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Management and Labour Studies, Ahead of Print.
Research on students’ inclination towards entrepreneurial activities has garnered worldwide attention from scholars and practitioners. However, there is a lack of studies from the Global South investigating entrepreneurial inclinations and their ...

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["Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, EarlyView. ", nil]

["International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Volume 41, Issue 5, May 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\n\nObjectives\nLoneliness and social isolation are major public health concerns among older adults and are associated with depression, cognitive decline, frailty, and loss of independence. Companion animals (and dogs in particular) might mitigate these adverse outcomes by fostering emotional support, physical activity, and social interactions. The objective of the present study aimed to evaluate the association between dog ownership and loneliness in community‐dwelling older adults.\n\n\nMethods\nC‐KDOG is a multicentre, cross‐sectional study conducted between September 2020 and April 2023 at seven investigating centers in France. The participants were aged 75 or over and were living at home. Loneliness was assessed on the 11‐item De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale. The secondary outcomes included emotional and social loneliness subscores, social isolation (according to the Social Network Index). Associations between dog ownership and loneliness were analyzed using multivariable linear regressions adjusted for sociodemographic, environmental and clinical characteristics.\n\n\nResults\nA total of 160 participants were included, of whom 47 were dog owners (mean age: 82 years; females: 116 (73%); living alone: 79 (49%)). The median overall loneliness scores did not differ significantly when comparing dog owners and non‐owners. In adjusted models, however, dog ownership was independently associated with lower loneliness. This association was mainly driven by a lower emotional loneliness subscore. Living alone, frailty, depressive symptoms, and sleep problems were independently associated with a greater level of loneliness. Dog ownership was primarily motivated by companionship (81%). Adverse events (such as falls or bites) were rare (5%).\n\n\nConclusions\nDog ownership was associated with a lower level of emotional loneliness among community‐dwelling older adults, independently of living alone frailty and depression. Companion dogs might contribute to emotional well‐being in older adults. However, longitudinal studies are needed to confirm causality.\n\n"]

["Family Relations, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\n\nObjective\nThis study describes the paradox of parenthood in the meanings and experiences of mothers and fathers in Chile.\n\n\nBackground\nThe paradox reflects the coexistence of positive and negative aspects that shape parenting as a complex and often ambivalent experience. The study addresses the scarcity of research exploring parental tensions and ambivalences in Latin American contexts, particularly in Chile, where cultural and socioeconomic dynamics remain underexamined in global literature.\n\n\nMethod\nA phenomenological design was employed, with a sample of 18 participants, all established adults with at least one child between 2 and 12 years of age. Participants were recruited using snowball sampling, and data were collected through semistructured interviews. In the data analysis, the reflexive thematic analysis approach was employed.\n\n\nResults\nFive main themes were found: (a) meanings of parenthood: contradictions between ideals and lived experience; (b) losses and identity reconfigurations associated with parenthood; (c) incompatible demands: tensions between childrearing and other socially demanding roles; (d) the social environment as a source of both support and strain; and (e) emotional ambivalence in the experience of parenthood.\n\n\nConclusion\nContradictions emerge as inherent to parenting, underscoring the need to alleviate social and emotional pressures and foster realistic expectations and dialogue among caregivers.\n\n"]

["Family Relations, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\n\nObjectives\nThis study examines stability and change in children's residence arrangements after parental separation in Norway using detailed categories of residence arrangements.\n\n\nBackground\nMost studies use broad classifications of residence arrangements. Finer distinctions may offer better insight into the dynamics of postseparation arrangements.\n\n\nMethod\nThe sample comprises 800 children from 504 separated families recruited from family counselling offices in Norway. Residence arrangements are categorized into two (shared and sole residence), three (symmetric shared, asymmetric shared and sole residence), and four groups (symmetric shared, asymmetric shared, extended sole, and limited sole). Descriptive analyses assess change over two occasions (approximately 1.75 years). Logistic regression models test factors associated with change.\n\n\nResults\nShared residence is more stable than sole residence, but different categorizations lead to different conclusions. Symmetric shared residence (50–50) is most common and stable. Children whose parents have repartnered are less likely to change arrangements.\n\n\nConclusion\nSymmetric shared residence appears to be a stable and prevalent postseparation arrangement, contrasting with earlier studies that emphasized instability.\n\n\nImplications\nThese findings may reflect broader social changes, including increased father involvement, more mothers in the workforce, and more supports for shared parenting. More granular categorizations of residence arrangements enhance our understanding of postseparation parenting time.\n\n"]

["Family Relations, EarlyView. ", "\nAbstract\n\nObjective\nThis study examined whether distinct dimensions of parenting stress uniquely predict screen media parenting strategies beyond child externalizing behaviors.\n\n\nBackground\nAlthough child behavior problems are linked to increased screen media use, less is known about how caregiver stress contributes independently to screen media parenting practices. Understanding this link is critical, particularly during early childhood, when media habits are forming and caregivers guide regulation.\n\n\nMethod\nA national U.S. sample of caregivers (N = 822) of children ages 4 to 8 years completed online surveys assessing child externalizing behaviors (Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire), parenting stress (Parenting Stress Index–Short Form), and screen media parenting strategies. Hierarchical regression models tested the predictive effects of parental distress, parent–child dysfunctional interaction, and difficult child stress on (a) use of screens for behavior regulation and (b) screen rule limit setting, controlling for child behavior.\n\n\nResults\nGreater caregiver‐perceived child difficulty predicted more screen use for behavior regulation, whereas higher parental distress predicted fewer enforced screen time limits. These effects were significant over and above the effect of child externalizing behavior.\n\n\nConclusions\nParenting stress dimensions show distinct, independent associations with screen media parenting strategies beyond child behavior.\n\n\nImplications\nFindings highlight the need to address caregiver distress and perceptions of child difficulty when promoting healthy screen media routines during early childhood.\n\n"]

["Review of International Economics, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nWe draw on recently derived measures of trade costs to test whether two measures of cultural proximity, bilateral trust and scores from the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC), are associated with trade costs. After controlling for distance, common border, geographical barriers, and other cultural proximity variables and using Ordinary Least Squares and Pseudo‐Poisson estimation, we find that higher trust and ESC scores are associated with lower bilateral trade costs. Interestingly, and consistent with the literature on informational barriers, the negative cost association between ESC scores and trade costs is substantially stronger for trade in manufacturing (differentiated) goods and negligible for agricultural (homogeneous) goods, and the magnitude of the effect increases when using Instrumental Variable (IV) estimation. Furthermore, we find that the association between ESC scores and bilateral trade costs remains statistically significant and robust across all our specifications, whereas the association between trust and trade costs is less robust under some specifications. Overall, our results suggest that ESC scores capture a trade‐cost channel rather than operating solely through preferences as suggested in earlier studies.\n"]

["Review of Income and Wealth, Volume 72, Issue 2, May 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nPrior studies assessing welfare across countries have utilized measures that combine country‐level outcomes in income and life expectancy. However, this perspective remains blind to the fact that two countries may have the same life expectancy and/or average income but very different underlying distributions. In this paper, I introduce a new preference‐based measure of social welfare that is sensitive to within‐country disparities in lifespan and income. To illustrate the measure, I compare welfare levels and trends for the EU and US using different sets of preference parameters. The results reveal that welfare levels and trends are highly sensitive to several normative assumptions, particularly the degree of inequality aversion. Moreover, I find a close connection between the degree of inequality aversion and the assumed level of rank‐order correlation between income and lifespan. Overall, the results highlight the need for measures of welfare that are explicit about different value judgments.\n"]

["Review of Income and Wealth, Volume 72, Issue 2, May 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nCommon elementary price indices include Dutot, Carli, and Jevons, while less‐known ones include Carruthers‐Sellwood‐Ward‐Dalén (CSWD) and harmonic indices. Recently, a new elementary index, the Dikhanov index, has been proposed, previously introduced independently by Allyn Young, Bert Balk, and Jens Mehrhoff. This paper presents the axiomatic properties of the Young‐Balk‐Mehrhoff‐Dikhanov (YBMD) index and compares it with population elementary indices under log‐normal price assumptions. Using simulations, biases, and Mean Squared Errors (MSEs) of sample indices are analyzed. Results show that the YBMD index is asymptotically unbiased, with bias and MSE decreasing as price correlations between periods increase. Notably, the study identifies scenarios where the sample YBMD index exhibits lower bias and MSE than the sample CSWD and Jevons indices, highlighting its potential advantages in practical applications.\n"]

["Journal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView. ", "\nAbstract\nThis study provides the first comprehensive analysis of basis risk in mutual funds underlying U.S. variable annuity policies. These popular personal savings and investment products contain long‐term financial guarantees that expose life insurers to extensive systematic market risk. Although hedging these guarantees is critical, hedging performance is impeded by basis risk since the funds themselves cannot be used as hedging instruments. Using historical returns from a large sample of mutual funds and nearly 600 alternative instruments, we show that insurers can substantially reduce their exposure to basis risk—and improve hedging effectiveness—by enhancing their fund mapping process with data analytic methods, by hedging with exchange‐traded funds instead of futures, and by including more index funds in their offerings. Even so, basis risk remains an important factor when assessing the quality of hedging at the fund level.\n"]

["Journal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView. ", "\nAbstract\nHealth insurance mitigates health risks by covering the cost of treatment, but it also reduces the financial risk associated with those costs. In a multivariate preference framework, this study analyzes the effects of changes in wealth, health status, insurance premiums, treatment costs, and the severity of health loss on the demand for treatment and health insurance in the face of health loss. The conditions under which demand for treatment and insurance increases depend on the attitude toward the correlation between wealth and health, namely, correlation loving or correlation aversion, as well as the attitude toward wealth and health risks. These findings have implications for government subsidization policies related to treatment and health insurance and health promotion policies.\n"]

["Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nNurses working in emergency departments in the United States are increasingly managing obstetric emergencies, yet they receive no guidance from hospital administrators about how to adapt this care to the abortion bans that have recently become law in many states. Our interview‐based study explores reports of workplace communication about abortion among emergency nurses, which is constrained by an institutional language ideology prohibiting “political” talk. We trace how nurses respond to this prohibition through semiotic labor which nevertheless reinforces the boundary work that this language ideology maintains. Ultimately, this language ideology produces experiences of profound incommunicability for emergency nurses, isolating them from one another, negatively impacting their ability to care for their patients, and causing moral distress. In a time of rising authoritarianism and fascism, where talk about politics is both increasingly dangerous and vital to protect democracy, this study sheds light on the far‐reaching consequences of silencing political talk.\n\nResumen\nCada vez más, las y los enfermeras que trabajan en los departamentos de urgencias en los Estados Unidos atienden las emergencias obstétricas. Sin embargo, no reciben orientación de la administración hospitalaria sobre cómo adaptar esta atención a las leyes que prohíben el aborto que recientemente han entrado en vigencia en muchos estados. Nuestra investigación basada en entrevistas explora relatos sobre la comunicación acerca del aborto entre enfermeras de urgencias, una comunicación limitada por una ideología lingüística institucional que hablar de temas políticos. Analizamos cómo las enfermeras responden a esta prohibición lingüística mediante un trabajo semiótico que, sin embargo, refuerza la construcción de límites mantenida por la ideología lingüística. En última instancia, esta ideología lingüística genera experiencias de profunda incomunicabilidad para las enfermeras de urgencias, aislándolas entre sí, perjudicando su capacidad para atender a sus pacientes, y causándoles desasosiego moral. En una época de creciente autoritarismo y fascismo, donde hablar de política es a la vez más peligroso y más vital para proteger la democracia, esta investigación esclarece las profundas consecuencias de silenciar la comunicación política.\n"]

Waste Management & Research, Ahead of Print.
The extraction of metallic aluminum from incineration bottom ash (IBA) has twofold implications: to obtain aluminum for the recycling industry and to reduce the content in the treated mineral fraction for its utilization as aggregate in concrete. This ...

Urban Education, Ahead of Print.
In this paper, we argue that the roots of at least some elements of the current anti-civil rights campaign may be found in earlier historical movements, in particular the Lost Cause narrative. We compared two current African American studies curricula ...

Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, Ahead of Print.
This study presents a distributed cooperative secondary control strategy for islanded microgrid (MG), aiming to mitigate excessive communication load and suppress disturbances that degrade system stability during islanded MG operation. To achieve this, an ...

Science, Technology and Society, Ahead of Print.
This article examines the 1990s conflict over the construction of the European Very Large Telescope (VLT) on Cerro Paranal in Chile’s Atacama Desert, through an analysis of media coverage from Chile’s main daily newspaper, as well as other secondary ...

Review of Radical Political Economics, Ahead of Print.

Research on Social Work Practice, Ahead of Print.
PurposeThis special issue examines practice research in social work, focusing on participation, co-creation, and service users’ positions in knowledge production and utilization. Practice research is advanced as a collaborative, context-sensitive approach ...

Progress in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
This paper establishes a framework for political and legal geographies of archives. Moving beyond catch-all definitions of ‘the archive’, it interrogates the specific practices and spaces by which materials become archival, the professional expertise ...

Progress in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
Geographers and related social scientists are using the perspective of the everyday to highlight the forms of violence threatening migrants as well as the creativity and complexity of migrant humanity. This report focuses on three key areas of the ...

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part N: Journal of Nanomaterials, Nanoengineering and Nanosystems, Ahead of Print.
Accurately modeling transport phenomena in melted nanofluids is a pivotal challenge for advancing technologies like high-density electronic cooling due to the strong coupling between phase change, nanoparticle dynamics, and external fields. This study ...

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part L: Journal of Materials: Design and Applications, Ahead of Print.
This study investigates the effect of biodegradation on the mechanical and thermal properties of waste cotton fiber-reinforced polylactic acid (PLA) biocomposites with varying fiber-to-matrix ratios (30/70, 40/60, 50/50, 60/40, and 70/30 cotton/PLA) under ...

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, Ahead of Print.
This study proposes a robust multi-objective optimization framework for multilayer graphene sheet (MLGS)-based nanoscale electromechanical system (NEMS) microphones. A design optimization problem is formulated to find the optimum dimensions of the ...

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, Ahead of Print.
The noise characteristics of wind turbines are disadvantageous to their development. In this study, the aerodynamic performance of a novel variable-pitch vertical-axis wind turbine under fluctuating wind flow was simulated using the RANS model. This study ...

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, Ahead of Print.
This study proposes an optimization design method for parallel flow channels in hydraulic cartridge valve blocks manufactured via additive manufacturing (AM), with the dual objectives of minimizing pressure loss and pipeline length. Based on the ...

Nutrition and Health, Ahead of Print.
BackgroundSmoking and obesity are two major health problems that are strongly associated with chronic diseases. While weight gain after smoking cessation is well recognized, less is known about the specific dietary patterns that may drive it.AimThis study ...

Nutrition and Health, Ahead of Print.
BackgroundWhile food insecurity (FI) assesses household access to sufficient food, increasing attention is being paid to nutrition security (NS), the ability to obtain health-promoting foods.AimThis cross-sectional analysis examined differences in ...

Nutrition and Health, Ahead of Print.
Background:Ashwagandha, a plant belonging to the Solanaceae family, has gained increasing attention in recent years due to its antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and adaptogenic properties, and its potential to improve physical performance and support post-...

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
This article examines how crisis volunteering, that is, volunteering in response to needs arising during crises and ordinary volunteering that addresses needs independent of crises, relates to prosocial attitudes and negative emotions, using a four-wave ...

New Media & Society, Ahead of Print.
Research on echo chambers has produced mixed support for the “echo chamber hypothesis,” partly because this complex phenomenon cannot be reduced to a single testable claim. To move the field forward, it is necessary to examine its internal dynamics. ...

New Media & Society, Ahead of Print.
While substantial research has focused on how political talk can reinforce to or undermine democratic norm, relatively little attention has been paid to the role of incidental political discussion in everyday, nonpolitical contexts. Embedded within ...

Memory Studies, Ahead of Print.
The present moment marks a generational threshold in the collective memory of World War II. First, regarding this period, we are in transition from the realm of “communicative memory” to that of “cultural memory.” Second, the globalization process has an ...

Media, War & Conflict, Ahead of Print.
It is easier to imagine the end of the world rather than the end of capitalism because neoliberalism resolves the crisis of legitimation of late capitalism through the projection of capitalist death drive and the interpellation of the subject as ...

Media, War & Conflict, Ahead of Print.
This study examines the emergence of moral panic surrounding Rohingya refugees in Aceh, Indonesia, between late 2023 and early 2024. Since 2011, Rohingya arrivals had generally been met with humanitarian acceptance and religious solidarity. However, a ...

Journal of Travel Research, Ahead of Print.
Tourists are increasingly relying on artificial intelligence (AI) recommendations for travel decisions, but rigid content severely limits recommendation persuasiveness. This paper examines the matching effect and mechanism between AI role type and ...

Journal of Travel Research, Ahead of Print.

Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (JIAPAC), Volume 25, January-December 2026.
ObjectivesWe assessed whether survey mode influenced reporting of sexual behaviors and psychosocial factors among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Kenya.MethodsIn cross-sectional analysis of baseline data from 493 MSM in Kisumu and Nairobi enrolled in a ...

Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (JIAPAC), Volume 25, January-December 2026.
BackgroundVirologic failure in children is a significant public health concern in sub-Saharan Africa. This study aims to assess the incidence rate of virologic failure and its predictors among children undergoing first-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) in ...

The Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design, Ahead of Print.
This study introduces a finite-element-based modal inversion approach for determining Poisson’s ratio directly from impulse excitation of vibration (IET) measurements. Rather than estimating Poisson’s ratio indirectly through Young’s and shear moduli, or ...

Journal of Research in Music Education, Ahead of Print.
Independent practice is a cornerstone of musical development but one that many music students struggle to carry out effectively. In this study, we examined how digital supports affect the practice of high school string players. Sixty students completed ...

Journal of Psychopharmacology, Ahead of Print.
Background:Previous research suggests that psychedelics may, under certain conditions, decrease authoritarian attitudes, but larger and more rigorously designed studies are needed to confirm these findings.Aims:We aimed to examine the effects of ...

Journal of Psychopharmacology, Ahead of Print.
Introduction:Serotonergic psychedelics are being investigated in the treatment of various disorders and in the improvement of well-being. Evidence suggests that their subjective effects may play a role in long-term behavioral outcomes. The subjective ...

Journal of Oncology Pharmacy Practice, Ahead of Print.
IntroductionPharmacy compounding in oncology requires strict adherence to technical and regulatory constraints to guarantee the quality and safety of preparations for both patients and staff. Good manufacturing practices define this framework by mandating ...

Journal of Marketing Education, Ahead of Print.
Feedback is a cornerstone of academic development, particularly in marketing education, where skill development often requires iteration and applied practice. While instructors spend considerable time providing effective feedback, artificial intelligence (...

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, Ahead of Print.
Equality is a highly valued concept both in democratic societies at large and within the public library context. However, it is also an essentially contested concept that encompasses many—and sometimes conflicting—meanings. Within political philosophy, ...

The Journal of Entrepreneurship, Ahead of Print.
A significant debate persists concerning the origins of knowledge for firm formation, with scholars categorising these origins into three distinct types of entrepreneurships: academic, employee, and user. Opportunity identification theories are commonly ...

Journal of Contemporary History, Ahead of Print.
Maintaining order in occupied territories was considered vital to the wider success of the Japanese wartime effort during the Asia-Pacific War (1937–45). Efforts to establish peace in the Philippines after occupation of the islands in January 1942 were ...

Journal of Composite Materials, Ahead of Print.
This study investigates the enhancement of mechanical, fatigue, creep, and flame-retardant properties of epoxy composites reinforced with pistachio shell–derived lignin and thermally aged, surface-treated Sunn hemp fibers. The composites were fabricated ...

Journal of Composite Materials, Ahead of Print.
The present work reveals the A356 aluminium alloy reinforced with a mix of silicon carbide (SiC) and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), using a combined stir cum squeeze casting route. The hybrid reinforcements were introduced at 5, 10, 15 and 20 wt.%...