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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
wiley   +1 more source

From Accra to Tokyo: African Sportswomen's Excellence and Respectability in Twentieth‐Century Global Sports

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
wiley   +1 more source

The performance of the Saudi Arabian press during the Gulf conflict, 1990-1991 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
This thesis analyses the performance of the Saudi Arabian press during the Gulf Conflict of 1990-1991. It seeks (1) to present the opinions of Saudi media academics and journalists regarding the performance of the Saudi press during the Gulf conflict; (2)
Al-Kahtani, Abdrahman M.
core   +2 more sources

THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
wiley   +1 more source

Carney's Davos Address and the (Contested) Re‐Imagining of Middle Powers

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT By privileging the intervention of Canada's prime minister, Mark Carney, in his January 2026 Davos address, the work aims to re‐engage with the debate around middle powers extending from academic scrutiny to instrumental practice. On core themes, Carney's address provides exceptional focal points pertaining to the role of this category of ...
Andrew F. Cooper
wiley   +1 more source

Cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness-based cognitive therapies for adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and cognitive disengagement syndrome: a randomized controlled trial

open access: yesMiddle East Current Psychiatry
Purpose Adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is frequently accompanied by Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome (CDS), characterized by mental fogginess, slowed processing, excessive daydreaming, and reduced task engagement.
Leila Kamran   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Investigating the impact of environmental attitude on the decision to purchase a green product with the mediating role of environmental concern and care for green products

open access: yesManagement şi Marketing, 2017
The intention to purchase green products is the tendency of a person who prefers to purchase a product with optimal environmental characteristics rather than usual products.
Majid Esmaeilpour, Elahe Bahmiary
doaj   +1 more source

The Competition between the Hormoz and Kish Islands on the Southern Coasts of Iran (the Persian Gulf and Makran Sea) during the First Half of the Eight Century (AH) based on the Newly-Found Shahugat Inscription in Makran

open access: yes, 2015
The present paper introduces the Shahugat inscription which was recently discovered near Tabaktal village in Chahan district near Nikshahr in Sistan and Baluchestan Province.
Shirazi, Rouhollah   +1 more
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The Persistent Fragmentation of Gulf Foreign Aid: Bilateralism and the Limits of Regional Humanitarian Coordination

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines why Gulf foreign aid has remained predominantly bilateral and fragmented since its emergence in the 1960s, despite the establishment of regional institutions, recurring regional crises and repeated calls for greater coordination.
Khalid Almezaini
wiley   +1 more source

Preliminary Appraisal of a Correlation Between Glaciations and Large Igneous Provinces Over the Past 720 Million Years

open access: yesGeophysical Monograph Series, Page 169-190., 2021

Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact

An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Nasrrddine Youbi   +9 more
wiley  

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