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Generative AI and the Future of Musical Diversity

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract I argue that the current proliferation of generative artificial intelligence (AI) represents a new stage in a longer historical process of distancing humans from their unique individual psyches and of reducing participation and cultural diversity in music. The argument consists of six parts: (1) reiterating the uniqueness of individual psyches,
Dor Shilton
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American Imperialism and Environmental Concerns in Syed Waliullah's The Ugly Asian

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bangladeshi bilingual writer Syed Waliullah's novel in English, The Ugly Asian (2013), written during the 1960s but published posthumously in 2013, highlights the struggles of a fictional postcolonial nation in Asia in the face of American imperialism.
Rakibul Hasan Khan
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Biological, Environmental, and Social Determinants of Buruli Ulcer in Africa: Their Interplay Across Disease Severity and Patient Outcome

Public Health Challenges, Volume 5, Issue 4, December 2026.
Buruli ulcer is caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans and its toxin, mycolactone. Disease outcomes are influenced by biological, environmental, and social determinants. Biological factors include immune response and lesion severity. Environmental factors include aquatic exposure, rainfall, flooding, and ecological changes.
Gudisa Bereda
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Windy Metropolis—Part 1: Animation as method

Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.
Abstract Based on fieldwork in Stuttgart from 2022 to 2025, the animation Wind Witnesses is a fictionalization of the sweeping wave of microclimate protests in the 2000s, demanding the protection of fresh air corridors (Frischluftschneisen) as nonhuman entities threatened by the conversion of ostensibly empty spaces into buildings. This companion essay
Indrawan Prabaharyaka
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Hip Hop as Linguistic and Sensory Contact Zones: Sounds and Rhythms of Vietnamese Rap and Dance in Munich and Hanoi

City &Society, Volume 38, Issue 3, December 2026.
ABSTRACT In this article, I draw on multi‐sited and remote ethnography in the cities of Munich in Germany and Hanoi in Vietnam to analyze how young hip hop artists transform cities as sensory contact zones through rap and dance. I show how young Vietnamese‐Germans amplify sensory contact zones in the diasporic city of Munich through the sounds, visuals,
Sandra Kurfürst
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Reaffirming the validity of unobtrusive personality measures: A comment on Harms et al. (2025) and guidance for the field

Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Volume 99, Issue 4, December 2026.
Abstract As unobtrusive measures of CEO personality have become more common in organizational research, questions about their validity have grown. Harms et al., Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, (2025) 98, e70052 recently formalized some of these concerns in a meta‐analysis, citing higher average intercorrelations and weaker ...
Joseph S. Harrison, Steven Boivie
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Ceramic ecology in an Islamic capital: changes in the production and consumption of pottery in Palermo

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 4, Page 555-575, November 2026.
Palermo became the new capital of Sicily after the Aghlabid conquest in 831. The transformation of the city into a capital took many forms, including the production and consumption of pottery. The perspective from ceramic evidence shows that Palermo underwent faster and deeper processes of Islamization than other urban and rural contexts across the ...
Viva Sacco
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Faith in the Midst of Trials: Understanding Depression and Christian Coping Strategies Among Cancer Patients in Eastern Europe. [PDF]

Cureus
Jugrin D, Jitaru AA, Brinza C, Burlacu A.   +3 more
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Ascetics, slaves, and necessity in Late Antiquity: renouncing all wealth, but for a single slave

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 4, Page 601-622, November 2026.
Slave owners in Late Antiquity viewed the possession of at least one slave to be a necessity and a defining mark that distinguished the dignified social classes from the poor. Ascetics who shared this perspective faced a choice when renouncing all worldly possessions in pursuit of spiritual perfection, one not merely about luxury, but also about status
E.T. Dailey, Justin Pigott
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Defining a Good Death in the Intensive Care Unit: A Systematic Review. [PDF]

Indian J Palliat Care
Hafifah I, Wisesrith W, Ua-Kit N, Ho BM.
europepmc   +1 more source