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Journal of Urban Sociology and Community Life (JUSCL) — Publishes peer-reviewed research on cities, neighborhoods, and the social structures that shape urban life, with a focus on how urban change (gentrification, migration, housing policy, racial/economic stratification) reshapes community cohesion, belonging, and inequality.

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NJAES is a quarterly, peer-reviewed, open-access journal publishing original research on applied environmental science in West Africa. The journal covers environmental monitoring, land and water resource management, climate adaptation and pollution control, with an emphasis on field-based work of direct relevance to policy and practice in the region.

The Journal of Political Communication & Digital Media (JPCDM) is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Meridian Scholars Press, an independent, non-commercial open-access publisher, dedicated to advancing rigorous scholarship on the intersection of politics, communication, and digital technology. It provides a dedicated home for research that has, until now, been scattered across broader communication, political science, and computational social science journals, bringing that work together under a single venue with an explicit, shared commitment to methodological rigor, geographic and platform diversity, and public relevance. JPCDM was founded to address two gaps in the existing publishing landscape. First, much of the influential research on social media and political communication remains concentrated in a small number of high-cost, subscription-based venues, limiting access for scholars, journalists, and policymakers outside well-resourced institutions. Second, as documented across multiple systematic reviews (e.g., Kubin & von Sikorski, 2021; Ross Arguedas et al., 2022), the underlying evidence base is heavily skewed toward U.S. samples and a small number of platforms, particularly Twitter/X. JPCDM is designed to actively counteract both problems: it is fully open access from launch, and it explicitly prioritizes comparative, cross-national, and cross-platform submissions in its review criteria. The journal serves an interdisciplinary readership of political scientists, communication and media scholars, sociologists, computational social scientists, and policy researchers, as well as journalists, platform-policy practitioners, and civil-society organizations seeking peer-reviewed evidence on digital political communication. JPCDM publishes quarterly, with continuous online-first publication of accepted articles ahead of print compilation, and welcomes original research, systematic and narrative reviews, theoretical and critical commentary, methods notes, and curated data papers (see Section 4). Editorially, JPCDM is committed to transparent, timely, and constructive peer review; adherence to COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) standards; and open data and reproducibility practices wherever legally and ethically possible. While published under the Meridian Scholars Press imprint, the journal is not owned by a commercial publishing conglomerate, and its editorial decisions rest solely with its Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board, governed by the policies set out in this document.

The transformation of major river basins represents one of the most prominent markers of the Anthropocene. This article provides a global historical analysis of anthropogenic river engineering projects across Eurasia and North America from the late eighteenth century through the mid-twentieth century. Drawing on archival records, cartographic evidence, and paleo-environmental proxy data, the study explores how centralized state authorities systematically reshaped fluvial hydrology to facilitate modern state consolidation, agricultural expansion, and industrialization. We trace the shift from localized, adaptive water management systems to mega-hydraulic engineering projects characterized by extensive damming, channelization, and wetland reclamation. The environmental consequences—including altered sedimentation dynamics and loss of aquatic biodiversity—demonstrate a recurring historical pattern where immediate economic objectives compromised ecological stability. Keywords: Environmental History, Hydrology, Anthropocene, State Power, River Engineering, Ecological Transformation

Addressing educational disparities across nations requires rigorous comparative analysis of institutional design and fiscal allocation models. Utilizing international large-scale assessment data from PISA and TIMSS alongside OECD institutional policy indicators across 28 member states, this paper investigates the structural factors underlying cross-national achievement differences in secondary education. Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) reveals that absolute national expenditure per student is a non- linear predictor of performance; beyond a baseline expenditure threshold, equity-directed resource distribution exerts a significantly stronger influence on socio-economic achievement gaps than total national funding. Nations featuring comprehensive early childhood education and delayed institutional tracking consistently demonstrated lower variance in student performance alongside higher overall mean achievement scores.

Standard economic models frequently operate under the assumption of unbounded cognitive capacity, failing to account for systemic decision biases in complex institutional environments. This paper examines how cognitive constraints—specifically bounded rationality—interact with formal regulatory architecture to influence market participant compliance and economic efficiency. Utilizing a multi-stage laboratory economic experiment involving 320 participants, we simulated institutional compliance scenarios under varying degrees of choice complexity and structural information nudges. Our findings demonstrate that as institutional rules increase in cognitive complexity, participant error rates rise exponentially, leading to suboptimal resource allocation. However, when choice architectures were restructured to align with cognitive heuristics, compliance rates increased by 38% without increasing legal enforcement expenditures.

Grounding its framework in Self-Determination Theory (SDT), this empirical study evaluates the structural relationships between perceived organizational support, basic psychological need satisfaction (autonomy, competence, and relatedness), and long-term psychological wellbeing among remote and hybrid workers (N = 1,280). Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was conducted on longitudinal survey data collected across three distinct time points over eighteen months. Results indicate that perceived organizational support significantly predicts sustained psychological wellbeing (beta = .42, p < .001). Crucially, autonomy satisfaction emerged as the primary mediating variable, accounting for 64% of the indirect effect on emotional exhaustion reduction and positive vitality enhancement. The study provides robust empirical evidence that organizational policies prioritizing employee autonomy foster long-term psychological resilience.