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["Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nMunicipalities are increasingly positioned as key actors in enabling local climate action, yet their ability to mobilise societal actors remains insufficiently understood. This study examines how municipal officials in six Finnish municipalities from different local contexts understand and operationalise collective capacity for climate action, with particular attention to how they orchestrate collaboration within the administration, with residents and other local actors and beyond municipal boundaries. Building on capacity building and transition governance literatures, we developed an analytical framework distinguishing three domains of collective capacity: identification (knowledge formation and problem framing), visioning (strategic orientation and mobilisation), and implementation (action and policy steering). Drawing on semi‐structured group interviews and document analysis, we analyse how climate action is orchestrated by municipalities, showing marked variation in emphases across municipalities. Cities emphasise identification through institutional networks and sustainability projects; rural municipalities and small towns emphasise implementation practises through interaction between public officials and residents. Promising practises across domains seldom cohere into systemic orchestration aligning institutional and community‐based dynamics. We argue that progressing towards systemic orchestration requires municipalities to shift from fragmented or project‐based interventions to reflexive coordination across domains. Systematising local knowledge integration, supporting multi‐actor experimentation, and extending temporal continuity in engaging with local actors can help municipalities convert collective capacity into durable climate transitions.\n"]

["Scottish Journal of Political Economy, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis paper examines the distributional effects of minimum wage changes in the U.S., focusing on gender differences. Using CPS Merged Outgoing Rotation Group data (1990–2019) and a non‐parametric difference‐in‐differences approach, we find significant income shifts following minimum wage increases. Women, especially those aged 35–44, benefit more than men, with notable gains among Hispanic women, married individuals, and union members. We disaggregate these effects by age, race, education, sector, marital status, immigration, and union status. Although gains are concentrated at the lower end of the income distribution, we also observe broader upward shifts across income levels.\n"]

{"p"=>"The purpose of this study is to empirically examine government intervention in the venture capital ecosystem, focusing on the case of South Korea. Drawing on prior literature, government policy intervention in venture capital markets is conceptually classified into direct intervention, indirect intervention, and temporal intervention. Direct intervention refers to cases in which the government acts as an active investor and directly participates in investment decision-making, whereas indirect intervention involves the government supplying capital through privately managed venture capital funds while delegating investment selection and management to private actors. Temporal intervention denotes the strategic adjustment of these policy instruments over different stages of market development. Using annual data from the Korea Venture Capital Association and the Korea Fund of Funds covering the period from 2004 to 2022, this study applies time-series econometric analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of indirect government intervention. The empirical results indicate that the current Korean policy regime is best characterized as an indirect intervention model, in which public funds are invested as limited partners in privately managed venture capital funds. The findings show that early-stage venture investment increases with a higher proportion of early-stage–oriented funds and greater use of preferred stock instruments, while an expansion in total venture fund formation is associated with a decline in early-stage investment. Based on these results, the study proposes six policy recommendations aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of indirect government intervention in promoting early-stage venture investment."}

{"p"=>"In advanced economies, the growth of telework has changed the nature of labor. However, access to remote work is still not equally distributed. This study examines access to telework opportunities in the United States (U.S.) from October 2022 to February 2025, focusing on demographic factors such as age, gender, and educational attainment. Using a longitudinal, intersectional approach, the analysis identifies patterns in telework adoption based on monthly data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The findings reveal that individuals aged 25 to 54 and those with higher education consistently exhibited the highest telework rates. Women also demonstrated higher participation rates than men throughout the period. Conversely, younger workers (16–24), older adults (55+), and those with lower levels of education remained significantly underrepresented. This study contributes to management and entrepreneurship research by providing insights into workforce segmentation in teleworking environments in the post-pandemic era. The findings are relevant for managers, human resources specialists, and policymakers aiming to promote inclusive remote work practices. Interventions such as digital skills training and sector-specific hybrid models may help close access gaps, enhancing employee engagement and fostering broader participation in the digital economy. However, the findings should be interpreted in light of certain research limitations, particularly the lack of granularity in the dataset with respect to ethnicity, family status, geographic region, and social class. Despite these limitations, the study provides valuable empirical insights and opens avenues for future research on telework inequality."}

{"p"=>{"__content__"=>"Family businesses have long faced financing difficulties due to ownership discrimination, and they have a natural disadvantage in obtaining bank credit financing.This paper selects 3162 family businesses in China from 2008 to 2022, establishes a high-dimensional fixed effects model of multi period DID, and explores the impact of carbon emission trading pilot policies on the availability of family business loans from the perspective of family inheritance through a four-dimensional theoretical framework. Research has found that the pilot policy of carbon emission trading has significantly increased the availability of loans for family businesses. Specifically, In the participatory management stage and joint management stage, carbon emission trading mechanism may further enhance the loan availability for family businesses.In the reception management stage, carbon emission trading mechanism may not affect the loan availability for family businesses.Mechanism analysis found that the carbon emission trading mechanism reduces the connection between enterprises and governments, enhances reputation value, lowers the proportion of family directors, and improves ESG scores, enabling family businesses to obtain more credit financing.Further analysis shows that when family businesses are in cleaning industries and high competitive industries,located in areas with high CO emission quotas areas and high CO regulation areas, the positive relationship between carbon emission trading pilot policies and the availability of family business loans is more significant, ultimately reducing the cash holding level of family businesses. Therefore, this paper proposes suggestions from four dimensions to achieve the long-lasting and sustainable development of family businesses.", "sub"=>[{"__content__"=>"2"}, {"__content__"=>"2"}], "sup"=>{"__content__"=>"’"}}}

World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, Ahead of Print.
BackgroundManagement of patients with univentricular physiology requires multiple palliative surgeries. In India, these patients often remain partially palliated with the bidirectional Glenn (BDG) procedure due to delayed presentation and limited ...

Science, Technology, & Human Values, Ahead of Print.
“Developmental New Space” might, at first glance, seem to be an oxymoron since New Space is often conceptualized as being free from centralized government support or state programming. However, a historical and discursive analysis of contemporary South ...

Psychology and Developing Societies, Ahead of Print.
Patañjali’s Ashtanga Yoga encompasses more than physical postures (āsana), incorporating a robust psychological framework designed to enhance mental well-being. However, current research on yoga interventions predominantly focuses on āsana (physical ...

Global Business Review, Ahead of Print.
This article examined the impact of exchange rate volatility (ERV) and trade policy uncertainty (TPU) on bilateral trade flows between Thailand and its major trading partners using a structural gravity trade model. Panel data from 2000 to 2023 were used ...

{"p"=>{"__content__"=>"Hypertension is a major global health concern and a leading risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, including stroke, myocardial infarction, and heart failure. A hallmark of hypertension is elevated total peripheral vascular resistance, often driven by sustained and abnormal vasoconstriction. Calcium ions (Ca²⁺) play a central role in vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) contraction, and their intracellular concentration is tightly regulated by multiple signaling pathways. Among these, the inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor (IPR) and the transient receptor potential canonical type 3 (TRPC3) channel are critical mediators of Ca²⁺ signaling. IPR activation triggers Ca²⁺ release from the endoplasmic reticulum, while TRPC3 channels facilitate Ca²⁺ and Na⁺ influx across the plasma membrane. Several studies have shown that both IPRs and TRPC3 channels are upregulated in hypertensive animal models. Human studies have also demonstrated elevated TRPC3 expression in the context of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). This review provides a comprehensive overview of the structural domains and membrane microdomains that facilitate IPR–TRPC3 coupling and Ca²⁺ influx. IP₃ and endothelin-1 stimulate TRPC3 channels and promote their molecular coupling to IPRs, leading to activation of nonselective cation currents in artery myocytes. Increased expression and/or activity of IPRs and TRPC3 channels amplifies this signaling, contributing to the increased vascular tone characteristic of the hypertensive state. Understanding the molecular interplay between IPRs and TRPC3 channels offers new insight into the dysregulated Ca²⁺ signaling underlying hypertension. Targeting this coupling mechanism may represent a novel therapeutic strategy to restore vascular homeostasis and reduce blood pressure in affected individuals.", "sub"=>[{"__content__"=>"3"}, {"__content__"=>"3"}, {"__content__"=>"3"}, {"__content__"=>"3"}, {"__content__"=>"3"}, {"__content__"=>"3"}, {"__content__"=>"3"}]}}

{"p"=>"Using a capabilities approach to examine access to protection and wage recovery avenues for (potential) victims of human trafficking for labour exploitation in Belgium and the Netherlands, this article assesses whether they constitute ‘genuine’ opportunities (Wolff and de-Shalit 2007) for exploited workers. Drawing on fieldwork, research reports, and scholarship, it finds that victims of exploitation—primarily migrant workers—face significant risks when seeking protection and wage recovery. The article highlights good practices and proposes measures to enhance effective access while mitigating risks. Given the global relevance of these challenges, the findings offer insights applicable beyond the two case studies."}

["International Journal of Tourism Research, Volume 28, Issue 3, May/June 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis study examines how differences in users' digital utilization ability influence system acceptance and use intention in smart tourism. A structural model integrating the information system success model (ISSM) and the technology acceptance model (TAM) is proposed to analyze user acceptance of tourism information systems. The results reveal significant structural differences depending on users' digital capabilities. Specifically, users with low digital utilization ability perceive systems as useful only when they are easy to use, whereas users with high ability do not rely on ease of use to the same extent. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.\n"]

["International Journal of Tourism Research, Volume 28, Issue 3, May/June 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nBased on the panel data of 46 tourism cities in China from 2009 to 2023, the entropy value method is used to measure the level of tourism city resilience (TCR), and the coefficient of variation method is applied to analyze its temporal and spatial differentiation characteristics, and Geodetectors are used for the analysis of the factors affecting the TCR. The study shows that: First, TCR is gradually improving, but there are significant regional differences, with the overall trend being “eastern > central > western.” Second, the spatial and temporal differences in TCR show “eastern > central > western,” and the majority of cities are medium‐low levels of TCR. Third, there are differences in the dominant factors affecting the spatial differentiation of TCR in different periods, and the spatial differentiation of TCR is not driven by a single influencing factor, but is the result of the interaction of multiple factors.\n"]

["The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView. ", "\n\n\n\nPolicy Points\n\nResearchers investigate how recent elections in the United States have influenced mental health, especially among political‐ and policy‐based election losers.\nThe previous two presidential elections worsened the self‐reported mental health of Americans on average.\nLikely partisan election losers and those who had the most to lose in terms of health policy were even more likely to have their mental health affected by the results of elections.\nAs American politics has become increasingly polarized and the perceived stakes of elections have loomed larger in recent years, elections have become a source of worsening mental health for Americans.\n\n\nContext\nPolitics is increasingly important to many Americans. Yet little is known about how the increasing centrality of politics affects Americans’ mental health. This work aimed to evaluate how recent polarized elections have influenced Americans’ mental health.\n\n\nMethods\nTo investigate this question, we compared online search interest in politically related mental health issues and self‐reported mental health data. Analyses explored changes before and after election days in 2020 and 2024. The two outcome variables were aggregate Google search interest in politics‐related mental health issues and individual responses to the following item from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS): ʻʻNow thinking about your mental health, which includes stress, depression, and problems with emotions, for how many days during the past 30 days was your mental health not good? With BRFSS, we compared differential changes for likely Democrats and Republicans using multiple proxy measures and for those with health policy interest in the election.\n\n\nFindings\nThe 2020 and 2024 presidential elections substantially increased interest in politics‐related mental health issues online. The 2020 election led to just under 0.2 additional days of poor mental health (P < .05), and the 2024 election led to just under 0.5 additional days of poorer mental health (P < .05). Likely losing partisans and those who stood to lose out from Trump's reelection in terms of health policy were found to drive most of this relationship, with just under 1 full additional day of poorer mental health for each group.\n\n\nConclusions\nThe stakes of elections in this polarized era of American politics are worsening the mental health of Americans. Additional resources may be necessary to allow therapists and clinicians to navigate additional care‐seeking surrounding and following elections.\n\n"]

["The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\n\nBackground\nCanada is committed to supporting internationally educated nurse (IEN) integration into the healthcare system, as a strategy to address post‐pandemic nursing shortages. The province of Nova Scotia has emerged as a Canadian exemplar with the development of NICHE (Nova Scotia's International Community of Healthcare Workers Engagement) programme, which anchors intersectoral collaboration between the government, the nursing regulator and healthcare systems in service of streamlining IEN integration.\n\n\nMethods\nWe conducted a province‐wide realist evaluation of the integration of IENs into the Nova Scotia healthcare system and community. We collected data from interviews with 24 participants, comprised of IENs and stakeholders at meso‐ and micro‐healthcare system levels. We used a theory‐driven approach to data analysis which utilised elements of content analysis, reflective dialogue and the construction of CMOCs (context‐mechanism‐outcome configurations).\n\n\nResults\nWe constructed three main CMOCs which highlight facilitators for IEN integration related to (1) the development of adaptive programme pathways for IENs, (2) the critical role of IEN allies and advocates within healthcare systems, and (3) the shift in focus from recruitment to retention.\n\n\nConclusions\nThe study findings describe the contextual factors and key mechanisms that promote ‘successful’ IEN integration which may be useful for leaders and policymakers integrating IENs into their local health human workforce. The findings raise important questions about supporting IEN retention, consistent with the vision for a healthy and sustainable nursing workforce. The findings from this study underscore the need for further evaluation research in on the topic of IENs.\n\n"]

["Transactions in GIS, Volume 30, Issue 3, May 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nAccurate prediction of origin–destination (OD) travel flow is essential for location‐based services such as traffic management, ride‐hailing dispatch, and emergency response. However, forecasting OD travel flow presents greater challenges than estimating inflows or outflows of individual regions, as it requires modeling complex spatiotemporal dependencies between both origin and destination regions simultaneously. Furthermore, external factors such as weather conditions and calendar dates exert heterogeneous influences on OD travel flow, yet these are rarely adequately incorporated in existing approaches. To address these issues, this paper proposes a SpatioTemporal Relational Graph Learning (STRGL) model for OD travel flow prediction. Our framework first constructs four relational graphs to model multiple relationships among travel flows, including spatial distribution, origin and destination semantics, and temporal fluctuation patterns. A spatiotemporal relational graph convolutional network is then employed to jointly model spatial and temporal dependencies across these relational graphs. Additionally, an attention‐based environmental feature‐learning module is designed to quantify the heterogeneous effects of external factors. The learned representations are finally decoded by a multilayer perceptron to predict future OD travel flows. Extensive experiments on two real‐world travel datasets show that STRGL consistently outperforms multiple state‐of‐the‐art baseline methods across most evaluation metrics. Ablation studies further validate the contribution of each component in the proposed STRGL framework.\n"]

["Transactions in GIS, Volume 30, Issue 3, May 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nAmong various carbon dioxide (CO2) monitoring approaches, satellite observation and ground‐based observations are two widely adopted and reliable methods. However, the former is constrained by relatively low accuracy, whereas the latter suffers from limited spatial coverage. Therefore, this study develops a hybrid spatiotemporal modeling method integrating two Transformer networks on the basis of heterogeneous graphs to enhance the Copernicus atmosphere monitoring service global greenhouse gas reanalysis version 4 (CAMS‐EGG4) dataset by fusing orbiting carbon observatory‐2 (OCO‐2) satellite observations. Dynamic heterogeneous spatiotemporal graphs are constructed by integrating spatial proximity with corresponding temporal nodes, enabling an explicit representation of the intrinsic spatiotemporal dependencies in atmospheric CO2 observations. This approach maintains the advantage of broad spatial coverage while achieving accuracy comparable to ground‐based observations. The proposed model demonstrates high predictive performance, with a coefficient of determination (R2) of 0.97, a root mean square error (RMSE) of 0.99, and a mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.79. We further benchmarked the proposed model against four machine learning approaches, including random forest (RF), extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), convolutional neural network (CNN), and graph convolutional network (GCN). Experimental results show that the Dual‐Transformer model consistently outperforms the four approaches in terms of R2, RMSE, and MAE. In addition, validation against ground‐based measurements from the total carbon column observing network (TCCON) confirms that the predicted XCO2 data exhibit substantial improvements over the original dataset. This methodological advance offers a scalable foundation for constructing refined CO2 reanalysis products, with broad applicability in atmospheric science, earth system modeling, and evidence‐based climate policy development.\n"]

["Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nPhilanthropy has an uneasy relationship with democracy. It distributes decision‐making power plutocratically, in proportion to wealth. It allows unelected, unaccountable, and often untrustworthy individuals to shape social outcomes. And it does so in domains where democracy should be authoritative. Yet, at the same time, philanthropy does much good, and hardly anyone would claim we should eliminate it altogether. So how can we make philanthropy consistent with democracy? In this article, I propose a new answer to this question. I argue that while democratic critics are right to worry about much current philanthropy, there is an important class of philanthropy that is not only highly beneficial, but that also, so far from undermining or conflicting with democracy, can complement or even enhance it. I call this “philanthropy for the disenfranchised,” and argue that we can resolve the tension between philanthropy and democracy by encouraging this sort of philanthropy while discouraging forms of philanthropic abuse and folly. I also outline a program for social reform that involves differentiating the institutions surrounding philanthropy to make them better perform this role, which I contrast with the more familiar programs of democratization and effective altruism.\n"]

["Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nWater reuse holds significant promise for addressing global water challenges, yet wide scale implementation remains limited. Decentralised water technologies for reuse have been highlighted as a potential aide in the reduction of water challenges, specifically for environments that have typically been considered ‘water rich’, and in rural areas that are currently outside the reach of large‐scale centralised networks. Yet for many, a number of challenges remain, with the current policy landscape remaining unsupportive for the creation of an enabling environment. Policy integration is used as a theoretical and analytical framework to explore how enabling environments for decentralised water reuse are, or are not, created in rural and island Scotland. The analysis examines how cross‐sectoral coordination across water, planning, rural development and climate policy shapes the potential for water reuse initiatives, highlighting both institutional fragmentation and emerging opportunities. Through this lens, key policy drivers, gaps and tensions are identified, and alternative pathways for more coherent support of decentralised technologies and systems are traced. Recommendations to strengthen integration mechanisms, reduce governance fragmentation and better align rural water, climate and land‐use agendas are provided.\n"]

["Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nOver 80% of the world's wastewater is discharged untreated, making reuse a widely underutilised strategy for addressing water scarcity. Due to the complexity of implementing water reuse systems, supportive governance conditions are required to steer this process and overcome barriers. Insights from water governance and sustainability transitions literature suggest that configurations of governance‐related conditions, such as the extent of regulatory certainty, economic incentives, social acceptance, innovation capacity and contextual conditions of water scarcity, influence water reuse. Previous research has explored the barriers to water reuse, focusing on isolated case studies leaving the question of how these conditions interact to enable implementation largely unresolved. This study applies Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis across 15 international cases to identify configurations of conditions that enable water reuse, moving beyond individual drivers to map archetypal pathways. We found three distinct pathways to successful implementation. First, low regulatory uncertainty alone was sufficient to enable reuse, underscoring the foundational role of regulatory frameworks. Second, high social acceptance—rooted in public trust, engagement, and participatory design—can compensate for the absence of financial incentives, particularly in European contexts. However, this may be less applicable in resource‐constrained settings. The third and most globally distributed pathway confirms that water scarcity can drive reuse, but only when accompanied by social and technical readiness. The third and most globally distributed pathway confirms that water scarcity can drive reuse, but only when accompanied by social and technical readiness involving technical knowledge, skills training, interdisciplinary collaboration and opportunities for experimentation. Notably, neither water scarcity nor financial incentives emerged as necessary conditions for successful implementation across all pathways. These findings challenge commonly held assumptions about what drives water reuse and offer a more nuanced understanding of the governance configurations that can support water reuse.\n"]

["Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nChina's environmental governance transition combines intensified vertical accountability and performance‐based management with expanding calls for public participation. However, despite growing demand for civic engagement, there remains limited understanding of how participatory environmental initiatives are structured and governed in practice. Drawing on multi‐sited ethnographic research on community gardens in Shanghai and Nanning, this paper argues that community‐based environmental initiatives in urban China increasingly operate through licensed commoning, a mode of collective stewardship in which participation is formally authorised, procedurally regulated, and conditionally delegated by state actors. The analysis shows that community gardens are shaped by procurement contracts, performance indicators, and intermediary organisations that structure who may participate, how responsibilities are allocated, and how outcomes are evaluated. Licensed commoning enables rapid scaling, policy alignment, and short‐term stability, but it also constrains relational autonomy and shifts long‐term governance risks onto communities and civil society actors. Comparative evidence further reveals that more embedded forms of commoning, characterised by informal authorisation and dense relational practices, can sustain deeper collective engagement, yet remain institutionally fragile and vulnerable to administrative intervention. By conceptualising licensed commoning as a distinct governance modality, the paper contributes to debates on environmental participation, multilevel governance, and accountability in authoritarian contexts. Empirically, it demonstrates that participation in China's environmental transition is neither purely bottom‐up nor simply co‐opted, but actively produced and governed through auditable and revocable arrangements that shape both the possibilities and limits of collective environmental action.\n"]

["Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nSubnational climate commitments are widely viewed as potential catalysts of national climate ambition, yet systematic evidence on whether and under what conditions subnational action shapes national target‐setting remains limited. We introduce the concept of catalytic cascading to describe a cumulative process in which expanding policy commitments change the likelihood of subsequent policy commitment, even at a different jurisdictional level, through reinforcing top‐down, horizontal, and bottom‐up dynamics, without necessarily following an abrupt threshold or tipping behavior. We examine this theory through the lens of vertical policy diffusion, assessing whether subnational net‐zero target declarations are associated with later national net‐zero adoption while accounting for country characteristics and cross‐national peer influences. Using a novel global time‐series dataset of national and subnational net‐zero targets, we estimate discrete‐time adoption models using a directed country‐pair (dyad–time) event history design that incorporates dyad‐specific similarity and exposure measures alongside within‐country subnational coverage. Across specifications, the share of a country's population, GDP, or greenhouse gas emissions covered by subnational net‐zero commitments is positively and statistically significantly associated with the probability of national target adoption. The estimated relationship is gradual and monotonic rather than characterized by a sharp inflection, suggesting that bottom‐up influence operates through cumulative reinforcement rather than threshold acceleration in this setting. These findings provide empirical support for catalytic cascading as an observable bottom‐up linkage within polycentric climate governance and clarify the conditions under which subnational momentum is plausibly consequential for national target‐setting.\n"]

["Journal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nGreen public procurement (GPP) has become an important policy instrument for advancing sustainability agendas. However, the expanding literature lacks theoretical integration. This paper provides a critical review of GPP research published between 2002 and 2025, synthesizing 836 peer‐reviewed articles from the Web of Science. Combining bibliometric mapping with content analysis, we identify the field's developmental trajectory from early conceptualization and institutional comparisons to contemporary foci on circular economy, digital transformation and supply chain collaboration. Research coalesces around four themes: policy frameworks, multi‐dimensional performance assessment, implementation barriers, and supply chain governance. However, these themes remain loosely connected by theoretical perspectives, including signaling, institutional and stakeholder theories that are applied in isolation. We further identify three inherent structural tensions that receive limited attention in the literature: between policy uniformity and local flexibility, among competing environmental, economic and social objectives, and between transactional efficiency and relational collaboration. Building on these observations, we synthesize an integrated framework mapping the interplay among theory, context, policy characteristics and methodology (TCCM). This framework provides a coherent structure for future research, shifting scholarly attention from isolated policy effects toward systemic understanding of how GPP can drive sustainable transformation.\n"]

["Journal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nWe introduce a dynamic factor correlation model whose core methodological innovation is a variation‐free parametrization of dynamic factor loadings, inspired by the generalized Fisher transformation. The model accommodates time‐varying correlations, heterogeneous heavy tails, and dependent idiosyncratic shocks. Applied to a Small Universe of 12 assets and a Large Universe of 323 stocks, the factor structure induces a sparse idiosyncratic correlation matrix with dependencies concentrated within subindustries, enabling scalability to high dimensions under a sparse block structure. Both factor loadings and correlations vary substantially. Allowing for heterogeneous heavy tails via convolution‐t$$ t $$ distributions yields sizable improvements relative to Gaussian and multivariate‐t$$ t $$ benchmarks.\n"]

["Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThe key objective of this empirical study is to reveal the influence of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Committee Structure on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance. To investigate this, the study employs a System‐GMM estimation technique based on panel data set of 404 non‐financial corporations listed on Nifty 500 index, covering a tenure of 9 years, that is, from 2015 to 2023. Here, all the financial and non‐financial data of sampled companies are retrieved from the Bloomberg database. The empirical outcome points out that the environmental disclosure score is significantly elevated by the existence of CSR committee and attendance in CSR committee meetings. The findings also shows that the social disclosure score is influenced by three components of CSR committee, that is, size, independence, and number of meetings. Additionally, the study reveals that the governance disclosure score is significantly improved by four components of CSR committee, that is, size, independence, number of meetings, and attendance in meetings. Finally, the outcome also depicts that three CSR committee attributes, that is, size, attendance, and number of meetings significantly elevate the ESG performance. This research work provides fresh insight in this field, that may be useful to experts, institutions, regulators, and legislators as they draft and revise laws governing the composition of CSR committees.\n"]

["Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis paper examines whether external auditors incorporate carbon asset risk disclosures (CARD) when assessing a client's exposure to stranded asset risks and how these disclosures influence audit pricing decisions. Using data from Ceres' Sustainability Disclosure Search Tool, we assess a firm's CARD specificity by analyzing the proportion of text in 10‐K filings devoted to the impacts of climate change on reserves, accounting treatment, and the transition to a low‐carbon economy. We use this measure as a proxy for a firm's perceived and communicated exposure to stranded asset risks. Drawing on a sample of 1077 firm–year observations of US energy companies from 2010 to 2021, our findings reveal a positive association between a firm's specific CARD and its audit fees. Further cross‐sectional analyses indicate that this relationship is weaker at higher levels of external monitoring by financial analysts but becomes more pronounced following the Paris Climate Agreement. Overall, our findings highlight the importance of transparent and consistent carbon risk reporting and the need to effectively monitor and manage carbon asset risks to balance disclosure transparency with audit cost considerations in the transition to a low‐carbon economy.\n"]

["Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis study investigates the role of the Digital Product Passport (DPP) in promoting transparency, traceability, and sustainability within the fashion industry. As the fashion sector faces significant environmental and social challenges, including resource depletion, pollution, and unethical labor practices, the DPP offers a potential solution by providing detailed, accessible data on products' origins, composition, and lifecycle. The research proposes a framework for implementing the DPP, addressing the barriers companies encounter due to complex supply chains, fast product cycles, and sustainability goals. A multiple case study approach is used to analyze the experiences of companies adopting DPPs, focusing on the technological and organizational challenges they encounter. This research contributes to the academic literature on digital traceability, offering insights into how DPPs can support a transition towards more sustainable and transparent fashion practices. The findings provide recommendations for managers and policymakers looking to enhance supply chain transparency and compliance with sustainability standards.\n"]

["Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nEnvironmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) reporting has emerged as a key critical dimension of corporate accountability, paralleling the global discourse on sustainable development. The present study investigates the perceived effectiveness of digital ESG reporting from the perspective of managers (human capital) in Indian small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs), drawing on the interplay of institutional theory, the technology acceptance model (TAM), and the resource‐based view (RBV). Employing a mixed‐method approach, narrative inquiry was conducted with six managers across five randomly selected firms from the SEBI top‐500 list, complemented by 473 valid survey responses. The study findings reveal that perceived burdensomeness, compliance orientation, and strategic orientation significantly shape managers' evaluations of digital ESG reporting effectiveness, which in turn influences actual ESG outcomes. Moreover, organizational readiness expressed through digital maturity and managerial support (leadership commitment and employee training) emerges as a moderating factor, strengthening the link between perceived and actual effectiveness. This study contributes to ESG literature by integrating multi‐theoretical perspectives to explain reporting dynamics, offering both practical insights for firms navigating ESG mandates and policy implications for regulators.\n"]

["Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nWhy is it often difficult for the advantages of female managers in emerging economy firms (EEFs) to be fully realized, and why do they sometimes become entangled in the whirlpool of bribery? How can their strengths be better leveraged? Drawing on a sample of listed companies in China, this study reaches the following conclusions. First, there is a significant positive association between the proportion of female managers and the level of bribery in EEFs. Second, this positive relationship is significantly weakened when EEFs receive more favorable performance feedback. Further analysis yields additional insights. First, the proportion of female managers in EEFs is positively associated with the firm's inclusive value‐sharing performance toward its internal and external stakeholders, yet this beneficial effect is substantially undermined by bribery. Second, government subsidies received by EEFs can significantly weaken the positive relationship between the proportion of female managers and bribery. Third, the central government's anti‐corruption initiatives have led to a decline in bribery. Overall, our findings suggest that performance pressure may erode the potential advantages female managers could otherwise bring in emerging markets. Based on these insights, we offer recommendations for both firm management and policymakers in emerging markets: fostering a more equitable environment for female managers can enhance the firm's broader, stakeholder‐oriented outcome and promote sustainable corporate success.\n"]

["Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis article introduces a new account of morality and power in business ethics called “business realism”. To this end, it first outlines the political realism literature—a view in political philosophy that deals with the question of the relation between morality and politics. This view stresses the importance of power in politics and of a political ethics guided by political practice. Second, it uses the concept of change to argue, by analogy, for a realist view of business—a view in (what we might call) business philosophy that stresses the importance of power in business and of a business ethics guided by business practice. Third, it maps influential business ethics frameworks through a lens of business change. Fourth, it states business realism—a new account of morality and power in business ethics. Against this background, it considers the implications of this new account for business ethics and business.\n"]

["Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nPopulation aging and environmental pollution have become critical challenges to global sustainable development. Against this backdrop, we aim to explore the largely underexamined economic role of corporate pension plans in promoting corporate environmental sustainability, beyond their traditional function of mitigating demographic aging risks. Leveraging China's rapid expansion of the second pillar of its pension system, we empirically investigate the association between corporate pension plans and firms' environmental sustainability practices, based on 51,435 firm‐year observations of Chinese A‐share listed firms over the period 2007–2024. Our results indicate that the implementation of annuity systems significantly enhances firms' green technology innovation. This finding remains robust across a battery of identification strategies, including instrumental variable estimation, Heckman two‐stage models, propensity score matching, and placebo tests. Mechanism analyses suggest that annuity systems promote green technology innovation by improving the quality of human resources, alleviating financing constraints, and mitigating managerial myopia. Cross‐sectional analyses further indicate that the effect is more pronounced as Chinese society transitions into the stage of deep aging, particularly in regions with higher levels of population aging, and among firms with greater levels of digitalization and corporate governance. Overall, our study integrates labor market dynamics with socio‐ecological sustainability within the context of population aging, thereby providing novel insights into synergistic pathways for addressing demographic transitions and advancing sustainable development globally.\n"]

["The World Economy, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis study investigates whether South–South cooperation delivers tangible economic benefits by examining the impact of the BRICS Plus platform on the economic development of participating countries. Using national‐level panel data for 125 countries from 2009 to 2022 and applying a staggered Difference‐in‐Differences approach, we find that BRICS Plus participation is associated with an average annual GDP per capita growth rate increase of approximately 3.42% compared to non‐participating countries on the same continent. Mechanism analysis suggests that the positive effect is driven by enhanced foreign direct investment, improvements in trade balances, and expanded financing channels, with India and China playing leading roles through investment, and South Africa contributing through regional financing. Participation is also linked to improved governance and reductions in civil conflicts but shows no significant increase in aid inflows from other international organizations. Heterogeneity analysis indicates that the positive economic effects are concentrated in Asian and African countries, among low‐ and lower‐middle‐income economies with higher agricultural shares, and in countries with stronger initial infrastructure. Overall, the results provide empirical support for the developmental potential of institutionalized South–South cooperation through platforms like BRICS Plus.\n"]

["Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, EarlyView. ", "\nAbstract\nWe show that banks do not decentralize the first best in a nominal Diamond–Dybvig economy with inside money. Furthermore, state‐contingent deposit contracts do not expand the consumption possibility set to include the first best either. Central banks can improve welfare but only for savers and only with unconventional monetary policy. Finally, central banks could prevent runs using their lender‐of‐last‐resort facility. These results suggest that, without an explicit incorporation of inside money, it is not trivial to provide a theoretical argument about the ability of the banking sector to efficiently supply liquidity in our economies."]

["The Journal of Industrial Economics, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nDelaying bill payments to public utilities may provide an important strategy for households with volatile incomes to smooth their consumption. At the same time, allowing late payments may reduce net revenues for utilities, which often leads to higher prices to cover costs. Using billing records from a large water utility in Manila, this paper estimates a household consumption and savings model to evaluate counterfactual payment policies. A popular proposal to ensure upfront payments—prepaid metering—recoups less revenue than is needed to compensate households for their loss of consumption smoothing. Alternatively, a revenue‐neutral policy allowing more late payments increases welfare by encouraging greater consumption smoothing.\n"]

["International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis article proposes a Transfer Entropy‐Determined Model‐Switching (HAR‐TEDMS) strategy within the HAR‐RV framework to improve the predictive accuracy of stock market volatility. The core mechanism of the HAR‐TEDMS model is based on transfer entropy, which is used to identify whether the market is in a state of dependence or independence by examining the significance of information transmission between the oil implied volatility index (OVX) and the stock implied volatility index (VIX). This mechanism enables the model to dynamically switch between incorporating interactive or independent information from OVX and VIX, thereby effectively adapting to different market states. Empirical results reveal the superior forecasting performance of the HAR‐TEDMS model across different forecasting horizons. Furthermore, we confirm that the predictive ability of the HAR‐TEDMS model is primarily reflected in its capability to capture asymmetric information transmission and its adaptability to turbulent environments. This novel HAR‐TEDMS model enhances the understanding of information transmission mechanisms across financial markets, underlining its potential value in guiding investment strategies.\n"]

["Abacus, EarlyView. ", "\nWe test whether strengthening a country's capacity to raise public revenue disciplines corporate reporting. Drawing on a sample of 458 non‐financial firms across 28 low‐ and middle‐income economies (2007–2021), we proxy fiscal institution quality with the World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment revenue mobilization efficiency score, which rewards coherent tax policy and credible tax collection enforcement, serving as a proxy for national fiscal governance quality. Estimating performance‐matched discretionary accruals and controlling for firm fundamentals, IFRS adoption, governance, and macro conditions, we find a strong, negative association between revenue mobilization efficiency and earnings management. The effect survives alternative accrual metrics; lag structures; and instrumental variable, Oster, and propensity score diagnostics, thereby underscoring its robustness. Dominance analysis shows that firm size and adoption of international accounting education standards are the chief firm‐level deterrents, while tax burden, inflation, managerial professionalism, and university–industry collaboration transmit the macro‐level impact. Results imply that incremental upgrades in tax administration, that is, e‐invoicing, risk‐based audits, timely dispute resolution, and governance reforms, curb opportunistic reporting where private monitoring is weak. By shifting the enforcement lens from securities regulation to fiscal capacity, the study introduces a novel, continuous proxy that connects state revenue mobilization to financial statement integrity and offers policy‐makers a double dividend: higher tax receipts and cleaner financial disclosure.\n"]

["Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nPacific Island peoples have long histories of adapting to environmental changes, but recent climate change is now driving complex risks that unfold within rapidly shifting societal and environmental contexts. This study investigates how remote Indigenous communities in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, experience and want to respond to complex climate risks. Through participatory workshops and observations with 318 participants across eight communities, a web of interacting social and environmental stressors was identified to shape risks to food security, health and well‐being and water, sanitation and hygiene. Participants drew on scientific, traditional and religious knowledge systems to interpret and manage these risks. Locally controllable, low‐cost strategies were prioritised, targeting root causes of vulnerability such as inadequate sanitation, limited access to education and social issues. The findings suggest that community‐based risk and adaptation assessments are strengthened by approaches that integrate diverse knowledge systems and address both climatic and non‐climatic drivers of risk.\n"]

["International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThe analysis of avian remains from archaeological contexts provides valuable insights into human subsistence strategies, symbolic behaviors, and human–environment interactions. Birds of prey, and large diurnal raptors in particular, are rarely documented in Paleolithic assemblages, and their presence is generally interpreted as nonalimentary. This paper presents the zooarchaeological and taphonomic study of seven avian skeletal elements attributable to a single individual of griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus), recovered from Epigravettian levels of San Teodoro Cave (Acquedolci, Sicily), in association with ochre. The assemblage is composed exclusively of elements belonging to the right wing. The ulna exhibits a series of short, oblique incisions located along the dorsal diaphysis, whose morphology and anatomical distribution are compatible with anthropogenic manipulation potentially related to feather removal, although alternative functional interpretations cannot be entirely excluded. In addition, all elements display traces of red ochre on their cortical surfaces, documented through microscopic observation. The anatomical selectivity of the assemblage, together with cut marks consistent with intentional processing, argues a nondietary interpretation and instead suggests a targeted use of the vulture wing as raw material, possibly related to the extraction of feathers or other visually salient elements. Comparisons with coeval Upper Paleolithic sites across the Mediterranean indicate that similar practices were widespread. Within the insular context of Sicily, however, this represents an exceptional and unprecedented case, highlighting the role of a more complex and intriguing ritual and symbolic behavior among Epigravettian hunter‐gatherer groups.\n"]

["American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 190, Issue 1, May 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThe Upper Guinean forests of West Africa are a major global hotspot for primate diversity, yet many areas remain understudied and insufficiently protected. Southeastern Côte d'Ivoire illustrates this conservation gap. Once home to several of West Africa's most threatened primate species, the region has experienced extensive deforestation, habitat fragmentation, and hunting pressure over recent decades. Consequently, many primate populations have declined or disappeared from large parts of their former range. The Tanoé‐Ehy Forest, a swamp forest ecosystem located along the Côte d'Ivoire–Ghana border, is now one of the last refuges for several endangered primates in the region. Since 2006, a long‐term conservation initiative led by Ivorian scientists, in partnership with local communities, has aimed to protect this forest and its biodiversity through a community‐based conservation approach. This article presents the Tanoé‐Ehy conservation initiative as a case study demonstrating how locally led conservation efforts can support both biodiversity protection and community empowerment while contributing to changes in conservation practice in African primatology. Over nearly two decades, the project has combined ecological research, participatory governance, and socio‐economic initiatives. Community members actively participate in wildlife monitoring, forest surveillance, environmental education, and livelihood diversification programs designed to reduce pressure on forest resources. Beyond biodiversity protection, the initiative highlights the importance of strengthening national scientific leadership and recognizing local communities as central actors in conservation governance. The Tanoé‐Ehy experience shows that effective and sustainable conservation in biodiversity‐rich regions depends on integrating local knowledge, equitable partnerships, and long‐term community engagement.\n"]

Waste Management & Research, Volume 44, Issue 5, Page 505-507, May 2026.

Urban Studies, Volume 63, Issue 7, Page 1363-1374, May 2026.
This special issue emerges from theUrban Studiesjournal’sCritical and Conceptual Advances in Urban Studiesinitiative and features the development and application of a transport-as-a-social-construct framework. The collection of articles demonstrates ...

Language Teaching Research, Ahead of Print.
Recently, a surge of scholarly attention has been paid to the impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools on second/foreign language (L2) education. Nonetheless, there is a lack of evidence on the role of AI-assisted robots or robot-assisted language ...

["Personal Relationships, Volume 33, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis study examined the effects of sociodemographic characteristics, risk factors (i.e., financial damage due to the pandemic, exposure to COVID‐19, and prior stressful life events), and family‐related protective factors (i.e., cohesion and flexibility) on marital, parental, and financial stress experienced by married heterosexual Palestinians in Israel during the COVID‐19 pandemic. A total of 480 participants completed self‐report questionnaires. A structural equation model examined the predictors of marital, parental, and financial stress. Notable differences were seen between predictors of marital and parental stress and those of financial stress. Marital and parental stress were primarily predicted by protective factors, mainly family coherence, whereas risk factors and sociodemographic characteristics predicted these outcomes only to a lesser extent. For financial stress, risk factors, particularly financial damage related to COVID‐19 and prior stressful life events, were the primary predictors. It therefore appears that during the COVID‐19 pandemic, and potentially in other crises, better family functioning reduced marital and parental stress. However, this effect did not extend to financial stress, although protective factors contributed to its reduction to some extent. Given that family cohesion plays a more significant role in resilience compared to flexibility in a collectivist society, culturally sensitive interventions focusing on strengthening family cohesion are essential.\n"]

["Personal Relationships, Volume 33, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nSelf‐control determines well‐being in individuals, but also plays an important role in close relationships. However, only few studies investigated self‐control in dyads before. Therefore, from a dyadic perspective, our study aims at better understanding how average levels and differences in two relationship partners' self‐control are related to their personal and relational well‐being in daily life. We evaluate three competing accounts, positing that well‐being in couples might be highest when both partners exhibit (1) complementing (great partner differences), (2) similar (small partner differences), or (3) overall higher levels (high partner averages) of self‐control. To evaluate these hypotheses, 53 mixed‐gender couples (Mage = 24.29 years) individually completed daily diaries across 21 days. Multilevel dyadic score modeling largely showed evidence for Hypothesis 3 (totality): High partner averages in self‐control were related to more positive affect between and within couples, less negative affect and higher overall relationship quality between couples, and more life satisfaction within couples. However, similarity (i.e., Hypothesis 2) in self‐control was related to more closeness within couples. Together, our findings underline the importance of considering different levels of analyses (i.e., individual vs. dyad, between‐couple vs. within‐couple, global vs. specific assessments of psychosocial functioning) when studying self‐control in close relationships.\n"]

["Social Development, Volume 35, Issue 3, August 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nPretend play is important for children's social and emotional development yet significant gaps in knowledge remain. Parent‐child pretend play of school‐aged children is largely overlooked, despite the key role parents play for children of this age. Furthermore, children's experiences of mental health difficulties, such as symptoms of depression, are rarely considered in relation to pretend play. More research is required to identify specific pretend play behaviours that are associated with mental health in children. We conducted observational coding of enacting, negotiating, and storytelling behaviours in parent‐child pretend play. Our sample included 107 children, school‐referred for emotional, cognitive, and/or behavioural difficulties (M = 78.30 months, SD = 11.80; range 52–98 months; 70.1% male, 29.9% female) and their parents. We examined the correlates of children's pretend play behaviours and investigated associations with children's symptoms of depression. We found that parent‐child pretend play behaviours were correlated with each other and that child depressive symptoms were not significantly associated with total pretence. However, when controlling for child gender, age, receptive language, and parent propensity to engage in negotiating behaviours, a hierarchical regression showed that children's symptoms of depression predicted less engagement in children's negotiating behaviours. Results are discussed in terms of the importance of taking nuanced approaches to investigating pretend play and its correlates, and how future work should consider that some pretend play behaviours may present differently according to child mental health, even at subclinical levels.\n"]

["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nChild maltreatment is a significant risk factor for mental and metabolic health, with negative effects that can persist into adulthood. Using data from a U.S.‐nationwide study, the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), this study examined the associations between child maltreatment, specifically childhood threat (i.e., harm or threat of harm) and deprivation (i.e., absence of expected environmental inputs), and young adult mental (i.e., depressive symptoms) and metabolic health (i.e., metabolic risk). The moderating effect of social support was also examined, focusing on both quality of different types of support (i.e., from teachers, friends, and other adults) and variety of support sources. Results showed that young adults who experienced more threat during childhood exhibited higher levels of depressive symptoms in young adulthood, and those exposed to more deprivation reported elevated levels of metabolic risk. This study also highlighted the protective‐stabilizing role of quality of teacher support in buffering the impact of deprivation on depressive symptoms, and the protective‐stabilizing role of high‐quality other adult support in the link between childhood deprivation and metabolic risk, such that the benefits of social support remained stable across increasing levels of deprivation. Additionally, the variety of social support showed a protective‐reactive pattern in moderating the link between deprivation and metabolic risk, wherein the benefits of variety of social support were released under low deprivation but not high deprivation conditions for metabolic risk. These findings underscore the importance of eliminating child maltreatment experiences and highlight potential interventions, such as enhancing teacher‐student relationships and broadening adolescents' access to diverse support networks, to buffer the long‐term mental and metabolic health consequences associated with early experiences of threat and deprivation.\n"]

["Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, Volume 18, Issue 3, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nAlthough engaging in valued actions is often positively related to mental health, this relationship is not always consistent at the daily level, suggesting that how valued actions are experienced is also important. We examined three valued action aspects (extent of engagement, awareness of engaging in valued actions, and perceived effort) and their within‐ and between‐person associations with happiness, meaning in life, and emotional distress (anxiety and sadness) at the daily level. A total of 114 adults reported these variables three times per day for 10 days. We estimated contemporaneous, temporal, and between‐person networks using a multilevel vector autoregressive (mlVAR) model and identified communities via exploratory graph analysis. In the contemporaneous network, momentary engagement was positively associated with momentary happiness and meaning, and momentary perceived effort was positively associated with momentary emotional distress. Valued action aspects were positively interrelated and clustered together. Temporally, awareness predicted subsequent meaning, which in turn predicted lower emotional distress and higher happiness. At the between‐person level, higher average engagement in valued actions clustered with higher average happiness and meaning, whereas higher average perceived effort and greater awareness clustered with higher emotional distress. Overall, findings suggest that, beyond engagement alone, the experiential aspects of valued actions are also important for understanding how valued actions relate to mental health in daily life.\n"]

American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular 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.