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Cross-cultural studies

A cross-sectional validation study of the verran and snyder-halpern sleep scale and the factors influencing sleep questionnaire in Dutch hospitals

Christel T. A. J. Derks, Jessica J. J. Cramer-Kruit, Paul Lodder, RENurse Consortium , Annemarie J. B. M. de Vos, Catharina J. van Oostveen

published 01 Sep 2026

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Combining a diffusion model with a sparse coding strategy to improve the machine translation accuracy of culturally loaded words in English news texts

Qin Yu, Tao Mai

published 28 Aug 2026

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Quantifying the evolution of harmony and novelty in western classical music

Alfredo González-Espinoza, Joshua B. Plotkin

published 20 Aug 2026

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Towards cultural validation of the revised children’s anxiety and depression scale in Karnataka, India: Think aloud interviews among 13–17 year olds

Amy Palmer, Daryl B. O’Connor, Poornima Bhola, Prachi Khandeparkar, N. Janardhana, Sphoorthi Prabhu, Krupa A. L, Mutharaju Arelingaiah, Jayalaxmi K. P, Ritwika Nag, Siobhan Hugh-Jones

published 19 Aug 2026

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Evaluating employees’ positive functioning at work: Adaptation and validation of the PERMA+4 scales in the Italian context

Alessandro Concas, Kristina Shea, Irene Garigali, Andrea Bonanomi, Daniel J. Martin, Stewart I. Donaldson

published 13 Aug 2026

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A corpus-based comparison of stance markers in materials science research article abstracts by Chinese and English L1 authors

Shunuan Xie, Linxiang Guo, Wen Zhang

published 07 Aug 2026

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Evaluating the cultural alignment of multilingual LLMs in typical Japanese workplace scenarios

Zhiwei Gao, Nobuyuki Shimizu, Sumio Fujita, Shaowen Peng, Shoko Wakamiya, Eiji Aramaki

published 27 Jul 2026

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Validation of the Arab Mental Health Continuum Short Form (AMHC-SF) in Oman: Psychometric properties and factorial structure

Sharif Alsoudi, Amina Benkouider, Huda Al-Manjiya

published 21 Jul 2026

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The AHS-R: A holistic thinking measure with expanded theoretical domains and improved score reliability

Ezgi Aytürk, Nilüfer Göktaş, Nagihan Özman, Emre Kayatepe, Rüya Su Şencan, S. Adil Sarıbay

published 15 Jul 2026

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Cross-cultural assessment of knowledge and attitudes toward Folic acid: Instrument development and validation in Thailand and Yemen

Rana Ali Al-Qaari, Saranthorn Khuankaew, Mahittha Suttiserm, Siraphat Pornsuksawang, Pawat Boonnop, Somchai Manopatanakul, Siribang-on Piboonniyom Khovidhunkit, Sasipa Thiradilok, Chanita Tantipoj

published 15 Jul 2026

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Psychometric evaluation of the Urdu version of Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits: A multi-phase validation

Sania Mazher, Sobia Masood, Takashi Arai

published 09 Jul 2026

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Bridging corpus diagnostics and EAP pedagogy: A corpus-driven study on lexical hedges in Chinese scholars’ spoken academic English

Yinchun Wang, Yang Yu, Hanlin Song, Yongkang Wu, Lexuan Lin

published 06 Jul 2026

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Emotional understanding in Japanese children 3–6 years: Language ability mediates the relations between theory of mind and executive function

Awoun Jung, Izumi Uehara

published 02 Jul 2026

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