The Great Vietnamese Famine of 1944-45 Revisited by Geoffrey Gunn

“…While more recent understandings2 recognize that famines are mostly man-made, it is also true that in ecologically vulnerable zones, alongside natural disasters, war and conflict often tilts the balance between sustainability and human disaster.3 Allowing the contingency of natural cause as a predisposing factor for mass famine, this article revisits the Vietnam famine of 1944-45 in light of flaws in human agency (alongside willful or even deliberate neglect) as well as destabilization stemming from war and conflict. …”
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Factors that influence the choice of long-acting reversible contraceptive use among adolescents post-abortion in Chongqing, China: a cross-sectional study by Fengzhen Jin, Yuanpei Yang, Junjie Sun, Ruiyue Li, Fei Yao, Xiaoli Liu

“…Logistic regression analysis was used to determine the factors affecting adolescent LARC choices following induced abortions.Results The factors that affected adolescent LARC choices included an average monthly income ≥ ¥3000 (OR = 3.432, 95% CI: 1.429∼8.244), history of previous abortions (OR = 3.141, 95% CI: 1.632∼6.045), worrying about unplanned pregnancy (OR = 0.365, 95% CI: 0.180∼0.740), parental support for using LARC (OR = 3.549, 95% CI: 1.607∼7.839), sexual partners’ support for using LARC (OR = 2.349, 95% CI: 1.068∼5.167), concerns about using LARC (OR = 0.362, 95% CI: 0.176∼0.745), and willingness to use free IUDs (OR = 13.582, 95% CI: 7.173∼25.717).Conclusion Cost is one of the factors affecting LARC choices. …”
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Exploring condition in which people accept AI over human judgements on justified defection by Hitoshi Yamamoto, Takahisa Suzuki

“…Abstract As artificial intelligence (AI) technology is introduced into different areas of society, understanding people’s willingness to accept AI decisions emerges as a critical scientific and societal issue. …”
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Royale Absence by Henri Justin

“…The moving force at the centre of “The Purloined Letter” is the spectral presence of the King, but a close reading of “The Purloined Letter” and “William Wilson” as rewritings of Hamlet reveals how much the play by Shakespeare partakes of the structure of the doppelgänger tale. …”
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Nursing students’ metaphorical perceptions of professional communication and the concept of nursing in their first clinical practice: qualitative research by Ayşegül Yıldız İçigen, Sinem Sönmez

“…Of the participants, 66.7% had chosen the nursing department willingly, and 57.1% had preferred it due to job opportunities. …”
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The Effect of Using Robot Waiters in Restaurants on Consumers' Behavioral Intentions by İbrahim Aydın, Zübeyir Çelik

“…In addition, the attitude towards using the robotic restaurant is a positive and important predictor of both the intention to use the robotic restaurants and the willingness to pay more to use the robotic restaurants. …”
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The genesis of modern Baltic nations and the nobility in the end of XVIII - first half of XIX c. (A comparative historical analysis) by Saulius Pivoras

“…Lithuanian nobility, on the contrary, showed some willingness to include people's culture into a common cultural perspective. …”
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Economic impact of road accidents on costs of employee turnover: A quantitative study from Poland by Agata Małgorzata Jaździk-Osmólska, Magdalena Kalbarczyk Kalbarczyk, Daniel Trzaskowski, Robert Wojtachnik, Adrianna Trzaskowska-Dmoch

“…Ultimately, it is worth looking closer at employees' willingness to buy insurance coverage if the risk of a loss of life or health due to a road accident is real and substantial. …”
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Bacteria in Cancer Therapy: Renaissance of an Old Concept by Sebastian Felgner, Dino Kocijancic, Michael Frahm, Siegfried Weiss

“…Interestingly, the idea to apply bacteria wittingly or unwittingly dates back to ancient times and was revived in the 19th century mainly by the pioneer William Coley. This review summarizes and compares the results of the past 150 years in bacteria mediated tumor therapy from preclinical to clinical studies. …”
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Legitimacy as a limiting factor of political utility of military power by Milenković Miloš R., Vračar Milinko S.

“…The willingness of the population to make the sacrifice that the use of force entails is a measure of the legitimacy of military power. …”
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Greening up the City with Native Species: Challenges and Solutions by Amy Hardberger, Danielle Craig, Catherine Simpson, Robert D. Cox, Gad Perry

“…We identify three main impediments: the perception of native species as less aesthetically pleasing, the availability of native plants in the nursery industry, and the willingness of policymakers to take supportive measures. …”
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Do we need mother tongue language maintenance in Aceh? Voices from the school setting by Mulyani Mulyani, Ika Kana Trisnawati, Syarfuni Syarfuni, Mulyadi Syahputra, Sariakin Sariakin, Rosdiana Rosdiana

“…The survey was distributed via Google Forms to 217 schoolteachers selected through voluntary sampling in Aceh, while interviews were conducted with seven teachers who willingly participated in the study. The results indicate that most teachers agree on maintaining the use of local languages in schools. …”
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#RAINMUSTFALL – A THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION ON DROUGHT, THIRST, AND THE WATER OF LIFE by Nadia Marais

“…This paper argues that the theological rhetoric of water is embedded in soteriological imagination, which requires remembering – through the sacrament of baptism – the significance of the giving God who wills human and ecological flourishing.2 Moreover, it is argued that the good news of salvation brings rhetoric and ethics, doctrine and life, into a dynamic communicative process, so that water, as that which is freely given by God, has nothing less than abundant life or ecological and human flourishing as its apparent intended focus. …”
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High-Velocity Impact Behaviour of Prestressed Composite Plates under Bird Strike Loading by Sebastian Heimbs, Tim Bergmann

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Historical-Philosophical Components of Policy and Mo-Rality Relations by Dmytro V. Usov

“…It is shown that the landscape of contemporary crisis of social being, moral principles appear both as formal and procedurally - material ones, but the necessary for politicians mental attitude not only to their close, but also to other people requires the willingness to be honest and open. Conclusions. The understanding of the ways of combining the morality and politics through the achievements of a compromise of completive views and life strategies is essential for the development of real, but not apparent "legal state" in which the ruling authority represents not the interests of citizens, but only their own interests and goods. …”
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Provision of payments for ecosystem services to reduce air pollution: Case of Tehran by Morteza Tahamipour Zarandi, Mina Moghise

“…For this purpose, we have investigated the owners’ willingness to participate in PES, the cost of replacing the converters and Tehran residents’ willingness to pay to reduce air pollution. …”
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Moderating role of age in the relationship between ingroup range and intention to help during the COVID-19 pandemic. by Inyeong Lee, Hyekyung Park

“…This study explored the relationship between the ingroup range of individuals and their willingness to assist various social groups during the COVID-19 pandemic and whether or not age moderates this relationship. …”
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Serial mediating role of transformational leadership and perception of artificial intelligence use in the effect of employee happiness on innovative work behaviour in nurses by Ferhat Onur Agaoglu, Murat Bas, Sinan Tarsuslu, Lokman Onur Ekinci

“…The happiness levels of nurses at the workplace can positively affect their innovative work behaviors and their willingness to make a positive difference in patient care. …”
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The Back Mutation in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide by Fırat Yıldız

“…She has made peace with her cultural values. She is willing to embrace her mother tongue and culture. …”
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Shared mechanisms of enhanced plasmid maintenance and antibiotic tolerance mediated by the VapBC toxin:antitoxin system by Sarah Hollingshead, Gareth McVicker, Maria R. Nielsen, YuGeng Zhang, Giulia Pilla, Rebekah A. Jones, Jonathan C. Thomas, Sarah E. H. Johansen, Rachel M. Exley, Ditlev E. Brodersen, Christoph M. Tang

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