ABSTRACT South Africa's Climate Change Act 22 of 2024 was enacted amid escalating climate risk, entrenched inequality, carbon‐intensive development, and uneven state capacity. This article evaluates the Act at the level of policy design rather than implementation outcomes.
Jacob Kwakye
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Patterns of recorded sexual violence in Lithuania before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A national registry-based repeated cross-sectional study. [PDF]
Vasiljevaite D +3 more
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Collateralization of the Body in the Central Sahara: On Forms and Effects
ABSTRACT This article tracks a transporter along the route linking Tripoli to the Saharan town of Ghadames in post‐2011 Libya, asking what secures an obligation when the institutions that normally underwrite it (offices, courts, recognized names) have receded. I distinguish the debt, the sum owed, from the security pledged to answer for it: what may be
Moad Musbahi
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Parental violent offending and offspring suicidal behavior: a nationwide register-based study. [PDF]
Järvinen A +8 more
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Bias in, symbolic compliance out? GPT's reliance on gender and race in strategic evaluations
Abstract Research summary Organizations are increasingly using large language models (LLMs) to support strategic evaluations. We examine whether and how these systems rely on gender and race. We asked GPT to evaluate identical startup pitches varying only the founder's name, shaping gender and race perceptions.
Tristan L. Botelho, Qingyang (Iris) Wang
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Extra-Legal Contextual Factors, Judge Demographic Characteristics, and the Sentencing of Drug Crimes: Using Pennsylvania Commission of Sentencing Data to Examine Drug Sentencing Severity, 2014-2019. [PDF]
Davis SH, Kurlychek M, Jones AA.
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Revisiting small‐molecule fluorescent probes in food freshness detection
Fluorescent probes serve as versatile tools for food freshness monitoring. This review summarizes recent advances in probes targeting biogenic amines, hydrogen sulfide, pH values, and other key spoilage markers, highlighting their design principles, sensing mechanisms, and practical applications in food quality monitoring. Abstract Food spoilage driven
Xinrui Wang +5 more
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Adding Realism to Theories of Taxpayer Compliance
ABSTRACT Explaining why people pay taxes has not been a central focus in the many important contributions of Jim Cox. Even so, I argue here that his work has greatly affected the way that we think about taxpayer compliance, by adding both directly and indirectly much needed realism to the theories and the applications of compliance. These contributions
James Alm
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Nurses' Perceptions of the Scope of Nursing Support for Offense-Related Self-Reflection Beyond Formal Programs and Dedicated Interviews in Japanese Forensic Psychiatric Care. [PDF]
Okuda J, Takashima Y.
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