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A Soft Matrix Microenvironment Promotes Laterally Spreading Tumors via Oxidative Phosphorylation‐Dependent Cell Adhesion

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Laterally spreading tumors (LSTs) are precancerous colorectal lesions characterized by a flat morphology. This study reveals a mechanochemical pathway through which a soft matrix microenvironment diminishes spatial constraints in intestinal adenomas. This process promotes deficiencies in tight junction proteins, mediated by the mechanoreceptor ADORA2B ...
Jiamin Zhong, Jingyi Lu, Haopeng Li, Jun Zhong, Xiaobei Luo, Yiyi Hu, Xianfei Wang, Pengfei Wang, Yanning Zhang, Zhenjiang Wang, Qiuhua Lai, Zhenyu Chen, Wenting Mi, Wang Tin San‐to, Weize Li, Shuping Tan, Qihong Cheng, Ruijia Li, Yida Nie, Side Liu, Bing Huang, Zelong Han   +21 more
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Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra, Abdulaziz B. Shifa, Lan Anh Tong, Mehmet A. Ulubasoglu   +3 more
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Hong Kong's non‐local undergraduate recruitment: Policies, institutional practices and student perspectives

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Beneath the Hong Kong government's enthusiasm for recruiting non‐local undergraduates—including students from the Chinese Mainland and other international regions—lies a longstanding gap in understanding the core meanings and drivers shaping the territory's expanding focus on inward international student mobility (ISM).
Fang Gao, Wei Yan Xiong, Hei‐hang Hayes Tang, Xiao Han   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Between soft power and suspicion: Chinese international students as diasporic actors in U.S.‐China geopolitical tensions

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the under‐theorized political role and identity of Chinese international students, who emerge as significant actors caught between U.S. soft power ambitions and rising geopolitical suspicion. Amid escalating U.S.‐China tensions, these students are forced to confront environments shaped by competing geopolitical discourses ...
Jing Yu
wiley   +1 more source

Soft Power in Trade: Quantifying the Impact of Confucius Institutes on China's Exports

International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the role of Confucius Institutes (CIs) as a form of China's cultural diplomacy and their impact on international trade, particularly exports. Using a gravity model, we analyze data from 1990 to 2019 across countries, finding that the presence of CIs significantly boosts China's exports.
Renjing Chen, Wei Jin, Tangrui Yang
wiley   +1 more source

From Place to Platform: Extended Global Cities Theory for Transnational Cultural Diffusion

British Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates how global city characteristics shape the acceptance of non‐mainstream cultural goods—focusing on K‐pop—as they diffuse across digital platforms. While prior research emphasizes fandom, soft power or media strategies, this research highlights the role of urban infrastructure in cultural globalization.
Jeoung Yul Lee, Jooyoung Kwak, Shinwon Noh   +2 more
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Opportunities for the Labour Party: Football, Class and Community Renewal

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that football represents an underutilised opportunity for the Labour Party to anchor a wider programme of civic renewal. In many working‐class communities, the decline of trade unions, working men's clubs and other associational spaces has eroded collective life, leaving football clubs as rare institutions where dignity ...
Sam Taylor Hill
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Nordic legal overseers and institutional openness in crises: Challenges and adaptation during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Scandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract We analyze challenges and adaptation strategies of Nordic legal overseers, the Parliamentary Ombudsmen and Chancellors of Justice in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, amid the COVID‐19 crisis. We study how the accountability capacities of the legal overseers were affected when standard practices of inclusive decision‐making were severed ...
Tero Erkkilä, Juho Mölsä, Ella Vähäniitty   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mothers against the natural order: Gender representations and desertion of identities in the drama of disinheriting a son in eighteenth‐century Barcelona  

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
wiley   +1 more source

State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
wiley   +1 more source