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‘Escaping Isn't for Everyone’: Kurdish Smugglers’ Navigational Tactics at Checkpoints in Iran

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how Kurdish smugglers navigate state and insurgent checkpoints in the borderlands of western Iran. Drawing on ethnographic research, it analyses two key navigational tactics: persin, a form of negotiated passage involving transaction, recognition and the contingent toleration of authority; and jimi, rendered here as ...
Peyman Zinati
wiley   +1 more source

CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Customizing Strategies for Adoptive T-Cell Therapy. [PDF]

Pharmaceutics
Park H, Kang YK, Shim G.
europepmc   +1 more source

Roadblocks, Relationality and Resilient Resistance in Post‐coup Myanmar

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following Myanmar's military coup in February 2021, the State Administrative Council (SAC) established checkpoints between towns under its control and rural areas increasingly governed by anti‐junta resistance forces. Here, military personnel command trade and extort from people, inflating the price of consumer goods and agricultural inputs ...
Gerard McCarthy, Kyle Nyana
wiley   +1 more source

The molecular prognostic score, a classifier for risk stratification of high-grade serous ovarian cancer. [PDF]

J Ovarian Res
Sarkar S, Saha SA, Swarnakar A, Chakrabarty A, Dey A, Sarkar P, Banerjee S, Mitra P.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Politics of Passage: Studying Checkpoints and Claim Making in Conflict‐affected Settings

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Roadblocks, or checkpoints, are obligatory passage points that are erected by entities claiming authority over a given crossing. They are often the most common everyday interface between civilians and armed actors in conflict‐affected contexts, but are overlooked in studies on either trade or authority amidst conflict.
Peer Schouten, Vanessa van den Boogaard, Max Gallien, Shalaka Thakur, Florian Weigand   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Targeting autophagy can synergize the efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors against therapeutic resistance: New promising strategy to reinvigorate cancer therapy. [PDF]

Heliyon
Hashemi M, Mohandesi Khosroshahi E, Tanha M, Khoushab S, Bizhanpour A, Azizi F, Mohammadzadeh M, Matinahmadi A, Khazaei Koohpar Z, Asadi S, Taheri H, Khorrami R, Ramezani Farani M, Rashidi M, Rezaei M, Fattah E, Taheriazam A, Entezari M.   +17 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Asymmetric sanctions and corruption: Theory and practice in China

Economic Inquiry, EarlyView.
Abstract Asymmetric punishment of partners in crime, intended to incentivize whistle‐blowing, may increase detection and deterrence. The idea is age‐old but its use against corruption is not frequent. We study a 1997 Chinese reform that strengthened such asymmetries for some forms of bribery.
Maria Perrotta Berlin, Martin Dufwenberg, Bei Qin, Giancarlo Spagnolo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kant's Dialectic of Enlightenment

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Kant's moral thought emphasizes both our ability to make adequate, immediate moral judgment, as well as our deep‐seated forms of self‐entrapment. Strikingly, these forms of self‐entrapment are not simply the result of reason being overpowered by forces external to it, but arise out of reason itself, as pathological versions of otherwise ...
Laurenz Ramsauer
wiley   +1 more source

‘A Perpetually Disintegrating Synthesis’: Sartre on Bad Faith, Good Faith, and the Projects of Selfhood

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract An oft‐overlooked aspect of Sartre’s concept of selfhood is his rejection of good faith and sincerity as normative ideals. We argue that Sartre’s paradoxical treatment of good faith – claiming both that it is a manifestation of bad faith and the antithesis of it – holds a key to understanding Sartre’s account of selfhood.
Mark A. Wrathall, Wanda von Knobelsdorff
wiley   +1 more source