Journal of Advances in Social Sciences (JASS) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access bimonthly journal dedicated to theoretical and applied research across the social sciences. Published by the Asia-Pacific Social Innovation Research Institute, JASS supports interdisciplinary scholarship, global academic dialogue, Crossref DOI registration, open discovery, and research that connects scholarly rigor with public value.
Journal of Innovation and Development is an international, interdisciplinary academic journal published by the Asia-Pacific Social Innovation Research Institute. It is committed to publishing original research of academic value and practical significance in the fields of innovation and development. Open to researchers worldwide, the journal focuses on innovation-related topics spanning technology, economics, management, education, society, culture, ecology and sustainable development. It encourages interdisciplinary research and diverse academic perspectives, so as to advance knowledge creation, academic exchange and the dissemination of research findings.
AffiliationsDepartment of Respiration and Critical Care Medicine, the 986th Hospital of Xijing Hospital, Air Force Military Medical University; Xi’an, China
AbstractWith the progress of globalisation, providing end-of-life care for all kinds of cultures has become an urgent problem for healthcare systems around the world. Patients and their families from different cultural backgrounds have various views on death, decisions about terminal illness, and other caregiving needs. This paper will systematically examine the current application of multicultural nursing in end-of-life ca…
AbstractThis study examined the associations among grit, achievement goal orientations, and mathematics achievement among Grade 10 students in a private high school in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China. A total of 256 students participated in the study, and 248 valid responses were included in the analysis. Grit was measured through perseverance of effort and consistency of interests. Achievement goal orientations included m…
AffiliationsPhD Researcher in International law, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, China; and Deputy Director, Anti-Corruption Commission Bangladesh
AbstractThis study examined Bangladesh’s electoral system by analyzing its constitutional structure, legal framework and recent reform initiatives by paying special attention to the Election Commission, the Representation of the People Order 1972 and the July Charter 2025. The aim of the study is to assess how legal design and institutional practice affect electoral integrity and public trust. However, a qualitative doctrin…
AbstractThe rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into public governance systems has profoundly impacted how government agencies make administrative decisions, develop policies and deliver services in the context of democratic organizations. However, existing governance theories are unable to articulate how human cognition and machine intelligence cooperate in a co-decision making environment within government. …
AffiliationsUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal - Howard College
AbstractAcross many authoritarian and hybrid regimes, parliamentary chambers are characterised by conspicuous patterns of silence, limited questioning, ritualised affirmation, and restrained legislative engagement despite their formal mandate to deliberate and scrutinise executive power. This paper examines this paradox and challenges prevailing interpretations that treat parliamentary inactivity primarily as evidence of in…
AffiliationsDepartment of Science and Technical Education, Faculty of Educational Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia
AbstractWorkplace learning is central to higher vocational education, yet its measurement remains fragmented across studies. Drawing on workplace learning theory and prior measurement work, this study tested a subscale-level higher-order structure of workplace learning comprising three theoretically specified dimensions: supervisor support, peer support, and reflective practice. Survey data were collected from 385 final-yea…
AffiliationsDepartment of International Relations, Jahangirnagar University
AbstractThis study analyses the pre-election media monitoring, political dynamics, and electoral outcome of the 13th National Parliamentary Election of Bangladesh, held on February 12, 2026. The election was the first since the July 2024 popular uprising that ended Sheikh Hasina's 16-year Awami League rule. The election resulted in a landslide victory for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), with Jamaat-e-Islami emerging…
AbstractPolitical struggles are commonly analysed as unified projects of collective action oriented towards external adversaries. This assumption obscures a central political fact: struggles themselves operate as fields of power. This article advances Internal Contestation Theory to explain how collective struggles generate internal hierarchies, exclusions, and authority long before any external victory or institutional tra…
AbstractGenerative AI lowers listing and migration frictions in digital marketplaces. We ask whether faster seller churn improves market health or depletes opportunities faster. In an agent-based model, AI affects only launch cost CL and migration time TM; sellers chase transient product windows, consumers update trust, new opportunities arrive at rate λP , and the platform moderates at intensity φ. Higher AI assistance inc…
AbstractHigh school English writing instruction faces persistent structural challenges, including vague argumentation, unorganised evidence, and broken reasoning chains. Existing pedagogical frameworks—process writing, genre-based pedagogy, and reading-writing integration—share a systemic gap in scaffolding students' argumentative logic. This paper conducts a theoretical investigation into the feasibility of integrating the…
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