This opening chapter outlines this book’s agenda: to promote a comprehensive, culturally informed approach to studying childhood, and to critically examine the predominance of western centric methodologies in developmental research. By integrating insights from evolutionary, anthropological, and psychological&#...

The aim of the study was to explore the effects of divorce on the international human rights of women in Qatar, with a particular focus on domestic abuse. The critical perspective was utilised under both the socio-legal and doctrinal analyses. The critical perspective was info...

Background: Cognitive reserve (CR) is thought to buffer against the clinical manifestation of dementia, preserving cognitive function despite accumulating pathology. However, less is known about how CR relates to the capacity to independently perform activities of daily living (ADL), parti...

Background Ghana continues to face persistent maldistribution of doctors between rural and urban areas. This thesis evaluates the Early Study Leave with Pay policy, introduced in August 2016 to incentivise rural service through earlier access to study leave with continued salary, and&#...

This Special Section of International Psychogeriatrics contains five papers relating to unhealthy aging. Four are epidemiological and seek to identify factors that predict poor health, frailty, mortality and loneliness. The fifth describes the initial stages of the development of an intervention&...

Why does an incumbent like Kodak, despite investing early in digital technology, still fail to create and capture value? We argue that Kodak’s fate exemplifies a canonical paradox of digital transformation (DT) because its organisational identity, strategy, and technology imperatives were no...

The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 and other virus threats has renewed interest in nanoparticles as potential antivirals. Green synthesis of nanoparticles using biological methods offers an eco-friendly, cost-effective alternative to conventional approaches. In this study, copper nanoparticles (Cu-NPs) were biosy...

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