Construct (python library)

  1. Migrant construction workers faced precarity but still found meaning
    Study of African migrant construction workers in Portugal examining how meaningful work persists despite precarious employment, structural barriers, and inadequate labor protections through.
  2. The article argues current money systems hinder sustainability
    Explore Gesell's natural economic order as a solution to monetary system design flaws causing inequality, unemployment, and financial crises while enabling sustainable human-scale development.
  3. Micro:bit activities improved self-perceived CT knowledge and attitudes
    Study of how micro:bit-based computational thinking activities affect pre-service mathematics teachers' content knowledge, attitudes, and emotions toward teaching K-12 mathematics.
  4. Life satisfaction best matched flourishing across 22 countries
    Study of 202,898 people in 22 countries comparing three measures of subjective wellbeing and their associations with 15 life factors, revealing country-level variation.
  5. Gamified micro:bit use improved emotions and readiness for CT
    Investigation of gamified micro:bit low-code programming for computational thinking readiness in sustainable mathematics education among P-12 students and pre-service teachers.
  6. Newspapers use speech acts to frame immigration differently
    Corpus analysis of speech acts in U.S. newspaper immigration coverage reveals how constatives, directives, and commissives shape public opinion differentially across liberal and conservative outlets.
  7. Value pluralism supports conservation portfolio approaches
    Value pluralism provides ethical justification for portfolio approaches in conservation by recognizing diverse ecosystem values and supporting inclusive, diversified conservation strategies.
  8. Data management mechanism proposed for software development decisions
    Framework for implementing data management mechanisms to support decision-making in software development companies, integrating technological and organizational perspectives.
  9. Matatu access conflicts with Nairobi Expressway infrastructure
    Study examines tensions between Nairobi's matatu informal transport and Chinese-backed Expressway, revealing how foreign infrastructure reshapes mobility and excludes indigenous systems.
  10. Mimbres society used insularity as a cultural strategy
    Analysis of Mimbres Classic period communities examines insularity as strategic cultural practice emphasizing household autonomy and symbolic containment over monumentality.
  11. Narrative Scaffolding: A Narrative-First Framework for Data-Driven Sensemaking
    Narrative Scaffolding positions narrative construction as the primary interface for data-driven exploration, enabling deeper reflection and broader investigation patterns while preserving.
  12. Brooks links joyful work to tractability and testability
    Analysis of Fred Brooks's concepts of tractability and testability in software development, extended to understanding joyful work through Christian vocational theology and anthropology.
  13. Study examines heuristics and audience cognitive bias in online emergencies
    Structural examination of how situational heuristics shape cognitive biases in online emergencies through adaptive expectations and implicit attributions, with demographic variation analysis.
  14. Network Analysis and Trend Analysis of Urban Loneliness Studies: A Scientometric Approach
    Scientometric analysis of 310 articles reveals research trends, network structures, and knowledge gaps in urban loneliness studies using bibliometric methods and VOSviewer.