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Heatwaves and Home Births: Understanding the Impact of Extreme Heat on Place of Delivery in India

open access: yesGeoHealth, Volume 9, Issue 11, November 2025.
Abstract We investigate the effect of extreme heat on home births in India, proposing that such extreme weather events may impede access to health facilities for childbirth. Utilizing geocoded data from the 2019–2021 Demographic and Health Survey for India, we identified the place of delivery of 208,368 births as home versus health facility.
Arnab K. Dey   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Medical Lysenkoism

open access: yesJournal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, Volume 31, Issue 5, August 2025.
Abstract Medicine is a compound field composed of science and art. The (necessary) degree to which the latter is involved opens medicine, in particular, to the introduction of ideas which do not, by their very nature, submit to confirmation or confutation as do the various methods of traditional science.
Steven K. Baker
wiley   +1 more source

What Is Wrong with Workism?

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 42, Issue 2, Page 668-682, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Workism is the phenomenon of people making their work the primary source of meaning and identity in their life. Recent critics of workism have argued that there is a growing trend towards it in many societies and that this is a bad thing. This article brings a philosophical perspective to the debate on workism. It develops a precise account of
Matthew Hammerton
wiley   +1 more source

A newly discovered Persian variety: the case of “Zoroastrian Persian”

open access: yesOrientalia Suecana, 2020
Using a corpus of contemporary Yazdi Zoroastrian oral literature, this article demonstrates that the Persian dialect found in many Zoroastrian songs is different from both Standard Persian and local (Yazdi) Persian.
Chams Bernard
doaj  

Epidemiology and treatment of Adamantiades–Behçet's disease in Germany: A healthcare claims database study

open access: yesJournal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 1017-1027, May 2025.
Epidemiology, associated comorbidities and current treatment patterns of Adamantiades–Behçet's disease in Germany. Abstract Background Adamantiades–Behçet's disease (ABD) is a rare, chronic, relapsing, multisystem vasculitis, with a reported prevalence of 0.9 out of 100,000 population in Germany in 2012.
C. C. Zouboulis   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Blueprint for a Universal Theory of Learning to Read: The Combinatorial Model

open access: yesReading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 2, April/May/June 2025.
The Reading Tree. Abstract In this essay, I outline some of the essential ingredients of a universal theory of reading acquisition, one that seeks to highlight commonalities while embracing the global diversity of languages, writing systems, and cultures.
David L. Share
wiley   +1 more source

Social Backgrounds of The Continuing Iranian Celebrations in The Islamic Early Centuries [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش‌های تاریخی ایران و اسلام, 2018
Durability of Nowruz ,Mehrgun and Sadeh celebrations, along with wide rituals that had part of the Iranian community identity was indebted to a number of factors of which the share of social backgrounds seems more important.
abolfazl razavi, hamid ashrafi
doaj   +1 more source

Conceptualizing culture critically: Examining perspectives from additional language teachers

open access: yesForeign Language Annals, Volume 58, Issue 1, Page 182-205, Spring 2025.
Abstract This paper presents the findings related to culture from an online survey with French as a second language (FSL) teachers (n = 45) about equity and antioppression in the Ontario FSL curriculum. FSL teachers defined culture and reflected on the link between language and culture and the role of students' cultures in FSL. Framed by an anti‐biased,
Marika Kunnas   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The parliament of the world's religions : who goes and why? : an empirical study of Barcelona 2004 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The Parliament of the World's Religions met in 1993 (Chicago), 1999 (Cape Town), 2004 (Barcelona) and 2009 (Melbourne). The 1993 declaration affirmed that a common set of core values is found in the teachings of religion that provide the conditions for a
Cargas, Sarita   +2 more
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What the golden rule teaches us about ethics

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 110, Issue 1, Page 201-225, January 2025.
Abstract The Golden Rule is regularly used in ordinary life, across many different cultures, to acquire new moral knowledge. At the same time, the Golden Rule is widely ignored both in ethics and metaethics because it seems to be an implausible normative theory.
Shane William Ward
wiley   +1 more source

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