Abstract This article applies a democratic professional lens to John Boswell's How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State: Weapons of the Meek at the Frontlines of Public Services (OUP, 2026). Democratic professionalism is defined as an approach that enables public services professionals to work more democratically with clients and other public ...
Jane Lethbridge
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Introduction: On the fickleness of friendship Introduction : de l'inconstance en amitié
In this Introduction to the special section, I provide a brief overview of the anthropology of friendship, particularly from the 1960s to the present, before focusing on the four articles that form the main body of the section. I argue that anthropologists who do not regard themselves as specialists in friendship will still find much to gain from ...
Simon Coleman
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State-Dependent Remodeling of Astrocytic Proteome and Phosphorylation Signaling Networks Across Wake, Sleep, and General Anesthesia. [PDF]
Su M +9 more
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Who Is a Patriotic Man? Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in Modern Iran
ABSTRACT This article examines the analytical viability of the concept of “hegemonic masculinity” in the historical study of masculinities in early‐twentieth‐century Iran (c.1890–1941). It argues that a radical problematizing of the concepts of hegemony, class, “the West,” and patriotism helps us move beyond the binaries of Western‐Iranian and modern ...
Ali Hashemian
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An assessment of cetacean welfare in the Faroe Islands' drive hunt. [PDF]
Simmons AG +3 more
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ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
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Old theory, new evidence: inhalational anesthetics disrupt a collective quantum state of intraneuronal microtubules to cause unconsciousness. [PDF]
Wiest MC.
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Prevalence and associated factors of self-reported lifetime epilepsy symptoms in an older population in Russia: the Ural Very Old Study. [PDF]
Bikbov MM +7 more
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Ectopic hepatocellular carcinoma metastasizing to the brain with initial presentation as tumor stroke syndrome: a case report. [PDF]
Li H, Wang D.
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Optimizing hyperbaric oxygen initiation time in carbon monoxide poisoning: a 3-hour window enhances neurological recovery via lactate clearance. [PDF]
Xu D, Xu X, Sun H, Xu J, Fei D, Shen Y.
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