Family Policy: A Critical Overview of 60 Years of Scholarship
Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article critically reviews research and scholarship on family policy over the last 60 years focusing on theoretical and methodological developments within the European welfare state context. The first part of the analysis reveals a field that is diverse and vibrant, although it may be more accurately characterised as a set of sub‐fields ...
Mary Daly
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A Crazy Idea: Ibn Sīnā on Hylomorphism, the Elements, Mixture and Evolutionary Processes
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ibn Sīnā (c. 973‐1037), the Avicenna of Latin fame, developed a unique theory of the elements and their status in mixtures that severely challenged the views of earlier natural philosophers and in its turn was severely challenged by later Latin Schoolmen in the West.
Jon McGinnis
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From ESP-Permissive to ESP-Driven: Recontextualizing English in Indonesia's Vocational Curriculum. [PDF]
F1000ResPutimasurai P, Mukminin A, Sulistiyo U.
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World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This mixed‐methods study explores relationships among university students’ motivation for English‐medium instruction (EMI), beliefs about English‐only practices, and views on translanguaging at a Bangladeshi private university. It also examines whether disciplinary background and previous medium of instruction shape these perspectives.
Mohammad Mosiur Rahman +2 more
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Digitizing ESP beyond chalk and talk in the English for tourism classroom. [PDF]
Sci RepAl-Barakat AA +6 more
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Linguistic Justice in World Englishes: A View From Cultural Appropriation
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article highlights the need to better clarify what we understand by linguistic justice. Failure to do so poses the danger that the concept not only remains something we may clamour for but is also one that we are unable or unwilling to recognize should we ever encounter it.
Lionel Wee
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Intraoperative Analgesic Requirements in Dogs Receiving Retromammillary or Erector Spinae Plane Blocks for Thoracolumbar or Lumbar Hemilaminectomy: A Single-Center Retrospective Cohort Study. [PDF]
Vet SciCavalcanti-McKenzie M +8 more
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Windy Metropolis—Part 1: Animation as method
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.Abstract Based on fieldwork in Stuttgart from 2022 to 2025, the animation Wind Witnesses is a fictionalization of the sweeping wave of microclimate protests in the 2000s, demanding the protection of fresh air corridors (Frischluftschneisen) as nonhuman entities threatened by the conversion of ostensibly empty spaces into buildings. This companion essay
Indrawan Prabaharyaka
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Ultrasound-Guided Thoracic Paravertebral, Erector Spinae Plane and Quadratus Lumborum Blocks During Emergency Laparotomy in Dogs: A Multicenter Retrospective Study. [PDF]
Vet SciPaolini A +7 more
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Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 4, November 2026.ABSTRACT How credibility is constructed under conditions of epistemic uncertainty is a central question in the sociology of knowledge. Telepathic animal communication (TAC) represents a field in which knowledge claims are inherently non‐verifiable, yet services are actively marketed and consumed.
Annika Barzen, Dylan Göpfert
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