Social Sciences and Humanities

This study examines digital assistant abuse—the intentional misuse of AI-powered voice interfaces—and its societal implications. Drawing from communication theory and empirical research, we analyze how abuse of these technologies may normalize disrespectful communication patterns and erode social norms. Our investigation focuses on four dimensions: technical vulnerabilities enabling abuse, developmental impacts on children, gendered design perpetuating stereotypes, and ethical implications of consequence-free negative interactions with anthropomorphized technology.

This scientific article was used to conduct a study on the optimization and management of queue demand in the public health sector in Mozambique. It was based on queue theory and parallel simulation between the analytical model. The simulation allowed the reproduction of complex systems, making it possible to visualize how they behave.

This article analyzes Steven Hahn’s A Nation Under Our Feet (2004) using the theory of hidden resistance. From the slavery era to the Great Migration, African Americans worked out covert strategies to circumvent the economic and socio-political hardships of life in Southern society. Hahn’s work highlights communication networks and rumors as important mechanisms that allowed Black people to resist race-based oppression. This perspective redefines the meanings of politics and the political, thus highlighting African Americans as early-politicized subjects in US history.

As of 2023, the aviation industry accounts for approximately 2.5% of global energy-related CO₂ emissions, with its total climate impact estimated at around 4% when non-CO₂ effects are included. Following a dramatic drop due to the COVID-19 pandemic, emissions rebounded to nearly 950 million metric tons CO₂—over 90% of pre-pandemic levels. Despite improvements in fuel efficiency, the carbon intensity of jet fuel has not changed significantly, and demand for air travel continues to rise.

Organic agriculture is a popular method for reducing the detrimental effects of chemical agriculture. In India, farming has become increasingly unsustainable during the previous three decades. The system prioritized high output over ecological and human welfare concerns. Organicfarminginvolvesusing biofertilizersandpestcontrolderivedfromanimal or herbal waste. The present study highlighted that the Compound Annual Growth rate using the Logistic Growth Model for India's organic agricultural production from 2019–20 to 2023–24.

The gendered limitations imposed on female artists in traditional Manipuri society are profoundly reflected in the short story, Tune by M.K. Binodini Devi. This article will examine the story from the perspectives of memory theory, gender theory, and feminist resistance, focussing on how Tune expresses the inner and outside challenges of a woman whose creative ambitions are suppressed by patriarchal norms. The protagonist of the story, Tampha Ibemma (Abok Ibemma), is a musically once talented woman who carries both inherited grief and personal longing, making her a site of cultural memory.

Dados abertos são informações que podem ser livremente usadas e reutilizadas com a premissa de promoção do conhecimento como um bem comum robusto no qual qualquer um pode participar. O presente estudo tem como objetivo compreender o contexto de dados abertos na literatura para a publicação de dados abertos institucionais. Para alcançar os resultados, utilizou-se o método de revisão integrativa tendo como procedimento metodológico o uso da estratégia PICO e a categorização dos estudos, aplicadas em levantamento bibliográfico.

In this article, we examine the root causes for which the African postcolonial subjects undertake the transnational or external dislocation, determining whether the massive flow of Africans from home to the metropolitan center actually fulfilled their dream. The socio-political, economic and cultural conditions of the displaced postcolonial subjects in their transnational space and their responses to the realities of this space are zoomed in by a postcolonial reading of Isidore Okpewho’s The Victims and Buchi Emecheta’s Second-Class Citizen.

Experiential learning is a theory developed by educationist David Kolbe which emphasizes the value, mechanism and strategies of learning from experiences that have been described in a wonderful manner. As learning is considered as an active and engaging process, experiential learning highlights how real-life exposure and observations are one of the most durable and interesting techniques of learning.

Rising inequality is an urgent global issue and this is because of its implications for sustainable development in the world economies. In this paper we estimate the relationship between social inequality as measured by the Coefficient of Human Inequality and sustainable development which was measured by the Sustainable Development Goals Index.