War and memory in ancient Greece: Phokis, Thessaly and Persia
What were the two stratagems employed by the Phokians, as described by Herodotos, and what were the outcomes of these tactics?
On Political Misogyny
Do political scientists underestimate the impact of vitriolic speech and gender bias on women in politics, and how does political misogyny affect their collective identities and structural obstacles?
Can International Investment Agreements Advance the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals?
How can International Investment Agreements (IIAs) be reformed to align with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and address the $4 trillion annual funding gap needed to achieve them?
Homophily: Measures and Meaning
What is homophily, and why is it considered a fundamental pattern in human relationships?
Preparing for export opportunities
How do firms prepare their workforce for exporting, and what role do skilled workers with export experience play in shaping export success?
Reactionary Mathematics: A Genealogy of Purity
How did the Neapolitan rejection of French analysis in the early 19th century shape modern mathematics and its political role?
OECD countries’ twin long-run challenge
How do aging populations and environmental degradation affect savings rates in OECD countries?
Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins
How does Black Panther Woman challenge traditional narratives about the Black Panther Party and highlight the role of spiritual wellness in political resistance?
The Black PhD Experience
What challenges and structural barriers do Black doctoral students face in UK higher education?
The Topology of Quantum Theory and Social Choice
How do the topological singularities in quantum event spaces provide a unified explanation for quantum phenomena and social choice paradoxes, and what implications do they have for both physical and social sciences?
A female advantage? Gender patterning of psychological well-being among migrants and returnees in China
How does gender, combined with marriage, influence psychological well-being during rural-to-urban migration and return migration in China, and which groups are most vulnerable to negative impacts?
Mary of Teck: A Dutiful Consort
Who was Queen Mary of Teck (1867–1953), and how did her relationships, public role, and partnership with George V shape her legacy amidst empire challenges and family tensions?
China’s left-behind children: Parenting, caretaking, and struggles
How has the unprecedented rural-to-urban migration in China over the past three decades impacted the psychological well-being, family dynamics, and educational outcomes of “left-behind” children?
Anatomical and functional connectomes underlying hierarchical visual processing in mouse visual system
Why is the claustrum considered one of the least understood structures in the mammalian nervous system despite its extensive connectivity and involvement in high-cognitive processes
Nothing Permanent: Modern Architecture in California
How does the study of mid-century modern architecture in California between 1920 and 1970 reveal the diverse and often conflicting perspectives of its key practitioners?
The Potential Value of Habituation in the Fetus
How do studies of fetal habituation contribute to our understanding of central nervous system (CNS) development?
Japan in Focus
How is Japan navigating its economic future while balancing demographic shifts, rising inflation, and global trade challenges? What key policy shifts and structural changes will define the trajectory of Japan’s economy?
From 5G to 6G
Why are high-capacity directional wireless communication networks an active area of research, and what challenges arise in their design and implementation, particularly in terms of pointing, acquisition, and tracking (PAT) systems for both RF and FSO technologies?
Helping the ingroup versus harming the outgroup
Under what conditions does “ingroup love” turn into “outgroup hate,” particularly when group membership is based on moral (dis)similarity?
Clinical Supervision: A Competency-Based Approach
What is clinical supervision, and why is it important for mental health professionals?
Tackling Tax Evasion via Ghost Firms: Insights from Ecuador
How do ghost firms contribute to tax evasion, and what insights does transaction-level tax data from Ecuador provide about their prevalence and impact?
Industry Mix, Local Labor Markets, and the Incidence of Trade Shocks
How do skill transferability and local industry mix influence worker adjustment costs after a trade shock?
Inflation, Growth, and Trust: Can the Bank of England Meet the Moment?
How can the Bank of England balance inflation control with the pressures of a weakening job market and slow economic growth? With rising inflationary pressures and uncertainty over economic recovery, can the Bank navigate these conflicting challenges?
A Culturally Responsive School Leadership Approach to Developing Equity-Centered Principals
How can principal pipelines be designed to advance educational equity, particularly racial equity, by integrating the characteristics of equity-centered school leaders into their core domains?
Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte, and how did his determination, intelligence, and ambition drive France to conquer Europe
Affective Memory
How does affective response influence the encoding, updating, and retrieval of episodic memories, and what neural mechanisms underlie these processes?
Against Moral Rights
How does moral rights law, particularly the right of integrity, endanger contemporary art by enforcing outdated conceptions of art and authorship, and why does it conflict with modern artistic practices that value modification and destruction?
The Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia
What is the history and ecological complexity of malaria in Ethiopia, and why does its persistence require a comprehensive understanding of local dynamics and human-environment interactions?
Spencer’s Phenomenological Variant of Ecological Systems Theory (PVEST)
What is the origin and scholarly impact of Dr. Margaret Beale Spencer’s PVEST, and how does it integrate phenomenology?
Is Oxytocin “Nature’s Medicine”?
What is the significance of oxytocin, and why is it considered a crucial molecule for health, behavior, and adaptation?
Planet in Peril
What are the top four mega-dangers threatening humanity, and how can we address them?
Intoxicating Pleasures
How did alcohol’s cultural reinvention after the repeal of U.S. Prohibition in 1933 transform wine, beer, and whiskey into symbols of the American good life?
Did Bernini’s Ecstasy of St. Teresa cross a seventeenth-century line of decorum?
Is The Ecstasy of St. Teresa by Bernini his most controversial work, and did it transgress the boundaries of decorum as understood by seventeenth-century Catholicism?
Rankings without U.S. News: A revealed preference approach to evaluating law schools
How can law school rankings be improved to reflect students’ actual preferences?
Moravia, il Cinema, L’America
How did Alberto Moravia’s multifaceted relationship with cinema—spanning film criticism, screenwriting, and adaptations of his literary works—reflect and shape the cultural and social dynamics of post-war Italy, particularly in the context of Hollywood’s influence and the evolution of neorealism?