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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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Engineered Identity: Albanian Nationalism and the Limits of Established Nationalism Theories
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyses the development of Albanian nationalism as a test case for assessing the explanatory reach of three major approaches to the study of nationalism: modernist, constructivist and historical‐comparative. Rather than privileging a single theoretical framework, the article places these approaches in dialogue, treating them as ...
Alda Kushi
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Leveraging an Unhappiness Lens for Smarter Policies
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Traditional policy research has largely focused on enhancing happiness or well‐being, privileging positive outcomes as the primary metric of success. We argue that a systematic focus on the drivers of unhappiness—rather than solely on happiness—offers a complementary analytical framework that can uncover hidden societal deficits and broaden ...
Marine Coupaud +2 more
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Re‐Imagining Regulatory Governance
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper invites the readers to rethink regulatory governance by examining how trust‐based and rule‐based governance interact. To do this, it uses analytical narratives of three fictional polities: “Trustland”, “Regland”, and “Concordia”. Each polity represents a stylized model of governance: Trustland is anchored in trust‐based governance ...
David Levi‐Faur
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Drawing teaching into scorable form: A socio‐material critique of lesson observation
Review of Education, Volume 14, Issue 2, August 2026.Abstract Amid rising accountability and standardisation mandates, paraprofessional educators constitute a growing yet precarious segment of the global education workforce. While their roles are expanding, the instruments used to assess their practice remain critically underexamined, despite having significant consequences for professional identity and ...
Elizabeth Hashimura, Rob McGregor
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Batteries From Reused, Recycled, and Surplus Materials
Advanced Sustainable Systems, Volume 10, Issue 7, July 2026.Batteries can become more circular by combining reuse, direct recycling, metallurgical recovery, and material sourcing from industrial surplus streams. This Review highlights how recycled and waste‐derived metals, carbons, polymers, electrolytes, and active materials can be reintegrated into current and emerging batteries, while emphasizing design ...
Jing Yu +16 more
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Battery Energy, Volume 5, Issue 4, July 2026.MXene‐based electrodes are established as high‐performance electrochemical energy storage materials. Sustainable energy storage systems are enabled through biologically derived MXene synthesis routes. Electrochemical kinetics and charge storage are enhanced by biomimetic MXene structures.
Shajjadur Rahman Shajid +3 more
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Political and Institutional Development in England
The Manchester School, Volume 94, Issue 4, Page 438-449, July 2026.ABSTRACT This paper revisits the political and institutional development of England from the Magna Carta to the Glorious Revolution. I argue that institutional change in this period is best understood through the lens of coalition formation. Political elites had heterogeneous preferences over first two, and then three, recurring axes of disagreement ...
Mark Koyama
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CONSCIENCE AND THE ENDS OF HUMANITY: CHRISTIAN HUMANISM AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 559-571, July 2026.Abstract The astonishing speed of the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has sparked reflections by theologians and philosophers on what distinctiveness, if any, human beings possess as individuals and as a species. This article addresses this question with respect to an ancient idea in Christian thought reaching back to St.
William Schweiker
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Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Volume 117, Issue 3, Page 449-468, July 2026.Abstract This paper develops the concept of ontological resilience through an ethnographic study of a Sufi‐inspired rural community in southwestern Türkiye. Based on eight months of fieldwork, it examines how resilience is enacted not as a technical adaptation but as an ethical and spiritual practice of living with vulnerability.
Özge Can Doğmuş
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