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On the Move: Played Characters Circulations through Online Landscapes and Infrastructures / On the Move: Played Characte...

This chapter addresses a complex issue: the reconnection of player mobility to the circulation of their ingame characters. Within the context of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs), players often develop deep emotional attachments to their in-game characters over time. These attachments, cultivated year after year, anchor players to specific...

Climate Change Economics over Time and Space

Published in Annual Review of Economics

With average temperature ranging from −20°C at the North Pole to 30°C at the Equator and with global warming expected to reach 1.4°C to 4.5°C by the year 2100, it is clear that climate change will have vastly different effects across the globe. Given the abundance of land in northern latitudes, if population and economic activity could freely move ...

Continuities and discontinuities in pharmaceutical treatment and medication use among older chronically ill patients of ...

Published in Frontiers in Public Health

Background Polypharmacy occurs frequently among older adults and is associated with an increased risk of falls and medication-related adverse events. In particular, people with a history of migration may receive inappropriate medication due to language barriers or discrimination in healthcare. This study aims to assess the continuities, discontinui...

Political Demography: The Political Consequences of Structural Population Change

This article surveys the growing field of political demography, which explores the political consequences of structural population change. It underscores the importance of integrating demography and political sociology research to better understand the complex and nuanced relationship between demography and political dynamics. The existing research...

The role of community resilience as a protective factor in coping with mental disorders in a sample of psychiatric migra...

Published in Frontiers in Psychiatry

Background Over the past decade migration to Italy has increased significantly for various reasons including armed conflicts. Generally, the migration process is exposed to different risk factors during different periods of migration, which can compromise well-being and promote the onset or exacerbation of mental disorders. A community with resourc...

Circ-CDK8 regulates SLC7A11-mediated ferroptosis by inhibiting miR-615-5p to promote progression in oral squamous cell c...

Published in Frontiers in Pharmacology

Introduction: Ferroptosis is a new mode of programmed cell death distinct from necrosis, apoptosis, and autophagy, induced by iron-ion-dependent lipid peroxide accumulation. Circular RNAs are a class of endogenous non-coding RNAs that regulate the biological behavior of tumors. However, the role of circ-CDK8 in regulating ferroptosis, migration, an...

Variations in the intensity of the securitization narratives at the EU level: securitizing the European refugee crisis

Published in Frontiers in Political Science

This paper examines the narratives of the European Council, European Commission, and European Parliament regarding the European refugee crisis. Although the relevant scholarly research suggests that the EU Institutions held different perspectives about the refugee crisis, this paper argues that there was no such a clash of perspectives. This paper ...

Becoming ‘Swiss’: waste management integration among Ethiopian and Eritrean migrants in Zürich, Switzerland

Published in Frontiers in Sustainability

For Swiss cities, connecting new migrants to basic services, like waste management, has emerged as an essential challenge toward their social and civic integration. Drawing on an ethnographic approach, this study investigates solid waste management integration within Zürich’s Ethiopian and Eritrean migrant communities. Our findings suggest that new...