(Re)constructing Homelands Between Precarity and Intentionality: Syrian Armenians in Armenia by Sossie Kasbarian

“…While previous studies have acknowledged the economic, social, and political challenges of settling in Armenia, the 2020 war in Artsakh/Nagorno Karabakh and its continuing reverberations at both the local and the wider geopolitical levels add a layer of critical precarity that is qualitatively different. …”
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IMPACT OF GOVERNANCE AND ECONOMIC FACTORS ON INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT IN WEST AFRICA by Oluwaseun Isiaka Adekoya, Musa Ilias Biala

“…The governance factors considered are control of corruption, government effectiveness, quality of governance, regulatory quality, rule of law, political stability and absence of violence as well as voice and accountability, while the economic factors are income per capita, unemployment rate, tax burden, inflation rate, and household spending. …”
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THE EFFECT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE ON INCOME INEQUALITY: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL PANEL DATA ANALYSIS by Abdullah Takım, Sena Gültekin

“…Even if macroeconomic indicators such as economic growth, foreign trade, inflation, employment have improved in certain periods, regardless of the economic model applied and the level of development, income inequality at the global level, aside from decreasing, continues to be a political, social, demographic, ethical and economic problem. …”
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The attitude of the People’s Labor Union of Russian Solidarists and its subsidiaries to national administrative construction in 1987–1998 by M. S. Novikov

“…The analysis of the organization’s documents, memoirs of its participants, and party journalism allow us to conclude that the lack of a unified program for the transformation of the country, focusing primarily on criticism of the Soviet experience, led to the transformation of the organization into a «discussion club» with further disappearance from the political life of the country. However, the created atmosphere of rejection of the national administrative reforms of the USSR led the solidarists and their supporters to justify and glorify the dissolution of the USSR, the loss of a number of territories and the creation of numerous points of confrontation between the federal government and the subjects of the federation.…”
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DEVELOPMENT OF THE EXTERNAL ENERGY POLICY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION by N. Y. Kaveshnikov

“…Among priority activities of the EU external energy policy one could identify ‘export’ of energy market provisions in neighbor countries; diversification of suppliers and prioritization of politically selected supply routes; dramatic increase of regulatory activity at EU level. …”
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Impact of the contextual factors regarding the COVID-19 pandemic on bereavement: an integrative review of the literature from a bioethical perspective by Luciana Soares Rosas, Mary Rute Gomes Esperandio

“…Bioethics presents itself as a locus of interdisciplinary discussion for a more profound understanding of the complex specificities and, based on the social and political responsibility of Protection Bioethics to protect vulnerable populations, it is recommended to mental health professionals who intentionally explore the impacts of the pandemic on the grieving process. …”
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Characterizing the Structure of the Railway Network in China: A Complex Weighted Network Approach by Weiwei Cao, Xiangnan Feng, Jianmin Jia, Hong Zhang

“…Unlike the common feature of a scale-free network, the most connected nodes in CRN are not necessarily the most central due to underlying geographical, political, and socioeconomic factors. We proposed an integrated measure based on the four centrality measures to identify the global role of each node and the multilayer structure of CRN and confirm that stable connections hold between different layers of CRN.…”
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Mise en scène du paysage montagnard et valorisation sélective des patrimoines dans une vallée pyrénéenne en reconversion économique by Pierre Dérioz, Philippe Bachimon, Maud Loireau

“…The closure in 2003 of the electro-metallurgical plant of Auzat in Vicdessos (Pyrenean region of Ariège, France) marked the end of a century of industrial history. The political initiative of conducting a reconversion based on tourism and the deployment of a diversified range of recreational activities in the middle of the countryside (part I) was promoted by a consistent message on a regional scale focusing on the concept of a “nature sports resort” (part II). …”
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How Poor Leadership Skills Elicit Unethical Behavior: Evidence from Public Organizations by Abderrahmane Benlahcene, Houcine Meddour

“…Global political and financial entities have witnessed many scandals linked to leaders’ unethical behavior. …”
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State-of-the-Art Review of Emerging Trends in Renewable Energy Generation Technologies by Hans Tiismus, Vahur Maask, Victor Astapov, Tarmo Korotko, Argo Rosin

“…Renewable energy generation sector has grown rapidly over the past decade, driven by increasing investments, heightened political and public support, and advancements in technology. …”
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Regional Press and Local Authority Structures: History of Its Establishment and Relations (1930–2000). On the example of the Omsk Region by S. V. Novikov

“…After the collapse of the Soviet political system, temporarily freed the editorial board from the influence of the regional leadership. …”
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Smart cities as a factor of economic growth: system analysis and development prospects by A. F. Garifullina, E. N. Krainova

“…The main obstacle to building smart cities in Russia is the lack of clear political will both at the federal and regional levels. …”
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Aging Well and the Intersection of Flourishing, Connectedness, and Sense of Meaningfulness in a Changing World: Implications for Personal and Societal Responsibility by Aslı Gözde Akış, Nilüfer Korkmaz Yaylagül, Terence Seedsman

“…Consequently, a deeper understanding of aging well and its promotion throughout the life course is urgently needed, including the existential aspects of aging well and the social, political, economic, and environmental forces that influence the level of health and well-being of people.…”
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Overcoming ideology-consistent biases: does it help to make things easier? by Philip U. Gustafsson, Torun Lindholm, Freja Isohanni, Ola Svenson, Sophia Appelbom

“…In the experiments, participants solved numerical problems that were either framed in a politically polarized (the effects of Muslim prayer rooms on support for Islamic extremism) or a neutral setting (the effects of a skin cream on skin rash). …”
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RESULTS OF RESEARCH INTO CO LOA CITADEL (2007 - 2014): MATERIALS AND DISCUSSION by Trịnh Hoàng Hiệp

“…Therefore, the workload must have been of a level indicative of a social system with a centralized politic entity functioning as a primitive state. The research into the building techniques, scale, and architecture of the citadel demonstrates the Vietnamese style, which was very different from the Han style. …”
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The Influence of Abrahamic Faiths in the Religious Pluralism Agenda in Malaysia by Rahim Kamarul Zaman, Mujahid Mohammad Fadzil, Hamid Fahmy Zarkasyi

“…The study's findings indicated that Religious Pluralism, especially within the framework of the Abrahamic Faiths, is part of an organised international political agenda under the global network of Liberalism. …”
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Alternative inflation rates by T. I. Gordievich, P. V. Ruzanov

“…First of all, this level of inflation plays the role of a politically correct social indicator. Despite the low CPI level, there is an opinion in society about higher inflation. …”
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“So the Last Will Be First”: Cancel Culture as an Instrument of Symbolic Policy by Daniil A. Anikin, Dina D. Ivanova

“…This approach allows us to go beyond traditional ethical and political frameworks, connecting cancel culture to the processes of building collective identity through social exclusion and ostracism. …”
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Emotion regulation contagion drives reduction in negative intergroup emotions by Michael Pinus, Yajun Cao, Eran Halperin, Alin Coman, James J. Gross, Amit Goldenberg

“…To test the viability of this option, we designed an experiment to examine the impact of emotion regulation applied to different proportions of groups of six Israeli participants (N = 2659) who shared real-time responses to negative emotions-inducing political stimuli. Before interacting with each other, we treated different proportions of each group with an emotion regulation intervention called cognitive reappraisal, which involved teaching participants to reinterpret events to reduce negative emotions. …”
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RETRACTED: Pengaruh jumlah pohon, produktivitas dan upah pekerja penyadapan getah pinus terhadap penerimaan negara di Kabupaten Simalungun by Benteng H Sihombing, Tioner Purba

“…It appears that minimal work (if any) was conducted at the new institution, so the affiliation should reflect where the work was originally done. Politically, the new institution may want to claim the new publication, and the author might want to assist with this. …”
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