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The Direct and Indirect Effects of the Belt and Road Initiative on Exports to China

open access: yesThe World Economy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the direct effect of a country's participation in China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on that country's exports to China, as well as the indirect effect of such participation on other countries' exports to China. Using panel data covering 187 countries from 2006 to 2023, we employ an event study approach, a staggered
Haonan Li, Yasuyuki Todo
wiley   +1 more source

LDS‐UNet: Lightweight Depthwise Separable U‐Net for Brain Tumor Segmentation

open access: yesApplied AI Letters, Volume 8, Issue 1, February 2027.
A hybrid Lightweight Depthwise Separable U‐Net (LDS‐UNet) is proposed, using depthwise separable convolutions in the encoder‐decoder, and standard bottleneck convolutions, and 2.5D three‐slice input to recover inter‐slice context without 3D convolutions.
Nasrin Akter   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transnational voting as collective action in liminal occasion: Examination of political mobilization of non‐resident Turkish citizens in Germany

open access: yesBritish Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 66, Issue 1, January 2027.
Abstract This study examines transnational voting as collective action in a liminal occasion. Focusing on Turkey‐origin residents in Germany during and after the 2023 Turkish national elections, it combines multi‐sited ethnographic fieldwork with 17 post‐election interviews.
Meral Gezici Yalçın   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health System Resilience and Afghan Refugee Health in Pakistan: An Exploratory Study of Challenges and Pathways to Inclusion

open access: yesThe International Journal of Health Planning and Management, Volume 41, Issue 6, Page 1174-1188, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Pakistan has hosted Afghan refugees for more than four decades, in one of the world's most protracted displacements of people. Afghan refugees receive health services through United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and non‐governmental organisation (NGO) supported programmes alongside public sector facilities at every tier.
Zahid Ali Memon   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors for Prenatal Common Mental Health Disorders Among Women Aged 15–49 Years in Bangladesh: A Nationwide Cross‐Sectional Study

open access: yesReproductive, Female and Child Health, Volume 5, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Common mental health disorders (CMDs), comprising symptoms of anxiety and depression, during pregnancy are an important health concern since it is common and persistent, and has an unwavering impact on the pregnancy outcome. Several socio‐economic, demographic and psychological variables have been identified as predictors.
Nowshin Tabassum Shohana   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Longitudinal Tracking of Persistence in Other‐Repair Practices in an Audio‐Mediated English Private Tutoring Setting

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 4, Page 2402-2432, December 2026.
Abstract Private tutoring—or shadow education—has received ample scholarly attention due to increasing demand from parents for reasons of social mobility in ESL/EFL contexts. Referred to as English private tutoring (EPT) for language learning purposes, this type of non‐formal education shares certain features of formal education like content and ...
Semih Ekin, Ali Anaç, Muhammet Öcel
wiley   +1 more source

Land, Gendered Labor, and Empire‐Making in Central Sudan

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 4, Page 767-776, December 2026.
ABSTRACT This article offers an analysis of Gulf‐Arab and more specifically Emirati empire‐making in central Sudan, by focusing ethnographic attention on an Emirati‐owned farm in the Gezira region as a key site of capitalist extraction and imperial ambition.
Nisrin Elamin
wiley   +1 more source

Multilingual Digital Search Behavior Reveals Cultural Disparities in Vitiligo Information Needs in Germany

open access: yesInternational Journal of Dermatology, Volume 65, Issue 12, Page 2538-2545, December 2026.
Multilingual vitiligo‐related Google search queries in Germany (October 2019–May 2023) were extracted and thematically coded across German, English, Turkish, Arabic, Russian, and Polish. Relative patterns highlighted language‐specific emphases in treatment information, camouflage, depigmentation, psychosocial burden, and faith/home‐remedy terms ...
Lilian Rauch   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The keys to the garden: Capital, class, and the repurposing of Persian mystical poetry in Los Angeles

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.
Abstract This article traces the social life of medieval Persian poetry as it is repurposed within Los Angeles's Iranian diaspora. Based on 5 years of immersive ethnography in private erfān classes and mystical assemblies, I argue these gatherings function as contemporary diasporic courts, mobilizing core texts within a spiritual marketplace structured
Zia Khoshsirat
wiley   +1 more source

The return of the Bee Sultan: Vibrant encounters of environmentalism and language reclamation in Turkey's Hemshin lands

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.
Abstract This article examines how language and environment become constitutive through the emergent environmentalism of Hemshin youth returning to Turkey's Hemshin lands from major cities. As development transforms the landscape, young Hemshins engage in “reading” their lands, encountering linguistic and material traces like stories, place names, and ...
Neşe Kaya‐Özkan
wiley   +1 more source

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