Establishing trust through home visits during pregnancy: a realist evaluation of a Danish breastfeeding support intervention by Anne Kristine Gadeberg, Ingrid Maria Susanne Nilsson, Ulla Christensen, Marie Honoré Jacobsen, Henriette Knold Rossau, Sarah Fredsted Villadsen

“…Abstract Background Breastfeeding has numerous health benefits but social inequality in breastfeeding is documented in many high-income countries. …”
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Mercy, love and salvatioin in orthodox spirituality by N. Dumitrascu

“…Mercy also functions as a medicine against social inequality, serving to suppress the kinds of injustices present in every political system, as well as social solidarity. …”
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Understanding Multiple Ecosystem Services of Urban Agriculture Across Scales by Jiangxiao Qiu, Hui Zhao

“… Urban agriculture has gained momentum in global research and policy, and is proposed to combat challenges such as food insecurity, climate change, and social inequality. Here we provide an overview of ecosystem services urban agriculture provides. …”
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Lugares de reunión, boni homines y presbíteros en Valdevimbre y Ardón en la Alta Edad Media by Fernando Luis Corral

“…This fact reports us about the increasing social inequality produced inside these peasant communities.We will also explore changes in location of meeting places chosen to solve conflicts between community members and the ones of some ecclesiastical institutions and aristocracy as a way to better know the political side of the relationship between the mentioned peasant communities and those power elites and, through them, with the Astur-leonese central power.…”
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The need for more inclusive deliberation on ethics and governance in agricultural and food biotechnology by Catherine Kendig, Theresa Selfa, Paul B. Thompson, Raymond Anthony, Wenda Bauchspies, Gwendolyn Blue, Ashmita Das, Rebecca Harrison, Chris Henke, Shan Jin, Jennifer Kuzma, Forbes Lipschitz, Kurt Richter, Morgan Ruelle, Timothy Silberg, Bruno Takahashi

“…We clarify ways the concepts that are used to categorize food and frame governance of food affect consumer choices, and how dissemination of information and the mode of dissemination can contribute to social inequities. We cite the record of medically-oriented bioethic commissions and the history of international bioethic commissions in support of our argument, and end by discussing what such a commission dedicated to agriculture and food issues could reasonably be expected to achieve.…”
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Hidden geographies of social justice in an urban environment: The particularities of naturally-occurring arts districts by Peter KUMER

“…Actors from these districts are committed to addressing the causes of social inequality at their root via artist-led civic engagement activities   …”
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Impact of Industry 4.0 on the economy and production by T. V. Mezina, A. V. Zozulya, P. V. Zozulya, T. F. Chernova, A. V. Pletnyova

“…In particular, it has been established that markets are becoming oligopolistic, the role and importance of medium and small businesses is significantly increasing, the problems of social inequality and tension in connection with growing unemployment and the need for highly qualified personnel are becoming more acute. …”
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Book Review: Ferreira, Marcos Alan (Ed.) 2022. Peace and Violence in Brazil: Reflections on the Roles of State, Organized Crime and Civil Society. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Stu... by Murilo Motta

“… The book “Peace and Violence in Brazil: Reflections on the Roles of State, Organized Crime, and Civil Society”, edited by Marcos Alan Ferreira, provides a comprehensive analysis of the persistence and causes of violence in Brazil. It argues that social inequality, fragile state institutions, and actions by both state actors and criminal groups contribute significantly to high violence levels. …”
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Desigualdade e transformações na distribuição de renda na Região Centro-Oeste do Brasil (2000-2010) by Cleverson Neves, Ednaldo Michellon, Umberto Antonio Sesso Filho

“…The objective of this study is to analyze the transformations that occurred in the distribution of income and degree of social inequality measured by the Gini Index of the municipalities of the Midwest Region of Brazil in the period between 2000 and 2010 with data from the censuses carried out in the respective years. …”
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A Year in Review: Key Milestones & Achievements of the European Journal of Geography in 2024 by Alexandros Bartzokas-Tsiompras, Kostis C. Koutsopoulos

“…In 2024, the journal published 24 thought-provoking articles spanning topics from urban geography to social inequality, underscoring its commitment to fostering meaningful interdisciplinary dialogue. …”
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Activating the family? Moral economy and post-industrial family policy by Laura Lüth

“…Given that the institutional understanding of justice significantly impacts who benefits from family policies, this paper offers a substantial contribution toward comprehending the cultural aspect of social inequality in post-industrial welfare states.…”
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UNIVERSITY MARKETING IN AN AGE OF DIGITAL GLOBALIZATION by I. V. Alyoshina

“…Problems of digitalization of industries, globalization of markets, growing instability and uncertainty of the environment, increased social inequality, networking, platformization of business models predetermine the importance of university marketing as management focused on global resource markets. …”
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LGBT RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS: SOCIAL WORK AND THE FIGHT AGAINST THE LGBTPHOBIC DISCOURSE OF “GAY CURE” by Leonardo Mozdzenski, Albert de Albuquerque

“…CDA proposes to describe, interpret and disseminate how forms of power, domination and social inequality are (re)produced in discursive practices, in their socio-political and cultural contexts. …”
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Des inégalités d’appropriation des enjeux énergétiques territoriaux? Analyse sociologique d’un instrument coopératif autour de l’éolien « citoyen » by Guillaume Christen, Philippe Hamman

“…Even if this incentive instrument promotes the reconciliation of the inhabitants and the wind technology, its operationalization could not avoid encountering social inequities in participation as well as in the local appropriation of the plan, especially because the organizational processes of the wind energy are built on specific expert knowledge. …”
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REGIONS OF RUSSIA IN THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC by N. Z. Zotikov

“…The concentration of competitive advantages in some regions and their lack in others, which depend on the population`s incomes, exacerbate social inequality. At  the present stage of development, taking into account the changed economic situation in the world, the issues of  economic security of the regions are of particular importance. …”
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Gandhi: A Man for our Times? by Judith Brown

“…It also focuses on Gandhi’s critique of Hindu tradition as a powerful buttress of profound social inequality particularly relating to caste and gender; his response to violence in the name of religion and community; and finally his underlying belief that true religion was the individual’s search for the divine and that all religious traditions by contrast have very partial visions of truth. …”
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Between the Violence and the Citizenship: A Glance on the Youth Mortality by Thaís Juliana Medeiros, Ana Paula Serrata Malfitano

“…It is urgent to address the issues of social inequality to discuss effectively the life disruption of a group of young people in Brazil.…”
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Spatiotemporal Assessment and Modelling of Roof-Harvested Rainwater Quality in Kigezi Highlands, Uganda by Philip, Tibenderana, Moses, Nduhira Twesigye-omwe, Agwe, Tobby Michael, Abdulkadir, Taofeeq S, Denis, Byamukama

“…This situation has further been aggravated by a high rate of urbanization, population growth, rising water demand, continuous depletion of fresh surface water and groundwater, climate change, water governance, extreme social inequality and pollution (Struk-Sokolowska, et al., 2020, Balogun et al., 2016). …”
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La labellisation, (re)qualification ou disqualification des marges ? Le cas du safran à Taliouine (Anti-Atlas, Maroc) by Mari Oiry Varacca

“…Are these processes really capable of shrinking not only a particular space’s marginality but also social inequality? The discussion focuses on the labelling of saffron from Taliouine, a region in southern Morocco that has long been neglected by the public authorities to such a degree that it is a land of emigration. …”
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Labelling, (re)qualifying and disqualifying marginal spaces. The case of saffron in Taliouine (Anti-Atlas, Morocco) by Mari Oiry Varacca

“…Are these processes really capable of shrinking not only a particular space’s marginality but also social inequality? The discussion focuses on the labelling of saffron from Taliouine, a region in southern Morocco that has long been neglected by the public authorities to such a degree that it is a land of emigration. …”
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