Legislative Pork‐Barrel Funding and Public Policy Outcomes: The Role of Local‐Level Factors
Governance, Volume 39, Issue 4, December 2026.ABSTRACT The growing legislative influence over budget allocations through pork‐barrel funding raises concerns that this type of distributive policy may undermine effectiveness. We examine Brazil's mandatory pork‐barrel system to assess whether funding availability affects health outcomes and how local conditions shape these effects.
Luna Viana, Alketa Peci
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Not Necessarily Farm‐Wives: The Working Women of Rural Aotearoa/New Zealand
New Zealand Geographer, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 2026.ABSTRACT There's a perception farm‐resident women are farmers or farmwives (e.g., cooks, record‐keepers, errand‐runners). Yet most farm‐resident women record a non‐farm occupation in their census returns. This article investigates this anomaly. It looks at the changing status of farm and other rural women, the diversity of non‐farming careers they ...
Ann Pomeroy
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Completeness of death registration in Ghana: An evaluation of multiple data sources and methods. [PDF]
PLoS OneAgyei-Asabere C +7 more
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Experimental methods in chemical engineering: Cyclic voltammetry—CV
The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, Volume 104, Issue 11, Page 5776-5827, November 2026.Abstract Cyclic voltammetry (CV) is a foundational electroanalytical technique for investigating redox behaviour and evaluating material performance across fields such as molecular electrochemistry, electrocatalysis, sensing, and energy storage. Despite its widespread use, a gap remains between formal electrochemical theory and the practical data ...
Yasser Matos‐Peralta +4 more
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Health Science Reports, Volume 9, Issue 11, November 2026.ABSTRACT Background and Aims Amidst the rising global impact of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), long‐term extrapolations and attributable risk estimations are essential for strategic healthcare planning. This study aimed to investigate the T2DM burden among adults aged ≥ 25 years, extrapolate trends to 2040, and quantify the population attributable ...
Alireza Mirahmadizadeh +4 more
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Counting men, missing women: a qualitative exploration of barriers underlying sex disparity in death registration in selected districts of Bangladesh. [PDF]
BMJ Public HealthBarua M +13 more
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The Transformational STEM Consciousness Scale: A QuantCrit Measure of a Liberatory STEM Outcome
Science Education, Volume 110, Issue 6, Page 1654-1672, November 2026.ABSTRACT Guided by QuantCrit, we introduce and validate the Transformational STEM Consciousness (TSC) scale, which fuses students' motivation to pursue racial and social justice through STEM with a critique of STEM's historic complicity in inequity. Surveying 255 undergraduate and graduate students in 18 justice‐integrated STEM courses across 11 US ...
Juan C. Garibay, Lindsay Wheeler
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A multi-country qualitative evaluation of rapid mortality surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]
PLoS OneCongdon C +4 more
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Containerized Truck Movements in Sweden Payload and Empty Trip Modeling
Transportation Journal, Volume 65, Issue 4, Autumn 2026.ABSTRACT Container flows account for 12% of truck traffic in Sweden. Unlike other freight, container truck movements mostly involve import or export cargo that begins or ends at ports. However, containerized cargo has different payloads and empty trip patterns.
Lokesh Kumar Kalahasthi +3 more
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A verbal and social autopsy study to improve estimates of mortality determinants in Pakistan: study design and methods. [PDF]
J Glob HealthChauhadry IA +8 more
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