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Immigration detention centers as torturing environments: Ethical reckonings, radical refusals, and implications for a psychology of resistance

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines psychologists' ethical dilemmas in immigration detention centers. Using critical psychology, border, and detention scholarship, it highlights psychologists' historical complicity in state violence, from the U.S. Enhanced Interrogation Program to current border regimes.
Francesca Esposito, Federica de Cordova, Julia Manek, Sara Buckingham, Camilla Ponti, Francesco Tommasi, Bradley Olson   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Guns versus butter for economic growth: a disaggregated analysis of the impact of military expenditure

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Few empirical studies have applied a disaggregated analysis of the impact of military expenditure on economic growth. The novelty of this study lies in its use of various econometric and statistical methods to assess the impact of disaggregated defence ...
Antonis Tsitouras, Nicholas Tsounis
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On the role of military spending: an economic thought perspective

Cogent Social Sciences
This research analyses and establishes linkages between the frequently disregarded economic theories that drive military spending. This paper’s analysis methodically goes over pertinent material, offering a thorough timeline that identifies significant ...
Shreesh Chary, Niharika Singh
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Institutional Determinants of Military Spending [PDF]

Drawing on a database for 1988-2006 containing information on 157 countries, we investigate the effects on military spending of government form, electoral rules, concentration of parliamentary parties, and ideology. From an OLS regression on pooled data,
Ferran Elias-Moreno, Germà Bel
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It's a Match, Isn't It? Developing a Checklist on Matching Secondary Data at the Example of Job Control

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Few datasets simultaneously capture occupational exposures and health outcomes in a general working population. To understand associations between occupational exposures and health, researchers often combine existing datasets. As occupation codes are available in many datasets, combining these datasets seems a straight‐forward option. However,
Franziska J. Kößler, Candice Y. Johnson, Amel Omari, Kaori Fujishiro   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A self‐retaining mouth prop for intraoral access during periodontal surgery in rat models: A technical note

Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
A mouth prop designed to mimic the oral cavity of rats was made that provided stable, self‐retaining retraction, thereby facilitating oral surgery on rodents. Compared to conventional methods, it decreased surgical time, operator fatigue, and slippage. Its use led to higher efficiency and fewer complications and it was cost effective to produce.
Saravanan Sampoornam Pape Reddy, Delfin Lovelina Francis, Vivek Kumar Thakur, Balaji Manohar, Shaili Pradhan, Shesh Rai   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Military Spending, the Peace Dividend, and Fiscal Adjustment [PDF]

This paper decomposes the sources of the peace dividend into global, regional, and country-specific factors, and analyzes their relative importance.
Peter Debaere, Benedict Clements, By Davoodi, Jerald Schiff   +3 more
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Dark Heritage Prospection ‐ Mapping the Treblinka II Extermination Camp Using a Magnetometer Survey and Integrated Archival Sources

Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The history of Nazi German extermination camps has, until recently, relied primarily on eyewitness testimony. Very few official documents detailing the facilities survived the war due to the special operation ‘Sonderaktion 1005’, dedicated to hiding their existence and extent.
Sebastian Różycki, Michał Pisz, Paweł Bylina, James Walker, Lucy Benoit   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Military expenditure and economic growth in African countries: the role of institutional quality

Discover Sustainability
The objective of this paper is to analyze the role of institutional quality in the relationship between military spending and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa.
Mingnimon Ghislain Gnidehou, Charles Yédéhou Faton   +1 more
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Military expenditure and bilateral trade: evidence from China and the U.S. in the South China Sea (2000–2024)

Frontiers in Political Science
This paper aims to analyze how military spending by China and the United States has affected bilateral trade between the two countries in the South China Sea over 2000–2024, focusing on how regional tensions caused by the maritime conflicts and military ...
Ala Alkhawaldeh
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