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How to End a War: Remnants of Hope and Terror in Danny Ramadan’s The Foghorn Echoes

open access: yesCanada and Beyond
In the novel, The Foghorn Echoes (2022) by Danny Ramadan, readers are introduced to two young men, Hussam and Wassim, who love each other but whose lives are forever changed by a terrible event.
Shyam Patel
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Hindu Nationalism, Gurus and Media

open access: yesReligions, 2023
This commentary offers a reflection on the triangular interactive relationship between Hindutva, gurus and media. It suggests that Hindu nationalists understand gurus to be a specific form of valued Hindu cultural good, which helps to explain mediatised ...
Jacob Copeman   +2 more
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Living with the Unknown: Intolerance of Uncertainty in Parkinson's Disease

open access: yesMovement Disorders Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Parkinson's disease (PD) is marked by pervasive uncertainty due to fluctuating motor and non‐motor symptoms, variable treatment response, and an unpredictable clinical course. Intolerance of uncertainty (IU), a tendency to perceive ambiguity as threatening and respond with worry, avoidance, or decisional paralysis, may be ...
Bradley McDaniels   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Belief and the beast: Religion and attitudes towards tigers in Central India

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Human perceptions of wildlife are critical to shaping conservation outcomes, particularly in landscapes where people coexist with large carnivores. Religion, a deeply rooted sociocultural force, remains underexplored in the context of human–wildlife conflict.
Sathvika Krishnan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

In God We Trust: Community and Immunity in American Religions during COVID-19

open access: yesReligions, 2023
From the systemic issues of race and class division to political partisanship and religious identity, the pandemic has affected many aspects of American social and political life.
Julia Brown
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Lightning Talk: The Cruel Optimism in Becoming a Librarian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Librarianship tends to be presented from an optimistic view, and although some of that optimism is true, the reality of becoming a librarian can be a form of cruel optimism. Dylan Burns and Hailley Fargo (2019) used Lauren Berlant’s (2011) cruel optimism
Murph, Nicole
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Perspectives on Climate Change in Education for Sustainability: Linking Concepts and Skills for a Practical Ecological Transition

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ‘Hard’ natural sciences have extensively been used to provide evidence that climate change is happening and climate action is needed. If the contribution of our economic activities to disturbing our climate systems is now largely accepted, the way in which we design and operationalise ‘climate action’—how we transition to more sustainable ...
Sandrine Simon
wiley   +1 more source

A multi-system psychological capital model for higher education academics: meta-ethnographic research

open access: yesFrontiers in Education
IntroductionAcademics in higher education face immense, systemic stressors that challenge their well-being. Current research on Psychological Capital (PsyCap) often treats it as a static, individual trait, overlooking the profound influence of the ...
Anda Wang, Muhammad Asyraf Che Amat
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C-reactive protein haplotypes and dispositional optimism in obese and nonobese elderly subjects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Background Chronic low-grade inflammation, characterized by elevated plasma levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), has been inversely associated with dispositional optimism.
Craen, A.J.M.   +19 more
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Green Transition, Extractive Continuities: Lithium Mining and the Environmental Contradictions of Sustainability

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global decarbonization has positioned lithium as a strategic mineral for electric vehicles, battery storage, and low‐carbon development. Yet its extraction raises serious environmental, political, and justice concerns that complicate dominant narratives of clean energy progress.
Jacob Kwakye
wiley   +1 more source

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