The Death of American Studies by Simon J. Bronner

“…The essay posits that the American Studies movement as it was conceptualized within the American Studies Association in the United States went into decline in the late twentieth century, largely because of the association’s inability, or unwillingness, to resolve differences between “Americanist” research-based scholars, many international, working within an American Studies tradition identified by Dorson and those coming to it from outside American Studies supposedly following “critical” thought. …”
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Beyond the Convergence-Divergence Divide: Comparing Banking Regulation in Latin America by Mario Schapiro

“…Abstract Over the last few decades, the rivalry between regulatory convergence and divergence has dominated scholarly debate. In accordance with this divide, countries tend to either converge toward Basel rules, becoming globally standardized players, or diverge from them, leaving their local institutions untouched, particularly within developmental States. …”
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Immersivity: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Spaces of Immersion by Florian Freitag, Céline Molter, Laura Katharina Mücke, Helena Rapp, Damien B. Schlarb, Elisabeth Sommerlad, Clemens Spahr, Dominic Zerhoch

“…This article proposes to shift the scholarly focus from the conceptually, terminologically, and methodologically fuzzy notion of “immersion” to the concept of “immersivity,” and thus from a discussion of experiences to an analysis of the productive forces that enable such experiences (aesthetic and otherwise). …”
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Risk Analysis of Waterlogging under Combination of Short-duration Heavy Rainfall and Tidal Level in Foshan City by YANG Fan, XU Liang, HAN Jing

“…With the rapid development of the urban agglomerations in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-MacaoGreater Bay Area, urban waterlogging has drawn great attention from society and scholars. In orderto explore the probability of waterlogging risks in a specific city and provide scientific basisfor the study of urban waterlogging risks in the Pearl River Delta region, from the perspective ofthe causes of waterlogging, this paper takes Foshan as a typical research area, systematicallyanalyzes the probability of encountering storms and high tide levels, constructs a probabilisticmodel for the risk of encounter of rainstorm and high tidal level in urban area of Foshan, andquantitatively evaluates the encounter probabilities and change trend under multiple combinationsof rainstrom and tidal levels in urban area of Foshan by the time-series trend analysis, stormfrequency change statistics, sequence wavelet analysis, and Copula function. …”
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Mechanical properties of the most common European woods: a literature review by Beatrice Bartolucci, Andrea De Rosa, Chiara Bertolin, Filippo Berto, Francesco Penta, Anna Maria Siani

“…The publications relating to the topic were found through the two search engines Scopus and Google Scholar that have yielded several papers, including articles and book sections. …”
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Degree Mobility in the Higher Education Context: Could the English Language be a Key Driver of Internationalisation? by Tuğba Elif Toprak Yıldız

“…While these pressures cement the position of English as the medium of instruction and scholarly activities, this article examines the possible relationships among internationalisation, degree mobility, Englishisation, and language policies in the light of the OECD 2019 and 2020 data. …”
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Social Mobility in the Balkans: Border Policing Practices Are Potentially Letting Through Mostly the Members of the “Elite Club” by Tibor Bardóczy

“…This topic is currently one of the most important ones among scholars from different fields of study, especially among social scientists. …”
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Systematic Review of Remote Sensing Prediction Models and Tools for Estimating Surface Soil Moisture Content of an Area by P. Yamakili, M. R. Nicholaus, K. A. Greyson

“…Hence, the objective of this paper was to systematically review remote sensing (RS) prediction models and tools for estimating surface soil moisture (SM) content of an area using different scholar ‘s methodologies, and their performance. Survey of previous studies have highlighted some general areas and explored RS methods for soil moisture estimation, focusing on both active and passive sensors. …”
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Rituals and Social Cohesion: Cultural Preservation Through Djawa Sunda Cosmology in Cigugur, Kuningan, Indonesia by Muhammad Alfan

“…The application of this research provides insights for scholars and policymakers interested in cultural preservation and religious pluralism in indigenous communities. …”
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"He Has Rescued Me from Danger" by Sarah Bishop

“…The secondary goal is to explore resonances between their accounts and scholarly observations about potential roles of music-making in trauma resilience across disciplines. …”
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An extensive examination of the influence of financial technology (Fintech) on advancing financial inclusion: a bibliometric investigation by Varun Kesavan, Aruna Polisetty

“…The forthcoming research has the potential to enlighten and influence regulators, politicians, and future scholars.…”
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PHUBBING BEHAVIOR IN THE QUR’AN: A THEMATIC STUDY OF THE OPINIONS OF INDONESIAN MUFASSIR by Alisa Aura Zanuba, Musolli Musolli

“…Primary sources include interpretations by Indonesian scholars such as Quraish Shihab and Buya Hamka, while secondary sources consist of literature related to the discussion. …”
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Building an African Counter-Terrorism Architecture by Jolaade Omede, Arinze Ngwube

“…Thus, the search for practical solutions has been a challenge to scholars, state functionaries, and even attack victims. …”
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Encoding Crime and Punishment in TEI: The Digital Processing of Early Modern Broadsheets from Vienna by Claudia Resch, Daniel Schopper, Tanja Wissik, Daniela Fasching

“…The broadsheets, entitled “Death Sentences,” belong to a little-explored genre of print media distributed to advertise public executions and have not been subject to closer scholarly examination before now. In their investigation of the sources, the ACDH employs a mixed-method approach combining traditional and digital methods. …”
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Legal analysis of the procedure for the formation of the law of the republic of Indonesia by Mustamin Mustamin, Muhammad Azhar Nur

“…This research uses a descriptive normative approach, namely by explaining or legislation, legal theories, the teachings of the science of law as well as the opinions of leading scholars. The result of this study show that the process of forming laws and regulations in Indonesia is still facing various obstacles so that to finalize a product of the legislative body's law together with the government requires a relatively long time. …”
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Healthcare Access vs. Quality Healthcare: Rethinking Healthcare Risks by Augustine Kumah

“…ObjectivesThis narrative literature review examines the global burden of mortalities due to poor quality care compared to mortalities resulting from lack of access to healthcare, focusing on the period from 2015 to 2024.MethodsData was extracted from electronic databases such as PubMed, Google Scholar, Scopus, Ebscohost, and WHO. Relevant statistics on mortality rates due to poor quality care and lack of access to healthcare from the identified data sources were extracted. …”
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DEMOCRACY AND THE FIGHT AGAINST LEADERSHIP CORRUPTION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: IMPLICATION FOR CONTINENTAL DEVELOPMENT by TAIWO FRANCIS AYOMOBA

“…There is a particular Nigeria’s current governance system. Scholars frequently see corruption as a fundamental impediment to growth and development. …”
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Écart et souveraineté dans les essais de Ralph Waldo Emerson by Mathieu Duplay

“…The role of the Emersonian « scholar » is to testify to its existence and to remind the « devout » followers of Truth that nothing true could be said were it not for this impersonal Outside which all speech invokes. « I » cannot speak at all, let alone ask questions or answer them truthfully, unless some account has been taken, from a position of exteriority, of the simple fact of language, which affirms nothing save for the promise that, thanks to it, something—anything—can be said.…”
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For Good Reason: Analyzing How Students Define Difficulty in RateMyProfessor.com Comments by Alexis Teagarden, Michael Carlozzi

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Relationship between empathy and burnout as well as potential affecting and mediating factors from the perspective of clinical nurses: a systematic review by Hongyan Zhou

“…A literature search of four electronic databases including CINAHL (EBSCO), EMBASE, PubMed, and Google Scholar was conducted from 2014 to 2024. A total of 1081 articles were identified in the initial search. …”
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