Translocality, Remittances, and Food Security in the Ghana-Qatar Migration Corridor by Bernard Owusu, Jonathan Crush

“… This paper examines the impact of migrant remittances on household food security in the Ghana-Qatar migration corridor. Drawing on a 2023 survey of migrant-sending households in Ghana and in-depth qualitative interviews with migrants in Qatar, the study explores the characteristics, determinants, and patterns of remitting. …”
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L’État et la politique de prévention des risques en phase post-catastrophe : le cas de la révision du PPRN de Saint-Martin by Denis Crozier, Gwenaël Jouannic, Chloé Tran Duc Minh, Mélodie Choureau, Joséphine Meslier

“…The analysis is based in particular on a comparison of the process of drawing up previous regulatory documents on this territory, in order to highlight the difficulties of applying strategic planning to this very small island territory. …”
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« C’est une pièce qui rentre dans une autre pièce » : Normer les corps par l’éducation à la santé sexuelle en Suisse romande by Marlyse Debergh, Sophie Torrent

“…Drawing upon two ethnographic studies conducted in Western Switzerland – in a sexual education service for disabled people, and in a sexual health centre for the general public – this article demonstrates how gender is constructed through sexual health education. …”
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Analysing olfactory and auditory sensescapes in English cities: Sensory expectation and urban environmental perception by Neil Bruce, Jenna Condie, Victoria Henshaw, Sarah R. Payne

“…This paper examines the role of sensory expectation in people’s experiences and perceptions of a range of different urban environments in English towns and cities by focussing upon those related to smell and sound specifically. It draws from two separate but related sensewalking studies undertaken between 2004 and 2009: one exploring urban smell experiences, the other examining urban sound experiences. …”
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History of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) test guidelines for non-animal test methods in Japan by Hajime Kojima

“…This review describes trends in the OECD and Japan that mainly focus on international standardizations of non-animal test methods for human health. Drawing from this experience, I hope Japan will advance new approach methodologies for detecting systemic toxicity, which are in global demand.…”
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The Ariege ‘Refuge’: Advantage and Diversity of a Host Topography by William Berthomière, Christophe Imbert

“…While this formulation may seem outdated, von Humboldt’s reflection remarkably still resonates more than a century and a half later with recent events in mountainous areas affected by European migration policies and border control. Drawing on the life histories of refugee activists in the French department of Ariège, we reveal a complex territoriality that, depending on the spaces considered, produces singular and distinct forms of mobilisation, inherited from past migratory experiences, the engagement of neo-rurals and the social networks linking mountains, valleys, piedmont towns and the Toulouse conurbation. …”
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La “familizzazione” dell’impresa: alcune riflessioni sul familismo imprenditoriale in Brianza nella crisi economica attuale by Simone Ghezzi

“…Drawing on a ethnographic research in an area characterized by a dense network of small family-run firms this article looks at the transformation of such enterprises and at their inner relations. …”
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Mapeamento para o zoneamento ecológico do território de Alagoas, Brasil. by Ajibola Isau Badiru, Nubia Dias dos Santos, Ronaldo Gomes Alvim, Alexandre Felipe de Vasconcelos

“…This article reports on the main natural segments of the Alagoan territory and presents a rational technique that portrays the landscape in a comprehensive sectoral drawing, based on topology. Due to the natural ecological order, there are few studies that demonstrate the hydro space modeling of the mini-catchments, which are exactly the spatial substrate that shows the physiographic nature of the place. …”
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Responsibility, refusal, and return: Thoughts on an ethics of inclination by K. van Marle

“… In this article written in honour of Desmond Tutu, I raise inclination as put forward by Cavarero, together with disorientation/reorientation, as per Ahmed and Honig, to think differently about law, rule of law, and legal culture. Drawing on Ndebele, Klare and Van der Walt, I consider inclination as being also about abandoning those vertical and upright certitudes acquired by habit and culture. …”
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Introduction: Enquiries into Contemporary Ritual Landscapes by Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen, Eleonora A. Lundell, Marja-Liisa Honkasalo

“…‘Landscape’ and ‘ritual’ have been largely discussed in the social and human sciences, although their inter-relatedness has gained li le scholarly a ention. Drawing on earlier studies of ritual and landscape, as well as the authors’ own ethnographic works, ‘ritual landscape’ is suggested here as a useful analytical tool with which to understand how landscapes are produced, and how they, in their turn, produce certain types of being. …”
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Satirical Frame of Mind: Ken Kalfus’s A Disorder Peculiar to the Country and the Literary Engagement with 9/11 by Katherina Dodou

“…By way of Ken Kalfus’s A Disorder Peculiar to the Country (2006), I show how literary satire on 9/11 is neither straightforward nor merely a means of political attack. Drawing on recent satire theory that views the satirical mode as unruly, various, and open-ended, I suggest that a closer look to the mixed intentions of this novel presents an opportunity to explore the dynamic between denunciation and comic relief in literary satire on 9/11 and opens the way for a more complex understanding of the operation and affordances of literary 9/11 satire.…”
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Exploring Development Challenges in Uganda Using Modernization Theory by Gloria Nambassa, Eko Priyo Purnomo

“…Modernization theories are typically categorized into 'critical variable' and 'dichotomous' approaches, each defining modernization through specific social changes or the acquisition of modern attributes by traditional societies. Drawing on works by theorists like Schwartz and Levy, the critique examines how these frameworks inadequately capture Uganda's complex modernization realities. …”
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From the Cytoplasm into the Nucleus—Hepatitis B Virus Travel and Genome Repair by Johan Ringlander, Gustaf E. Rydell, Michael Kann

“…This review will explore the current knowledge of HBV intracytoplasmic and nuclear transport, as well as genome repair processes, while drawing comparisons to other viruses with nuclear replication.…”
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Application Research on Three-dimension Design of Gate Station Engineering Based on BIM Technology by LI Rang, HUANG Jinpeng, HU Xubao, CHEN Weihua, ZHANG Zhouwen

“…With the continuous promotion of BIM technology in civil and hydraulic engineering in China,the civil and hydraulic design industry has ushered in a new wave of technologies.Given the typical gate station projects in the Pearl River Delta region,the design and application research based on BIM is carried out.The concept of BIM technology and its application status in the water conservancy and hydropower industry are analyzed.Besides,the preparatory work before carrying out BIM design for gate station projects is described,and the various applications of BIM design such as parametric modeling,calculation and analysis,drawing and quantity,and scheme reporting are also introduced.Through this practice,the effectiveness of BIM technology in gate station engineering design is verified,which provides BIM application ideas for related engineering projects.…”
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Evaluation of the Development of Fintech-Served Real Economy Based on Fintech Improvement by Mingxiang Zhou, Xiaoyan Zheng

“…Then, fuzzy c-means (FCM) clustering was performed to discretize continuous indices. Drawing on matter-element theories, the authors created the classic domain and node domain of FtRE, as well as the evaluation objects of real economy, calculated the correlation between each factor affecting development level and evaluated development level, and computed the weight coefficient of each index. …”
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Revolutionary Climatology: Rings of Saturn, Ringed by Red Lightning by Sarah K. Stanley

“…The main case involving architectural theory considers how Benjamin redeployed Sigfried Giedion and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy’s Building in France as a media environment, drawing upon its layout design, photo illustrations and textual systems. …”
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FATIGUE STRENGTH ANALYSIS OF CONNECTING ROD BOLT FOR LARGE POWER DIESEL ENGINE by LU YaoHui, XIANG PengLin, XIE Ning, FENG Zhen

“…On this basis,the result post-processing program was complied,and the fatigue strength of the bolts was assessed by drawing the bolt material Goodman fatigue curve. The results indicate the rigidity and static strength and the fatigue strength are all within the allowable range; the maximum stress is located in the first level thread,and the most dangerous place of fatigue damage is located in the bolt head.While the static strength and rigidity meet the requirement,using fatigue strength analysis method can find the failure position correctly. …”
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A SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS ON THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF SURAH AL QIYAMAH USING TREE DIAGRAMS by Alfini Iasya Putri

“…In this research, the researcher analyzed syntactical patterns of the whole verses (ayah) in the English translation of surah Al Qiyamah, which has 40 ayah, using tree diagrams theory to be able drawing and seeing hierarchical syntax structure of the verses in the surah. …”
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In the Garden of Anthropos by Katerina Labrou, Christos Montsenigos

“…In the face of the ongoing environmental collapse, we envision the garden as a new locus for symbiotic attachment and original exchange between human and non-human ecologies. Drawing on the garden metaphor, we discuss the conceptual and ecological impacts of human stewardship of the environment. …”
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Mandatory CSR disclosure regulation and stock price synchronicity: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment by Chuang Wu

“…Abstract Using the mandatory CSR disclosure policy enacted in China as a quasi-natural experiment, this study provides causal evidence that mandatory CSR disclosure regulation increases stock price synchronicity. Drawing upon signaling theory and behavioral finance perspective, I argue that mandatory CSR disclosure regulation as a market level signal may affect investors’ category-learning behavior, which can further have a positive impact on stock price synchronicity. …”
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