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["Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nWhich extractive institutions perpetuate rural poverty in conflict‐affected regions? Based upon neo‐institutionalism, I examine poverty determinants across 1122 Colombian municipalities (2011–2020). Although land concentration appears to reduce poverty, correcting for endogeneity reverses this relationship, confirming its function as an extractive institution that restricts land property rights. Technical progress consistently reduces misery. Centre periphery dynamics—particularly infrastructure deficits and educational exclusion—corroborated by spatial autocorrelation prove decisive. Forced displacement and coca cultivation, rather than direct violence, drive conflict‐related poverty. Effective peace transition requires transforming informal extractive norms—clientelistic land access, technological aversion, spatial exclusion and violence as conflict resolution—alongside formal institutional reforms.\n"]

["International Migration, Volume 64, Issue 3, May 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nChild trafficking remains a significant child protection issue in Ghana, despite years of policy action and international cooperation. This study explores the causes, achievements, challenges and future directions related to addressing child trafficking in the country. Using a qualitative research design that combines a desk review with a phenomenological approach, the study draws on key informant interviews with 80 participants from government agencies, non‐government organisations, international bodies and affected communities. Thematic analysis revealed that poverty, limited educational opportunities, rural–urban migration and family separation are key drivers of child trafficking. Despite notable progress, such as strengthened legislation, the establishment of the Human Trafficking Secretariat and the development of the National Plan of Action, challenges persist. These include weak law enforcement, limited coordination among institutions and insufficient community‐level prevention. The study concludes that addressing child trafficking in Ghana requires sustained commitment to resource allocation, stronger enforcement mechanisms, improved institutional collaboration and survivor‐centred interventions. The findings provide a timely evidence base to inform future policy and programming aimed at eradicating child trafficking and protecting children's rights in Ghana.\n"]

Written Communication, Ahead of Print.
This article develops the concept and procedures of a large-scale, autoethnographic research process termedCommunity Inter-Autoethnography. This is a research methodology in which multiple individuals conduct autoethnographies and collaboratively ...

Written Communication, Ahead of Print.
This study explores how a human-centered design (HCD) approach encourages written communication researchers to rethink methodologies when studying wicked problems, particularly in healthcare communication contexts. We argue for “methodological mutability” ...

Urban Studies, Ahead of Print.
This article explores methodological approaches to reading personal photographic archives through the concept of “seeing with,” a practice of collaborative interpretation that challenges individual mastery of visual materials. Working with Roberto Monte-...

Urban Studies, Ahead of Print.
Tromsø is commonly represented as an inclusive and culturally diverse city, yet this narrative obscures how Indigenous Sámi presence is rendered conditional and public displays of ‘Sáminess’ risk being met with sanctions. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, ...

Urban Studies, Ahead of Print.
While age-friendly initiatives increasingly recognise the importance of play for recreational well-being in later life, its conceptualisation and the specific mechanisms driving it remain significantly underexplored, particularly among female older adults ...

Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, Ahead of Print.
In this study, we documented and compared the assessment perceptions and practices of elementary music educators in NAfME’s Eastern Division. State MEA organizations and NAfME distributed a researcher-designed survey in which respondents (N= 109) ...

Thesis Eleven, Ahead of Print.
The article describes the late modern experience of debt by combining phenomenological and social theoretical analyses. From Nietzsche's perspective, the lived experience of indebtedness is explained by guilt. From the perspectives of Levinas and Derrida, ...

Therapeutic Advances in Urology, Volume 18, January-December 2026.

Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders, Volume 19, January-December 2026.
Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapy has transformed outcomes for relapsed/refractory B-cell malignancies and is increasingly reshaping the therapeutic landscape of autoimmune disorders and solid tumors, offering curative potential where ...

Therapeutic Advances in Drug Safety, Volume 17, January-December 2026.
Background:Nephrotic syndrome is a clinical syndrome caused by glomerular injury. Medication-related nephrotic syndrome (MRNS) has become an important focus of pharmacovigilance. However, there is currently a lack of real-world studies on MRNS in large ...

Theory, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print.
More-than-human metabolic processes increasingly constitute the locus of contemporary biopower, often responding to industrially-altered biogeochemical cycles. We conceptualise ‘metabolo-politics’ to examine the targeting of bodies and populations via ...

Scandinavian Journal of Surgery, Ahead of Print.
Background:Postoperative urinary retention (POUR) is a frequent complication after total knee arthroplasty (TKA), contributing to prolonged hospital stays, higher healthcare costs, and an increased risk of urinary tract infections (UTIs) and other ...

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Ahead of Print.
Objective:This paper evaluates the implementation fidelity of Family Partner, a home-visiting intervention from the child welfare service that aims to reduce child maltreatment in families with complex support needs.Method:To assess implementation ...

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Ahead of Print.
Background:Chronic pain is a burden for both the individual and society. In the International Classification of Disease, 11th version, chronic pain is defined as persistent or recurrent pain for more than three months. The aim was to assess the prevalence ...

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Ahead of Print.

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine, Ahead of Print.
The proximal femur is a clinically relevant site in postmenopausal skeletal health, yet the association between countermovement jump (CMJ)-derived biomechanical variables and regional proximal femur bone mineral density (BMD) remains insufficiently ...

Journal of Studies in International Education, Ahead of Print.

Journal of Research in Nursing, Ahead of Print.
Background:Registered nurses (RNs) in municipal home care (MHC) encounter patients with illnesses and/or disabilities. When these patients suffer a stressful event, such as the loss of a loved one, there is an increased risk of suffering further ill ...

Journal of Research in Nursing, Ahead of Print.

The Journal of Entrepreneurship, Ahead of Print.
In the absence of consensus on the competences that define an entrepreneurial profile, this study addresses two key questions: which competences should managers possess to perform their roles entrepreneurially? Which of these competencies are valued by ...

Journal of Early Childhood Research, Ahead of Print.
Children from disadvantaged backgrounds have an elevated risk for poor health and developmental outcomes. Families are less likely to participate in interventions if they feel they have been targeted because they fit a particular demographic profile. ...

Journal of Drug Issues, Ahead of Print.
Youth illegal drug use causes severe medical and economic harm to individuals and society. This study explores virtual reality (VR) as a promising approach to drug prevention among adolescents. We developed a VR-based program and evaluated its ...

Journal of Composite Materials, Ahead of Print.
The inherent brittleness and limited fracture toughness of silicon carbide (SiC) ceramics pose significant challenges to their structural reliability in advanced applications. This study proposes a phase-interface engineering strategy to overcome these ...

Journal of Applied Gerontology, Ahead of Print.
Background and ObjectivesHomelessness among Veterans aged 55+ rose 150% from 2010–2023, reflecting a critical housing crisis. While Housing and Urban Development-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) offers support, aging and disabled Veterans ...

International Journal of Surgical Pathology, Ahead of Print.
Prediction of the biological potential of a tumor is the fundamental goal of the histomorphological, immunohistochemical, and molecular genetic assessment in any sample of human neoplasia. For some tumors, the risk of clinically aggressive behavior is ...

Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, Ahead of Print.
Events such as the climate crisis, developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and the COVID-19 pandemic, compel interaction between researchers and journalists to inform citizens and increase public understanding of science. This literature review ...

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Ahead of Print.

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 716, Issue 1, Page 212-218, November 2024.

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 716, Issue 1, Page 202-209, November 2024.

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 716, Issue 1, Page 198-201, November 2024.

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 716, Issue 1, Page 56-68, November 2024.
I elucidate the educational and occupational struggles of boys and men using an evolutionary framework. This perspective is useful in explaining boys’ relative disadvantage in language and reading development and their advantage in visuospatial and ...

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 716, Issue 1, Page 46-55, November 2024.
I draw from several decades of work as a psychologist—in clinical and consulting practice, on staff at a boys’ school, and conducting research studies—to offer a set of observations about boys’ education. I argue that despite a long history of poor ...

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 716, Issue 1, Page 177-195, November 2024.
School accountability policies are central to current education reform efforts, and most of these policies prominently focus on race- and income-based achievement gaps. Recently, though, discussion of gender-based achievement gaps in schools has emerged ...

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 716, Issue 1, Page 118-128, November 2024.
The efficacy of single-sex education for boys has been a focus of scholarly inquiry for decades. The consensus has been that the all-boys format does not boost academic achievement for boys, on average. In this article, I suggest that the scholarly ...

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 716, Issue 1, Page 20-43, November 2024.
Boys lag girls on several important measures of educational achievement and engagement. They begin school with weaker early literacy and self-regulation skills, perform worse in reading but not in math, and are more likely to exhibit behavioral problems ...

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 716, Issue 1, Page 129-140, November 2024.
Boys, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, increasingly trail their female peers across key educational and economic milestones. One long-proposed policy intervention aimed at ameliorating this inequity is to increase the share of male ...

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 716, Issue 1, Page 141-155, November 2024.
In developed countries, males lag females on nearly every educational indicator, from early childhood readiness to postsecondary enrollment and completion (Hurst 2024; Irwin et al. 2024). One contributing factor is their limited access to positive male ...

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 716, Issue 1, Page 156-176, November 2024.
Male students graduate from high school and enroll in college at lower rates than females. Male participation in the workforce has also declined over the past several decades. We present evidence on changing workforce demand and participation that ...

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 716, Issue 1, Page 91-115, November 2024.
Attempts to explain gender differences in postsecondary enrollment and completion have focused almost exclusively on students’ academic performance and experiences in middle school and high school. Our analysis shows that elementary-grade test scores are ...

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 716, Issue 1, Page 69-90, November 2024.
Girls’ math and reading scores declined more than boys’ during the pandemic, but these gender differences varied substantially across communities. Using test score data from roughly 7,000 U.S. school districts, we investigate how local context shaped ...

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 716, Issue 1, Page 8-17, November 2024.

American Journal of Men's Health, Volume 20, Issue 3, May-June 2026.
To evaluate the clinical impact of staged rehabilitation training on the recovery of urinary incontinence (UI) after radical prostatectomy (RP) for prostate cancer and to identify factors associated with recovery outcomes and training adherence. In this ...

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Ahead of Print.
Negligence is often conceptualized as a failure of thought, yet social evaluations of negligence depend on how those failures occur. We present a unified framework predicting variation along three axes: whether the agent lacked diligence, whether the ...

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Ahead of Print.
The identifiable victim effect suggests that images of murder victims taken before their deaths can increase positive perceptions of those victims, potentially influencing jurors’ decision-making. We investigated whether viewing pre-mortem photographs of ...

{"p"=>" In recent years, there has been growing recognition of the importance of affirmative interventions for neurodiverse individuals. However, empirical evidence regarding such interventions in ADHD remains limited, particularly within conservative-religious cultures. The present study examined the effectiveness of a culturally sensitive, online psychosocial intervention for parents and children. The intervention is grounded in a salutogenic existential approach (SEA), an integrative framework that conceptualizes ADHD as a tension between a tendency toward freedom and reality demands (necessity), and aims to enhance sense of coherence (SOC), autonomous motivation, and support for neurodivergent identity while integrating the medical model with the neurodiversity framework. The study included 427 participants from the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish (UOJ) community in Israel: 311 in the intervention group and 116 in the control group. The intervention group participated in a 12-session online program that combined weekly lectures and practice for parents, along with audio story episodes and a workbook for children. Assessments were conducted before and after the intervention or waiting period using parent-report questionnaires: ADHD symptoms and comorbid difficulties (VADPRS), child functioning (WFIRS-P), and parental self-efficacy (TOPSE). The intervention group demonstrated a significant reduction in ADHD symptoms, behavioral problems, and anxiety/depression, as well as significant improvements in child functioning and parental self-efficacy. In the control group, only a minimal reduction in ADHD symptoms was observed, with no changes in the other domains. Between-group differences remained significant after controlling for background variables. The findings indicate the potential of an SEA-based intervention to improve parent and child functioning among individuals with ADHD symptoms in the UOJ community, and highlight the contribution of SEA as an integrative model for addressing ADHD."}

{"__content__"=>"\n Background\n \n ", "p"=>{"__content__"=>"The age at which schizophrenia manifests is a critical factor influencing long-term outcomes. It is essential to distinguish the effects of the illness phase from those of the age of onset. We assessed static/dynamic brain regional activity from 428 participants, split into four groups based on onset-age (early-onset schizophrenia [EOS] and adult-onset schizophrenia [AOS]) and treatment status: (1) drug-naïve first-episode patients (48 EOS and 62 AOS); (2) patients treated for ≤ 12 months (60 EOS and 53 AOS); (3) patients treated for > 12 months (56 EOS and 56 AOS); and (4) 93 healthy controls (32 age-matched with EOS, 61 age-matched with AOS). We conducted a principal component analysis and subsequent 2 × 2 factorial analysis on the extracted first component representing static/dynamic regional activity, followed by an out-of-sample imaging transcriptomics analysis. The stability of results from the drug-naïve groups were tested on the treated groups to account for antipsychotic effects. Onset-age had a notable interaction with diagnosis on the static activity of the thalamus, mid-cingulate cortex (MCC), cerebellum posterior lobe (CPL), precuneus, and putamen, and on the dynamic stability of the CPL, thalamus, and superior parietal lobule (SPL). Phase of illness and medication exposure did not affect the onset-age effect seen at the MCC, thalamus, and SPL. Transcriptomics analysis pointed to the possibility of a shared disruption in neuronal differentiation across the MCC, thalamus and SPL. Onset-age affects thalamo-fronto-parietal regional hemodynamic activity, possibly through disrupted neuronal differentiation, in schizophrenia. Exposure to antipsychotics do not reverse this functional imprint of the earlier illness onset, raising the question of alternate therapeutic approaches to close the observed “neurophysiological gap”."}}

{"p"=>{"__content__"=>": Despite growing interest in the nature and impact of cognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS), few studies have examined environmental factors associated with CDS such as the possible role of trauma exposure. The current study used a community sample of young adolescents and a multi-informant, multi-method design to examine the association between type of trauma exposure and symptoms of CDS and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Youth ages 10—12 ( = 341, 52.7% female, 62.2% White) and their caregivers completed diagnostic interviews and rating scales of CDS, ADHD, and internalizing symptoms. Past exposure to potentially traumatic events was evaluated during the diagnostic interviews and classified as either interpersonal or non-interpersonal trauma. Correlation analyses indicated interpersonal trauma exposure was associated with higher CDS symptoms and youth-reported attention problems. Kruskal–Wallis tests indicated significant group differences for youth-reported symptoms of CDS and attention problems where symptoms were higher for those who had experienced interpersonal trauma than those with no trauma exposure or non-interpersonal trauma exposure. Regression analyses indicated adolescent-reported exposure to interpersonal trauma was uniquely associated with higher CDS symptoms. Results suggest that adolescent self-reported interpersonal trauma exposure is positively associated with higher CDS symptoms whereas non-interpersonal trauma exposure was not associated with CDS or ADHD symptom dimensions. Longitudinal studies are needed to test prospective risk and developmental processes. Clinically, individuals with symptoms of CDS should be screened for prior trauma exposure and trauma-focused therapies may need to be personalized to mitigate possible CDS-related difficulties with treatment engagement.", "b"=>[{"__content__"=>"Introduction"}, {"__content__"=>"Methods:"}, {"__content__"=>"Results:"}, {"__content__"=>"Discussion:"}], "i"=>{"__content__"=>"N"}}}

Journal of Health Psychology, Ahead of Print.
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are highly prevalent. People living with NCDs require ongoing management, resulting in frequent interactions within healthcare institutions. These interactions can lead to institutional betrayal, which is when institutions ...