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KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES AND PRACTICE OF HUMAN PAPILLOMA VIRUS VACCINATION (HPV) AMONG WOMEN IN ANAMBRA STATE NIGERIA
Full text linkThis study assessed the knowledge, attitude, and practice of Human Papillomavirus Vaccination among women of reproductive age in Anambra state. The study was premised against the increasing cases of cervical cancer, resulting from HPV infections, among female gender. With the introduction of the vaccine for HPV prevention in Nigeria in 2024, and subsequently including the vaccine in the routine immunization in Nigeria, it becomes pertinent to carry out this study. Aimed at finding out the proportion of women of reproductive age who were aware of HPV, as well as findings their attitudes and practices of HPV, this study was anchored on the Diffusion of Innovation theory. Using survey as the research design the study drew a sample of 400 women of reproductive age from public health institutions in each of the three zones in Anambra state. Structured questionnaire was the instrument used to garner data for the study. Data obtained were presented in simple frequency distribution tables and subsequently analyzed. Results revealed that a significant proportion of the respondents were aware of HPV vaccination. Results also revealed that a significant proportion of the respondents were ready to volunteer their daughters for the vaccination if it was free. Furthermore, results revealed that respondents demonstrated positive attitudes towards HPV. The study concluded that the public health campaigns on HPV should be sustained, with a view to improving the knowledge of HPV among younger age groups and regular screening among pregnant women. HPV vaccination has a relatively low coverage in Nigeria and the low Therefore, intense health campaign on HPV and HPV vaccine among women of reproductive age is notably recommended.
 
THE INTERPLAY OF SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL CAPITAL AS RESOURCES IN RURAL COMMUNITIES: IMPLICATIONS FOR STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE: Received: 11th November 2025, Revised: 21st November 2025, 25th November 2025, Accepted: 27st November 2025, Date of Publication: 28th November 2025
No full textThis study examines the interplay between social and physical capital resources in shaping students’ perceptions, motivation, and academic performance across two rural community contexts—L County (high-performing) and F County (low-performing), Kentucky. The primary objective is to explore how community-level resources influence students’ educational orientations and how these dynamics vary between high- and low-achieving groups. Grounded in motivation theory and cultural models theory (D’Andrade & Strauss, 1992; Gee, 1996), the study conceptualizes social and physical capital as motivational structures that mediate students’ agency, aspiration, and achievement. Employing a pragmatic mixed-methods design, the research integrates quantitative analysis (n = 42) with qualitative interviews (n = 40). Quantitative findings indicate that in L County, students’ motivation was primarily shaped by teacher influence (r = 0.596, p < .01), whereas in F County, motivational drivers were dispersed across teachers, peers, and parents, reflecting weaker coherence. Qualitative evidence further reveals that deficits in physical capital—such as inadequate infrastructure, limited facilities, and restricted local opportunities—indirectly constrained long-term aspirations, while social capital, particularly through teacher and family relationships, exerted a more immediate influence on motivation and performance. Overall, the findings suggest that the quality and coherence of social relationships, rather than the quantity of available resources, are decisive factors in educational success. The study contributes to the sociology of education by integrating spatial and relational dimensions of capital into motivational analysis and by illuminating how students in resource-constrained settings mobilize social and physical capital to navigate structural inequalities and pursue academic advancement.
 
A DECADE OF PROGRESS: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF GREEN SAFETY AND HEALTH AND SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE, 2016 – 2025
Full text linkIn recent years, there is a substantial increase in research on green safety and health and its impact on sustainability performance. However, the evolution and performance patterns of this field are not thoroughly studied. This study uses a comprehensive bibliometric analysis to investigate global research trends in green safety and health in relation to sustainability performance over a ten-year period. Articles published between 2016 and 2025 are extracted from the Web of Science (WoS) core collection, forming a dataset that reflects the expanding scholarly interest in this field. VOSviewer is used to analyse co-authorship networks among authors, institutions, and countries, as well as to map keyword co-occurrence patterns across the decade. This study findings enhance our understanding of the research landscape in this field and offer valuable insights for future studies. Future studies could examine how the latest technology enhances green safety and health for organisation sustainability performance
THE ROLE OF ECONOMIC POLICY UNCERTAINTY AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES IN SHAPING ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY: EVIDENCE FROM BRICS NATIONS : Received: 3rd April 2025, Revised: 12th May 2025, Accepted: 20st May 2025, Date of Publication: 12th November 2025
No full textThe intensity of environmental pollution has contributed to an immense depletion in our ozone layer and a recession in the global economy. Factors such as uncertainties in economic policies have resulted in the changes in fiscal and monetary policies, serving as limitation for environmental sustainability. However, this study seeks to explore how economic policy uncertainty (EPU) can interact with environmental policies (EPI) to enhance environmental sustainability in BRICS countries. It employs the clustered pooled least square (PLS) and Fixed-effect (FE) models to analyze data from 2000-2022. The findings indicate that EPU increases carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions whiles EPI reduces CO2 emissions. However, integrating EPU and EPI mitigates CO2 emissions in BRICS nations. The study therefore asserts that policymakers can stabilize environmental commitment by implementing long-term, legally binding frameworks, ensuring that environmental policies remain consistent and unaffected by political or economic uncertainties
PROTECTIONISM OR PROTECTION? NEW WESTERN ECONOMIC POLICIES AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF THE CURRENT GEOECONOMIC SCENARIO
Full text linkIn this article I discuss the current situation in which many Western countries are reconsidering the supply chain and free trade policies they embraced until not so long ago, when leadership in technologically advanced products was firmly in their hands. This paradigm shift is claimed to be dictated by the need to protect Western economies from the potential threat from China in particular, rather than adopting protectionist policies with the simple (and understandable) motivation of shielding domestic producers from foreign competitors. This means that the change in the policies of Western countries is not the result of a revision of the theoretical principles that have guided their economic policies in the past, as these principles are believed to retain their full validity. Instead, the revision would be induced by an exception that has always been admitted by orthodox economic theory, namely protection from a military and external security threat. My main claim is that the need to adopt what can unequivocally be called standard protectionist policies, instead, should stem from a serious revision of the previously adopted theoretical paradigm, given the many negative outcomes derived from its blind application. Moreover, justifying the adoption of overtly protectionist policies with the need for protection, something that is far from proved, risks triggering a negative self-fulfilling process, thereby fuelling a dangerous confrontation between separate blocs, something which does not promise anything good for our future
ANTHROPOCENTRIC OR BIOCENTRIC? SOCIO-CULTURAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND POLITICAL DRIVERS OF URBAN WILDLIFE SIGNAGE PREFERENCES AND SUSTAINABLE COEXISTENCE
Full text linkWhat determines whether the public favors anthropocentric or biocentric signage in urban contexts? As cities face the intensifying challenges of human–wildlife encounters in the Anthropocene, the need for policy responses grows urgent. This research positions signage preferences within the fields of public administration, local politics, environmental governance, and urban management, conceptualizing signage as a policy instrument that reflects broader socio-environmental and political dynamics. Unlike earlier studies that approach signage mainly as a behavioral nudge, we examine the socio-cultural, environmental, and political dimensions that influence attitudes along the anthropocentric–biocentric spectrum. While anthropocentric signage highlights human safety and casts wildlife as hazardous or problematic, biocentric signage underscores coexistence, ecological interdependence, and shared constraints. Using data from a large-scale public opinion survey, we analyze the case of wild boars and the related urban-environmental tensions in Mount Carmel and the municipality of Nesher. The findings reveal that socio-cultural vulnerability, perceptions of harm, support for policy, and political ideology all play a decisive role in shaping signage preferences. By doing so, the study contributes to scholarship on environmental governance, urban management, urban semiotics, and policy design, showing how signage functions as a contested political and ecological symbol. We conclude with a discussion of the implications for municipal governance, morality policies, and the aesthetics of urban signage
DIGITAL REPRESENTATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE THROUGH GENERATIVE AI: APPROACHES AND EVALUATIONS IN VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN
Full text linkThis study examines the impact of generative artificial intelligence technologies on the digital representation of cultural heritage within the context of visual communication design. The primary objective is to explore how text-to-image AI tools interpret and reproduce cultural motifs, symbols, and aesthetic elements. The methodology involved selecting specific motifs from Anatolian cultural heritage and generating visual outputs using different generative AI platforms, including Midjourney, DALL-E, and Stable Diffusion, based on various text prompts. The resulting images were analyzed through content analysis, focusing on fundamental design principles such as color, composition, texture, form, and symbolic meaning. Findings indicate that while generative AI tools offer creative diversity in cultural reinterpretation, they also exhibit contextual limitations in accurately preserving heritage references. The outcomes of the study provide recommendations for ethical, aesthetic, and technical approaches to cultural heritage representation in visual communication design. Future research may focus on strategies for safeguarding cultural heritage and developing sustainable models for its digital representation through generative AI.
 
“EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT: SCORES AND INFLUENCING FACTORS CASE STUDY OF A STATE ENTERPRISE IN THAILAND”
Full text linkThis research aims to study the engagement assessment index and analyze the factors influencing employee engagement in a state enterprise in Thailand. The study employs a quantitative research method, using a questionnaire as a data collection tool from a sample of 855 employees. Data analysis was performed using descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics, including Multiple Regression Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The findings revealed that the overall employee engagement score, measured by the Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS), indicates a need for improvement. The majority of employees fell into the 'Passive' group (37.80%), followed by the 'Detractor' group (33.60%), and the 'Promoter' group (28.70%). Further analysis indicated that engagement in terms of 'Say' was rated as excellent, 'Strive' as good, while 'Stay' required improvement. Factors such as organizational attitude, direct supervisors and executives, acceptance, career opportunities, welfare, and work environment positively influenced employee engagement
DIGITALIZATION WITH CITIZEN VERIFICATION AND CONTROL SYSTEM
Full text linkPoverty remains an undeniable social issue that is deeply rooted in the social fabric. The state welfare card policy under the leadership of General Prayut Chan-o-cha was created as guidelines for improving life quality and ending poverty by helping with living expenses, finding opportunities to access public services, and developing vocational training.The state relies on specific identity representations in the neoliberal world in the absence of authentic empirical evidence. Perceptive ambiguities lead to an attempt to create a field of meaning that is static and numerable until it becomes a characteristic that the state can control and predict. The more it is combined with the proof mechanism, the more it is conducive to the growth of capital groups and political networks aggravating international poverty despite repeated suppression. Those uncounted or overlooked by the system are challenged for survival and activities that they are allowed to do. Results are that the state welfare card represents a set of governmental ideas with clear control and determination goals. Poverty and politics remain intertwined, as the card helps societal denizens learn to prove their own poverty and be aware of new rules by which poverty is reduced according to the state perception framework. As a result, the state welfare card is a basis for creating more poverty under the neoliberal drive
DIVERSITY IN MARKET CHANGE: EXPLORATORY RESEARCH ON THE FLAT-PANEL TV MARKET
Full text linkThe main focus of this study is to clarify the differences in how markets are formed and changed in two markets where overlapping companies operate using same technologies. Drawing on insights from market category research, the following points are noted: (1) Market categories are embedded within broader social classification systems, which vary by society and culture, (2) when market categories are formed, they are shaped in relation to existing market categories, meaning that the characteristics of existing categories influence the creation of new ones. However, there have been few comparative studies of markets in different regions for products that use similar technology. In this study, we compared the market change process in the flat-panel TV markets of Japan and North America through content analysis of press releases published by companies.The comparative analysis revealed that the way in which market categories change differs between the flat-panel TV markets of Japan and North America. In terms of products, both the Japanese and North American markets saw a similar proportion of flat-panel TVs that could be used to access content and applications over the internet. In the North American market, a new category label was used for these flat-panel TVs with new functions, and a new market category was formed. In contrast, no new TV category was formed in the Japanese market. In the Japanese market, these TV was not introduced as a new type of TV, but as a conventional flat-panel TV with new functions added