IF 3.8 2区社会学

Archives of Sexual Behavior Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1007/s10508-025-03093-7

Doaa A. Abdel Hady

{"title":"Effect of Transcutaneous Tibial Nerve Stimulation in Multiparous Egyptian Women with Vaginal Laxity: A Randomized Controlled Trial","authors":"Doaa A. Abdel Hady","doi":"10.1007/s10508-025-03093-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-025-03093-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Vaginal laxity (VL) is a common symptom of pelvic floor disorder, an underreported condition, and has a substantial impact on women's sex lives and relationships. The study aimed to determine the effect of transcutaneous tibial nerve stimulation (TTNS) on women with VL. Fifty women with vaginal laxity were chosen from an outpatient clinic in Egypt. They were randomly split into two equal categories (A and B). Group A (<i>n</i> = 25) received pelvic floor exercises (PFE), while Group B (<i>n</i> = 25) received TTNS and PFE. Every week, both groups performed three sessions for three months. The outcomes were evaluated both before and following treatment using ultrasound imaging to assess pelvic floor muscle (PFM) function and the Female Sexual Function Index to measure sexual function. Vaginal Laxity Questionnaire (VLQ) were used to examine vaginal looseness. The analysis demonstrated a significant improvement in vaginal laxity in both groups. Post-treatment comparisons revealed a statistically significant difference in VLQ scores and PFM strength between Groups B and A. These findings indicate that TTNS is notably more effective in improving PFM activity and VLQ scores in women with vaginal laxity.</p>","PeriodicalId":8327,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Sexual Behavior","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143385099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Behind closed doors: Sousveillance in mandated social welfare interventions

IF 1.2 3区社会学

International Journal of Social Welfare Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1111/ijsw.12720

Tara La Rose, Jennifer Mule

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Citizen Action and Elite Responses: Opposition Mass Movements and Regime Change From Within, 1900–2019

IF 3.1 1区社会学

Journal of Conflict Resolution Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1177/00220027251318938

Vilde Lunnan Djuve, Carl Henrik Knutsen

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Challenges for tourism-related lifestyle migrant entrepreneurship in rural areas of the Algarve, Portugal

IF 5.1 1区社会学

Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103562

Kate Torkington , Marco Eimermann , Filipa Perdigão Ribeiro , Susana Conceição

{"title":"Challenges for tourism-related lifestyle migrant entrepreneurship in rural areas of the Algarve, Portugal","authors":"Kate Torkington , Marco Eimermann , Filipa Perdigão Ribeiro , Susana Conceição","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103562","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103562","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Many rural areas in southern Europe have long suffered from outward migration but have recently been attracting new types of in-migration. This includes lifestyle migrant entrepreneurs (LMEs) seeking ways of improving their own quality of life and, at the same time, bringing new projects which aim to build on the potential and resources for rural tourism in their chosen destination place. Drawing on data from in-depth research interviews with LMEs and other stakeholders, this article stems from a research project focused on exploring tourism-related entrepreneurial lifestyle migration in the rural Algarve, in southern Portugal. Although this type of migration has often been identified as a potential driver for the sustainable development of both tourism activities and rural areas, this study focuses on the challenges identified, principally by the LMEs themselves, as regards the setting up, operationalisation and continuing activities of tourism-related businesses in rural areas of the Algarve. A variety of challenges were detected, at the micro-, meso- and macro-levels of the entrepreneurial migration process. The most recurrent problem faced is the level of bureaucracy and the difficulties encountered in legal processes. Although this is sometimes due to the language barrier, it is also related to the lack of clear information on procedures and the lack of specialised support. This finding points to the need for a greater level of cooperation and communication among the various stakeholders to ensure a more sustainable development of tourism in these rural areas.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 103562"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143379389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Small-scale fishers’ perception of risks in Indonesia’s cross-border region of North Maluku

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Marine Policy Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106624

Senia Febrica , Herson Keradjaan , Laely Nurhidayah , Michael Gustaf

{"title":"Small-scale fishers’ perception of risks in Indonesia’s cross-border region of North Maluku","authors":"Senia Febrica , Herson Keradjaan , Laely Nurhidayah , Michael Gustaf","doi":"10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106624","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106624","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article assesses Indonesian small-scale fishers’ perception of risk. Indonesia is the second largest fish producer globally, the largest tuna producing country, and one of the top ten fish and seafood exporters in the world. Small-scale fisheries sector in Indonesia is the greatest contributor of outputs to national and international seafood markets. Thus, fisheries risk in Indonesia’s small-scale fisheries is of some import to the international community because it has direct effects on global food security and supply chains. Combining a survey of 300 fishers and semi-structured interviews, this article focuses on identifying and comparing the full range of fisheries risk as perceived by small-scale fishers working in Tobelo and Morotai regions of North Maluku, an Indonesian province located at the border between Indonesia and two neighbouring countries of the Philippines and Palau. These include risks posed by work accident, ocean crimes, and climate change. The findings show that fishers deemed that accident at work posed the most immediate threat to their livelihood and well-being. Climate change has been identified as second highest risks. Despite the presence of ocean crimes, fishers do not deem these crimes as posing immediate risks to them. However, fishers connect crimes that affect the environment with the decline of fish stocks and their income.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48427,"journal":{"name":"Marine Policy","volume":"175 ","pages":"Article 106624"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143377455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Bolstering Autocracy, Hindering Democracy: Local Stakeholders’ Perspectives on the Effects of EU Migration Policy Externalization in Morocco

IF 3.8 1区社会学

International Migration Review Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1177/01979183251314854

Luisa Faustini Torres

{"title":"Bolstering Autocracy, Hindering Democracy: Local Stakeholders’ Perspectives on the Effects of EU Migration Policy Externalization in Morocco","authors":"Luisa Faustini Torres","doi":"10.1177/01979183251314854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251314854","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores how the European Union's (EU) externalization of migration policies affects democratization in Morocco, drawing on the perspectives of local stakeholders, including government officials, civil society actors, and frontline bureaucrats. While the EU frames its partnership with Morocco as grounded in shared and normative values, the findings show that migration (control) priorities often take precedence over democratic reforms. Using a multilevel theoretical framework that combines structural factors (linkage, leverage, and organizational power) with the agency of domestic actors (gatekeeper elites and street-level bureaucrats), the analysis identifies three key dynamics: the prioritization of migration control over democratic progress, the consolidation of Morocco's authoritarian power through the externalization bargain, and the marginalization of civil society and migrants, intensifying their repression and curtailing their capacity to advocate for change. Based on qualitative fieldwork, this study highlights how these policies redistribute resources and power in ways that bolster autocratic structures and hinder democratic reform. By focusing on the lived experiences of local stakeholders, the article sheds light on how the EU's approach to migration can inadvertently undermine democratization in Morocco.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143385411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Diaspora on the block: Neighborhood archaeology as theory and method

IF 2 1区社会学

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101662

Koji Lau-Ozawa , J. Ryan Kennedy

{"title":"Diaspora on the block: Neighborhood archaeology as theory and method","authors":"Koji Lau-Ozawa , J. Ryan Kennedy","doi":"10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101662","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101662","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The archaeology of diaspora has grown in many directions during the first two decades of the 21st century. It has become a key way of understanding the short-term and long-term connections between people and communities defined by movement and migration. However, archaeologists of diaspora still at times struggle with old models of interpretation which seek out ethnic markers in material culture or signs of acculturation. How then do we move past these paradigmatic pitfalls? In this article we look to the concept of the neighborhood as a potential avenue away from a cul-de-sac of theoretical stagnation. Neighborhoods, spatially proximal areas in towns and cities, often comprise multiple diasporic communities in close contact. Ethnic and racial lines are not necessarily neatly maintained, challenging fixity or fluidity binaries when approaching diasporic communities. Thinking of the neighborhood as interpretive model in itself challenges us to think past siloed communities and look to the distinct ways in which social identities and networks are dynamically shaped by living space in urban contexts. Utilizing material from Santa Barbara’s Nihonmachi, we attempt to think through material culture through the lens of the neighborhood, appreciating the blurred lines across the multiple communities living on the block.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47957,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Archaeology","volume":"77 ","pages":"Article 101662"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143377984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Prevention and control of soil pollution toward sustainable agricultural land use in China: Analysis from legislative and judicial perspectives

IF 6 1区社会学

Land Use Policy Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107497

Lu Feng , Guiyue Luo , Giuseppe Ioppolo , Xiaohong Zhang , Wenjie Liao

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Making People Live or Letting Them Die? Biopolitics and Palliative Care for Older Persons Living in Slums in Brazil.

IF 2 3区社会学

Journal of Aging & Social Policy Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1080/08959420.2025.2462325

Matheus Rodrigues Martins, Isabela Silva Cancio Velloso, Bruno Cupertino de Almeida, Alexandre Ernesto Silva

{"title":"Making People Live or Letting Them Die? Biopolitics and Palliative Care for Older Persons Living in Slums in Brazil.","authors":"Matheus Rodrigues Martins, Isabela Silva Cancio Velloso, Bruno Cupertino de Almeida, Alexandre Ernesto Silva","doi":"10.1080/08959420.2025.2462325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08959420.2025.2462325","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In Brazilian <i>favelas</i>, the delivery of palliative care for older adults is significantly influenced by the interplay between public policy shortcomings and the socio-cultural dynamics of these communities. The objective of this study was to understand the configuration of palliative care practices offered to older adults, in the context of the home, within vulnerable slum communities. This descriptive, exploratory study used a qualitative approach and was conducted in the homes of palliative care patients assisted by the outreach university project Compassionate Community, in the <i>favelas</i> of Rocinha and Vidigal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Participants included volunteer health professionals and local volunteers. Data were collected through observation and semi-structured interviews and analyzed using Foucauldian-inspired Discourse Analysis. Results indicate that palliative care practices for older adults are shaped by the limited development of public policies aimed at alleviating human suffering in life-threatening conditions in Brazil, combined with the historical, social, and cultural context of favela territories. Consequently, palliative care provision emerges through micro-political arrangements informed by local knowledge and power dynamics, shaping the discourses and practices of those involved.</p>","PeriodicalId":47121,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging & Social Policy","volume":" ","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143383566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Safe consumption sites and crime: A staggered synthetic control evaluation of Toronto’s expanding safe consumption site network

IF 3 2区社会学

Journal of Experimental Criminology Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1007/s11292-025-09663-y

Ainsley Frederick, Nathan T. Connealy, Timothy Cubitt

{"title":"Safe consumption sites and crime: A staggered synthetic control evaluation of Toronto’s expanding safe consumption site network","authors":"Ainsley Frederick, Nathan T. Connealy, Timothy Cubitt","doi":"10.1007/s11292-025-09663-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-025-09663-y","url":null,"abstract":"<h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Objectives</h3><p>This study analyzes the potential criminogenic effect of safe consumption sites (SCSs) in one of the most longstanding and expansive operational networks across Toronto, Canada. The analyses are positioned to test for changes in crime levels and both immediate and spatial effects for total, property, and violent crime events resulting from SCS implementation.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Methods</h3><p>Staggered synthetic control methods were used to measure changes in crime levels pre- and post-SCS implementation. The method is flexible to variation in treatment locations and timing, allows for aggregate and phase-specific effects to be calculated, and is a robust quasi-experimental method for measuring change at microlevel units of analysis. Following the analysis measuring changes in crime levels, the spatial distribution of crime events was also assessed pre- and post-implementation to determine if the spatial patterning of crime events changed following SCS openings.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Results</h3><p>The analyses indicated that crime did not significantly change following SCS implementation in the aggregate across the entire network. However, some phase-specific effects for individual SCSs demonstrated some notable changes in crime levels and directional heterogeneity, and the spatial distributions showed some meaningful changes in the spatial patterning of violent (further) and property (closer) crime events around SCSs after implementation.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Conclusion</h3><p>The study adds important nuance to the discussion around harm reduction approaches like safe consumption sites and their relationship to crime. We found that crime levels were generally unchanged following SCS implementation, but that crime may be situationally impacted based on the crime type, location, and operational capacities of each unique SCS opened.</p>","PeriodicalId":47684,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Criminology","volume":"33 19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143375316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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