This article suggests directions and approaches for amplifying and deepening the work of the humanities in communities beyond the academy, with specific attention to public readerships and scholarship in literary studies globally. It argues that in the academic humanities, scholars work with materials that resonate with broad public audiences, but the scholarship they produce in their interpretation of those materials—in the case of literary studies, literary texts—does not often enough reach or resonate with wider audiences. Drawing upon the concept of “resonance” as distinctly theorized first by literary critic Wai Chee Dimock and more recently by sociologist Hartmut Rosa, this article describes how scholarship in literary studies might open itself up to the possibility of resonant relationships with readers who are not formally trained in the field but whose thoughtful and deeply held convictions, commitments, and articulations of experience are valuable to the exchange of ideas around which intellectual life is constructed. This article details two possible answers to the methodological question of what would be necessary for the further development of a publicly engaged literary criticism, one emphasizing interpretation as a broadly shared project in the humanities sector and the other focusing on targeted publicly engaged peer review.

Diabetes affects over 500 million people worldwide and contributes substantially to the environmental impact of health care, including carbon emissions and plastic waste. As healthcare systems globally aim to reduce their environmental footprint, there is a need to embed environmental sustainability into decision making and foster innovation in health and life sciences.

This commentary outlines the environmental sustainability challenges and opportunities across the diabetes care pathway, highlighting innovations that reduce the demand for healthcare resources and associated environmental impact. We discuss the current and potential role of health technology assessment (HTA) agencies in promoting more sustainable health systems, by incorporating environmental considerations into the value assessment of technologies. Several approaches, such as integrated and parallel evaluation, are emerging to support this aim, whereas HTA agencies increasingly consider parameters of environmental life cycle assessment (eLCA), a comprehensive framework for evaluating the environmental sustainability of technology. Although a framework is evolving, early implementation by HTA bodies, for example, in the United Kingdom, Thailand, Canada, and Italy, highlights growing momentum. Moreover, sustainability policies at government and health system levels are developing globally, signaling opportunities to incorporate environmental sustainability in HTA (ESHTA).

Given the scale of health care’s environmental footprint, large disease areas offer critical opportunities for sustainable action. Diabetes, with its growing global prevalence, presents a particularly suitable domain for piloting the integration of environmental sustainability into HTA.

This study provides quantitative evidence on UK public attitudes towards stateless people, comparing them with attitudes towards refugees and asylum seekers. A cross-sectional UK survey (n = 385) was conducted. Network analysis modelled associations between social policy attitudes and prejudice towards stateless people, refugees, and asylum seekers, alongside other variables, including political orientation and perceived threat. Social policy attitudes were more restrictive towards stateless people than refugees, but less restrictive than towards asylum seekers. Prejudice towards stateless people was not significantly different to that towards refugees or asylum seekers. Prejudice and social policy attitudes were highly interrelated between all three groups, with political orientation and perceived threat the strongest predictors. Findings demonstrate similarities in UK public attitudes towards stateless people, refugees, and asylum seekers. Awareness-raising interventions and interventions addressing political and threat-based narratives may be most effective in reducing discrimination and fostering inclusion of stateless people.

Although Franco’s dictatorship in Spain was rooted in the repression of the labor movement and the working class, the 1960s and 1970s witnessed political and social changes that enabled the anti-Franco unions to achieve better conditions for workers. However, domestic workers were denied these improvements due to their exclusion from the formal labor system. This exclusion kept domestic workers in the informal sector and ensured their continued feminization and precarity. This article contributes to debates on the level of coercion in non-productive work by examining labor discipline in the Spanish domestic service during the 1960s and 1970s. It follows Marcel van der Linden’s proposal to focus on three defining stages of labor discipline: entry, work and exit. Although the working conditions and identities of Spanish domestic workers in the 1960s and 1970s have been studied, coercion and resistance have rarely been put at the center of analysis. Doing so introduces Spanish domestic labor into the study of coerced work, showing how it was affected by global features such as migration, feminization, all-day work, and control over workers’ bodies. This paper sees labor discipline as dialectically constructed, shaped by both adherence to and negation of established norms. Therefore, it is important to study both how domestic workers complied with rules set by employers and how everyday forms of resistance challenged labor discipline and thus contributed to its refinement. Some of these forms of resistance (petty theft, change of employment) caused confrontation, while others (marriage) fell within accepted moral and legal boundaries. The article is based on a wide range of sources, including surveys and reports by Catholic working-class organizations, letters sent by domestic workers to the Elena Francis radio advice program, and court records and newspaper reports about domestic workers’ theft. These sources make it possible to analyze labor discipline from different perspectives, showing variation in mistresses’ coercive measures, domestic workers’ attitude towards coercion, and autonomous practices against household discipline. While this paper focuses specifically on the intersection between class and gender in late Franco Spain, it contributes to labor and coercion studies in other geographical and historical contexts.

This article contains editions of three new copperplate charters of the kings of Valkhā who, in the late fourth and early fifth centuries ce, ruled a territory situated to the north of the Vākāṭaka kingdom along the Narmadā river. Ramesh and Tewari, the editors of the famous Bagh hoard of plates discovered in 1982, furnished a straightforward chronology of five successive Valkhā rulers on the basis of 32 plates known to them. However, one of the plates edited here flatly contradicts the sequence they proposed. It turns out that the dating of several previously known Valkhā charters is also controversial. It has been suggested by other scholars that there were, in fact, two kings of Valkhā by the name of Rudradāsa as well as two by the name of Bhuluṇḍa. A reinvestigation of old data combined with the newly edited plates confirms the former and shows a high likelihood of the latter.

A ParasiteBlitz event offers a brief, intense opportunity to discover diverse parasite species and to reveal life cycles of heteroxenous parasite taxa. In this study, we describe Monomyxum ligophori n. sp., a hyperparasitic myxozoan (Monomyxidae) proliferating in two dactylogyrid monopisthocotylan flatworms (Ligophorus saladensis, Ligophorus mugilinus) infecting mugilid fishes (Mugil cephalus, Mugil curema) on the Atlantic coast of North America. Furthermore, we used DNA barcoding to infer the parasite’s complex life cycle, matching its hyperparasitic myxospore stages with actinospore stages infecting the polychaete Streblospio benedicti found in the same locality during the ParasiteBlitz and also reported previously from the same region. Thus we report the first life cycle of a myxozoan that most likely does not require a vertebrate host. Hyperparasitic myxozoans are rare with only five species reported worldwide to infect flatworms. This study provides more information on the previously discussed host specificity towards monopisthocotylan hosts of these monomyxid myxozoan hyperparasites. Notably, Monomyxum ligophori n. sp. was detected in two out of four gill-infecting parasitic flatworms (being absent in Ligophorus uruguayensis and Metamicrocotyla macracantha) found infecting the same fish individuals during the ParasiteBlitz. Our molecular data and phylogenetic analysis support the previously suggested common origin of Monomyxum species infecting monopisthocotylan flatworms, and contribute to understanding the life cycle and host interactions of this unique hyperparasitic myxozoan lineage.

In this retrospective case series, we present two patients with primary lateral sclerosis (PLS) and spasticity-related gait impairment. Both patients were assessed with 6-min walk tests (6MWT) and timed up and go (TUG) at baseline and after 4 weeks of oral levetiracetam. Following levetiracetam therapy, Patient 1 improved 27.3% (148.5 to 189 m) on 6MWT and 26.1% (23–17 s) on TUG. Patient 2 improved 18% (90 m in 4:29 min to 112 m in 6 min) on 6MWT and 10% (46–41 s) on TUG. Larger prospective trials of levetiracetam for spasticity and gait may be considered in PLS.

The burden of cancer worldwide is rising, with 20 million new cases diagnosed in 2022. In Europe, 1.2 million women are diagnosed with cancer annually and an estimated 600,000 women die from cancer each year. International research and data from Ireland demonstrate that women with cancer face a particular set of challenges, including increased psychological distress compared to men. As a result, Ireland’s Model of Care for Psycho-Oncology could usefully place greater emphasis on gender-specific provisions which address the increased psychological needs of women. To date, Ireland has made some progress in recognising the physical and mental healthcare needs of women and developing gender-informed policies. It is essential that such policies are implemented fully so as to reduce and eliminate disparities in care. A more tailored, gender-informed approach would also help ensure the provision of gender-aware psycho-oncological care for all women and men as they navigate their cancer journeys.

We consider nonmonotonic inferences from belief bases that contain conditionals enforcing some of the possible worlds to be infeasible and thus completely implausible. In contrast to belief bases satisfying the strong notion of consistency requiring every world to be at least somewhat plausible, we call such belief bases weakly consistent. First, we review the treatment of weakly consistent belief bases by the seminal approaches of p-entailment, which coincides with system P, and of system Z, which coincides with rational closure. Then we focus on c-inference, an inductive inference operator that has been shown to exhibit many desirable properties put forward for nonmonotonic reasoning. It is based on c-representations, which are a special kind of ranking model ordering worlds according to their plausibility. While c-representation is defined for strongly consistent belief bases only, in this article, we extend the notions of c-representation and of c-inference to cover also weakly consistent belief bases. We adapt a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) characterizing c-representations to capture extended c-representations, and we show how this extended CSP can be used to characterize extended c-inference, providing a basis for its implementation. We show various properties of extended c-inference and in particular, we prove that also the extended notion of c-inference fully satisfies syntax splitting. Furthermore, we extend and evaluate credulous and weakly skeptical c-inference to weakly consistent belief bases and provide characterizations for them as CSPs.

This study provides the large-scale bibliometric assessment of the Journal of Management & Organization (JMO), offering insights into its intellectual trajectory and positioning within the management field. Covering 1,083 documents published between 1995 and 2024, indexed in Web of Science and Scopus, the analysis applies performance metrics, citation structures, and science mapping using VOSviewer and Bibliometrix. The study is further grounded in institutional and field-theoretic perspectives, interpreting JMO’s evolution as a process of legitimacy-building and scientific capital accumulation within a global knowledge field. The results show that JMO’s growth has been marked by cyclical expansion, with a sharp increase in productivity since the mid-2000s but uneven citation impact, heavily reliant on a small set of landmark articles. Co-citation and bibliographic coupling analyses reveal intellectual roots in organizational behavior, psychology, and strategy, while keyword and thematic mapping highlight enduring strengths in leadership, human resource management, and job satisfaction. At the same time, new research frontiers have emerged in governance, innovation, sustainability, and work-life balance, reflecting JMO’s responsiveness to global challenges such as COVID-19 and digital transformation. Collaboration networks confirm the journal’s Australasian anchoring, yet also demonstrate growing integration into international research systems, particularly through linkages with the United States, China, and Europe. This study contributes to understanding JMO’s evolving role within management and organizational scholarship, identifying both its achievements and challenges. The findings offer insights for scholars, institutions, and editors on how JMO can consolidate high-impact niches, diversify its author base, and strengthen its influence in shaping global management debates.

This article investigates the organization of a transnational criminal enterprise through a detailed case study of Operation Singapore, a network producing and trafficking falsified pharmaceuticals from China to the United Kingdom. Drawing on law enforcement records, court transcripts, digital communications, and expert interviews, the study maps the structure and strategies of this criminal enterprise. It applies Peter Reuter’s theory of criminal organization, and Niles Breuer and Federico Varese’s typology of network forms to show how functional roles shape organizational structure: production was hierarchical and security-driven, while distribution was decentralized and transactional. Trust was not based on kinship or ethnicity but constructed through moral appeals and restricted information flows. The case reveals how criminal actors exploit legal frameworks and commercial infrastructures to mask illegal activity and blur boundaries between legal and illegal markets. These findings challenge static models of organized crime and call for a more dynamic, relational understanding of criminal enterprise.