This article compares murder cases labeled “honor killings” with cases labeled “family/spousal murders” in the Canadian news media, exploring the construction of boundaries between these two practices. We conducted a systematic qualitative content analysis, examining a...

Why do major economic powers seek more and more free trade agreements (FTAs) with smaller partners? Recently, Japan has joined the bandwagon by signing its first bilateral FTA. The decision, highly contested domestically, represents a sea change in Japanese trade policy ...

BackgroundIn September 2005 London introduced a policy granting young people aged < 17 years access to free bus and tram travel. A year later this policy was extended to people aged < 18 years in education, work or training. This intervention was part of a broader...

We simultaneously assess the contributions to productivity of three sources of research anddevelopment spillovers: geographic, technology and product - market proximity. To do this,we construct a new measure of geographic proximity that is based on the distribution of a...

Author summary Why was this study done? There is a debate about whether World Trade Organization (WTO) rules are invoked to prevent governments from introducing food, beverage, and tobacco regulations aimed at preventing noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Select case stud...

We study the extent to which US urban development is sprawling and consider what determines differences in sprawl across space. Using remote-sensing data to track the evolution of land use on a grid of 8.7 billion 30x30 metre cells, we measure sprawl as the amount of un...

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Introduction Reproducibility is a defining feature of science, but the extent to which it characterizes current research is unknown. Scientific claims should not gain credence because of the status or authority of their originator but by the replicability of their suppo...

Reflexivity has emerged as a key concept in the field of health promotion (HP). Yet it remains unclear how diverse forms of reflexivity are specifically relevant to HP concerns, and how these “reflexivities” are interconnected. We argue that frameworks are needed to su...

For an integer n ≥ 3, the clutter ∆n := {1, 2}, {1, 3}, . . ., {1, n}, {2, 3, . . ., n} is called a delta of dimension n, whose members are the lines of a degenerate projective plane. In his seminal paper on nonideal clutters, Lehman revealed the role of the deltas as a...