Mass street protests and other highly contentious actions often capture headlines and public attention, but what remains after the news cycle moves on? Many times, grassroots initiatives crystallise during or after these intense moments of participation, leaving in their wake effective organisations that continue to make daily life more liveable in contexts of extreme vulnerability. Despite the persistence and impact of these ‘things that work’ – as we call them – they are often less visible and understudied. How do these initiatives emerge and sustain themselves in the communities in which they work? Using ethnographic methods, we investigate the case of a community centre formed in the wake of a land occupation in the urban periphery of Buenos Aires to answer these questions. We argue that grassroots initiatives build local power through everyday care-work: forming relationships, changing identities and providing valuable services and information.

This study examines how patterns of referencing in political science research have changed during the past three decades. By analyzing references in leading political science journals from 1990 to 2024, we reveal a notable shift: a decline in book references (52% to 28%) and a corresponding increase in journal article references (40% to 65%). These findings have important implications for students, the discipline, research libraries, and academia, particularly in tenure and promotion evaluations. They also raise concerns about the depth of analyses and increased specialization at the expense of broader synthesis.

We introduce the notion of a weak A2 space (or wA2-space), which generalises spaces satisfying Todorčević’s axioms A1–A4 and countable vector spaces. We show that in any Polish weak A2 space, analytic sets are Kastanas Ramsey, and discuss the relationship between Kastanas Ramsey sets and sets in the projective hierarchy. We also show that in all spaces satisfying A1–A4, every subset of $\mathcal {R}$ is Kastanas Ramsey iff Ramsey, generalising the recent result by [2]. Finally, we show that in the setting of Gowers wA2-spaces, Kastanas Ramsey sets and strategically Ramsey sets coincide, providing a connection between the recent studies on topological Ramsey spaces and countable vector spaces.

Towards the end of his al-Ghayth al-Musajjam fī Sharḥ Lāmīyat al-ʿAjam, Khalīl ibn Aybak al-Ṣafadī (d. 1363/764) aims a peculiar slight at his sometime teacher Ibn Taymiyya (d. 1328/728), likening him to two famous executed heretics, al-Suhrawardī (d. circa 1191/587) and Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (d. 759/142), in their shared ‘lack of reason’. Though often cited as evidence that al-Ṣafadī held his famous contemporary’s intelligence in low regard, the insult is more specifically aimed at his lack of discretion. In this article, I examine how Ibn Taymiyya is portrayed across the Sharḥ and argue that, when paired with insights from the book about al-Ṣafadī’s own language-centred hermeneutics, we gain a number of interesting insights into this prolific historian and adīb. The first is that he was closely familiar with and even mimicked aspects of the culture of ‘esoteric disclosure’, including in his criticism of Ibn Taymiyya and his indiscretion. Al-Ṣafadī also emerges as something of an exemplar of what Thomas Bauer has called Islam’s ‘cultural ambiguity’, whose final criticism of Ibn Taymiyya and of the heretics to whom he is likened is not any specific one of their beliefs, but rather their inability to exercise discretion in expressing them.

Employing the ‘observation and collection’ method, this paper tracks some of the changes to the recent British English lexicon that have occurred through the use of syntactic category change. These involve primarily nominalization and verbification. Many of the examples discussed in the main body of the text and extended in the annex are of a contemporary nature.

The distinctive isolated elements of Cynopodius, characterised by their deep narrow base and spatulate crown, were first described (as spine-like elements) by Ramsay Heatley Traquair in the late 19th Century, based on specimens from the Burghlee Ironstone (Serpukhovian, Carboniferous) at Loanhead near Edinburgh, Scotland. The type species Cynopodius crenulatus is also known from older Calciferous Sandstone Measures (Viséan) of Fife. Here we provide evidence that the elements are teeth rather than spines or dermal claspers, as hypothesised elsewhere. Thin sections of the teeth, illustrated for the first time, show osteodentine and tubate dentine forming the crown, covered by a thin outer hypermineralised layer on the cusps, and trabecular osteodentine or acellular bone forming the base. In recent decades, teeth of Cynopodius have also been collected from the lower Carboniferous Sainte Genevieve Formation (Mississippian: Viséan) of Iowa, Kentucky, and West Virginia in the USA. We assign these teeth from Iowa to Cynopodius robustus n. sp. They are distinguished from the type species by their relative robustness, with a ratio of maximum crown length to root length of c. 2:3 for C. traquairi and c. 1:2 for C. crenulatus, and lack of longitudinal curvature. The Scottish and American occurrences, though widely separated in the early Carboniferous, are the only known localities for the genus. The similarity between these over 300-million-year-old teeth and those of Recent long-toothed teleost reef fishes like Ctenochaetus, for instance, suggests that the Cynopodius animals might also have been specialised detritivores.

This research paper investigated the potential application of essential oils nano-emulsion after characterization as natural preservatives in the dairy sector, by measuring the minimum inhibitory concentration of ginger and clove oil nano-emulsion along with their impact on the sensory properties, starter culture activity and survivability of some foodborne pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms in fortified laboratory-manufactured labneh. The characterized EOs nano-emulsions exhibited significant antimicrobial effect against the tested microorganisms (Escherichia coli, Salmonella Typhimurium, Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Aspergillus flavus). S. aureus was completely inhibited in labneh fortified with 0.1 µg/mL clove and ginger nano-emulsion in the first and second weeks of the storage period, respectively. While A. flavus count was reduced by 100 and 35% in labneh fortified with 1 µg/mL clove and ginger nano-emulsion, respectively. Nonetheless, the overall acceptability and flavour of the fortified samples revealed scores that were not significantly different from the control samples (P > 0.05). These results were obtained without interfering with the starter culture activity during processing and storage period. In conclusion, the obtained results open a promising avenue for the EOs nano-emulsions application as safe and natural alternative in the dairy industry.

Population ageing, increased immigration and strained public resources will challenge the future provision of formal older-age care. Despite growing diversity in older populations across Western countries, evidence on health-care utilization among older immigrants remains limited. Using full-population registry data from Norway (2011–2016) for individuals aged 60+, we examined transitions into home health care (HHC) and intensity of use (hours/day) by immigrant background. Across all country-of-origin groups, immigrants had lower odds of transitioning into HHC than natives, with differences narrowing as duration of residence increased. A broad socio-demographic patterning to HHC transitions generally held across the country background groupings. Higher transition likelihoods were observed for individuals with lower education, lower income, living alone, and residing in less urban areas. Childlessness was linked to higher relative transition propensities among natives and Nordic immigrants, but lower relative propensities among Western-origin and Eastern European immigrants. Among non-Western immigrants, childlessness appeared to have little influence on transition propensities. For HHC intensity, only non-Western immigrants received significantly fewer hours of care than natives. Subsequent analysis indicated that this difference was entirely contingent on living alone: Only non-Western immigrants living alone had significantly fewer hours of care than natives (living alone or otherwise). These findings highlight clear variation in HHC utilization by immigrant background and socio-demographic characteristics. Future research should investigate whether lower HHC use among older immigrants reflects reduced need or barriers to access. It will also be important to assess how compositional changes in the immigrant population may influence future patterns of HHC utilization.

It has been over a decade since the conceptual foundation of collective psychological ownership (CPO) was first built in the organizational behavior and management literature. A significant body of empirical studies has been conducted to examine CPO at either the team level or the individual level, providing divergent views of CPO and its application in different contexts. This article offers insights into the genesis and emergence of CPO as an outgrowth of prior scholarship on psychological ownership at the individual level to the team level. It also includes a systematic literature review of 96 studies that cited the seminal study of collective psychological ownership and had CPO as a major construct in its conceptualization and empirical setting. We conclude with directions for future scholarship that would enhance the theory of CPO, as well as methodological recommendations for testing the role of CPO in different applied contexts.

This article examines the geographical distribution of tuberculosis mortality in Italy from 1891 to 1951 and its relationship with industrialisation. During this period, industrialisation brought about profound changes, although it affected the north and south of the country unequally. During the same period, the incidence of pulmonary tuberculosis increased, and the disease became a major health problem. Tuberculosis spread mainly among industrial workers and in densely populated urban areas, where living and working conditions were often precarious. Overall, the incidence of pulmonary tuberculosis was significantly higher in the more industrialised provinces of the North than in the backward provinces of the South. This article shows a positive correlation between pulmonary tuberculosis mortality and the levels of provincial industrialisation.