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["Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nWater is at the centre of climate change emergency concerns in coastal cities. It constitutes here a fluid entry point to investigating the socio‐ecological politics of toxicities for residents dwelling with and against contaminated waters in Cartagena, Colombia's urban extensions. We propose the concept of ‘fluid toxicities’ to refer to the wateriness of toxic contamination in amphibious urban spaces marked by histories of harm linked to the city's colonial‐racial formations. Drawing on ethnographic work, we argue the unrelenting flows of toxicities dilute historical trajectories of racialised dispossession, overlapping forms of violence and environmental degradation, shaping both embodied endurance, mundane relations of care and collective forms of contestation. We further introduce the concept of ‘violent affective ecologies’ to show how the violence of toxic environments is mediated through sensory, emotional and relational engagements with contaminated waters. Environmental futures are imagined through entanglements of racial ecologies and toxic ecologies.\n\nRESUMEN\nEl agua ocupa un lugar central en las preocupaciones relacionadas con la emergencia climática en las ciudades costeras. Constituye aquí un punto de partida «fluido» para investigar las políticas socioecológicas de las toxicidades que afectan a los residentes que conviven con y luchan contra las aguas contaminadas en las extensiones urbanas de Cartagena, Colombia. Proponemos el concepto de «toxicidades fluidas» para referirnos al carácter acuoso de la contaminación tóxica en espacios urbanos anfibios, marcados por historias de daño vinculadas a las formaciones coloniales y raciales de la ciudad. Basándonos en un trabajo etnográfico, sostenemos que los flujos implacables de toxicidades diluyen las trayectorias históricas de despojo racializado, las formas superpuestas de violencia y la degradación medioambiental, y dan forma a la resistencia encarnada, a las relaciones cotidianas de cuidado y a las formas colectivas de contestación. Introducimos además el concepto de «ecologías afectivas violentas» para mostrar cómo la violencia de los entornos tóxicos se media a través de interacciones sensoriales, emocionales y relacionales con las aguas contaminadas. Los futuros medioambientales se imaginan a través de entrelazamientos entre ecologías raciales y tóxicas.\n"]

{"p"=>"This study examines the effect of a high-tech venture’s industry adherence to the green-tech sector on its ability to secure external equity funding. By considering the acquisition of venture capital (VC) as a two-step process, where the search for VC has the characteristics of a censoring event, we show that, despite an elevated likelihood for a venture with green-tech industry adherence to search for VC, the likelihood that it will proceed to obtain funding is decreased. Backed by a theoretical foundation in principal agent and signalling theories, a two-stage Heckman-probit model is used to disentangle between the probabilities of applying and, respectively, obtaining VC funding. This new methodological approach significantly deepens the understanding of industry influences on venture capital acquisition, thus supplying venture capitalists and entrepreneurs from the green sector with much-needed awareness of the practised selection process and how to optimally manoeuvre through its challenges."}

["Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis study examines the effect of green intellectual capital on firm value, with sustainability performance serving as a mediating mechanism. Drawing on signalling theory, the study explains how sustainability performance functions as a credible signal that translates internally embedded green capabilities into market value in an emerging economy context. Using panel data from 332 firm‐year observations listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) over the 2021–2024 period, the study employs Hayes' PROCESS Model 4 to test mediation effects. Green intellectual capital and sustainability performance are measured through systematic content analysis of sustainability reports, while firm value is proxied by Tobin's Q. The results show that green intellectual capital has a significant positive effect on sustainability performance and indirectly enhances firm value through sustainability performance. The mediation analysis reveals a complementary mediation effect, indicating that green intellectual capital influences firm value both directly and indirectly via improved sustainability performance. The study is limited to the Basic Materials sector in Indonesia and a relatively short observation period. Future research may extend the analysis to other industries, longer time horizons and additional sustainability‐related mechanisms. This study extends signalling theory by empirically demonstrating the mediating role of sustainability performance in the relationship between green intellectual capital and firm value. It provides novel evidence from an emerging market under a mandatory sustainability reporting regime, emphasising green intellectual capital as a key intangible driver of sustainable value creation.\n"]

["Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nAs artificial intelligence increasingly permeates Indian fintech ecosystems, ethical implications of algorithmic decision‐making—fairness, transparency, accountability—demand multi‐stakeholder governance amid rapid digital transformation. This study introduces the Relay of Responsibility framework, a triadic sequential model tracing how Indian users' (n = 385) perceptions of fairness and transparency influence fintech firms' (n = 60) ethical readiness and explainability, shaping policymakers' (n = 30) governance priorities. Employing Triadic Sequential SEM (TS‐SEM) grounded in Fairness Heuristic, Stakeholder, and Institutional Theories, findings confirm significant paths (e.g., fairness → readiness β = 0.431, p < 0.001) positioning firms as ethical intermediaries translating societal expectations into regulatory signals. Theoretically advancing AI ethics beyond dyadics and practically guiding trust‐building in emerging markets, this India‐contextualized research pioneers non‐nested multi‐informant modeling for fintech governance.\n"]

["American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 190, Issue 4, August 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\n\nObjectives\nFor anthropologists and forensic scientists, sex estimation using skeletally dimorphic traits is fundamental in biological profile reconstruction. Archaeogenetic research on past populations allows us to identify genetic sex generating opportunities to validate the accuracy of commonly used skeletal traits. We compare genetic sex estimates, derived from aDNA analysis of dental calculus, with macroscopic skeletal observations to ascertain the accuracy of trait‐based estimates on British skeletons.\n\n\nMaterials and Methods\nDental calculus was sampled from 146 individuals from two British sites (Barton‐upon‐Humber and St James's Gardens [London]), and genetic sex was obtained. A combination of frequently analyzed skull and os coxae traits was assessed to determine overall osteological sex; individual skeletal traits were also evaluated separately. These were then compared to genetic sex. A regression analysis of trait scores was used to identify the best trait combination for sex estimation.\n\n\nResults\nWe found high agreement between overall osteological sex and genetic sex (97.9%); the os coxa estimate demonstrated almost perfect agreement (97.8%). Skull‐based estimates were less accurate (79.0%). Individual Phenice traits demonstrated the greatest accuracy (80.2%–97.5%), whilst multiple skull traits performed poorly (58.9%–68.8%).\n\n\nDiscussion\nOverall, application of osteological sex estimation techniques to British remains was highly accurate, especially using combined traits of the os coxa. However, we identified multiple skeletal features that are not reliable in isolation, but provide new sectioning points and regression equations to improve skull estimate accuracy. We emphasize the need for further work on factors affecting pelvic morphology, and the benefits of dental calculus as aDNA source.\n\n\nRESUMEN\n\nObiettivi\nPer antropologi, archeologi e scienziati forensi, la stima del sesso mediante tratti scheletrici dimorfici costituisce una componente fondamentale della ricostruzione del profilo biologico. La ricerca archeogenetica sulle popolazioni del passato consente inoltre di identificare il sesso genetico, offrendo l‘opportunità di verificare l‘accuratezza dei tratti scheletrici comunemente utilizzati. La nostra ricerca confronta le stime del sesso genetico, derivate dall‘analisi del DNA antico (aDNA) del tartaro dentale, con le osservazioni scheletriche macroscopiche, per accertare l‘applicabilità di questi metodi sugli scheletri britannici.\n\n\nMateriali e metodi\nIl tartaro dentale è stato prelevato da 146 individui provenienti da due siti britannici (Barton‐upon‐Humber e St James‘s Gardens (Londra)), e ne è stato determinato il sesso genetico. Per la determinazione morfologica complessiva del sesso, è stata valutata una combinazione di tratti del cranio e dell’osso coxale, spesso usati in ambito archeologico per questo tipo di analisi; inoltre, sono stati valutati separatamente anche i singoli tratti scheletrici. I risultati ottenuti sono stati poi confrontati con le stime di sesso genetico.\n\n\nRisultati\nAbbiamo riscontrato un’elevata concordanza tra il sesso morfologico complessivo complessivo e il sesso genetico (97,8%); l’uso del solo osso coxale ha dimostrato una concordanza quasi perfetta (97,0%). Le stime basate sul cranio sono risultate meno accurate (78,6%), in linea con studi fatti in precedenza. I singoli tratti fenotipici del pube hanno dimostrato la massima accuratezza (97,5‐80,2%), mentre diversi tratti cranici hanno dato risultati scarsi (59,2‐68,3%).\n\n\nDiscussione\nNel complesso, l’applicazione delle tecniche di stima del sesso morfologico ai resti britannici si è rivelata altamente accurata, in particolare utilizzando una combinazione di caratteristiche dell’osso coxale. Tuttavia, abbiamo individuato una serie di caratteristiche scheletriche che, se considerate isolatamente, non sono affidabili, mettendo in evidenza i rischi legati all’utilizzo di un numero troppo esiguo di caratteristiche. Sottolineiamo inoltre la necessità di ulteriori studi volti a valutare i fattori che influenzano la morfologia pelvica, nonché i vantaggi derivanti dall’utilizzo del tartaro dentale come fonte di aDNA.\n\n"]

{"p"=>{"__content__"=>"Nonadherence to pharmacological treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is common among children and adolescents. Despite well-documented clinical and contextual barriers, to the best of our knowledge no dedicated tool exists to quantify parental challenges in supporting adherence. This study aimed to develop and evaluate the questionnaire. The ME WAPH-P was developed based on existing instruments, clinical experience, expert input, and literature on nonadherence. The initial 30-item questionnaire assessed adherence-related challenges across six subscales. Parents of children aged 4–18 years who had received ADHD medication were recruited via social media and a commercial survey platform. The final sample included 351 parents. Psychometric evaluation included internal consistency, item discrimination, subscale intercorrelations, and exploratory factor analysis (oblique rotation). After removing one item, the 29-item scale demonstrated excellent internal consistency (Cronbach’s α = 0.90). Subscale reliability demonstrated moderate-to-high intercorrelations. Parallel analysis supported a three-factor structure explaining 44.7% of variance, with moderately correlated factors and some cross-loadings. Parents’ primary concerns focused on adverse effects, doubts about effectiveness and safety, summer treatment breaks, and child resistance. Parents of children treated for less than one year reported significantly higher challenge scores, supporting criterion validity. The current preliminary study supports the potential of the ME WAPH-P in capturing a broad, multidimensional construct of parental challenges in ADHD medication adherence. Findings highlighted child resistance as an underexplored barrier. The dimensionality of the questionnaire construct suggests a cumulative “adherence burden”. This novel tool may support clinical identification and monitoring of adherence challenges with implications for targeted clinical intervention.", "i"=>{"__content__"=>"My Experience with ADHD Pharmacotherapy – Parent Report (ME WAPH-P)"}}}

{"p"=>"22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS) markedly increases risk of psychiatric disorders, including anxiety and mood disorders, and is associated with a spectrum of cognitive impairment, from borderline functioning to intellectual disability, with cognitive decline frequently reported. Despite widespread use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) in 22q11DS, evidence regarding their safety, effectiveness, and potential effects on cognitive trajectories remains limited. We conducted a retrospective, observational multicenter study across nine international centers, including cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses. In the cross-sectional sample of 190 SSRI-treated individuals with 22q11DS (6–56 years), retrospective data on SSRI type, indication, perceived effectiveness, and side effects were analyzed descriptively (40–190 cases across variables). In the longitudinal analyses, intellectual quotient (IQ) trajectories were compared between 101 SSRI-treated and 213 SSRI-untreated participants (4–34 years) using mixed-model regression analyses. SSRIs were mainly prescribed for mood and/or anxiety disorders (94%) and were rated as overall effective in 71% of cases with available data, with side effects reported in 25%. SSRI-treated participants exhibited stable or modestly increasing IQ trajectories, whereas SSRI-untreated participants showed decreasing trajectories over time. In exploratory analyses, concomitant psychostimulant treatment was associated with the most favorable IQ trajectories. Treatment duration, but not dosage, was positively associated with IQ change. These findings suggest that the effects of SSRI treatment in individuals with 22q11DS may extend beyond symptom management. Controlled prospective studies are needed to confirm these findings and determine underlying mechanisms."}

{"p"=>{"__content__"=>"Maternal childhood maltreatment (CM) has been linked to adverse outcomes in the next generation, including infant sleep, which is crucial for healthy development. This study examined whether maternal sensitivity buffered these effects in 101 German and 117 U.S. mother–infant dyads. Mothers reported on their CM history. Infant night sleep duration was assessed at 3, 6, 9, 12, 18, and 24 months. Maternal sensitivity was observed at 6 months. In the German cohort, higher maternal CM predicted shorter infant night sleep ( = .009). Maternal sensitivity moderated this association ( = .038), emphasizing its protective role. While the replication of this interaction was inconclusive in the U.S. sample, the pooled effect across cohorts was significant ( = .03). In the U.S. cohort, maternal sensitivity predicted longer infant sleep ( = .029). Findings highlight that maternal sensitivity supports infant sleep and underscores the need to support parenting, especially in mothers with early adversity.", "i"=>[{"__content__"=>"p"}, {"__content__"=>"p"}, {"__content__"=>"p"}, {"__content__"=>"p"}]}}

["Autism Research, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nLanguage trajectories in autism are highly heterogeneous and cannot be captured by unidimensional classifications. Research and clinical practice often rely on verbal/non‐verbal or speaking/non‐speaking labels, but these categories, when used in isolation, obscure distinct linguistic profiles. Spoken language is also frequently used as a proxy for structural language skills, despite evidence that speech may not be generative or productive. A multidimensional perspective is therefore needed to determine whether verbal skills, spoken output, and linguistic generativity reflect dissociable aspects of language in autism, and whether variation across these dimensions can be explained by non‐verbal cognition or autism characteristics. Participants were 167 autistic children aged 2–6 years from the Dutch‐ and French‐speaking regions of Belgium. Verbal skills were assessed using standardized tests. Speaking status was quantified as the proportion of linguistic segments in spontaneous productions recorded at home. Generativity was measured using a similarity index derived from semantic embeddings. Associations with non‐verbal Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and autism characteristics were examined using age‐controlled linear models. Overlap between the three dimensions, Verbal, Speaking, and Generativity, was only partial. Some children with little or no speech showed relatively strong structural language abilities, whereas others produced abundant but non‐generative speech and had limited structural skills. Both non‐verbal IQ and autism characteristics were related to all three dimensions, with IQ explaining a larger proportion of variance. Overall, one‐dimensional labels fail to capture language variability in autism; assessing Verbal, Speaking, and Generativity as complementary dimensions may better identify uneven linguistic profiles in autistic children.\n"]

{"p"=>{"__content__"=>"This meta-analysis aimed to robustly estimate mean differences in oral language skills between children and adolescents with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and the general population, and to examine potential moderators contributing to variability in these group differences. A comprehensive literature search was conducted across Scopus, PsycINFO, Web of Science, PubMed, and ProQuest on March 31, 2025, yielding 2,531 records. Among them, 44 studies met inclusion criteria, comprising 2,479 individuals with NF1 (45.10% female;  = 8.58 years,  = 3.81). Results showed that individuals with NF1 performed significantly lower than controls in overall oral language skills ( = 45,  = 131,  = -0.66, 95% CI [-0.78, -0.54],  = 82.91%), as well as in all subdomains including core language skills ( = -0.79, 95% CI [-0.99, -0.58]), expressive language ( = -0.63, 95% CI [-0.80, -0.47]), receptive language ( = -0.59, 95% CI [-0.79, -0.39]), and phonological awareness ( = -0.68, 95% CI [-0.86, -0.51]). These group differences remained consistent across studies that vary in sample mean age, sex composition, NF1 inheritance mode, ADHD or learning disorder diagnosis, intelligence, working memory, comparison group type, sampling resources, and measures. The findings highlight the need for targeted interventions to improve oral language skills among individuals with NF1 and emphasize the importance of exploring underlying factors using individual-level data and large representative samples.", "i"=>[{"__content__"=>"M"}, {"__content__"=>"SD"}, {"__content__"=>"n"}, {"__content__"=>"k"}, {"__content__"=>"g"}, {"__content__"=>"I"}, {"__content__"=>"g"}, {"__content__"=>"g"}, {"__content__"=>"g"}, {"__content__"=>"g"}], "sub"=>{"__content__"=>"age"}, "sup"=>{"i"=>{"__content__"=>"2"}}}}

American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology, Ahead of Print.

American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Ahead of Print.

American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, Ahead of Print.

American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism, Ahead of Print.

American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology, Ahead of Print.

["Sociology of Health &Illness, Volume 48, Issue 7, September 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nAmid the ongoing opioid crisis, U.S. health systems have extended prescription monitoring interfaces with proprietary reports that provide clinicians with algorithmic risk scores to guide opioid decisions. However, little is known about how such tools shape clinical encounters, professional authority and accountability in everyday care. This article examines the case of NarxCare, a widely adopted risk‐scoring system, through a multi‐sited ethnographic study combining clinician interviews, interface walkthroughs, documentary analysis and clinic observation. We find that NarxCare operates through multiple opacities, presenting scores as authoritative yet unexaminable. It produces an amalgamated risk by collapsing diverse concerns—overdose, liability and societal harm—into a single number. Through its logic of contagion, physicians themselves become risk subjects, their reputations and careers tethered to the scores of patients they treat. These dynamics illustrate how this algorithmic automation recasts prescribers as governable agents of the opioid crisis; however, by unsettling established epistemic cultures of safety, it fails to completely enrol them as actuarial enforcers. In practice, clinicians respond by refusing, anticipating, or domesticating the scores, but cannot evade them fully. NarxCare thus reconfigures rather than resolves opioid risk, a dynamic with significant implications as algorithmic infrastructures expand across healthcare and scoring enters new domains.\n"]

{"p"=>"Forest ecosystems are among the world’s most productive land-based bioeconomies that sustain life by providing both food and non-food resources. However, they face significant threats from forest crimes, particularly illegal logging, leading to deforestation, fragmentation, and biodiversity loss. These impacts further exacerbate climate change and socio-economic challenges. This paper, based on a community survey of 1,111 households adjacent to 14 forest ecosystems, contributes to the study of forest crimes through a Social Network Analysis (SNA) approach. It investigates the key actors involved in illegal forest products markets in Kenya, examining their relationships and the processes driving these crimes. The analysis identifies individuals and small businesses as central actors in the forest crime network. The findings support the “enterprise model” and “social network theory” as effective frameworks for understanding, explaining, and predicting the dynamics of criminal networks and entrepreneurial activities within illegal forest products markets."}

["International Journal of Tourism Research, Volume 28, Issue 4, July/August 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis study examines how tourism affects both negative (traditional) and positive (non‐traditional) peace using a global panel dataset. The analysis employs static and dynamic panel estimators to capture conditional mean effects and applies panel quantile regression to explore heterogeneity across the peace distribution. This approach allows the impact of tourism to differ across countries with low, medium, and high levels of peace rather than assuming homogeneous effects. The results show that tourism significantly promotes negative peace consistently across countries. For positive peace, conditional mean estimates suggest a beneficial effect; however, quantile regression reveals substantial cross‐country variation. Tourism does not significantly enhance positive peace in countries that already exhibit high levels of such peace, whereas its contribution is strong and statistically significant in countries with moderate and low levels of positive peace. These findings highlight the context‐dependent role of tourism in peacebuilding.\n"]

["Health Expectations, Volume 29, Issue 4, August 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\n\nBackground\nAdolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is a three‐dimensional spinal deformity that occurs in adolescents, exerting multidimensional and bidirectional impacts on the physical and mental health and social functioning of both patients and their caregivers. Prevalent misconceptions and stigma, insufficient psychological care in clinical practice, and inadequate social support may further exacerbate their negative psychosocial experiences.\n\n\nObjective\nThis review aimed to integrate and elucidate the core themes and evolving mechanisms of the psychosocial experiences of adolescents with AIS and their caregivers, reveal the interactional dynamics between the two groups throughout the disease trajectory, and provide an evidence‐based foundation for optimising healthcare and social support.\n\n\nMethods\nBased on the qualitative evidence synthesis (QES) framework, the meta‐aggregation method developed by the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) was employed. A systematic search of PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and Web of Science was conducted from database inception to April 2026. Qualitative studies exploring the psychological burden and lived experiences of adolescents with AIS and their caregivers were included.\n\n\nResults\nNineteen qualitative studies from 10 countries, involving 323 participants, were included. At the patient level, three core themes were synthesized: acute shock and multidimensional responses during the initial diagnosis phase; dynamic adaptation and transient positive experiences during the treatment phase; and divergent pathways of posttraumatic growth and residual trauma during the recovery phase. At the caregiver level, three core themes were identified: a structural burden comprising both resource safeguarding and logistical demands; an imbalance in support systems characterized by a deficiency in professional guidance and disruption of family equilibrium; and a progression of emotional exhaustion from self‐blame and intense pressure to depressive symptomatology. Furthermore, a dynamic of conflictual intimacy, encompassing both direct interactive conflict and enmeshment within the family system, emerged between patients and caregivers.\n\n\nConclusion\nThe psychological experiences of adolescents with AIS evolve through distinct temporal phases, while caregivers' psychological burden follows a cascading pathway from structural strain to emotional exhaustion. The two parties are locked in a bidirectional interaction shaped by the structural tension between parental protection and adolescent autonomy. Healthcare professionals should tailor psychological support to the patient's disease stage, ensure transparent information delivery, and provide transitional training for caregivers to mitigate the transmission of stress. At the societal level, it is essential to strengthen early screening and public education, eliminate stigma, and provide accessible support to help AIS families navigate role transitions throughout the disease course.\n\n\nPatient Contribution\nTwo adolescents with AIS and two family caregivers participated as co‐investigators in this review. They contributed to refining the research question, prioritizing outcomes of importance, interpreting the findings, and reviewing the manuscript for clarity and relevance.\n"]

["Health Expectations, Volume 29, Issue 4, August 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\n\nBackground\nPatient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) is vital for good‐quality health research. However, PPIE is more commonly practised in some types of research than others. Statistical methodology research aims to improve the way we design studies and analyse data. It can be particularly challenging to involve members of the public and patients in this type of research because the work can be technical and difficult to explain. Consequently, PPIE work typically requires considerable time and resources. Our previous research suggests that most statistical methodologists do not feel confident in carrying out PPIE for statistical methodology research and would benefit from access to new guidance and training.\n\n\nMethods\nThis qualitative, ethnographic study will combine observations and interviews to generate new insights into what works well, and what the challenges are, when involving the public in statistical methodology research. Data will be analysed using the template approach and presented in composite case studies, generating an interactive guidance document for researchers and PPIE groups to support the practice of impactful PPIE in statistical methodology research.\n\n\nDissemination\nWe will hold a virtual launch event for the co‐produced guidance and case studies. These will be made freely available on a dedicated website and Learning for Involvement, and highlighted via social media. The work will be presented at key conferences and published in open‐access peer‐reviewed journals. Findings will also be shared in educational resources to influence the next generation of researchers.\n\n\nPatient or Public Contribution\nThe study design has been informed by the perspectives of public co‐applicants on the grant. The research team will work alongside a public advisory group (PAG) consisting of six public contributors with extensive PPIE experience. The PAG will be chaired by Begum, a public co‐applicant. We will recruit three more public contributors to take part in online workshops to develop the main output of the study.\n"]

["Geriatrics &Gerontology International, Volume 26, Issue 8, August 2026. ", "\nA 6‐month combined intervention of narrative nursing and cognitive behavioral rehabilitation significantly improved cognitive function, reduced anxiety, and enhanced daily living and quality of life in mild‐to‐moderate Alzheimer's disease patients.\n\nABSTRACT\n\nObjective\nAlzheimer's disease (AD) progressively impairs cognitive function and quality of life (QoL). Patients frequently experience anxiety, which may accelerate cognitive decline. This study aimed to investigate the effects of narrative nursing combined with cognitive behavioral rehabilitation on cognitive function and anxiety in AD patients.\n\n\nMethods\nIn this randomized controlled trial, 172 AD patients were assigned to a control group (conventional care, n = 86) or an observation group (additional 6‐month narrative nursing and cognitive behavioral rehabilitation, n = 86). Outcomes were assessed at baseline and after the 6‐month intervention using validated Chinese versions of the Mini‐Mental State Examination (MMSE), Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), Generalised Anxiety Disorder‐7 (GAD‐7), Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study–Activities of Daily Living (ADCS‐ADL), and Quality of Life in Alzheimer's Disease (QoL‐AD) scales.\n\n\nResults\nBaseline characteristics, including age (mean: 68.5 ± 10.2 years), sex distribution (57.6% men), body mass index (22.95 ± 3.44 kg/m2), disease duration (5.32 ± 0.79 years), and baseline cognitive scores (MMSE: 19.25 ± 2.88; MoCA: 17.00 ± 2.55), did not differ significantly between groups. After 6 months of intervention, the observation group demonstrated greater improvement in cognitive function (MMSE: F = 4.461, p = 0.039; MoCA: F = 5.441, p = 0.040), anxiety (GAD‐7: F = 14.937, p < 0.001), ADL (ADCS‐ADL: F = 11.967, p < 0.001), and QoL (QoL‐AD: F = 7.307, p < 0.001) than the control group. Adherence was high (92%), with no significant group differences. Missed sessions were primarily attributable to acute illness, transportation difficulties, or family commitments. Medication regimens (cholinesterase inhibitors, memantine, and antidepressants) remained stable between groups, with no significant interaction with the intervention.\n\n\nConclusion\nNarrative nursing combined with cognitive behavioral rehabilitation can effectively increase cognitive function, reduce anxiety, and improve the ADL and QoL of patients with AD.\nTrial Registration: ISRCTN10742199\n\n"]

["Australasian Journal on Ageing, Volume 45, Issue 3, September 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\n\nObjective\nDespite more than two decades of implementation, there is limited peer‐reviewed evidence evaluating whether the multipurpose service (MPS) model effectively meets the contemporary health and aged care needs of rural and regional communities. This gap is particularly significant given recent government inquiries highlighting persistent inequities in rural health service access. The objective of this scoping review was to examine whether the key recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety and the New South Wales Parliamentary inquiry into Health outcomes for rural, regional and remote New South Wales support whether the multipurpose service model (MPS) is effective as a model of care for service delivery.\n\n\nMethods\nA scoping review of five databases was undertaken. The first stage included title and abstract review followed by full text reviews. A thematic analysis was undertaken, informed by Braun and Clarke.\n\n\nResults\nNine articles met the criteria for review. Themes that were derived from the data that aligned with the two independent government reports were: MPS model and its infrastructure; funding; staffing and skill mix; and community engagement and needs.\n\n\nConclusions\nOverall, this scoping review established that the MPS model of care is an appropriate model to meet the recommendations of the two government reports. However, there needs to be further investment in staff development to extend scopes of practice when working in rural, regional and remote New South Wales.\n\n"]

["Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, EarlyView. ", "\nDespite lacking a permanent administrative structure, West Malaysia's Klang Valley constitutes the territorial and material basis upon which state spatial strategies have been constructed. However, the Valley's technocratic origins have often received insufficient attention in contemporary scholarship, thus obscuring its emergence as a regional development scheme, fundamentally shaped by Cold War‐era decolonization, anxieties over natural disasters, and postcolonial communal tensions. By viewing the Valley's production through the lens of hydro‐modernization, we apply a theoretical framework combining enclosure and racial governmentality to comparatively analyse two developmental studies: (1) the Klang Valley Plan; and (2) the Klang Valley Regional Planning and Development Study. Our analysis centres on how approaches to regional development were fundamentally transformed in the 1970s in response to Singapore's separation from Malaysia, top‐down imperatives to engineer national unity in the wake of the 1969 racial riots, and severe flooding that inundated Kuala Lumpur and other parts of West Malaysia. In response, ecological considerations were displaced in favour of conceptualizing the Valley as an abstract space, upon which the racialized ideological goals of the New Economic Policy could be spatially operationalized, while an emergent regime of environmental governance simplified the ecological complexity of the underlying Klang River basin in favour of hydrological engineering. We conclude by calling for greater sensitivity to how the Valley's development was rooted in racialized political considerations and changing conceptions of (post)colonial environments. In doing so, we offer a more critical interrogation of race, environment, and nationhood in the Malaysian Anthropocene.\n"]

["Area, Volume 58, Issue 3, September 2026. ", "\nShort Abstract\nThis image is a body map created by fisherwomen from Morodemak Village, Demak, Central Java, Indonesia. It depicts a fully coloured female figure holding a basket of fish, surrounded by illustrations and text representing women's daily activities in coastal areas, the impacts of recurring tidal flooding and sources of community support. Red markings on the fingers, knees, waist, shoulders and head indicate areas of physical pain associated with tidal flooding. Text around the head describes the psychological burdens experienced by the women, while other visual elements, including symbols of the Puspita Bahari fisherwomen'scommunity, represent solidarity, joy and social support.\n\nABSTRACT\nAlthough climate change research has increasingly incorporated lived experiences, situated knowledges and gendered analyses of vulnerability, growing discussions have called for more responsible research practices that are meaningful to communities affected by the climate crisis. In this article, I discuss body mapping as a feminist participatory method for understanding the embodied knowledges and everyday experiences of coastal women and fisherwomen in relation to climate change. Drawing on seven months of fieldwork in three tidal flood‐affected villages in Demak, Central Java, Indonesia, I examine how body mapping enabled participants to articulate, visually and narratively, the gendered impacts of tidal flooding. I argue that body mapping, when grounded in an ethics of care, functions not only as a creative participatory method but also as a feminist and decolonial methodological practice that centres participants' voices, well‐being and authority. I demonstrate the importance of reflecting on researcher positionality, involving participants from the design stage, attending carefully to ethical principles, safety and potential risks, embracing diverse dynamics and ensuring that knowledge is co‐produced in meaningful, collaborative ways. In doing so, I contribute to ongoing discussions on feminist geographical methodologies while advancing emerging debates on creative methodologies, by demonstrating how body mapping with care strengthens feminist and decolonial climate research practice and praxis in coastal Indonesia and elsewhere.\n"]

["Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nWhy does fire suppression remain central to forest governance globally, despite the increasing recognition of fire's ecological and livelihood significance? This study examines the persistence of fire suppression in India, arguing that it continues not for ecological reasons but as a political technology of state territorial control. Drawing on archival research and interviews, we trace how colonial era legal and institutional frameworks criminalising community fire use have been carried across successive policy shifts, from timber extraction to biodiversity conservation to carbon sequestration, centralising authority over forest landscapes and reordering ecologies to serve external interests over local populations. Political forests, however, are not only state projects. Forest‐dwelling communities sustain relational lifeworlds through fire practices that exceed the logics of state and capital. Recognising fire suppression as a political tool demands reckoning with the colonial legal frameworks that sustain it and opens the possibility for more just and ecologically grounded fire futures.\n\nसारांश\nआज दुनिया भर में यह समझ बढ़ रही है कि जंगलों में लगने वाली हर आग विनाशकारी नहीं होती। कई तरह की आग जंगलों की प्राकृतिक प्रक्रियाओं का हिस्सा होती है और उन पर निर्भर समुदायों की आजीविका तथा पारंपरिक जीवन‐पद्धतियों के लिए भी महत्वपूर्ण होती है। फिर भी वन प्रबंधन में आग को हर हाल में बुझाने की नीति इतनी प्रमुख क्यों बनी हुई है? यह अध्ययन भारत के संदर्भ में इस प्रश्न की पड़ताल करता है। हमारा तर्क है कि आग का दमन केवल पर्यावरण की रक्षा के लिए नहीं, बल्कि जंगलों और उन पर निर्भर समुदायों पर राज्य का नियंत्रण बनाए रखने के लिए भी किया जाता है। अभिलेखीय दस्तावेज़ों और साक्षात्कारों के आधार पर यह अध्ययन दिखाता है कि ब्रिटिश शासन के दौरान सामुदायिक अग्नि‐प्रयोग को अपराध घोषित करने वाले कानून और व्यवस्थाएँ आज भी अलग‐अलग नीतियों के माध्यम से जारी हैं। चाहे उद्देश्य जैव विविधता का संरक्षण हो, कार्बन संचयन हो या वन संरक्षण, इन नीतियों ने जंगलों पर राज्य का नियंत्रण बढ़ाया है और स्थानीय समुदायों की ज़रूरतों की बजाय बाहरी हितों को प्राथमिकता दी है। वहीं वनों पर निर्भर समुदाय अपने पारंपरिक ज्ञान और आग के इस्तेमाल के माध्यम से जंगलों के साथ ऐसे रिश्ते बनाए रखते हैं, जो पीढ़ियों से प्रकृति और समाज दोनों को सहारा देते आए हैं। आग के दमन को केवल वन प्रबंधन की नीति नहीं, बल्कि सत्ता और नियंत्रण के एक साधन के रूप में समझना ज़रूरी है। ऐसा करने से उन औपनिवेशिक कानूनों और व्यवस्थाओं पर पुनर्विचार का रास्ता खुलता है, जो आज भी वन शासन को प्रभावित कर रहे हैं, और अधिक न्यायपूर्ण वन प्रबंधन की नई संभावनाएँ सामने आती हैं।.\n"]

["Family Relations, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\n\nObjective\nTo explore bereaved parents' experience of deciding to pursue posthumous sperm retrieval (PHSR) and the meaning they associate with this choice.\n\n\nBackground\nThe death of a child profoundly disrupts the natural order of life, leaving parents with loss of meaning and identity. PHSR offers bereaved parents an unprecedented option to preserve potential genetic continuity, yet little is known about how parents experience this decision.\n\n\nMethod\nIn‐depth interviews were conducted with eight bereaved Israeli parents (six mothers, two fathers, ages 49–61) who chose PHSR following their sons' deaths (sons aged 20–29). Data were analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA).\n\n\nResults\nThree dimensions underlie the decision: (1) an instinctive emotional dimension‐ a drive to maintain agency amid helplessness; (2) a moral dimension‐ commitment to fulfill the son's perceived wish for fatherhood and restore intergenerational justice; and (3) a familial‐structural dimension‐ the need to reorganize family relationships and preserve parental identity through potential grandparenthood.\n\n\nConclusion\nPHSR functions as a bridge between finality and continuity, serving simultaneously as an emotional act of reclaiming agency and a moral act of repair.\n\n\nImplications\nPractitioners should recognize PHSR as a multifaceted response to loss. Findings can inform policy development and psychosocial support for families navigating posthumous reproduction.\n\n"]

["Family Relations, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\n\nObjective\nUsing eight waves of South Korean longitudinal data, this study examined between‐couple and within‐couple associations in marital conflict and whether these associations differed between first‐time and experienced parents.\n\n\nBackground\nAlthough longitudinal studies have examined spousal exchanges of marital conflict across a limited number of timepoints, few have distinguished between‐couple from within‐couple effects or tested whether these dynamics vary by prior parenting experience.\n\n\nMethod\nAnnual longitudinal dyadic data were drawn from 2,072 South Korean heterosexual couples followed after the birth of the target child; baseline mean ages were 31.34 years for mothers and 33.89 years for fathers. Cross‐lagged panel models and random‐intercept cross‐lagged panel models were estimated.\n\n\nResults\nMothers' and fathers' average marital conflict was strongly and positively associated at the between‐couple level. At the within‐couple level, cross‐partner associations were unidirectional at earlier and middle timepoints and became bidirectional at later timepoints. No significant differences emerged between first‐time and experienced parents at either level.\n\n\nConclusion\nFindings underscore the cyclical and interdependent nature of marital conflict from childbirth through early childhood and the value of couple‐focused intervention.\n\n\nImplications\nDyadic interventions after childbirth may help prevent escalating marital conflict across early parenthood.\n\n"]

["Family Relations, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\n\nBackground\nExtensive research highlights the adverse effects of economic adversity on children's self‐regulation development. However, less is known about the impact of material hardship, which directly reflects unmet material needs within families.\n\n\nObjective\nThe current study examines transient fluctuation and persistent exposure to material hardship in relation to children's behavioral self‐regulation trajectories during the transition from early to middle childhood (ages 3 to 9).\n\n\nMethods\nUsing data from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 4391), we applied multilevel linear mixed models to capture the effects of within‐person transient fluctuations and between‐person persistent exposure to material hardship on behavioral self‐regulation trajectories.\n\n\nResults\nResults indicated that transient increases in material hardship were associated with contemporaneous declines in behavioral self‐regulation. Higher average levels of persistent exposure to material hardship were linked to lower initial behavioral self‐regulation at age three but did not predict the rate of change in behavioral self‐regulation over time. Maternal marital status moderated this relationship, with children of married mothers showing a buffering effect against the negative association between persistent material hardship and initial behavioral self‐regulation at age three.\n\n\nImplications\nThese findings emphasize the importance of addressing both acute and chronic material hardship through tailored early prevention and intervention programs to promote behavioral self‐regulation among economically disadvantaged children.\n\n"]

["Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis paper investigates emerging soil carbon markets and seeks to identify the groups of actors and power relations that constitute their structure and function. Voluntary soil carbon markets (VSCMs) are emerging globally as a key mechanism for generating carbon removals as part of climate mitigation efforts. Developments are characterised by both carbon offsetting and supply chain insetting for Scope 3 emissions reductions. Despite their increasing prominence, VSCMs remain poorly understood as socio‐technical and political arrangements. This paper examines how UK VSCMs are being implemented, governed, and contested, and how they are shaped by power relations. Drawing on economic sociology and political ecology, we conceptualise VSCMs as ‘markets‐in‐the‐making’, and extend Callon's notion of markets as in vivo experiments by explicitly incorporating power relations. To investigate different groups' influence on market development, we apply an adapted Net‐Map methodology via 17 semi‐structured interviews and a validation workshop with stakeholders involved in UK VSCMs. Our findings reveal a fragmented and experimental governance landscape and identify key matters of concern, including pricing asymmetries, knowledge gaps, opacity in insetting arrangements and reduced agency for tenant farmers. While regulation is widely viewed as necessary to improve market integrity, current frameworks insufficiently address insetting. We argue that without deliberate efforts to ‘civilise’ VSCMs by embedding transparency, procedural justice, and inclusive governance, these arrangements risk reproducing existing inequities within agri‐food systems. The paper contributes methodologically and theoretically by advancing tools for analysing emerging market governance, and highlighting power relations underlying VSCMs.\n"]

["European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 3, September 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nArtificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly reshaping higher education, requiring university teachers to adapt their pedagogical roles, technological competence, and professional engagement. Drawing on the Job Demands–Resources (JD‐R) model, this study examined how organizational support and AI literacy were associated with university teachers' work engagement in AI‐supported teaching, with professional identity, resilience, and self‐efficacy as mediating personal resources. A questionnaire survey was conducted among 1135 Chinese university teachers with experience in AI‐supported teaching. Data were analysed using structural equation modelling (SEM), mediation analysis, and network analysis. SEM results showed that organizational support and AI literacy were positively associated with professional identity, resilience, and self‐efficacy, which were further positively associated with work engagement. Mediation analysis indicated that professional identity, resilience, and self‐efficacy mediated the relationships between organizational support, AI literacy, and work engagement. Network analysis further revealed that work engagement was the most central node, with self‐efficacy showing the strongest connection with engagement. These findings extend the JD‐R model to AI‐supported higher education and highlight the importance of institutional support, AI literacy development, and psychological resource building in enhancing teachers' engagement.\n"]

["European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 3, September 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nExistential constructions (ECs) play an important role in academic writing by introducing new information, expressing epistemic stance and facilitating information flow. Examining how EFL learners use different EC types can offer valuable insights into their syntactic development and writing proficiency. Previous research, however, has focused mainly on EC acquisition independently, with limited attention to the relationship between constructional usage and sentence‐level syntactic complexity. The present study investigates Chinese EFL learners' use of ECs across three categories: presentational, epistemic/evidential and interrogative forms. A corpus‐based comparative analysis was conducted using four corpora, with ECs extracted via ChatGPT‐assisted annotation and subsequent manual classification. The results show that learners exhibit a restricted EC repertoire. Presentational ECs were significantly overused, whereas contracted forms were categorically absent. Within the epistemic/evidential category, all evidential ECs were completely unattested and most epistemic ECs were significantly underused. Interrogative ECs were pervasively underused, with six forms categorically absent from learner corpora. Regression analysis further indicated that presentational and interrogative EC frequencies are negatively associated with Mean Dependency Distance (MDD), whereas epistemic/evidential EC frequency is positively associated with MDD. These findings underscore the pedagogical implications of promoting constructional diversity, particularly epistemic and evidential forms that are essential to academic discourse.\n"]

["European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 3, September 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis study explores the emotional journeys of three pre‐service teachers during their rural teaching practicum in China, focusing on how emotional labour develops and shapes teacher well‐being. Using reflexive thematic analysis of three narrative cases, the study traces participants' emotional labour trajectories over time. The findings show that all three teachers initially engaged in genuine expression before shifting to surface acting in response to practicum tensions, with two subsequently developing deep acting, whereas one remained reliant on surface acting. These divergent trajectories emerged through guided reflection that fostered critical emotional reflexivity, which was enabled or constrained by structural and contextual conditions. By providing a process‐oriented account of emotional labour trajectories during practicum, the study contributed to a deeper understanding of how pre‐service teacher well‐being evolved and fluctuated over time and offered practical implications for teacher education and rural practicum support.\n"]

["European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 3, September 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThe broad concept of ‘metaverse’ encompasses all future digital items. To maintain their accessibility and longevity, systems in areas of life such as education and learning should be changed to embrace this notion. The metaverse, the applications that use it, and the historical changes that brought the metaverse to its current condition have all been covered in a number of publications. The project aims to look into how metaverse technology affects interactive learning in higher education. In order to do this, the study must evaluate how well students view the metaverse system as a teaching tool and how well it is currently in use. Participants were chosen via purposeful sampling according to how well‐versed they were in the subject. Out of 400 participants, 342 valid responses were given by university students. The theoretical framework, construct validity, and questionnaire reliability were assessed using statistical software such as SPSS, MS Excel, and AMOS. The relationships between the elements of the theoretical structural model were investigated using the AMOS software suite. The validity and reliability of the measurement model were evaluated using SEM. The results show that the performance of fulfillment, self‐efficacy, perceived ease of use, and perceived utility of metaverse technology all have a beneficial impact on higher education e‐learning. The conclusions of this study's findings will be crucial in assisting educators, decision‐makers, and other stakeholders in integrating new technology into existing teaching methods and enhancing student learning.\n"]

["Review of Development Economics, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nEconomic growth is often assumed to be sufficient for reducing poverty; however, persistent gender inequalities in labor markets may limit the extent to which growth translates into inclusive outcomes. This paper investigates the relationship between poverty and economic growth, emphasizing gender inequality as a structural determinant. The analysis covers 10 Eastern European EU member states over 2009–2023, a region with distinct post‐transition dynamics and limited coverage in the poverty–growth literature. Using a system of simultaneous equations estimated with three‐stage least squares (3SLS) and Seemingly Unrelated Regressions (SURs), complemented by dynamic panel estimators, the study addresses endogeneity often ignored in earlier work. With persistent gender disparities, GDP growth is not consistently associated with lower poverty risk. By contrast, poverty reduction is associated with higher economic growth, highlighting the importance of social inclusion for sustainable development. Gender employment and wage gaps are associated with both poverty and growth, while higher female labor force participation lowers poverty risk but does not systematically enhance growth, possibly reflecting labor market inefficiencies. This study contributes to the literature by identifying gender‐based labor market inequalities as key structural mechanisms associated with the poverty–growth relationship and by providing new empirical evidence from Eastern European EU countries.\n"]

["Pacific Economic Review, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nUsing data from national water quality monitoring stations, this paper constructs a city‐border‐year panel dataset of the transboundary river pollution in China. A difference‐in‐difference‐in‐differences (DDD) approach is employed to evaluate the effect of the River Chief System (RCS) on transboundary river pollution control. The results show that the RCS has heterogeneous effects on different pollution indicators, specifically alleviating COD and NpH levels, while deteriorating DO and NH3–N levels. The RCS has been, particularly, effective in improving transboundary river pollution control in large and medium cities. This improvement is mainly driven by reductions in agricultural fertiliser use and the upgrading of industrial structures. Finally, the study provides policy implications for implementing relevant water pollution control measures, such as the RCS, with a focus on effectively managing transboundary river pollution.\n"]

["Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis paper examines how alternative surcharge designs affect market outcomes in the New York City (NYC) Yellow Cab system. We study two distinct policies: a congestion surcharge that raises passenger fares without directly compensating drivers, and a rush‐hour surcharge that provides time‐based incentives to drivers during periods of high demand. Using a regression discontinuity in time framework, we exploit discrete changes in fares to identify the causal effects of these surcharges on trip volume. We find that the congestion surcharge reduces demand for short‐distance trips but does not generate measurable improvements in traffic conditions, suggesting a shift in trip composition rather than effective congestion mitigation. In contrast, the rush‐hour surcharge leads to an immediate increase in trip volume at the policy threshold, consistent with a supply‐side response to driver incentives. Although both policies increase fares, they operate through distinct economic mechanisms and are identified from different sources of variation. Our findings highlight that the effects of fare increases depend critically on policy design‐specifically, whether pricing operates as a tax on passengers or as an incentive for drivers. More broadly, the results underscore the importance of distinguishing between demand‐ and supply‐side channels when evaluating pricing interventions in regulated transportation markets.\n"]

["The Manchester School, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nPlatform participants often join multiple competing platforms, a phenomenon known as multihoming. At the same time, many platforms invest in value‐added services (VAS) to enhance their value and strengthen their competitiveness. We propose a two‐sided (users and creators) platform competition model in which the user side has two segments (one values VAS and the other network effects), and we consider four different partial multihoming scenarios, endogenous platform VAS, and endogenous third‐party provisioned VAS (e.g., a third‐party payment, or delivery system for a marketplace). Our model setup complements the existing platform economics literature on multihoming and yields four main results. First, any increase in the proportion of users who value VAS can impact platform prices in either direction, depending on which side multihomes. Second, VAS asymmetries can strengthen feedback loops and strategic interdependence between the sides, as they act as bait to attract users who, in turn, attract other participants. Third, platforms have less incentive to invest in VAS on the multihoming side, as they prefer to weaken the aforementioned feedback loops. Fourth, third‐party‐provisioned VAS generates a new type of feedback loop that makes demands more elastic; that is a platform business‐model vulnerability that must be managed carefully. Overall, our study captures how network effects, VAS, user‐side heterogeneity, and third‐party services interact to shape platform pricing and investment strategies, as well as competition outcomes.\n"]

["Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nAgriculture in the Middle East faces severe climate risks, including rising temperatures, declining precipitation, and more frequent extremes. This paper examines long‐run adaptation in Iran using farmland rental prices to capture overall productivity impacts. By combining cross‐sectional and panel models, we distinguish short‐run weather effects from long‐run climate responses and quantify adaptation benefits. While hotter and arid regions experience losses of −5.3% to −41.8% without adaptation, long‐run adjustments generate gains of 11.7%–15.2%, depending on climate scenarios. Farmers primarily adapt by shifting irrigation sources toward deep wells and reallocating acreage to heat‐tolerant crops. Beyond estimating the overall value of adaptation, we examine how climate change shapes these major adaptation practices, highlighting sustainability concerns, including groundwater depletion and distributional impacts in resource‐constrained, developing‐country settings. Our findings link long‐run climate responses to both productivity gains and sustainability trade‐offs.\n"]

["Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nInternational sanctions have been increasingly deployed for political and economic reasons. While the consequences of sanctions on political and macro‐economic outcomes are well‐analysed, rigorous evaluations of the causal impacts of sanctions on the agriculture and food (agri‐food) trade remain limited. We obtain the causal estimates of sanctions' impact on agri‐food trade by utilising samples that have been threatened with but not subject to sanctions to construct the counterfactual of the sanctioned sample. Exploiting an event study approach to analyse data from 154 countries over the period 1960–2016, we find that international sanctions mostly resulted in modest and short‐lived declines in the total agri‐food trade of sanctioned countries as opposed to the counterpart of countries under sanction threats. Trade volumes declined substantially for beef, pork, roots, dairy and fruit products. The decline in the exports of agri‐food commodities resulting from international sanctions was more significant relative to the drop in imports. The study also reveals that the impact of sanctions on agri‐food trade depends partially on the type of the sanction and on the sanction imposer. While the differences in the impact of sanctions across agri‐food commodities largely reflect the fact that the commodities where there are stronger impacts are those produced more in countries subject to sanctions, future studies incorporating analytical tools from industrial organisation may provide more nuanced insights on why and how the trade of differential agri‐food commodities was impacted by sanctions so differently.\n"]

["Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nEnvironmental provisions have become important to Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) and are key in promoting high‐quality trade. Using matched data from China Industrial Enterprise Database and China Customs Database, this study explores the non‐linear impact of the depth of RTA environmental provisions on agri‐food export quality upgrading and its mechanisms. Results show a significant ‘U‐shaped’ effect; beyond a 0.48 depth threshold, environmental provisions exert a sustained positive impact on agri‐food export quality upgrading. Heterogeneity analysis reveals divergent effects across national, firm, product quality and specific provision dimensions, with the ‘Balance between environment and trade/investment’ clause being the dominant influencing factor. We further reveal that cost constraints and innovation compensation effects are the key drivers behind the nonlinear impact. Therefore, this study benchmarks against high‐standard international trade rules and proposes policy recommendations for achieving high‐quality agricultural development.\n"]

["Studies in Family Planning, EarlyView. ", "\nAbstract\nConventional metrics of contraceptive need focus on contraceptive use among those not seeking pregnancy, ignoring individuals’ contraceptive preferences beyond pregnancy prevention. We examine contraceptive alignment, a novel metric describing agreement between actual and preferred method use/nonuse, among a 2022 nationally representative U.S. sample of 15–44‐year‐olds assigned female sex at birth (unweighted n = 3,044). Most respondents (62.2 percent) were classified as having contraceptive alignment (using a method they preferred or not using a method when they preferred not to), while 37.8 percent did not have contraceptive alignment. Contraceptive alignment was higher among contraceptive nonusers who were older and in a serious relationship, as well as both contraceptive users and nonusers who were classified as having higher contraceptive self‐efficacy. Contraceptive alignment was lower among contraceptive users who selected their current method due to being unable to obtain the method they originally wanted and those who were using more than one method of contraception. Our findings suggest that conventional measures of contraceptive need may mask important discordance in individuals’ contraceptive preferences and actual use that can contribute to misdirected efforts to expand contraceptive access and undermine reproductive autonomy. Contraceptive alignment may more accurately portray individuals’ contraceptive needs.\n"]

["International Migration, Volume 64, Issue 5, September 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nWhile the impact of COVID‐19 on youth development has been widely studied, less is known about its effects on transnationally mobile young adults. This longitudinal study of Australian outbound and inbound mobility examines how the pandemic disrupted this population's experiences abroad as they navigated transitions to adulthood. It draws on two waves of survey data collected using a convenience sample between July 2020 and September 2022. Our findings reveal that COVID‐19 presented significant challenges to young adults living away from home, with disruptions to their future plans, social connections, and well‐being. However, these impacts were not uniform. The pandemic magnified existing inequalities, with those on short‐term visas, women, and those already facing financial precarity experiencing greater negative effects. Moreover, individuals who experienced higher negative effects also reported increased struggles in achieving personal milestones associated with transitions to adulthood. This study highlights how crises (like the pandemic) amplify the vulnerability of transnationally mobile youth, a population often assumed to be—or actively striving to be—independent and self‐sufficient. It underscores the need for targeted support and interventions that address their specific challenges, including more equitable and inclusive migration and education policies that recognise the differentiated and overlapping vulnerabilities faced by this population.\n"]

["Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nDespite increasing pressures for environmental sustainability, organizations in emerging economies face challenges in fostering a green organizational culture (GOC) and transforming it into sustainable outcomes. Drawing on Institutional Theory and the Conservation of Resources Theory, this study examines key drivers of GOC, including green human resource management, green transformational leadership, and employees' environmental concerns, and how GOC subsequently influences employee green behavior (EGB) and organizational environmental performance. Survey data from 384 employees in Egypt's industrial sector were analyzed using PLS‐SEM. Results indicate that the identified drivers significantly strengthen GOC, which in turn enhances EGB and environmental performance. Demographic factors—age, education, and tenure—moderate these relationships. By empirically validating this framework, the study provides actionable insights for managers to embed sustainability into daily operations and align corporate social responsibility with measurable environmental outcomes in emerging economy contexts.\n"]

["Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis paper explores how innovation is organised as a new commons within place‐based experimental settings characterised by institutional plurality. Drawing on scholarship on commons, commoning, and transformative innovation, we approach innovation as a collectively produced resource whose organisation becomes complex in contexts where market, state, and civil‐society logics coexist. Empirically, we examine a nascent innovation district in which organisational arrangements remain unsettled, and actors articulate competing claims about participation, authority, and collective benefit. Using Q methodology, we identify four coexisting configurations—collaborative commoning, controlled coordination, networked autonomy, and public custodianship—through which stakeholders make sense of organising innovation as a shared resource. These configurations highlight how innovation as a new commons is constituted through tensions between inclusion and efficiency, formalisation and openness, and directionality and autonomy. We suggest that innovation is organised as a new commons through competing organising configurations that prefigure potential organisational choices, rather than through institutional design alone.\n"]

["Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nAs firms increasingly disclose low‐carbon transition strategies, research on this specific component of nonfinancial disclosure remains limited. This study examines the effect of low‐carbon transition strategy disclosure on analyst following. Using a sample of Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2008 to 2024, we find a positive association between low‐carbon transition strategy disclosure and analyst following. This association is economically meaningful and remains robust after addressing endogeneity concerns and conducting multiple robustness tests. Mechanism evidence supports the analyst supply and demand perspective: Low‐carbon transition strategy disclosure is associated with greater investor–relations interaction, indicating stronger market demand for analysts' interpretation services, and with a richer information environment, suggesting lower costs for analysts to collect, process, and verify firm information. However, managerial myopia weakens this effect, indicating that analysts respond less strongly when managers have a stronger short‐term orientation. Overall, this study explains why low‐carbon transition strategy disclosure attracts analyst following from the analyst supply and demand perspective. In addition, it shows how managerial myopia weakens the capital‐market attention benefits of low‐carbon transition strategy disclosure, providing new evidence on how financial markets respond to sustainability challenges under short‐term logic. Finally, this study advances accounting research at the intersection of business strategy, environmental disclosure, and capital‐market information intermediaries.\n"]

["Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis study examines when sustainability commitments become formal executive accountability arrangements through the adoption of sustainability compensation incentives (SCI) in the global tourism and hospitality (T&H) industry. The theoretical problem is not simply whether firms adopt another ESG practice, but why sustainability salience is sometimes formalised in executive pay and sometimes remains decoupled from remuneration. Drawing on institutional theory and managerial hegemony theory, the study develops a pressure–resistance account in which legitimacy demands favour formalisation, whereas managerial discretion and organisational constraints can impede it. Using 1406 firm‐year observations for 282 listed firms across 49 countries during 2018–2023, the analysis estimates two‐way fixed‐effects linear probability models. Contemporaneous ESG, environmental and social scores are positively associated with SCI adoption, but lagged ESG is not statistically significant in the preferred fixed‐effects specification. Compensation‐specific shareholder voting shows the largest association, although its institutional proximity to SCI requires cautious interpretation. Board independence is weakly positive, audit committee independence is insignificant, and leverage and firm size are negative. The evidence therefore identifies correlates of formalisation rather than causal effects or implementation quality.\n"]

["Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis research aims to highlight the empirical, theoretical, and corporate governance arguments employed in the academic literature that examines ownership structure as a determinant of carbon performance—a key element in contemporary climate governance frameworks. Drawing on a systematic literature review of 23 articles selected from 61 initially identified records that met the quality criteria based on bias assessment according to the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology, this study examines peer‐reviewed research published in high‐quality journals between 2016 and 2025 across Scopus, Web of Science, Business Source Complete/EBSCO, ScienceDirect, and Emerald/ProQuest, following PSALSAR and PRISMA protocols, structured in meta‐analysis and meta‐synthesis. The analysis revealed 294 relationships involving 53 distinct shareholding attributes. This study helps researchers, investors, boards of directors, policymakers, and regulators to understand the role played by different corporate stakeholders regarding the relevance of ownership concentration as key actors in shaping climate governance strategies, including entrenchment and alignment effects across diverse contexts. Among other implications, we underscore how ownership structure should be seen as a core element in the pursuit of carbon performance—analyzed from multiple perspectives—and we offer guidelines for the design and implementation of policies and regulations aimed at minimizing potential conflicts. This has clear repercussions for isomorphism, legitimacy, climate governance, and Nationally Determined Contributions.\n"]

["Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThe implementation by organizations of environmental practices related to circular economy can play a key role in helping solve important environmental problems such as climate change, pollution, and overconsumption of natural resources. A relevant theoretical and practical research topic is to study the role of internal determinants that can facilitate the implementation of circular economy. Circular economy has been mainly examined in manufacturing organizations, with few studies in the service industries. This paper examines two important internal drivers of circular economy (quality management and digitalization) in the hotel industry, using a questionnaire completed by 268 Spanish hotels and PLS‐SEM as the analytical method. Results show that quality management and digitalization positively influence circular economy, and that digitalization plays a mediating role between quality management and circular economy.\n"]

["Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nEU‐based SMEs and startups developing AI systems face dual challenges at the intersection of sustainability and technology regulation. A regulatory gap exists because environmental law does not govern AI as an environmental actor, while the EU AI Act addresses sustainability largely through voluntary provisions, leaving firms to navigate fragmented expectations without coherent guidance. An ethical gap emerges because deontological and consequentialist reasoning structures both regulatory regimes, shapes organizational compliance, and is embedded in AI system design, yet proves insufficient at all three levels for addressing complex sustainability trade‐offs and unprecedented environmental challenges. We develop a virtue‐in‐the‐loop (VITL) framework that operationalizes environmental virtue ethics across the AI development lifecycle by mapping 10 environmental virtues to six development stages. This equips SMEs with a lifecycle‐based deliberation tool that guides sustainability decision‐making when compliance and codification are insufficient, addressing a critical gap in practical environmental strategy frameworks for resource‐constrained technology firms.\n"]

["Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis study investigates the moderating role of Hofstede's cultural dimensions on the relationship between board gender diversity and corporate environmental performance, including its components (resource use, emissions management, environmental innovations), across publicly listed companies headquartered in 32 developed economies. Through a multilevel random‐effects within–between regression analysis of an unbalanced longitudinal dataset comprising 36,402 firm‐year observations from 2016 to 2024, we decompose board gender diversity into its dynamic and structural components and offer a novel perspective on the association. The results reveal a positive association between board gender diversity and environmental performance that is shaped by cultural context. It is negatively moderated by individualism and uncertainty avoidance and positively moderated by power distance and motivation towards achievement and success. These moderations operate entirely through the dynamic component of board gender diversity rather than through its structural component. Our findings highlight the complex, context‐dependent interplay between national culture and board gender composition in the shaping of environmental outcomes.\n"]