, public awareness campaigns, and supportive government policies is essential for mitigating suicide risk in the growing elderly population.

Indonesia’s ethnocultural diversity embeds actionable local wisdom, and the Osing community of Kemiren Village exemplifies the integration of culture and environmental stewardship in Banyuwangi. This study examines community-based tourism (CBT) grounded in Osing values with the aim of clarifying the community’s contribution to the pillars of the UNESCO Global Geopark Ijen. A convergent mixed-methods approach was adopted, combining qualitative and quantitative strands. Data were collected through interviews, participatory observation, documentation, and questionnaires. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was employed to interpret lived meanings, rituals, and spatial practices, while SWOT analysis was used to synthesize internal capacities and external conditions. Triangulation enhanced credibility and ensured integration of both strands in interpretation. The results show that conservation norms and sacred-spring rituals sustain ecological and cultural balance, while Osing festivals transmit heritage and structure tourism spaces. CBT strengthens participation, stewardship, and authenticity in tourism offerings. The SWOT analysis positions Kemiren within a strength – opportunity quadrant, supported by strong social cohesion and rich geocultural assets that underpin destination resilience. Opportunities emerge from geopark branding and learning tourism, whereas risks of commodification and seasonality remain manageable. Integrating Osing values effectively operationalizes geopark principles, aligning cultural and ecological dimensions that advance conservation, education, and local development. Overall, CBT emerges as a strategic pathway for sustainable geotourism and a scalable model rooted in community heritage landscapes.

ABSTRACT This paper examines the methodological challenges and issues that arose within a transnational research collaboration between physical education teacher education (PETE) researchers from China and Aotearoa New Zealand. The project sought to enhance school-based Physical Education through collaborative forms of practitioner research. Drawing on reflective journals, meeting transcripts, interviews, and email correspondence, we used thematic analysis to trace how methodological tensions emerged and evolved through the relational, institutional, and cultural dimensions of the research process. Four interconnected challenges were identified: negotiating equitable partnerships, navigating language and cultural differences, addressing issues of positionality, and challenging subject essentialism. These challenges revealed how transnational research collaborations demand sustained reflexivity around power relations, epistemic authority, and contextually embedded norms. Key points of tension included negotiating research design across different institutional and policy environments, managing communication across technological and cultural divides, aligning divergent ethics processes, and resisting dominant, often Eurocentric, framings of Physical Education. The central role of cultural brokers and bilingual team members emerged as crucial in enabling epistemic translation and fostering more equitable collaboration. We argue that transnational research is most productive when understood as a situated, ethical, and relational practice. Rather than proposing universal solutions, we foreground methodological humility, attentiveness to context, and dialogic engagement as essential principles for researchers working across national and cultural borders in Physical Education.

Purpose Halal experiences are insufficient to support destination competitiveness and attract and retain Muslim tourists. The authors argue that integrating dark experiences into halal tourism would improve Muslim tourists’ satisfaction and revisit intention and therefore destination competitiveness. This study aims to test this hypothesis by examining the relationships between site experiential memorability (SEM), Islamic attributes of destination (IAD) and local culture with revisit intention through the serial mediation of experience quality and satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach The authors randomly surveyed 170 domestic and foreign Muslim travelers visiting tsunami memorial sites in Aceh, Indonesia, and analyzed the data using structural equation modeling. Findings SEM, IAD and local culture positively correlated with experience quality. Only SEM and local culture significantly predicted satisfaction. Experience quality did not have any mediating effect, whereas satisfaction mediated between SEM and local culture with revisit intention. Experience quality and satisfaction serially mediated all antecedents with revisit intention. To attract the growing Muslim market, destinations must therefore leverage other destination-specific experiences (in this case, dark and cultural experiences) to complement halal tourism. Originality/value This study is the first to explore dark tourism experiences and outcomes within the contexts of halal tourism, Southeast Asia and among Muslim tourists. It also demonstrates the necessity of offering other experiences besides halal to pull in and retain Muslim tourists.

Purpose This research aims to examine how leadership behaviors shape collective behavioral responses during crises while accounting for the influence of national culture and perceived corruption. Drawing on signaling theory, the authors investigate how charismatic and humane-oriented leadership operated within different cultural and institutional contexts to influence community mobility during the pre-vaccine phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach Using cross-national data from 59 countries, the authors use partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to assess relationships among national culture dimensions, leadership styles, leadership effectiveness and community mobility. To interpret heterogeneous and counterintuitive effects, the authors conduct post hoc importance–performance map analysis (IPMA) and finite mixture PLS. Findings Leadership – particularly humane-oriented leadership – plays a central mediating role in shaping collective quarantine behavior. IPMA results indicate that charismatic leadership demonstrates high performance but comparatively lower importance, suggesting that its behavioral influence diminishes without relational grounding. IPMA results further reveal that national culture exerts differentiated effects depending on the construct examined within the model: specifically, while cultural dimensions have limited direct influence on community mobility, several other dimensions constrain leadership effectiveness. Moreover, masculinity supports leadership effectiveness but is less conducive to collective behavioral restraints. Research limitations/implications This study advances leadership and cross-cultural research by integrating signaling theory with PLS-SEM to explore how leadership styles and cultural dimensions influence crisis behavior. It offers a quantitative framework for future studies on leadership effectiveness in high-uncertainty, global contexts. Practical implications Effective crisis management depends on leadership communication, trust-building and cultural alignment. Policymakers should consider cultural boundary conditions when designing public health interventions. Social implications Trustworthy and culturally aware leadership helps reduce public anxiety and fosters solidarity during crises. Effective leadership communication can combat misinformation, encourage compliance with health measures and ultimately protect vulnerable populations. Building social trust through leadership is essential for resilience in future global health emergencies. Originality/value This research offers a novel signaling theory perspective on crisis leadership by combining cross-national quantitative analysis with advanced PLS-based techniques to explain how leadership shapes collective behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT In an effort to advance on a real educational inclusion in Chile, the School Integration Program (Programa de Integración Escolar, PIE) has been implemented with the stated aim of promoting school inclusion through the establishment of support and collaboration processes that remove barriers within the school context. This qualitative study describes and analyzes the actions undertaken in schools that implement PIE for deaf students, focusing on the dimensions of cultures, policies, and practices that support inclusion. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with five professionals (two program coordinators and three special education teachers) from three schools in the Metropolitan Region. The findings reveal that, although policies ensure the presence of deaf students, effective participation and learning depend on sustained strategies that cultivate inclusive school cultures and pedagogical practices. The study contributes to scholarship by deepening understanding of how inclusion policies are enacted in daily school practices, and to educational practice by highlighting actionable approaches for developing coherent, sustainable inclusion processes in Chilean schools.

The virtual economy has rapidly evolved alongside advances in digital technologies, including the integration of blockchain and interactive media that enable novel experiences and business opportunities. A notable development is the trading of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), where users participate as buyers, owners, sellers, and investors. This multi-role context, coupled with individual differences, adds complexity to understanding consumer motivations for trading and recommending NFTs. Focusing on NFT art as a representative type of NFTs, this study identifies 14 value dimensions from NFT technology-related, art-related, and product-related perspectives. Based on a large-scale international survey, the research examines how these value perceptions influence purchase and recommendation intention, and how these relationships are moderated by cultural factors (uncertainty avoidance and long-term orientation) and prior purchase experience. The findings indicated that product-related values exerted the strongest influence on consumer behavior, while technology-related values played a lesser role. Cultural and experiential factors showed limited moderating effects.

Introduction This study examines how 21st-century skills are conceptualized and applied in vocal pedagogy in response to increasing demands for reflective, technology-mediated, and culturally responsive approaches in music education. Methods A scoping review was conducted following Arksey and O’Malley’s framework and the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology. Literature published between 2014 and 2025 was systematically mapped from Scopus and EBSCOhost databases. Using PRISMA-based screening, nine studies met the inclusion criteria. Data were charted and thematically analyzed to identify conceptual definitions, pedagogical approaches, and implementation challenges. Results Findings reveal a shift from tradition-bound, repertoire-driven instruction toward more reflective, student-centered, and digitally supported learning environments. Integration of 21st-century competencies—such as critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, communication, and cultural literacy—occurs through strategies including AI-assisted feedback, microlearning, and cross-cultural pedagogical practices. However, challenges remain, including curriculum rigidity, insufficient teacher preparation, and limited professional development. Discussion The study proposes a conceptual framework positioning cognitive, creative, technological, emotional–social, and cultural dimensions as interdependent foundations of contemporary vocal education. This model underscores the need to cultivate reflective and adaptive learners capable of navigating complex artistic, digital, and intercultural contexts, with implications for curriculum innovation, teacher education, and future research.

This article will examine forfeiture of cultural property involved in transnational disputes. It will focus on the ever-growing body of civil forfeiture actions, or in rem actions, against objects of cultural heritage in the United States, where there has been a shift away from primarily relying on private litigation of cultural property disputes toward civil forfeiture actions brought by the federal government. It will examine how civil forfeiture has proven to be an effective procedural device for courts to adjudicate competing claims to property and to effectuate return to owners, particularly source nations. It will also explore how private international law elements pertain to these actions, such as the application or rejection of foreign national ownership laws in U.S. courts, as well as the possibility of enforcement of foreign transnational forfeiture orders (for example, Italy’s transnational forfeiture order for the ‘Getty Bronze’ in California, the lawfulness of which was recently upheld by the European Court of Human Rights). It will examine the advantages and the downsides of the use of forfeiture as it relates to returns for international cultural heritage and discuss whether the end – that is, restitution to source nations – justifies the means.

Purpose The research analyses the role of coworking spaces in urban and social regeneration. The purpose of this study is to investigate how coworking can integrate environmental sustainability, social cohesion and economic innovation, positioning itself as a driver of circular economy practices and sustainable local development. Design/methodology/approach This study adopts a qualitative and exploratory approach, based on three focus groups conducted at Coworking Gottifredo in Alatri (Italy). The investigation explored coworkers’ perceptions of the space as a catalyst for social innovation, collaboration and community participation. The qualitative approach allowed for a deeper understanding of users’ experiences and of the relational and cultural dynamics that characterise coworking as a social ecosystem. Findings The results show that Coworking Gottifredo operates as a community-based ecosystem integrating entrepreneurial, cultural and social dimensions. It fosters the creation of social capital, learning within communities of practice and the shared creation of value. In the case analysed, coworking emerges as a potential catalyst for the regeneration of peripheral urban areas, when supported by local networks and participatory forms of governance. Originality/value This study contributes to the literature by examining a coworking case in a small urban context, interpreted within a regenerative and sustainability-oriented framework. Coworking spaces are presented as laboratories of social innovation and territorial resilience, capable of supporting the twin ecological and digital transition through participatory practices and community-based governance models.

Background: Digital violence, including cyberbullying, hate speech, doxing, and online gender-based violence, has surged in Indonesian schools, with over 445,000 cases reported in 2024. Despite its growing prevalence, limited systematic analysis has been conducted to identify which curricular components of peace education can effectively address digital violence in Indonesia’s multicultural school contexts. Objective: This study aims to identify and synthesise key curricular components of peace education to prevent digital violence in Indonesian multicultural schools, integrating Tyler’s four-stage curriculum rationale, UN human dignity principles, Indonesian local cultural values (gotong royong, musyawarah), and digital ethics into the proposed PEACE-D Framework. Method: A Systematic Qualitative Review (SQR) was conducted, synthesising 45 peer-reviewed articles (2017–2026) retrieved from Scopus, Google Scholar, and Garuda Portal. The data was analysed using Braun & Clarke’s six-phase thematic analysis, validated by investigator triangulation, achieving 87% intercoder agreement. Result: Thematic synthesis identified four core curricular domains forming the PEACE-D Framework: (1) cross-national peace competencies (knowledge, attitudes, and skills for conflict transformation); (2) human personal dignity (UN-grounded digital privacy and non-degradation norms); (3) contextual cultural values (gotong royong, musyawarah, Sufistic empathy as cyber-ethical foundations); and (4) digital ethics and online responsibility (netiquette, cyberbullying prevention, bystander intervention). Conclusion: The PEACE-D Framework advances curriculum theory by integrating Tyler’s rationale with cultural and ethical dimensions specific to Indonesia’s digital educational context. Practical implications include adaptive module development within Kurikulum Merdeka and policy integration at the national level. Future quasi-experimental research in multicultural schools is recommended to empirically validate framework effectiveness.

Abstract Animal agriculture faces increasing moral and societal scrutiny. The GEroNIMO project aims to address challenges such as sustainability, welfare, and genetic diversity through genomic innovations. The ongoing debate about genome editing is mostly driven by experts from few disciplines with an emphasis on technical and science-based arguments resembling consequentialist reasoning without making systematic comparisons. To increase the range of arguments and stakeholders, we conducted eight focus groups ( n = 70) in Germany, the Netherlands, France, and Slovenia, representing rural and urban groups. Furthermore, we discussed alternative or complementary technologies to genome editing such as cultivated meat to both allow for systematic comparisons and to scrutinise the extent to which attitudes towards specific food technologies rely on general attitudes towards food technology. Guided by Critical Applied Ethics and Moral Foundation Theory, we identified underlying moral intuitions of the participants without uncritically adopting their arguments. Across all groups, benefits for animal welfare, fairness and transparency in economic motives, and trust in institutions emerged as key conditions for responsible use of genome editing in animal agriculture. While these concerns were broadly shared, participants from the Netherlands and Germany expressed relatively more openness towards technological food innovation, compared to those from France and Slovenia, within the scope of this qualitative study. Our findings highlight the need to understand the cultural and intuitive dimensions of moral reasoning for effective public engagement and responsible development of emerging food and breeding technologies. In particular, concerns rooted in feelings of disgust deserve deeper scrutiny rather than being addressed with harm-based arguments, which fail to address the moral roots of disgust.

This article proposes academic mythography as a concept for analyzing universities as webs of ideas in action. Drawing on critical university studies and cases from Scandinavian history of ideas, it shows how disciplinary histories, affective attachments, institutional structures, and scholarly self-presentations shape universities at each current. This scripture orients imaginaries of the past and future, defining values, virtues, desirable knowledge, and who can embody them. Ultimately, academic mythography exposes political, ethical, and cultural dimensions of universities.

Abstract Concerns have been raised about the use of single host- or home-country samples in analyzing the effects of cultural distance (CD). That is, the estimated effects of CD may be confounded with those of the underlying cultural dimensions or other contextual factors correlated with CD. This study reassesses the risk of confounding when using single-country samples through simulation analyses conducted under various conditions, including different sample sizes and structures, within- and between-country variances, and analysis methods. The results indicate that when other cultural or contextual variables related to the outcome are also included and multilevel modeling is applied, the risk of confounding is not significant across diverse settings. The problem of confounding becomes significant only when using ordinary least squares, which does not take into account the potential nonindependence of observations in hierarchical data. However, in multilevel analyses using single-country samples, statistical power may become insufficient when controlling for cultural variables correlated with CD, particularly when the effect size of CD is small. To address this issue, we present a statistical technique that researchers can use to identify potential confounders and provide guidelines on the sample size required to maintain adequate power.

ABSTRACT This study examines how Hofstede's cultural dimensions shape national progress towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Focusing on Individualism (IDV) and Long‐Term Orientation (LTO), it compares France and South Korea, which differ substantially in their cultural profiles. Survey data were collected from 300 respondents (150 per country), and a MANOVA analysis was conducted to test the influence of cultural dimensions on four goals: SDG 3, SDG 5, SDG 9, and SDG 10. The findings indicate that IDV positively contributes to progress in SDG 5 and SDG 10, whilst negatively affecting SDG 3 and SDG 9. Conversely, LTO strongly enhances SDG 9 but hinders advances in SDG 5 and SDG 10. Country context was largely insignificant except for SDG 10, where France performs better overall. The study concludes that cultural values are critical determinants of SDG performance and should be integrated into future policy strategies.

The transition from authoritarianism to democracy in Central and Eastern Europe was not merely institutional, but a moral reckoning with totalitarian legacies. In Poland, this reckoning remains incomplete, as unresolved property restitution—compensation for cultural assets seized by Nazi Germany and nationalized after the Second World War—continues to shape public policy and identity. This article argues that Poland's post-1989 heritage discourse instrumentalizes cultural loss and victimhood to consolidate domestic political agendas rather than to advance genuine cultural justice. Through an analysis of legal acts, policy instruments, and official statements, it demonstrates how the state constructs a collective narrative of national victimhood that often marginalizes individual experiences and their claims to the recovery of cultural loss. The absence of comprehensive restitution laws and Poland's failure to honour Holocaust-related commitments expose this moral contradiction. Moreover, the victim narrative distorts heritage funding priorities, reinforcing state memory politics. The article calls for reframing heritage discourse towards accountability and inclusive restitution policies.

Researchers have recently discovered cross cultural differences in cognition. There is evidence supporting that different cultures have different attitudes toward technology and artificial intelligence (AI). Due to the recency of this research, there are gaps in the literature including a lack of understanding the underlying cultural dimensions that influence cognition and focus on global regions that have received little attention from researchers. We examined cultural differences between South Asians and North Americans in relation to eye tracking, performance, and interaction with AI in a visual search decision-making (DM) task, which was based on Navon’s paradigm. Participants completed a DM task consisting of congruent and incongruent local and global stimuli. We implemented high (80%) and low (60%) accuracy AI as a decision aid. Overall, the results indicated that South Asians portrayed poorer performance, especially within more difficult trials including the low accuracy AI and the incongruent trials.

Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is deeply reshaping how culture is communicated, creating both chances to improve efficiency and reach a global audience, but also raising concerns about the loss of authentic culture and biased algorithms. This work builds a three-part structure—technology support-culture fit-system regulation—combining Hofstede's cultural dimensions and new institutionalism to study how generative AI performs in understanding cultural symbols and in cross-cultural storytelling. An examination of how the ChatGPT model series interprets Chinese traditional symbols shows that current AI systems have limits, like oversimplifying culture (for example, linking the dragon symbol too closely with royal power) and creating logical conflicts (the differing Western and Chinese views of the phoenix). It also shows that the cultural alignment of GPT-4 in Chinese (68%) is much better than GPT-3.5 (42%). This research suggests a cultural digital governance approach: creating diverse cultural knowledge banks, creating cultural sensitivity assessment measurements, and applying graded cooperation between people and machines. This provides a source for balancing tech progress and cultural heritage.