Introduction: Special issue on the ethics of anthropology in emergencies by Stellmach, D, Beshar, I

“…It is hard to think of a recent moment when anthropology as a profession has had a higher profile. …”

Continuous-time best-response and related dynamics in Tullock contests with convex costs by Elkind, E, Ghosh, A, Goldberg, PW

“…We also establish convergence of related discrete-time dynamics, e.g., when the agents best-respond to the empirical average action of other agents. …”

Superparasitism of Eoxenos laboulbenei De Peyerimhoff (Strepsiptera: Mengenillidae) by Idiomacromerus gregarius (Silvestri) (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) in southern Spain by Delgado, JA, Askew, RR, Collantes, F, Kathirithamby, J

“…The parasitized puparium was kept in the laboratory until the following summer, when four I. gregarius adults emerged from it. This species of chalcidoid is rarely found. …”

What is to reproduce? On the overlap, development, and persistence account of reproduction by Palacios-González, C

“…Her account seems able to answer the question of whether reproduction takes place, and who reproduces, when we employ biotechnologies that bear little to no resemblance to naturally occurring human sexual reproduction. …”

Least squares and the not-Normal Equations by Wathen, AJ

“…<br> The linear least squares problem is one such: excellent algorithms exist when QR factorisation is feasible. However for large-dimensional (often sparse) linear least squares problems there are currently good solution algorithms only for well-conditioned problems or for problems where there is lots of data but only a few variables in the solution. …”

Background matters, but not whether parents are immigrants: outcomes of children born in Denmark by Jensen, M, Manning, A

“…This paper shows that children born in Denmark with immigrant parents (first-generation locals) have lower earnings, higher unemployment, less education, more welfare transfers, and more criminal convictions than children with local-born parents. However, when we condition on parental socio-economic characteristics, first-generation locals generally perform as well or slightly better than the children of locals. …”

The shutdown problem: an AI engineering puzzle for decision theorists by Thornley, E

“…I explain and motivate the shutdown problem: the problem of designing artificial agents that (1) shut down when a shutdown button is pressed, (2) don’t try to prevent or cause the pressing of the shutdown button, and (3) otherwise pursue goals competently. …”

Groups of profinite type and profinite rigidity by Bar-On, T, Nikolov, N

“…In this paper, we study when abelian groups and some group extensions are of profinite type or profinitely rigid. …”

Management of adult sepsis in resource-limited settings: global expert consensus statements using a Delphi method by Thwaites, L, Nasa, P, Abbenbroek, B, Dat, VQ, Finfer, S, Kwizera, A, Ling, L, Lobo, SM, Sinto, R, Aditianingsih, D, Antonelli, M, Arabi, YM, Argent, A, Azevedo, L, Bennett, E, Chakrabarti, A, De Asis, K, De Waele, J, Divatia, JV, Estenssoro, E, Evans, L, Faiz, A, Hammond, NE, Hashmi, M

“…Similarly, where facilities for investigation are unavailable, there was consensus for empirical antimicrobial administration without delay when sepsis was strongly suspected, as was the empirical use of antiparasitic agents in patients with suspicion of parasitic infections. …”

How are cognitive maps formed and encoded in humans? by Glitz, L

“…In Chapter 2, we investigate how humans share or reuse relational maps across different contexts when it is adaptive to do so and how this process is encoded neurally. …”

Peak injustice: solving Britain’s inequality crisis by Dorling, D

“…What part does living with high inequality play in understanding how we have got to the point of peak injustice, when surely the situation cannot become worse? <br> Although 2018 was a year of peak income and wealth inequality in the UK, absolute deprivation has continued to grow since then, especially after the pandemic. …”

Ethical surveillance in vaccine passports by Cofone, I

“…Further, vaccine passports should be based solely on government vaccine data, be implemented only in places where vaccines are widely available for free, track location only when they are scanned, and provide a non-digital option. …”

The interactions of ethnic minorities in Beijing by Hasmath, R

“…However, the attendant risk in utilizing this practice is that the socio-economic struggles of many ethnic minority groups are being masked when a celebratory version of their culture and traditions are presented. …”

Sensory, motor, and emotion associations for landscape concepts differ across neighbouring speech communities by Striedl, P, Majid, A, Purves, RS

“…This suggests more caution is required when extrapolating findings about landscape understandings and preferences across cultures and languages.…”

Russian oil – challenges and possibilities by Moe, A

“…After Russian oil production had fallen to a low of 303 million tonnes per year in 1996–8, production picked up rapidly – some years showing an increase exceeding 10 per cent – until 2004 when it reached 459 million tonnes. Among observers of the sector there had been a debate about Russia’s ability to sustain the output level, sceptics arguing that the impressive growth was caused mainly by forced exploitation of existing fields with the use of new technologies, with Yukos in the forefront, and that this could not continue due to exhaustion of the fields. …”

Moment conditions for dynamic panel logit models with fixed effects by Honoré, BE, Weidner, M

“…We describe how to systematically explore the existence of moment conditions that do not depend on the fixed effects, and we demonstrate how to construct them when they exist. Our approach is closely related to the numerical "functional differencing" construction in Bonhomme (2012), but our emphasis is to find explicit analytic expressions for the moment functions. …”

Images of international thinkers by Owens, P

“…Drawing together two thriving IR subfields for the first time, visual studies and international intellectual history, this article demonstrates the theoretical and historical gains from analysing portraits of international thinkers. When read alongside other primary and secondary sources, portraits can enable new ways of seeing IR’s history and specific thinkers, offering a distinctive and powerful resource for new narratives about the professional, gendered, and racialised contexts of international thought.…”

Arguing about moral causation by Baysan, E

“…Moreover, there are reasons to replace the premise that moral properties play causal roles with the more general claim that moral properties play explanatory roles, and such roles may or may not be causal roles. When the argument is suitably revised, it supports the more general thesis that moral properties are real, which leaves it open that they may or may not be natural properties.…”

Community detection on directed networks with missing edges by Pedreschi, N, Lambiotte, R, Bovet, A

“…Through comparisons on synthetic networks and a real-world network of messaging channels on the Telegram platform, we demonstrate that our method delivers more reliable community structures, even when a significant portion of data is missing.…”

How resource revenues can halve global poverty by Segal, P

“…Political upheavals in Venezuela and Bolivia are two dramatic examples of what can happen when a majority feel that they are not getting their fair share of their national patrimony. …”