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Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
Scholars in food and nutrition studies have urged for more research on how global diets are entering into new territories around the world, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region, about which less is known. In particular, there is concern as diet-related ...

Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
This article examines the visual and material dimensions of food packaging in the PANIERS project – a French solidarity food initiative providing subsidized organic produce to 1,200 low-income families through partnerships with 27 organic farms. While ...

Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
This article examines how food packaging communicates health and naturalness to Mexican consumers through design features, employing a historically-informed cultural framework. The research focuses on industrialized products made with dried corn flour, ...

Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
At one level, food packaging would seem to perform an intermediary function by interceding between producers and consumers. In this sense, product packaging could be conceptualized as market actors who ‘construct’ or ‘add’ value by mediating how goods are ...

Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
In the context of the rising emphasis on health and healthy dieting in China, this article focuses on the booming market of functional drinks. The global market for such drinks has grown steadily and currently big international producers as well as local ...

Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.

Urban Studies, Ahead of Print.
Debates on transport and mobility justice would be enriched by a more thorough and critical engagement with dignity. As dignity is a complex, contested and multi-faceted concept which has been theorised across multiple disciplines, its various dimensions ...

Urban Studies, Ahead of Print.
Street markets are specific relational urban settings, with rhythms of their own. This article addresses what sort of solidarities the fleeting relations of traders on street markets may generate. We expand Oosterlynk’s concept ofplace-basedsolidarity ...

Urban Studies, Ahead of Print.
In 2020, China launched its national Age-friendly Community Assessment Programme, aiming to certify 5000 communities by 2025 and potentially reaching over 50 million people. However, how these state-led objectives are translated into community-level ...

Urban Affairs Review, Ahead of Print.
Many U.S. cities are adopting ambitious climate adaptation and mitigation policies to transition toward greater resilience. Centering the needs of historically marginalized communities is a necessary component of this transition, but implementation of ...

Urban Affairs Review, Ahead of Print.
Integrating multidisciplinary and cross-sector inputs is essential to addressing environmental sustainability issues. Coordination, both within and across public organizations, is necessary in preparing for and responding to environmental threats. However,...

Urban Affairs Review, Ahead of Print.
Many cities across the country have moved their local elections to the same day as federal elections, improving voter turnout, particularly among marginalized groups. Skeptics, however, worry that election consolidation imports national polarization into ...

Urban Affairs Review, Ahead of Print.
Known as a “Black Mecca,” Atlanta, Georgia has been praised for its Black political leadership, historical significance, and rich cultural production. But in recent years, it has also faced criticism regarding the anti-democratic development process of “...

Ultrasound, Ahead of Print.
Objective:This exploratory cross-sectional study examined how muscle thickness and echo intensity of quadriceps and calf musculature are associated with maximal oxygen consumption (VO2max) in trained runners.Methods:Male and female runners (n= 25; 22 ± ...

Ultrasound, Ahead of Print.
Introduction:Ultrasound-guided microwave ablation is a minimally invasive alternative to surgery for symptomatic benign thyroid nodules, but most outcome data originates from East Asian centres, and evidence from European and Middle Eastern populations is ...

Trends in Hearing, Volume 30, January-December 2026.
Binaural fusion occurs when signals arriving separately at the two ears are perceived as one sound. Previously, it was shown that normal-hearing (NH) or hearing-impaired (HI) listeners fused and perceptually averaged dichotic vowels presented through ...

Tourist Studies, Ahead of Print.
Contemporary tourism is increasingly conceptualised as a cultural practice through which meanings of place, self, and mobility are produced and negotiated. Lifestyle tourism media play a central role in circulating travel imaginaries that extend beyond ...

Tourist Studies, Ahead of Print.
This study explores how Vietnamese youth emotionally engage with dark tourism sites associated with war and historical trauma. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 15 young visitors to war-related heritage sites, the findings show that participants’ ...

Time & Society, Ahead of Print.
Protracted humanitarian crises are often described as neglected, yet the temporal organisation of neglect remains poorly understood. This article examines how neglect is produced and lived in postconflict Kasai in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by ...

Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease, Volume 20, January-December 2026.
Background:CFTR modulators are a class of medications prescribed to people with cystic fibrosis (pwCF) who have certain genetic mutations. In 2019, elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor (ETI) was approved by the FDA and led to significant health improvements ...

Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology, Volume 16, January-December 2026.
Clinical trials with psychedelics face several challenges that are not present to such a degree with other pharmacotherapeutics. Psychedelic therapies often include a significant therapeutic container, including preparatory and integrative psychotherapy, ...

Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders, Volume 19, January-December 2026.
Background:Bladder dysfunctions (BL-D) are common in people with multiple sclerosis (pwMS), significantly affecting daily life, infection risk, and survival. Nonetheless, BL-D are frequently stigmatized and inadequately addressed in clinical practice. To ...

Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease, Volume 18, January-December 2026.
Multiple chronic conditions (MCCs), also known as multimorbidity, are highly prevalent in adults with autoimmune and inflammatory rheumatic diseases (AIIRDs) and significantly complicate their management. This narrative review summarizes current ...

Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology, Volume 18, January-December 2026.
Background:While first-line systemic therapy is the standard of care for extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC), therapeutic failure remains nearly universal, with survival heavily dictated by progression patterns. Extracranial oligoprogression ...

Therapeutic Advances in Hematology, Volume 17, January-December 2026.
SummaryWhat is this study about?Type 1 plasminogen deficiency (PLGD-1 for short) is a long-term, ultra-rare condition where the body does not make enough of a protein called plasminogen. This can cause thick layers made of a fibrous, insoluble protein ...

Therapeutic Advances in Drug Safety, Volume 17, January-December 2026.
Background:Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is difficult to diagnose and manage in routine care because it lacks pathognomonic biomarkers and is often recognized only after clinically meaningful injury has occurred. Existing computational approaches are ...

Therapeutic Advances in Cardiovascular Disease, Volume 20, January-December 2026.
Background:Coronary microvascular disease (CMVD) is an important contributor to ischemic heart disease. Symptomatic patients without obstructive coronary lesions may still have microvascular ischemia, which is associated withan increased riskof major ...

Teaching Sociology, Ahead of Print.
As programming becomes increasingly central to sociological research and education, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) presents both opportunities and challenges for instructors. AI tools such as ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot are transforming how ...

Teaching Sociology, Ahead of Print.
Student engagement and collaboration are important for student success. Pedagogical partnerships, or the pairing of a professor and an undergraduate student who engage in ongoing dynamic pedagogical reflection, increase student engagement and expand ...

Structural Health Monitoring, Ahead of Print.
The diagnosis of compound faults in bearings is a challenging issue in real industrial scenarios, as these faults have a significant impact on production and safety. Moreover, the data related to these compound faults are difficult to collect and label, ...

Space and Culture, Ahead of Print.
This article presents a comparative analysis of two distinct fortified landscapes: Geumsae-dong, a 17th-century scholar’s retreat in South Korea, and the Māori pā of Aotearoa, New Zealand. Both represent sophisticated responses to sociopolitical ...

Space and Culture, Ahead of Print.
This study examines the emergence of Death Cafés as informal settings that enable public engagement with mortality in a context where death discourse remains culturally constrained. Drawing on participant observation and 15 semi-structured interviews, the ...

Race and Justice, Ahead of Print.

Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
This paper introducespo-ethic thresholding, a process-relational methodological approach for attending to transitional dimensions of experience carried by language. The practice was developed in response to encountering subtle yet affectively resonant ...

Public Finance Review, Ahead of Print.
How do states with different approaches to fiscal management adjust their unemployment insurance (UI) trust funds following a major economic shock? Using panel data from all fifty states spanning 1990–2019, this study uses interrupted time series analysis ...

Public Finance Review, Ahead of Print.
This paper provides the first prefecture-level evidence for China linking a specific measure of municipal fiscal disclosure to a specific measure of the urban-rural mean income gap. Using a panel of 282 cities from 2013 to 2021, the results reveal a ...

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability, Ahead of Print.
A state-of-the-art technique has been introduced in recent years called STPA (System-Theoretic Process Analysis), which is based upon a new accident model called STAMP (Systems-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes). This technique’s focus on defining ...

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, Ahead of Print.
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) currently owns a library of tank car defects, developed to better understand the probability of detection by non-destructive evaluation (NDE) techniques. A majority of the FRA’s defect plates were developed from a ...

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering, Ahead of Print.
This study proposes a process-constrained and load-compensated multidimensional monitoring method for degradation identification in aluminum alloy heating furnaces. Benchmark process groups are defined by furnace ID, alloy grade, heating setpoint, and ...

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering, Ahead of Print.
Laser powder-directed energy deposition enables near-net-shape fabrication of components using focused laser energy. In this study, a feedstock powder preheating technique was implemented to evaluate the mechanical and morphological characteristics. ...

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, Ahead of Print.
This study explores the dynamics of a geometrically nonlinear, slender beam subjected to harmonic base excitation with friction effects at the excitation side. A mathematical model is developed using the Euler-Lagrange formulation and the assumed modes ...

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, Ahead of Print.
Parallel mechanism with sub-closed-loops is advantaged on compensating the nonlinear motions of carrier satellite due to their hybrid driving units. However, since the space Earth observation camera operates in a microgravity environment, higher ...

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, Ahead of Print.
Vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) have significant development prospects in urban buildings and low-wind-speed environments due to their simple geometry, low noise, operation under multi-directional wind, and other technological advantages. The ...

Party Politics, Ahead of Print.
Political strategies are shaped by electoral institutions and incentives. There is a large literature on pork barrel politics in single-member districts (SMD), but understanding the institutional effects that shape the incentives for pork requires ...

Nutrition and Health, Ahead of Print.
BackgroundEarly and adequate nutritional support in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) is essential for reducing complications and mortality among preterm infants. Despite established guidelines, variations in feeding practices persist across ...

New Media & Society, Ahead of Print.
In 2015, Gibbs et al. introduced the concept of platform vernaculars to describe how communicative genres emerge through interactions between platform affordances and user practices. Although widely adopted in media research, the concept has not been ...

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, Ahead of Print.
Background:Compensatory movement strategies are common after stroke and vary across individuals and tasks. However, the lack of a structured framework to guide movement analysis during mobility and postural control tasks may limit consistent ...

NASN School Nurse, Ahead of Print.
This article uses two analogies to frame school health and school nursing: the seven kingdoms of “Game of Thrones” and the unified crew in “The Boys in the Boat.” The first portrays practice domains as separate territories competing for legitimacy, ...

Millennium, Ahead of Print.
This article explores the ‘mysterious’ phenomenon known as ‘Havana Syndrome’ in the context of IR’s growing interest in imagination and imaginaries. It argues that the social-psychological imaginary of Havana Syndrome is illustrative of the emerging ...

Medicine, Science and the Law, Ahead of Print.
There is a view that doctors who prepare medico-legal reports should obtain feedback from the subjects of their reports. The view of the authors is that this is a misunderstanding of General Medical Council guidance on appraisal and revalidation. The ...