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How Are “Financial Balances” Financed? Wicksell, (Keynes) and the US Mainstream Don't Fit Today's Institutions; Kalecki, Triffin, and Minsky Got it Right

Metroeconomica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper examines the financial balances of the US economy. Government is the main borrower and households and the foreign sector the main lenders. Business net lending is minimal. The balances and their underlying transactions contradict the loanable funds theory and its “global savings glut” variation.
Michalis Nikiforos, Lance Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

Association of weight-adjusted waist index with preserved ratio impaired spirometry and all-cause mortality

Frontiers in Nutrition
BackgroundPreserved ratio impaired spirometry (PRISm) is considered an early indicator of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This study aimed to investigate the association between weight-adjusted waist index (WWI) and PRISm, and the impact of
Xin Jiao, Xin Jiao, Xin Jiao, Linqi Huang, Luoqi Lin, Luoqi Lin, Luoqi Lin, Fanggang Zhu, Fanggang Zhu, Fanggang Zhu, Feiting Fan, Feiting Fan, Feiting Fan, Jingmin Xiao, Jingmin Xiao, Jingmin Xiao, Lei Wu, Lei Wu, Lei Wu, Lin Lin, Lin Lin, Lin Lin, Yuanbin Chen, Yuanbin Chen, Yuanbin Chen   +24 more
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Multiculturalism, Majority Rights and the Established Culture

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent critiques of multiculturalism contend that it is the ethnic or cultural majority in Western democracies that is now most vulnerable to cultural and identity dissolution, thus entitling it to majority rights on much the same grounds that multiculturalists defend minority rights. These critiques follow and perpetuate the binary opposition
Geoffrey Brahm Levey
wiley   +1 more source

National Colonialism: Nation‐State, Colonialism and Colonisation of Kurdistan

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article develops the concept of ‘national colonialism’ to capture colonial relations in the nation‐state form. It does so through a critical appraisal of the concept of ‘internal colonialism’, which largely fails to explain the links between nationalism and colonial relations.
Behnam Amini
wiley   +1 more source

Food Apartheid on the Virginia Peninsula: Serial Forced Displacement Meets Serial Environmental Racism

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Since 2013, the state of Virginia has pursued two significant initiatives: a commemoration of the forcible arrival of Africans in 1619 and a state‐level council to address food deserts. Yet, there has been little discussion of their interconnections. We ask what role might this 400‐year history play in the existence of food deserts today?
Travis T. Harris, Amy A. Quark, Amber Bowman, Morgan Pincombe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Visually Attending to black Senses of Place Through “Everyday Things” in White City, West London

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract This paper shares a practice‐related rendering of Katherine McKittrick's conceptional notion “a black sense of place” by reflecting on visual practices adopted in my research project, “Everyday Things: Visualising Young Black Adults’ Experiences in White City”.
Nathaniel Télémaque
wiley   +1 more source

Gender differences in weight-adjusted waist index in elderly inhabitants of a geriatric center [PDF]

Folia Medica
Introduction and aim: Weight-adjusted waist index (WWI) represents a novel anthropometric measure for assessing obesity. Bearing in mind that there is insufficient data in the literature regarding gender differences in WWI values, the aim of the current ...
Amila Huremović, Amela Dervišević, Orhan Lepara, Amina Valjevac, Asija Začiragić   +4 more
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Weight-adjusted-waist index is positively associated with urinary incontinence: results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2001–2018

European Journal of Medical Research
Background Urinary incontinence (UI) is closely related to obesity. The aim of this study is to evaluate the association of a novel anthropometric indicator weight-adjusted-waist index (WWI) with UI.
Shangqi Cao, Xu Hu, Yaxiong Tang, Kang Wu, Weixiao Yang, Xiang Li   +5 more
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Joint association of weight-adjusted waist index and serum cotinine levels with systemic inflammatory index in adults

BMC Public Health
Background Systemic immune inflammation index (SII) and systemic inflammation response index (SIRI) have recently emerged as more comprehensive indicators of systemic inflammation.
Yican Wang, Wanting He, Yong Zhou, Xiaoqiang Qiu, Qian Liao, Peng Tang   +5 more
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The relationship between weight-adjusted waist index and peripheral artery disease

Frontiers in Nutrition
BackgroundObesity is a significant risk factor for peripheral arterial disease (PAD). The weight-adjusted waist index (WWI) is a novel obesity metric that better reflects abdominal obesity than traditional body mass index (BMI).
Zhe Wu, Yang Liu, Bin Wang
doaj   +1 more source