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Global Prevalence of Urinary Tract Infections in the Older Persons: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) as a type of bacterial infection are the most common infections in older people. The present study was conducted with...
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Mental disorder and suicidal ideation detection from social media using deep neural networks
Depression and suicidal ideation are global reasons for life-threatening injury and death. Mental disorders have increased especially among young...
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When societalization stalls: the semantics of code switching and the work of the soft legal realm
The dominant sociological view is that there are too many public crises. This article points to a different problem, namely the tendency for...
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Orientalism reimagined: a semantic network analysis of slum tour reviews
In the last two decades, slum tourism in the Global South has witnessed remarkable growth, evolving into a highly professionalized industry. This...
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Is Age Just a Number? Ageism and Quality of Life Among Filipino LGBT Older Adults
Aging members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community experience heterosexism and age-based discrimination that may...
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Skill, status and the Matthew effect: a theoretical framework
To gain a deeper understanding of the Matthew effect in academic recognition among researchers, three social influence models of status hierarchies...
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On measurement of distances between texts in dictionary-based content analysis
The article discusses the measurement of distances between heterogeneous texts. Some limitations of WordStat, a popular off-the-shelf software...
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Urgent action needed: addressing the regulatory gap in e-cigarette trade and usage
Tobacco use is associated with serious health problems. Global efforts, such as the World Health Organization’s Framework for Tobacco Control, have...
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Tracing sampling in applied linguistics: the case of quantitative research approach
The popularity of research has opened some new doors to science and information. For this science to flourish, it requires sound and solid inference,...
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Analysis of paratransit crimes in Akure, Nigeria
BackgroundParatransit is a system that operates along a more or less defined route and then stops to take passengers on demand. They offer on-demand...
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Pandemic data quality modelling: a Bayesian approach in the Italian case
When pandemics like COVID-19 spread around the world, the rapidly evolving situation compels officials and executives to take prompt decisions and...
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Intra-migrant workplace conflict: impediment to improving migrants’ workforce integration
This study examines the tensions between newcomer migrants and established immigrants in the workforce in the United Kingdom. Semi-structured...
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The Silver Lining in the Clouds: A Commentary on Stephen Turner’s “Mad Hazard, a Life in Social Theory”
While it is true that to do social theory is to become an observer of life and its development from an outside perspective, it is also true that, in...
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Training Returns Among Informal Workers: Evidence from Urban Sites in Kenya and Tanzania
Training contributes to economic growth through raising productivity, enabling the use of new technologies and allowing workers to raise earnings...
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Improving Women’s Position in the Household: Evidence from a Maternity Cash Transfer Programme in India
The impacts of cash transfers on women empowerment vary significantly with transfer context and design, including beneficiary targeting, transfer...
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Allocation of public health services across urban and rural regions and armed conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa
Armed conflicts exacerbate public health challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa. Inequality across groups and poverty in rural areas can be an important...
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Firm-Centered Approaches to Overcoming Semi-Peripheral Constraints
Scholars of economic development in the Global South and of industrial policy in the Global North are increasingly advocating top-down policies by a...
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The Failing Aid Complex in Uganda’s Northeast
Every year about thirty billion dollars are spent on aid across Africa, yet recurrent crises followed by a blame game amongst different actors, and a...
