Studies in Social Science Research
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language: en-US
publication name: Studies in Social Science Research
issn: 2690-0793
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items: Research and Analysis on the Global Commercial Remote Sensing Satellite Market
items: Research on the Impact of DIP Reform on the Service Efficiency of Medical Institutions: A Case Study of H City, Hubei Province
items: An Investigation into the Impact of Future Expectations on the Desire for Multiple Children among Young Adults of Childbearing Age
items: The Impact of Hollywood Political Films on US Politics and Politics Culture: A Case Study of Thirteen Days
items: Critical Discourse Analysis of Chinese Aerospace Reports in China Daily
items: Socioeconomic Status Inequalities Partially Mediate Racial and Ethnic Differences in Children’s Amygdala Volume
items: Applying the Assignment Institution in the Pharmaceutical Market: Legislative Lacunae or Unconstitutionality?
items: IoT Applications and Their Impacts in Smart Cities

Research and Analysis on the Global Commercial Remote Sensing Satellite Market
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description: The global commercial remote sensing satellite market is experiencing an unprecedented "golden age" of growth, primarily driven by technological innovation, the explosive expansion of data applications, and increasingly close cooperation between public and private sectors. This paper provides an in-depth analysis of two core technologies—high-resolution optical satellites and radar satellites (SAR)—aiming to offer a comprehensive market overview for strategic decision-makers. The user base has expanded from government and defense sectors to a broader range of commercial fields. Leveraging their unique advantages, satellite imagery is carving out new spaces and playing an irreplaceable role across civil, commercial, and military customer segments and applications.
creator: Wenchao Xin
creator: Jiayi Xing
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Wenchao Xin, Jiayi Xing http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-01-26
publication date: 2026-01-26
volume: 7
number: 1
starting page: 1
doi: 10.22158/sssr.v7n1p1

Research on the Impact of DIP Reform on the Service Efficiency of Medical Institutions: A Case Study of H City, Hubei Province
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description: Objective: To evaluate the impact of the Diagnosis-Intervention Packet (DIP) payment policy on the service efficiency of medical institutions and provide evidence for the reform of medical insurance payment methods. Methods: Based on quarterly data from 37 medical institutions in H City, Hubei Province, from 2020 to 2024, a common frontier Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and an Interrupted Time Series (ITS) model were employed to quantitatively analyze changes in efficiency before and after the implementation of DIP. Results: The DIP policy significantly improved medical service efficiency, driving efficiency values closer to the optimal frontier while effectively controlling medical costs. However, three issues were identified: (1) Only a few institutions achieved the optimal Technology Gap Ratio (TGR); (2) Cost control exhibited a "U-shaped" pattern, initially decreasing and then rising; (3) There were significant differences in responses among medical institutions of different levels. Conclusion: It is recommended to enhance the policy effectiveness by improving supporting mechanisms, deepening internal refined management, and optimizing differentiated reform pathways, thereby providing a reference for further payment reforms.
creator: Yu Hong
creator: Linlin Ran
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Yu Hong, Linlin Ran http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-01-29
publication date: 2026-01-29
volume: 7
number: 1
starting page: 16
doi: 10.22158/sssr.v7n1p16

An Investigation into the Impact of Future Expectations on the Desire for Multiple Children among Young Adults of Childbearing Age
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description: Investigating the multi-child fertility intentions of young people of childbearing age holds significant implications for exploring population structural transformation. Against the backdrop of China's current severe demographic challenges, examining the influence of future expectations on young people's willingness to have multiple children helps uncover the underlying logic of their reproductive decisions—particularly the pathways through which asset expectations, subjective class expectations, and social security expectations shape their multi-child fertility intentions. This study utilizes data from the 2023 China General Social Survey database. It employs a binary logistic regression model to empirically analyze the impact effects of each dimension of expectations and employs heterogeneity analysis to reveal differences among various age and gender groups. The results indicate: Within the asset expectations dimension, housing area exerts a highly significant positive influence on young adults' willingness to have multiple children, while annual household income has a significantly negative effect. Subjective class expectations exert a significant positive influence on young people's willingness to have multiple children; commercial health insurance within the social security expectations dimension exerts a highly significant negative effect on young people's willingness to have multiple children. Furthermore, the impact of each dimension varies across different age groups and genders. Based on these findings, only by formulating targeted measures according to group characteristics can the desired effect of promoting willingness to have multiple children be achieved.
creator: Yingli Hu
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Yingli Hu http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-01-30
publication date: 2026-01-30
volume: 7
number: 1
starting page: 39
doi: 10.22158/sssr.v7n1p39

The Impact of Hollywood Political Films on US Politics and Politics Culture: A Case Study of Thirteen Days
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description: This essay uses the Hollywood political film Thirteen Days as a case study, by combining the authentic historical and political background of the 1960s Cuban Missile Crisis in the United States, examines the roles and impacts of Hollywood political films in shaping U.S. politics and political culture. Specifically, by reconstructing historical decision-making processes, portraying an idealised presidential image, and conveying ideological information, Thirteen Days has contributed to enhancing public understanding of politics, strengthening the political beliefs, and fostering social unity and cohesion to some extent. However, it may also promote information bias by selective storytelling and perpetuating the manipulation of ideology by dominant political interests. In addition, this essay also discusses Thirteen Days’s global cultural impact as a vehicle for exporting American values and reshaping Cold War memory.
creator: Saiqi Meng
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Saiqi Meng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-02-03
publication date: 2026-02-03
volume: 7
number: 1
starting page: 63
doi: 10.22158/sssr.v7n1p63

Critical Discourse Analysis of Chinese Aerospace Reports in China Daily
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description: With the continuous development of China's aerospace industry, China Daily, as an important window for international communication, plays a crucial role in shaping and disseminating China's aerospace image. This study takes the reports on Chinese aerospace in China Daily as the research object, adopting Fairclough's three-dimensional critical discourse analysis model and corpus-assisted research methods. From the perspectives of text, discourse practice and social cultural practice, this paper explores the linguistic characteristics, discourse strategies and image construction logic of the reports. The research finds that China Daily constructs a positive and comprehensive Chinese aerospace image featuring independent innovation, peaceful development, and international cooperation through specific lexical selection, syntactic structure arrangement, and diverse citation methods. This image construction is not only closely related to China's aerospace development achievements and national diplomatic concepts but also influenced by the media's international communication orientation and cultural value transmission needs. The study is expected to provide reference for optimizing the international communication of China's aerospace discourse and enhancing the international influence of China's aerospace image.
creator: Chuyi Zhong
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Chuyi Zhong http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-02-25
publication date: 2026-02-25
volume: 7
number: 1
starting page: 71
doi: 10.22158/sssr.v7n1p71

Socioeconomic Status Inequalities Partially Mediate Racial and Ethnic Differences in Children’s Amygdala Volume
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description: Background: While race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES) impact brain structures such as the amygdala, less is known on whether or not family SES partially explains why amygdala volume is smaller for racial and ethnic minority groups. Purpose: This study tested the mediating effects of family SES on racial and ethnic differences in right and left amygdala volume. Methods: We borrowed the structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging (sMRI) data of the Children Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study, a brain imaging investigation of childhood brain development in the US. The total sample was 8977, 9-10-year-old children. The independent variables were race and ethnicity. The primary outcomes were right and left amygdala volume. Age, sex, household size, and marital status were the covariates. Multiple SES indicators such as family income, subjective family SES, parental employment, parental education, and neighborhood income were the mediators. To analyze the data, we used regression models without and with our mediators. Sobel test was used to test if these mediational paths are statistically significant. Results: Black and Latino children had smaller amygdala sizes than non-Latino White children. The effects of race and ethnicity on amygdala volume were partially mediated by SES indicators, suggesting that one of the many reasons Black and Latino children have smaller volumes of right and left amygdala is their lower SES. Conclusions: For American children, lower family and neighborhood SES indicators partially, but not fully, explain smaller amygdala sizes of Black and Latino children compared to non- Latino White children.
creator: Shervin Assari
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Shervin Assari http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-03-05
publication date: 2026-03-05
volume: 7
number: 1
starting page: 86
doi: 10.22158/sssr.v7n1p86

Applying the Assignment Institution in the Pharmaceutical Market: Legislative Lacunae or Unconstitutionality?
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description: Romanian Civil Code provides by Article 1566 that the assignment of debt is a way of forwarding a claim the transferor holds against a third party. Therefore, when signing by the parties of the debt assignment contract, the claim goes out of the assignor’s property and is validly entrusted to the transferee (assignee). In this paper, we try to show the effects of the contract which are in accordance with Article 1575 NCC respectively between the parties, from the date of signing of the contract and to the assigned debtor from the date of assignment notification or acceptance. In the pharmacy market, this institution is used to ensure that medicine suppliers secure the value of the products they sell, as they conclude debt assignment contracts with their debtors for passing their claims against Health Insurance Houses.
creator: Dragos Cosmin Sarau
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Dragos Cosmin Sarau http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-03-05
publication date: 2026-03-05
volume: 7
number: 1
starting page: 104
doi: 10.22158/sssr.v7n1p104

IoT Applications and Their Impacts in Smart Cities
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description: As the core infrastructure for the construction of smart cities, the deep integration and large-scale application of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology are fundamentally reshaping the operation logic of modern cities and the living paradigm of residents, and systematically improving the comprehensive urban governance capacity and public service supply level. Based on the practical needs of smart city development, this paper systematically sorts out the practical implementation and specific application scenarios of IoT technology in key fields such as traffic management, public security, ecological environment, energy dispatch and municipal services, and deeply analyzes the multi-dimensional improvements in urban operation efficiency, service quality and ecological benefits empowered by the technology. Combined with typical smart city pilot cases at home and abroad, this paper empirically discusses the far-reaching driving effects of IoT on refined urban governance, improvement of residents' quality of life and sustainable development. Meanwhile, it confronts the practical bottlenecks highlighted in the process of technology promotion, including data security, standard system and operation and maintenance complexity, and prospectively judges the development path of future technology integration, institutional improvement and scenario innovation, so as to provide theoretical reference and practical guidance for the high-quality construction of smart cities.
creator: Wanduo Wang
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Wanduo Wang http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-03-19
publication date: 2026-03-19
volume: 7
number: 1
starting page: 110
doi: 10.22158/sssr.v7n1p110