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US Life Expectancy and Increasing Mortality Rates: An Analysis of the Crisis

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points US life expectancy is shorter than in other high‐income countries and the gap has widened dramatically over time, driven in particular by rising mortality rates that threaten the probability that youth can survive to middle age, or even adulthood.
STEVEN H. WOOLF
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Philosophical and political aspects of constitutional human and civil rights and freedoms in Russian Federation

Современная наука и инновации
Introduction. The article examines the philosophical and political aspects of determining the essence of human and civil rights and freedoms in the Russian Federation.Goal.
A. G. Masalov
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Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
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Fleeting Feminism: The Singapore Women's Federation, Singapore Chinese Left‐Wing Feminism and Anti‐Colonial Nationalism, c. 1950s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1955, two female factory workers and trade union leaders, Tan Lee Eng and Kwek Tai Eng, established the Singapore Women's Federation (SWF) to unite women regardless of race, religion or class for the anti‐colonial nationalist struggle. Singapore Chinese left‐wing feminism emerged at the confluence of the nationalist interest in mobilising ...
Yee‐Ting Leong
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MIRACLE URBANIZATION: Spatial Production and Political Legitimation in the Sochi 2014 and Beijing 2022 Olympics

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract From desert ski resorts to subtropical Winter Games, there is a global proliferation of ‘mission‐impossible’ mega‐projects. The prevailing frameworks of city branding and urban entrepreneurism fail to explain the political logics behind these seemingly irrational projects.
Yiqiu Liu, Sven Daniel Wolfe
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Geofinance and Fragmentation: Wholesale Central Bank Digital Currencies

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), especially wholesale ones, were initially hailed as tools for frictionless global financial flows. Paradoxically, however, they are contributing to the fragmentation of the international financial system through the emergence of minilateral blocs of ‘friendly’ jurisdictions that have established, or ...
Lucia Quaglia, Amy Verdun
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The Unintended Effects of US Regulations on the Value of Cash Holdings of Non‐US Companies: Evidence from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's International Inspection Access

Abacus, EarlyView.
We investigate the effects of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's (PCAOB) international inspection access on the value of cash holdings for non‐US companies. Utilizing a difference‐in‐differences (DiD) research design, we find that investors assign significantly higher value to a non‐US company's cash holdings when the company's non‐US ...
Hsiao‐Tang Hsu, Huichi Huang, Yutao Li
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Towards Credible GHG Reporting: The Role of GHG Assurance and Assurance Providers in Firm Valuation

Abacus, EarlyView.
The demand for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions disclosures is rising globally; yet, the credibility of such information remains uncertain when assurance is not mandated. Drawing on a sample of firms from 43 countries, this study examines the role of GHG assurance and the choice of assurance provider in the market value effects of GHG emissions.
Sudipta Bose, Maria Balatbat, Wendy Green   +2 more
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Global Variation in Timing of Allergenic Food Introduction for Food Allergy Prevention: An International Survey of Healthcare Professionals

Allergy, EarlyView.
This study examines the current state of food allergy prevention guideline implementation worldwide, identifying key variables that may explain the observed global variation. Among 731 healthcare professionals across 80 countries, geography and clinical specialty independently drove allergenic food introduction practices, creating an 8.5‐month practice
Agnes Sze‐yin Leung, Elizabeth Huiwen Tham, Kiwako Yamamoto‐Hanada, Derek K. Chu, Matthew Norris, Daria Levina, Daniel Munblit, Lamia Dahdah, Luciana Kase Tanno, Carmen Riggioni, Elsy M. Navarrete‐Rodriguez, Michael E. Levin, Thulja Trikamjee, William Guo, Chun Tong Lei, Chun Pong Lau, Supinda Bunyavanich, Nikolaos G. Papadopoulos, Adnan Custovic, Christina West, Gary Wing‐kin Wong   +20 more
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The Role of Contractual Relations in the Formation of the Russian Federative State

Oriental Studies, 2018
The article deals with the formation and development of the model of federalism. The academic novelty is that it comprehensively studies three stages in the development of the Russian federative state: the political-transformational, constitutional ...
Alim I. Tetuev
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