Abstract This essay takes a close look at Maura Dykstra's monograph Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine (Harvard Asia Center, 2022). It analyzes book's multitude problems, such as its flawed conception, numerous factual blunders, failure to engage existing scholarship, problematic choice primary sources, and dubious citation practices. Most significantly, this aims provide ample evidence demon...

Abstract The Somali people have suffered from a devastating civil war and large‐scale forced displacement since the late 1980s. This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork with Northwest London Somalis during khat ( Catha edulis ) control debates that led to prohibition of substance in June 2014. It argues diaspora poetics can become an expression deeply divisive past offering ways rearticu...

Purpose This paper aims to assess the economic impact of uniform COVID-controlling policies that were implemented by US government in 2020 and compare it with hypothetical targeted consider heterogenous effect COVID-19 on different age groups. Design/methodology/approach The author began showing adjusted SEQIHR model is a good fit COVID-induced daily death data can capture nonlinearities very w...

background: the relationship between thyroid autoimmunity and breast cancer is a challenging subject. we aimed to investigate this association in women with breast cancer. methods: in this descriptive study, 41 women with newly diagnosed breast cancer before receiving any pharmacologic treatment and 38 healthy age-matched women were enrolled. anti tpo ab (anti-thyroid peroxidase antibodies), ft...