Suicide is the third leading cause of death among children and youth aged 10–24, and nearly three-quarters of suicides occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Despite global efforts, children and youth mental health and suicide prevention remain underprioritized in national policy and are often deployed separately in LMICs. Governments should develop standalone, multisectoral mental health policies for children and youth that integrate suicide prevention strategies and that address social determinants of suicide risk. This commentary aims to inform national policymakers, global health and international development actors, and researchers engaged in the mental health and suicide prevention of children and youth in LMICs.

The article advances debates on just transition by addressing both conceptual and practical dimensions of justice and development. It proposes an integrated evaluative framework that bridges justice and development perspectives, which are often treated separately in the literature. – Drawing on the capability approach, the framework links normative evaluation with participatory co-production, thereby supporting the design of more transformative just transition policies. Based on an extensive review of the literature, the article identifies seven dimensions of a comprehensive conception of social-ecological justice – distributive, epistemic, restorative, planetary, intergenerational, ecological, and procedural – and distinguish two ideal types of development – growth-driven development and social-ecological development. We argue that the extent to which the dimensions of justice are realised, both in number and degree, determines the scope and depth of shifts from growth-driven to social-ecological development and thereby shapes the transformative potential of just transition policies. The article applies this framework empirically through an evaluation of the International Labour Organisation’s approach to just transition. By grounding the analysis in a capability-based conception of justice and development, our framework positions co-production as central to processes of transformation that seek to be just. As part of this co-production process, the article calls for a more engaged and ethically grounded scholarship that contributes actively to the collective pursuit of just and sustainable futures.

This article examines the rice distribution network of the Japanese community in Guangdong during the Japanese occupation. It emphasizes the hierarchical patterns and exploitative nature of the rationing system established by the occupation authorities. Securing food was a daily struggle for most people during the Second Sino-Japanese War, as combatants competed for resources in wartime China. In the case of the Japanese Empire, Japanese forces in each occupied area and colony negotiated for external food supplies annually while also deciding to extract more food surpluses from their jurisdictions for local consumption. Food, primarily grains, was centrally controlled and redistributed by the Japanese occupiers. The unprecedented dominance the Japanese held over food supplies benefited certain groups but was detrimental to most local populations. This article focuses on the sources of rice in occupied Guangdong and the methods by which the Japanese collected and allocated it. The inability of the occupying authority to revive the local food economy and secure additional foodstuffs for the region unintentionally severed vital urban lifelines; it also strengthened the self-interested tendencies of the occupying authorities to create exclusive food-supplying networks and rationing systems. In this case, the food demands of certain groups, mainly the Japanese in occupied Guangdong, were met at the expense of others. This article argues that self-serving calculations on the part of the Japanese, rather than mere cruelty and incompetence, should also be considered when discussing the history of occupied Guangdong.

We present new and updated methods for reducing transport caused by electrostatic ion-temperature-gradient (ITG) driven turbulence in quasi-isodynamic (QI) configurations. We first show an updated model for the threshold (critical) gradient of localised toroidal ITG modes. It is then argued that it is desirable for ITG modes to ‘split’ and localise in separate curvature drift wells, which is leveraged to produce a six-field-period QI configuration with a high critical gradient. We show that the destabilising effect of kinetic electrons (Costello & Plunk 2025 J. Plasma Phys. vol. 91, p. E12) on localised ITG modes can be minimised in a magnetic field structure, which we dub ‘inverse mirror’. Applying a general optimisation target that improves ITG stability above the critical gradient yields an inverse mirror configuration which maintains heat fluxes below or equal to the W7-X high mirror configuration for a range of applied density gradients.

A specific challenge of qualitative methods teaching is including skills for both data generation and data analysis, with recent audits of political science curricula revealing that the latter is particularly neglected at the undergraduate level. There are few published discussions on the importance of teaching analytical mechanics or guidance provided on how best to find and use data for teaching. This article explains how we integrated an exercise that enabled our class of more than 100 undergraduate students to generate their own original data and then to practice deductive coding and analysis. In addition to discussing our teaching experiences, we draw on interviews with our students to reflect on the successes and challenges of our approach and to offer suggestions to other instructors who want to replicate our strategy in a large undergraduate setting.

People’s expectations about the outcomes of elections often match their preferences, suggesting that people engage in wishful thinking. This often-documented link between people’s preferences and expectations is particularly pervasive and difficult to debias. One recent exception was a study by Rose and Aspiras (2020, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 33(4), 411–426), where participants who went through a brief perspective-taking intervention showed a reduced preference–expectation link when making predictions about the 2016 U.S. presidential election. We used a similar intervention and extended their research to the 2020 U.S. presidential election. In contrast to Rose and Aspiras, the link between people’s preferences and their expectations was not affected by the perspective-taking intervention. Regardless of whether participants took the perspective of another person or not, they exhibited a strong tendency to predict that their preferred candidate would win. Differences between our study and the study by Rose and Aspiras are discussed, as are the implications of our findings.

Autochthonous transmission of dengue in southern Europe has emerged as a growing public health concern, especially in regions such as Spain, due to the expansion of mosquito vector species, such as Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti, introduced into these regions. This article presents an overview of the situation based on the analysis of the different reports published by international and national health agencies, together with key scientific studies on autochthonous transmission of dengue in Europe and Spain. Through this work, the factors considered to be contributing or hypothesized drivers of the spread of the virus on the European continent, such as climate change, human mobility, and the proliferation of mosquito vectors, are described. It explores the cases of autochthonous transmission documented in several European countries and Spain. In addition, the surveillance protocols implemented by Spanish health authorities and the health responses to outbreaks in Spain are also examined. Finally, the risk of future transmission in Spain is assessed, and strategies are proposed to strengthen epidemiological surveillance, improve preparedness for possible outbreaks, and optimize vector-control policies in the context of global change.

In 1936, one of the largest mass disrobings of Buddhist monks and novices in modern history took place in northern Thailand. Around 1,000 monks and novices were disrobed, with some estimates as high as 2,000. The disrobed monastic clergy were members of the ‘Tiger Order’. The movement took its name from its leader, Khruba Srivichai (1878–1939), who was born in the Year of the Tiger. The arrest of Srivichai and the subsequent mass disrobing were crucial turning points in the formation of the modern nation-state of Thailand. Nonetheless, this extraordinary mass disrobing has been virtually erased from historical memory. Drawing on archival sources and oral histories conducted with over 200 northern monks and villagers, this article seeks both to highlight the historical fact of the mass disrobing and analyse the process of its erasure from memory. Analysing four phases in the chronopolitics of erasure, this article shows how processes of remembering and forgetting underlie the paradox of both the maintenance of memories of Srivichai and the disappearance of memories of the widespread disrobing.

This review paper provides an overview of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition’s (SACN’s) report ‘Feeding young children aged 1 to 5 years’. The purpose of the report was to (1) review the scientific basis of current recommendations for feeding children aged 1 to 5 years, (2) consider evidence on developmental stages and other factors that influence eating behaviour and diversification of the diet in the early years and (3) make recommendations for policy, practice and research. This report was based on a comprehensive assessment of the systematic review (SR) literature and also evidence provided by the Diet and Nutrition Survey of Infants and Young Children and the National Diet Nutrition Survey. Dietary survey data indicated that the diets of children aged 1 to 5 years in the UK did not meet current dietary recommendations for several nutrients. Intakes of energy, free sugars and protein exceeded recommendations, while dietary fibre intakes were below the recommended level for this age group. Children from lower socio-economic status households or from certain ethnic groups may be at risk of inadequate intakes of Fe, Zn, vitamin A and vitamin D. SR evidence indicated that in children aged 1 to 5 years, higher free sugars intake is associated with increased dental caries, higher consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages is associated with increased risk of overweight/obesity and higher child BMI is associated with higher risk of adult overweight/obesity. Based on the evidence, SACN has made recommendations to improve the diets of young children in the UK.

This paper describes the generation of a target plasma and first experiments on neutral beam injection into the Compact Axisymmetric Toroid (CAT) device. The target plasma produced by a washer-stack gun captures 20 % of a 1.7 MW hydrogen beam injected into a main fast-ion confinement region. The work provides a foundation for future experiments with higher injection power and additional diagnostics to investigate the accumulation of large-orbit fast ions, high plasma beta effects and possible magnetic field reversal.

In its 2025 medical training review, National Health Service (NHS) England highlighted the urgent need to modernise postgraduate medical education in England to meet NHS population needs while supporting doctors’ professional aspirations. The psychiatry of intellectual disability, a subspecialty marked by declining recruitment, uneven service provision and limited research capacity, provides a critical test case for these reforms. This article applies the 11 recommendations from the review to doctors training in this subspecialty. Drawing on recent evidence, it advocates for equitable, flexible and academically grounded reforms that embed psychiatry of intellectual disability within mainstream medical education, workforce planning and national health policy transformation.