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The impact of digital governance on tourism development (2024)
Journal Article
Gozgor, G., Lau, C. K., Lin, Z., & Zeng, Y. (2024). The impact of digital governance on tourism development. Journal of digital economy, 3, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdec.2024.05.003

This paper examines the impact of digital governance on inbound tourism using the panel dataset from 151 countries from 2000 to 2019. Fixed-effects and System Generalised Method of Moments estimations show that the internet shutdown capacity and prac... Read More about The impact of digital governance on tourism development.

Wool they, won’t they: Zooarchaeological perspectives on the political and subsistence economies of wool in northern Mesopotamia (2024)
Journal Article
Price, M. D., & Wolfhagen, J. (2024). Wool they, won’t they: Zooarchaeological perspectives on the political and subsistence economies of wool in northern Mesopotamia. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 74, Article 101590. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2024.101590

An important facet in the study of complex societies involves documenting how the extraction of resources to support political structures (the political economy) impacted the subsistence economy of everyday life. Caprine production was a central feat... Read More about Wool they, won’t they: Zooarchaeological perspectives on the political and subsistence economies of wool in northern Mesopotamia.

The Quaternary sequence of the Nahr el Kebir, NW Syria: An important repository for evidence of Palaeolithic occupation and landscape evolution in the eastern Mediterranean (2024)
Journal Article
Bridgland, D. R., Shaw, A. D., Westaway, R., Daoud, M., & Romieh, M. A. (2024). The Quaternary sequence of the Nahr el Kebir, NW Syria: An important repository for evidence of Palaeolithic occupation and landscape evolution in the eastern Mediterranean. Geomorphology, 458, Article 109229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2024.109229

The third largest river in Syria, the Nahr el Kebir has a well-preserved record of river-terrace deposits that have produced substantial Palaeolithic artefact assemblages both from within the terrace deposits and from the land surfaces above and arou... Read More about The Quaternary sequence of the Nahr el Kebir, NW Syria: An important repository for evidence of Palaeolithic occupation and landscape evolution in the eastern Mediterranean.

World cities under conditions of digitization and platform capitalism: Updating the advanced producer services complex (2024)
Journal Article
Bassens, D., Hendrikse, R., Lai, K. P., & van Meeteren, M. (2024). World cities under conditions of digitization and platform capitalism: Updating the advanced producer services complex. Geoforum, 152, Article 104021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104021

This themed issue showcases contributions that study how processes of digitization and platformization are reshaping the intermediary role and operations of advanced producer services (APS). It places these alterations against the backdrop of earlier... Read More about World cities under conditions of digitization and platform capitalism: Updating the advanced producer services complex.

Feasibility and acceptability of autism adapted safety plans: an external pilot randomised controlled trial (2024)
Journal Article
Rodgers, J., Cassidy, S., Pelton, M., Goodwin, J., Wagnild, J., Bhattarai, N., …Vale, L. (2024). Feasibility and acceptability of autism adapted safety plans: an external pilot randomised controlled trial. EClinicalMedicine, 73, Article 102662. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2024.102662

Background Autistic people are a high-risk group for self-harm and suicide. There are no evidence-based suicide prevention interventions developed specifically for autistic people. We undertook a pilot feasibility randomised controlled trial of aut... Read More about Feasibility and acceptability of autism adapted safety plans: an external pilot randomised controlled trial.