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Guanxi and Wasta: 20 Years of Evolution and Future Directions for Informal Network Research

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article provides an examination of the evolution of networking in China and the Arab world over two decades and provides an update to, and new insights arising from, an article called Guanxi and Wasta; A Comparison, published in Thunderbird International Business Review in 2006.
Kate Hutchings, David Weir, Sa'ad Ali, Sven Horak   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global Fluoride Toxicology Landscape: Bibliometric Approaches and Scientific Mapping

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyzed research trends in the 100 most‐cited articles on fluoride toxicology, a topic widely debated due to the toxic effects associated with levels deemed safe for human exposure. A bibliometric analysis was conducted using the Web of Science‐Core Collection, extracting data such as citation count, authors, keywords, journal ...
Maria Karolina Martins Ferreira, Deiweson Souza‐Monteiro, Priscila Cunha Nascimento, Luciana Eiró‐Quirino, Leonardo Oliveira Bittencourt, Fatemeh Vida Zohoori, Esperanza Angeles Martinez‐Mier, Marilia Afonso Rabelo Buzalaf, Rafael Rodrigues Lima   +8 more
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AGPLO‐Driven Optimisation for Accurate Segmentation of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma in Medical Imaging

CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma (PTC) is the most prevalent thyroid malignancy, and accurate lesion segmentation is essential for clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Metaheuristic optimisation algorithms have been widely used in Multi‐Threshold Image Segmentation (MTIS), but many existing methods suffer from an imbalance between global ...
Jing Ruan, Xiaoxiao Chen, Hanbing Yao, Yujia Xu, Shiqi Xu, Shihao Zhao, Yulun Wu, Yingting Dai, Yubing Chen, Shuqing Ma, Qiongying Zhang, Ying Zhou, Ali Asghar Heidari, Huiling Chen, Yangping Shentu   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Security-Oriented Criminalization Techniques in Iranian Criminal Law

مطالعات فقه و حقوق اسلامی, 2019
to emphasize the necessity of selectivity, which can provide minimal or Criminalization maximum in the area of different crimes. The important point in this regard is that the provision of any kind of crime is based on the internal capacity of the criminal law.
Sayyed Mahmoud Majidi, Fateme Tajabadi
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
wiley   +1 more source

Serendipitous ritualization: dynamics of lay connectivity in Chinese Buddhist temples and beyond Ritualisation fortuite : dynamique de la connectivité des laïques dans les temples bouddhistes chinois et au‐delà

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
wiley   +1 more source

Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
wiley   +1 more source

Family Court of Law in Iranian Judiciary System

فقه و حقوق خانواده, 2008
The special family court of law which studies family cases and spouse problems, was established to perform Article 3 of the principle of the 21st law. In accordance to the above law which was ratified on the 14th of Mehr 1376, in the Islamic consultative assembly, it intends to arbitrate the family cases with the help of women jurist to prevent family ...
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The Development of Indo‐Iranian Voiced Fricatives

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 97-115, March 2025.
Abstract The development of voiced sibilants is a long‐standing puzzle in Indo‐Iranian historical phonology. In Vedic, all voiced sibilants are lost from the system, but the details of this loss are complex and subject to debate. The most intriguing development concerns the word‐final ‐aḥ to ‐o in sandhi.
Gašper Beguš
wiley   +1 more source

Iran's humanitarian crisis: war, legality, and the erosion of population health. [PDF]

Lancet Reg Health Eur
Blanchet K, Barakat S, Kumar B, Spiegel P.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source