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A cornucopia of diversity—Ranunculales as a model lineage
Authors:   The RanOmics group, Becker Annette , Bachelier Julien B , Carrive Laetitia , Conde e Silva Natalia , Damerval Catherine , Del Rio Cédric , Deveaux Yves , Di Stilio Verónica S , Gong Yan , Jabbour Florian , Kramer Elena M , Nadot Sophie , Pabón-Mora Natalia , Wang Wei 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
The Ranunculales are a hyperdiverse lineage in many aspects of their phenotype, including growth habit, floral and leaf morphology, reproductive mode, and specialized metabolism. Many Ranunculales species, such as opium poppy and goldenseal, have a high medicinal value. In addition, the order includes a large number of commercially important ornamental plants, such as columbines and larkspurs. The phylogenetic position of the order with respect to monocots and core eudicots and the diversity within this lineage make the Ranunculales an excellent group for studying evolutionary processes by comparative studies. Lately, the phylogeny of Ranunculales was revised, and genetic and genomic resources were developed for many species, allowing comparative analyses at the molecular scale. Here, we review the literature on the resources for genetic manipulation and genome sequencing, the recent phylogeny reconstruction of this order, and its fossil record. Further, we explain their habitat range and delve into the diversity in their floral morphology, focusing on perianth organ identity, floral symmetry, occurrences of spurs and nectaries, sexual and pollination systems, and fruit and dehiscence types. The Ranunculales order offers a wealth of opportunities for scientific exploration across various disciplines and scales, to gain novel insights into plant biology for researchers and plant enthusiasts alike.
Long-Term Consequences of Spirometry During Military Routine Medical Examinations on Smoking Cessation Compared to Minimal Advice
Authors: Perisse Anne , Dao Marie-Cécile , Butty Damien , Derkenne Clement , Charton France , Fabre Nathalie , Grosset-Janin Anais , Lutringer Manon , Chanet Aurore , Diop Elie , Attia Claire , Coudert Anne , Courson Audrey , Maillot Gaelle , Augen Anne-Sophie , Bagary Pierre , Sahuguet Emilie , Remond Odile , Paleiron Nicolas , Bylicki Olivier 
Published: December 2023

ABSTRACT

Background
Smoking kills 8 million people a year worldwide. It is the most prevalent cause of death in France by cancer, cardiovascular, or respiratory diseases. Minimal advice consists in asking patients who smoke if they are interested in quitting. It is effective in reducing smoking. The French High Health Authority recommends its systematic use with patients, whatever their reason for seeking treatment. The beneficial effect of spirometry on smoking cessation is controversial. The objective of our study was to measure the consequences of spirometry associated with minimal advice, compared with only minimal advice in soldiers seen during a routine medical examination.

Methods
Our prospective, longitudinal, open, multicenter, controlled, randomized study was conducted among French military smokers presenting for an occupational medicine visit. Each participant received, depending on their group (intervention or control), either minimal advice associated with an evaluation of lung function by mini-spirometer, or only minimal advice. Follow-up visits were performed at 6 and 12 months. The primary objective was self-reported tobacco use cessation at 6 months.

Results
A total of 267 participants (126 in the intervention group and 141 for the control arm) were included in 10 centers between June 2019 and June 2020. The response rate was 75.6% at 6 months. The cessation rates were 17% and 18% in the intervention and control groups, respectively, with no significant difference between the two groups (P = 0.9). The cessation rate in the general population was 13% at 6 months.

Conclusions
Spirometry does not seem to influence smoke cessation on a military population at 6 months. The overall cessation rate in our study was well in excess of the 3-6% expected from only providing minimal which is underused in general practice and should be encouraged.
A case of subarachnoid haemorrhage associated with MPO-ANCA-positive eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis, successfully treated with glucocorticoid, cyclophosphamide, and mepolizumab
Authors: Satake Yuki , Sakai Shunsuke , Takao Tetsuro , Saeki Takako 
Published: December 2023

ABSTRACT
Subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) is a quite rare but serious central nervous system complication of eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA). We report a case of myeloperoxidase antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody–positive EGPA in which SAH developed during glucocorticoid induction pulse therapy for skin purpura, peripheral neuropathy, and rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis. In addition to high-dose glucocorticoid and intravenous cyclophosphamide, we administered mepolizumab, a humanised anti-interleukin-5 monoclonal antibody, and this resulted in remission of the SAH. Although the pathogenesis of SAH in EGPA is not fully understood, both necrotising vasculitis and eosinophilic inflammation are thought to be involved. In addition to prompt intensive immunosuppressive therapy, mepolizumab should be considered for SAH associated with EGPA.
Trends in income and wealth inequalities
Authors: Bourquin Pascale , Brewer Mike , Wernham Thomas 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThis article brings together trends in inequalities in income, wealth and, to a limited extent, consumption in the United Kingdom, with a focus on trends until the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. It considers how trends in wealth compare with the much better known trends in income inequality and the extent to which changes to the shape of the income distribution—especially at the top—are hidden by an unchanging Gini coefficient. And it explores the key differences between groups in society and especially between those in different birth cohorts.
Women’s Sartorial Agency
Authors: Piela Anna 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
Abstract: After September 11, the world witnessed a rising tide of Islamophobia generally in the West, but more acutely felt in the United States, which had been directly attacked. This fear and hatred of Islam went into overdrive during the presidency of Donald Trump, with his racial and religious slurs directed at Muslims. This section focuses on how Islamophobes frequently target Muslim women in ḥijāb and play up their assumed “victimhood” in order to set up a contrast to “liberated” non-Muslim Western women, creating a “clash of civilizations” discourse that pits a reified “Muslim world” against a reified “West.” The genealogy of this narrative is insightfully explored in this section, revealing its deep historical roots within Orientalism, a phenomenon that has caricatured and demonized the Muslim East, not least through its fetishization of Muslim women and their attire. In the more recent past and continuing into the contemporary period, the clash of civilizations discourse has been deployed to stage the “War on Terror,” which, at least in part, is being waged on the bodies of Muslim women.
Cities and Local Governments
Authors: Philipp Aust Helmut , Rodiles Alejandro 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
This chapter retraces the emergence of cities and local governments as sites and actors of international development. A friction exists between two seemingly competing understandings of global development: the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The SDGs are the most important multilateral articulation of ideas of development today. They are considerably shaped by the long shadow of the post-Cold War era as well as the shifting priorities of influential actors. The BRI follows a different idea of international development, built around the notions of non-interference and ‘win–win cooperation’. What unites these two blueprints for global development is that international law, as traditionally understood, does not seem to take centre stage. This chapter argues that it may be a new type of international law which emerges from these global constellations of international development which comes not only, but also from below.
Africa as a ‘Theatre’ of International Law and Development
Authors: Okafor Obiora Chinedu , Miyawa Maxwel 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
This chapter provides an account of the ways in which the international project of development has been received, embraced, and contested in Africa, and the roles that law, often a potent instrument of change and control, has played in framing and shaping that encounter. In viewing Africa as a regional ‘theatre’ of the international law and development project, the chapter principally offers an account of the ways in which international law and development apparatuses, institutions, norms, policies, and praxis have been received, debated, embraced, or contested, and shaped in and by the multiplicities and complexities of African thought, knowledge, and practice. The chapter develops the argument that while African knowledge generation, practice, and resistance in the field has, to varying degrees, both contested or embraced, the dominant versions of the international law and development project, Africa’s innovations in all three aspects need to be better understood and factored in.
Re-storying Law and Development in Oceania
Authors: Monson Rebecca , Camacho Keith L. , Foukona Joseph D. 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
The Pacific is vast, and its people and places woven into a rich array of cultures, ecologies, and legal systems. However, development discourses emanating from Global North institutions consistently portray the region in homogenised terms, as a series of small, underdeveloped, and under-governed islands dotting an empty expanse of ocean. This chapter draws on a rich vein of Pacific scholarship to highlight the effects of these dominant portrayals. It does so with reference to three key areas of concern for Global North institutions: state-building and securitisation of borders, the regulation of Indigenous land and sea, and gender inequality. The chapter then focuses on efforts to ‘decolonise’ and ‘re-story’ mainstream development, and highlights three key characteristics of these efforts: they are emplaced in landscapes, seascapes, and skyscapes; they are founded on Indigenous customs, languages, and the arts; and they are expansive, linking diverse struggles through time and space.
The Rule of Law and International Development
Authors: Chalmers Shane 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
The aim of this chapter is twofold: to provide an overview of the international development project’s ‘rule of law’ agenda, and to do so in a way that shows its mythological character. In 1992 Peter Fitzpatrick published The Mythology of Modern Law, a work that exposed the constitutive relation between Europe’s racialised imperialism and its conception of modern law. In the three decades since, a renewed field of law and development has grown, this time in the name of ‘the rule of law’. This chapter shows how the mythology of modern law endures in this field of rule-of-law development. The analysis shows how the mythology of modern law, in its racialised imperial form, is integral to the work of international rule-of-law promotion. One consequence is the denial of ‘local’ law by a rule of law that obtains its authority by purporting to be responsive to legal pluralism.
Measurement as Development
Authors: Buchanan Ruth , Murphy Caitlin 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
The proliferation of quantitative metrics has been an integral aspect of the project of development from the second half of the twentieth century, with profound effects on how development has both been envisioned and enacted. Measurement is a social process, with a variety of implications for how we conduct ourselves and how institutions govern populations in the world. Over the past several decades the mechanisms and metrics to measure and rank phenomena in the world have proliferated. This chapter examines in particular one global process of measurement and comparison and how it came to be arranged in this way: the Global Indicator Framework for the Sustainable Development Goals. To interrogate this process further, the chapter concludes with a brief case study of NASA’s ‘Worldview’ programme. This is read as illustrative of the complexities and contradictions of the current moment in which both measurement—often conducted via data points—and development are bigger and more entangled than ever.
Direct-Democratic Votes
Authors: Sciarini Pascal , Tresch Anke 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
Although the instruments of direct democracy are increasingly popular in a growing number of democracies, nowhere are they more developed than in Switzerland. Indeed, direct democracy is a fundamental institution of the Swiss political system, and greatly impacts on the legislative process, party competition, and political campaigning. In the last two decades alone (2001–2021), Swiss citizens voted on 166 legislative or constitutional proposals at the federal level. This chapter first describes the use of direct-democratic instruments (compulsory referendum, optional referendum, popular initiative) over time and the evolution of the electorate’s support for the government. Second, it reviews the emerging literature on direct-democratic campaigning, shedding light on the actors involved and varying coalitions, their campaign channels, and their resources, as well as the flux and resonance of their campaign messages. Third, it turns to the individual-level and contextual-level determinants of turnout and highlights the apparent contradiction between low turnout rates at the aggregate level and widespread selective participation at the individual level. Finally, it takes stock of classic and recent studies on opinion formation and voting decisions to assess if and under what circumstances voters can make informed and correct choices. The chapter concludes on a rather optimistic note regarding the quality of direct-democratic decision-making in Switzerland and indicates avenues for future research.
Environmental and Spatial Planning Policies
Authors: Ingold Karin , Nahrath Stéphane 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
This chapter presents the history and development of Swiss policies addressing environmental issues and spatial planning. It runs through the most important events that have led to policy changes and important regulations, emphasizing the major developments in legislation and policy instruments. The chapter shows how environmental and spatial planning policies are embedded in the Swiss institutional setting and it outlines the most important actors and structures involved. The concluding section of the chapter offers an outlook on how these two policy fields, which have taken some parallel and some separate pathways in the past, might evolve in the near future.
Chocolate Democracy
Authors: Bochsler Daniel 
Published: December 2023

AbstractSwiss citizens take pride in their export industry. Although chocolate figures among those products that the global public most frequently associates with its export industry, Switzerland also stands out thanks to the unique features of its model of democracy. Swiss citizens take pride in their democracy. This is mirrored by scholarly claims that Swiss democracy could offer ‘possible solutions to conflict in multicultural societies’. This chapter asks how four main pillars of Swiss democracy—direct democracy, the consensus-oriented institutions, the consociational democracy model, and federalism—are received abroad, and how they are reflected in the literature on comparative politics. Additionally, it analyses whether and how Swiss democracy promotion abroad builds on these supposed strengths of Swiss democracy. It turns out that the consociational democracy of Switzerland, which is the most relevant aspect to the Swiss democracy promotion and peacebuilding agenda, dates back to the nineteenth and twentieth century, and the cultural divide that was the basis on which the Swiss consociational model was built is no longer relevant. The Swiss promotion of democracy relies primarily on Switzerland’s past. This does no harm for its exports: political history has no expiration date.
Introduction
Authors: Emmenegger Patrick , Fossati Flavia , Häusermann Silja , Papadopoulos Yannis , Sciarini Pascal , Vatter Adrian 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
The introduction sets the scene and explains why Switzerland has become a test case of democracy in divided societies. It shows that Swiss politics are no longer as exceptional as they used to be a few decades ago and that developments in Swiss politics have foreshadowed major trends that mark current European politics. For example, Switzerland has been at the forefront of developments regarding the reconfiguration of the political space that are of transnational relevance, such as partisan realignment with the early emergence of Green, new-left parties and the major electoral successes of the nativist right. The introduction describes Switzerland as an example of the successful formation of a political nation on a multicultural basis that some consider a microcosm and a possible model for Europe but also suggests that this country’s conflict-laden path to power-sharing and to consensus democracy cannot be taken for granted. Beyond the interest in Switzerland as a historical case of political integration, studying the country also offers insights regarding the tensions an increasing number of countries are experiencing between an ever-stronger international economic integration and the preservation of political sovereignty. Such contested dynamics are likely to intensify in many advanced democratic economies. Lastly, Switzerland’s political system is of particular interest regarding the diagnosis of a democratic deficit in established democracies. The political, social, and economic problems in numerous states have aroused interest in Swiss political institutions such as federalism, consociationalism, and direct democracy.
EMDR Therapy and Integrative Approaches with Children
Authors: Beckley-Forest Ann , Lyles Marshall , Monaco Annie 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
EMDR therapy with children requires great developmental sensitivity and creativity to enhance therapeutic safety and engagement in the therapy. Integrating play therapy conceptualizations and interventions can enhance the congruence of the somatic, emotional, and cognitive shifts occurring during EMDR. This chapter will establish the importance of therapeutic play as a tool in clinical work with children and review of some major play therapy models (child-centered play therapy, Adlerian play therapy, synergetic play therapy, Gestalt play therapy, and prescriptive play therapy), their intersection with the Adaptive Information Processing model, and how these play therapy techniques can be integrated within the eight phases of EMDR.
Animals as Commodities
Authors: Cowie Helen 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
Animal commodities have been central to human existence for millennia. As well as supplying human dietary needs in the form of meat, milk, and eggs, they have been used for clothing, ornamentation, dyeing, medicine, fertilizer, and fuel, and as domestic companions. Animal power has also been harnessed to harvest, transport, and process other major global commodities, from silver to teak. The chapter provides an overview of the commodification of animals and explores their changing role within global trade. It examines how the type and quantity of animal commodities shifted over time and emphasises the ecological and ethical issues posed by the commodification of animals. The chapter concludes with a study of the Pacific fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus), which was hunted to the point of extinction in the nineteenth century for its thick fur coat.
Land Use and Commodities
Authors: Chambouleyron Rafael , Fischer Luly , Arenz Karl Heinz 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
This chapter addresses the issue of land use and commodity exploitation, especially in the early-modern period, exploring the way land was appropriated for economic production of commodities and the consequences of this appropriation. The role played by the expansion of commodities is examined in regard to the impact on the environment and on access to land and natural resources. It illustrates this impact with a case study of the exploitation of Amazonian cacao from the mid-seventeenth until the late nineteenth centuries. In the Luso-Brazilian Amazon region, cacao was both gathered as wild fruits as well as cultivated in settlers’ lands. The same commodity thus entailed different forms of land use, which had multiple environmental and territorial consequences.
Commodities, Carbon, and Climate
Authors: Brooke John L. , Herschthal Eric , Kaplan Jed O. 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
Commodities and climate are both deeply connected to carbon, as the stuff of earthly matter and the most significant of the atmosphere greenhouse gases, CO2. Both agricultural land-use and the industrial combustion of fossil fuels produce carbon emissions that pass through the atmosphere. This chapter reviews the long history of climate change and commodities production through the lens of atmospheric CO2 and carbon emissions rising from economic activity. Human derived, or anthropogenic, carbon emissions may have begun in advancing agricultural societies six to seven thousand years ago, and can be measured in early-modern commodity production, most eastly in the Caribbean. The chapter closes with a review of the rise of agricultural and industrial emissions through the ‘Great Acceleration’ after 1945, a discussion of the history of fossil fuels as commodities, and the recent trajectory toward a decarbonization of the energy stream.
Mapping Commodity Histories
Authors: Clifford Jim , MacFadyen Joshua , Castonguay Stéphane 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have evolved from a powerful tool to visualize quantitative census data into an iterative methodology that allows historians to bring together information from historical maps, textual sources, and quantitative data. It allows historians to interrogate historiographical assumptions and develop new questions. It can help answer questions and create maps to better communicate spatial information. This chapter explores the limited use and potential of historical GIS methods in commodity histories. A case study of the Canadian forest-products trade demonstrates the value of GIS for researching the history of commodities. The authors show the iterative process that helped us better understand the early development of export-orientated sawmills in the Quebec City region and then use GIS to map the geography of the timber and firewood trade in the later nineteenth century. The authors hope that open-source software, tutorials, and the potential to reach wider audiences through interactive online maps will prompt more interest in GIS methods in commodity history.