The Use and Functions of English in Egyptian Social Media
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the contemporary functions of English in Egypt through two interrelated lines of inquiry. First, it provides an updated account of the status and roles of English in the country, revisiting and extending Schaub's assessment in light of significant historical, socio‐economic and linguistic developments over the past two ...
Lucia La Causa
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Appeals to shared suffering in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. [PDF]
PLoS OneReinhardt L, Whitehouse H.
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City &Society, Volume 38, Issue 3, December 2026.ABSTRACT This paper proposes the notion of “olfactory contact zones” to investigate the role of odors and scents and the affects they give rise to in Berlin's urban publics. Drawing on the notion of the “afterlife” of racialised violence, it shows how tropes of the “smelly immigrant,” anchored in European antisemitism and colonial history, live on ...
Claudia Liebelt
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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 984-1004, September 2026.ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková +4 more
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Race‐Centred Me‐Searching for Racialised Asian Researchers in Aotearoa New Zealand
Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 21, Issue 3, September 2026.‘Me‐search’, or the intentional process of exploring one's positionality, is increasingly recognised as foundational to decolonising and anti‐racist research. Yet in Aotearoa New Zealand, racialised Asian researchers have few praxis‐oriented resources that speak to our liminal positioning within Eurocentric academic institutions and that recognise both
Paolo Aquino +5 more
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What is the perception of treatment in some European mental health services? The point of view of users belonging to ethnic minorities. [PDF]
Front PsycholIudici A, Gusella G.
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River Sand and Gravel Mining: Global Drivers, Impacts, and Pathways for Sustainable Management
Reviews of Geophysics, Volume 64, Issue 3, September 2026.Abstract River sand and gravel are mined worldwide at volumes that now rival their natural replenishment, yet quantitative knowledge of this mining activity and its consequences lags far behind many other global environmental pressures. We synthesize 411 peer‐reviewed studies published since 1974 within a new Driver‐to‐Management Pathway for ...
Edward Park +25 more
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Democratic Deterrence of Middle Powers in Great Power Rivalry: The Case for Indonesia. [PDF]
F1000ResPurboadji A.
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Different Frontier, Same Legal Script? On the Course of Replicating Earth's Patterns in Space
The Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 5, Page 723-759, September 2026.As states and private actors expand their activities in outer space, the international legal framework governing this domain risks extending longstanding structures of global inequality beyond Earth. This article examines how international space law, shaped by a broader disciplinary pattern of reactive legal development, is poised to reproduce ...
Sivan Shlomo‐Agon, Michal Saliternik
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