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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic was a crisis in prisons and jails, with some of the largest outbreaks in the United States happening inside carceral facilities. In the absence of structural interventions to protect them, people inside prisons engaged in various forms of carework to support one another and to draw attention to the horrific conditions. We
Esther Melton +2 more
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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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The Formosan Black Bear and Taiwanese Nationalism
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that situates nations and nationalism within colonial relations, this article examines nationalism in settler‐colonial Taiwan amid China's colonial claim to sovereignty. Drawing on interviews, conservation documents and popular representations, we show how the Formosan black bear became a national symbol of resistance ...
Yung‐Ying Chang, John Chung‐En Liu
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Plant Breeding, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The productivity and quality of grain crops in semiarid environments is often affected by drought, which is likely to accentuate due to predicted climate changes. Wild pea (Pisum fulvum Sibth. & Smith) accessions are known to harbour useful allelic diversity for drought responses.
Smadar Tsury +3 more
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Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Deliberative mini‐publics have become commonplace in policymaking on complex issues such as climate policies. When assessing the macro‐political impacts of deliberative mini‐publics, it is important to examine how information about their procedures and outcomes is transmitted to the wider public.
Mikko Leino +2 more
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Behavioral Charity: Third‐Party Ratings of Nonprofits as Salience and Heuristics
Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Financial disclosure through tax returns is the primary regulatory mechanism for holding nonprofits accountable to donors in the USA. The assumption that donors will make rational decisions using disclosed information when giving to nonprofits is central to this regulation. But what if they rely on mental shortcuts instead? This study examines
Ashraf Haque
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Individual Virtues, Social Movements, and Allyship in the Sphere of Intellectual Disability
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Tommy Ness
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How Was Democracy Under the Administrative Presidency Supposed to Work?
Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aggressive use of the administrative power of the presidency is a major source of public administrative concern about the health of American democracy. Many of these powers stem from executive branch reorganization in the late 1930s, which was conceived and implemented by founding figures in the modern field.
Ben Merriman
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Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.Abstract Introduction Freshwater ecosystem restoration must be rapidly scaled up to address climate change and biodiversity loss, as reflected in the 2024 European Union (EU) Nature Restoration Regulation. Achieving national and international restoration targets is constrained by a persistent funding gap.
Sien Kok +8 more
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