Journals
2025 EN
Cha Seung-Eun · Suh Jooyeoun · Kolpashnikova Kamila
Our study investigates the relationship between family models and housework division among older couples. Using the 2019 Korean Time Use Survey, we analysed wives’ share of housework in four family models—dual-earner, traditional (husband-breadwinner), wife-breadwinner, and retired (non-employed) couples—in which at least one partner was aged 65 or above ( N = 1,564). Results show that although wives’ housework share varies across the four family models, unequal distribution of housework persists in older age, with wives shouldering over 70 per cent of the total housework regardless of the family model. Wives’ housework share in wife-breadwinner couples was significantly lower than that among dual earners. We also found that economic resources, particularly income, and gender ideology play a limited role in explaining the division of housework among older couples. However, health played a crucial role, with wives and husbands doing more housework when their partners reported poor health.
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2025 EN
Safdar Muhammad · Sarwar Azam
Drawing upon Kamila Shamsie’s novel Home Fire , this article explores the political erasure and resistance of British-born young Muslim women of Pakistani background with familial connections to Islamist jihadists. The characters are situated in the socio-geo-political context of post-9/11 and post-7/7, with a particular focus on increased alienation of the Muslim body in Britain, and increasingly strained relationships between the west and Islam. It draws on Arthur Bradley’s concept of the “unbearable life” as related to the nihilopolitics of erasure of Muslim women who are rendered non-subjects and strangers to home not only by the religio-racist British state and public social behaviours but also by radical Islamists. It examines how the protagonists Isma and Aneeka are nihilopolitically erased as unbearable lives by the imaginaries of home and how, in resisting, they give birth to a new politics. It foregrounds their politics of claiming belongingness to both Britain and Islam.
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2025 EN
Biały Kamila · Ferenc Tomasz · Kidoń Dagna
This article, explores the complexity of art perception and reception through the lenses of sociology, neuro- and cognitive science, and phenomenology. Traditionally, perception is understood as a sensory or physiological process, while reception encompasses cognitive and affective dimensions. However, we argue that these categories are fluid, shaped by overlapping epistemological frameworks. We focus particularly on the tension between culturalist and naturalist positions – whether visual experience is socially conditioned or neuronally and biologically determined. To address this, we employed a mixed-method approach: cognitive-based eye-tracking and surveys, combined with phenomenologically inspired in-depth interviews. These tools allowed us to explore whether political worldviews shape art perception – or whether it is, conversely, artworks that shape us. Notably, we asked whether perception can be understood as an embodied sensorimotor interaction with the artwork, emerging at the intersection of culture, cognition, and lived bodily experience.
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2025 EN
Alimdjanov Bakhtiyor · Akbarova Kamila
The article addresses the creation of female images in Uzbek cinema during the Soviet era and explores how the representation of women is constructed by state ideology and filmmakers. The films selected for analysis are divided into groups, in accordance with political and socio-cultural changes, such as the Bolshevik project for the emancipation of women and the dropping of the veil in the 1920s, culminating in the Hujum, which informed the image of the new woman of the East in early Uzbek cinema; the role of women as workers and builders of socialism during the Stalin era; the images of women during the Thaw and Stagnation era, often in domestic settings, where personal happiness and a career conflicted with each other and with expectations of traditional Uzbek families and the older generation. After independence, some directors sharply criticised Soviet modernisation and the emancipation of women. The first films shot at Uzbekfilm were supposed to be of an agitational and propaganda nature, but they were not truly aimed at modernising the East. Although the official Soviet discourse was anti-imperialist, films stigmatised the local people and their way of life in order to justify the conquest of the region.
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2025 EN
Hamdani Saboor · Chan Angel · Kan Rachel
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A long-standing issue in identifying developmental language disorder (DLD) in multilingual children is differentiating between effects of language experience and genuine impairment when clinicians often lack suitable norm-referenced assessments. In this tutorial we demonstrate, via a case study, that it is feasible to identify DLD in a multilingual child using the CATALISE diagnostic criteria, Language Impairment Testing in Multilingual Settings (LITMUS) assessment tools, and telepractice. This tutorial features a case study of one 6-year-old Urdu-Cantonese multilingual ethnic minority child, and seven age- and grade-matched multilinguals. They were tested via Zoom using Urdu versions of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS-MAIN), the Crosslinguistic Lexical Task (LITMUS-CLT), the Crosslinguistic Nonword Repetition Test (LITMUS-CL-NWR), and the Sentence Repetition Task (LITMUS-SRep). The child scored significantly lower in the LITMUS tests compared to her peers in her best/first language of Urdu. Together with the presence of negative functional impact and poor prognostic features, and absence of associated biomedical conditions, the findings suggest this participant could be identified as having DLD using the CATALISE diagnostic criteria. The result demonstrates the promise of this approach to collect reference data and identify DLD in multilingual children. The online LITMUS battery has the potential to support identification of multilingual DLD in any target language.
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2025 EN
Nakao Izadora Amaral · Hermenegildo Aline Mol · Vaz Luana Beatriz Araújo
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Despite advances in cancer therapy, tumor aggressiveness remains a challenge due to rapid progression and genetic variability. Tumor cells often overexpress glucose transporters (GLUTs) and receptors such as galectin and ASGP-R. Based on this, new chalcone derivatives conjugated to D-glucose, D-galactose, and lactose were synthesized from a previously identified cytotoxic chalcone (compound 1) to evaluate their anticancer potential. The compounds were synthesized as O-glycosides or glycosyl-1,2,3-triazole chalcones and tested against cancer and normal cell lines. Cellular assays assessed cytotoxicity, colony formation, migration, morphology, cell cycle progression, and apoptosis. Molecular docking and dynamics simulations investigated interactions with MMP-9, a key enzyme in metastasis. O-galactosyl chalcone 9 showed the most promising activity, surpassing compound 1 against HeLa (CC 50 4.58 µM) and T -24 (CC 50 4.41 µM) cells, with improved selectivity over doxorubicin. Chalcone 9 inhibited colony formation and migration, induced morphological changes, modulated the cell cycle, and triggered apoptosis in HepG2 and T -24 cells via p53-dependent and independent mechanisms. Molecular modeling has revealed stable interactions between the galactosyl moiety and MMP-9, supporting its role as a potential target. Chalcone 9 exhibits potent, selective anticancer activity and anti-migratory effects, representing a promising candidate for further drug development.
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2025 EN
Kamila Biswajit · Mandal Arindam · Prabhakar Ashok
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There is a dearth in the literature of simple but robust models for gasification of large biomass particles that can address all important aspects of the reaction. A transient two-dimensional single-particle model of biomass gasification in the CO 2 environment was developed in this work that incorporates chemical kinetics and heat transfer resistances, mass transfer inside the particle and boundary layer, non-equimolar counter diffusion including Knudsen diffusion, spatiotemporal variation in specific char surface area and thermophysical properties. The model was validated extensively with experimental results. Detailed simulation was carried out at reactor temperatures of 923–1123 K) using COMSOL Multiphysics software for two biomass samples – casuarina and acacia. Simulated conversion, reaction rate, temperature and gas composition profiles revealed that the reactions initially followed a shrinking core model, shifting subsequently to a shrinking reactive core model. Sensitivity analysis identified the sensitivities of process parameters as: reactor temperature > particle diameter (constant length) > initial specific char surface area > porosity > pore parameter > particle diameter (constant volume). Casuarina was found to be a more reactive and better-suited biomass than acacia for gasification applications. The work has furnished important guidelines for selecting suitable biomass type and process parameters to design an appropriate gasifier for industrial use.
Journals
2025 EN
Jimoh Lateef Olatunbosun · Agboola Timothy Olusola · Akintunde Olaide Kamila
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Investigating the compliance level of International Labor Organization (ILO) regulation on child labour use among cassava farming households in Osogbo ADP Zone, Osun State, Nigeria, the study determines the factors influencing child labour usage among cassava farmers in the study area. Using a multi-stage sampling procedure, 120 cassava farming households were randomly selected and interviewed. Data for the study were obtained using a structured questionnaire and analyzed using descriptive statistics and a logistic regression model. Considering the age bracket, the study found that majority (89.2%) of the children, males aged between 15–17 years, were more exposed to child labour than females, combining schooling with farm work, citing liquidity constraints. Furthermore, most farmers do not comply with ILO regulations, engaging children in hazardous work on an average of 5.2 h per day, surpassing the 20 h per week threshold. Also, age of the household head ( P < 0.1), household size ( P < 0.1), and gender of the child ( P < 0.05) significantly increased the probability of child labour use. The study recommends a compulsory schooling reform on child labour backed by blockchain technology monitoring ILO regulation compliance. We contribute to the international literature by highlighting the dangers of child labour and proffering evidence-based solutions.
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2025 EN
Imanuddin Kamila Alifia · Handayani Putu Wuri
This study was conducted to identify the factors that drive the intention to continue using livestream shopping on social commerce. The research model was built by adopting the stimulus-organism-response theory. Using mixed methods, quantitative data from 572 respondents were collected through questionnaires and processed using covariance-based structural equation modelling. We also interviewed 16 respondents to in-depth understand the questionnaire result and analyzed the data using the content analysis technique. We collected the data from the 20 February until 5 March 2024. The findings reveal that all constructs namely personalization, visibility, susceptibility to informational influence, co-creation behaviour, trust in products, trust in streamers, and perceived value can influence continuance intention to use livestream shopping on social commerce, but only trust in products and perceived value can have a direct impact to continuance intention to use livestream shopping on social commerce. The results of this study are used to provide recommendations for service providers to help retain their customers by implementing some features, such as virtual streamer, virtual try-on, and non-anthropomorphized chatbot.
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2025 EN
Santos Kamila Cardoso dos · Magalhães Larissa Silva · Caetano Karlla Antonieta Amorim
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Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for HIV, a form of emergency prevention, has been available for more than two decades. However, information about its use among trans women, a group disproportionately affected by HIV, is limited. To explore knowledge, barriers, access facilitators, and use of PEP in trans women. A qualitative study was carried out with 90 trans women in Goiânia, Central-West of Brazil, using semi-structured interviews and analyzed using thematic analysis. Participants had prior knowledge about PEP, although many did not understand its application and effectiveness. Despite knowing there were structural and psychosocial barriers that proved to be significant impediments to access and effective use of PEP. There is a need to develop inclusive public health strategies that meet the needs of trans women to improve access to and use of PEP. Continuing education and awareness initiatives are crucial to dispelling myths and providing accurate information about prophylaxis options. These are essential for both the trans community and health professionals, aiming to reduce the incidence of HIV in this vulnerable and often marginalized group. The implementation of such measures can facilitate greater adherence to PEP, contributing to the health and well-being of trans women.