Honor killing is a violent crime committed by one or more perpetrators, in which the crime’s intention is to restore honor to their family. In this narrative review, the authors investigate the epidemiology of honor killing in the Eastern Medit...
Within honor-related contexts, women’s appearances, actions, and life choices are closely tied to the honor of the entire family. As a result, women who opt to deviate from prevailing feminine honor codes are subject to violence as a means of r...
At present, many enterprises are facing the dilemma of green management and greenwashing behavior is becoming increasingly serious. The honor of a city is an intangible asset that can bring opportunities for city development and enhance the recogniti...
This study introduces a comparative framework to understand patriarchal genealogies and technologies, with reference to an anthropological commentary concerning the broader forms of coloniality of power between dominant male and dominated female bodi...
Originating in the US and subsequently diffusing across worldwide, honors education has been increasingly adopted in China. A central question is whether honors participation produces substantive changes in students’ learning or functions as sy...
“Civilized City” is the highest honor in China’s urban evaluation system. This research used a quasi-natural experiment approach to evaluate how the “Civilized City” designation influence tourism economic growth. The results showed that: (1) “Civiliz...
4 March 2026
The revitalization of time-honored brands has been identified as a strategic priority in China’s national development agenda, yet many long-established brands continue to face declining market share and limited engagement with younger consumers...
This study investigated how perceived authenticity influences consumers’ revisit intention to time-honored restaurants and explored the moderating role of place attachment in this relationship. Data were collected from 319 consumers with prior...
Utilizing comparative analysis and a quasi-experimental design, this study conducted three waves of questionnaire surveys over an 18-month period to longitudinally assess the deep learning levels of students enrolled in a university Honors College, w...
This article discusses the depictions of healings on the St. Honoré portal at Amiens Cathedral (post-1240) and the visual strategies by which its viewers were invited to participate in the saint’s cult. I contend that the carved figures...
The Honors Living-Learning Community (HLLC) at Rutgers University–Newark (RU-N) pushes the boundaries of academia’s possibilities by placing community-engaged scholarship as a critical pillar of student success. Established in 2015, the HLLC is pursu...
2 November 2025
Understanding consumer perceptions of brand image is vital for the sustainable development of China Time-honored Brands, which combine cultural heritage with commercial value. This study aims to systematically analyze the brand image of Beijing&rsquo...
The current discussion about a “risk culture” in financial services was triggered by the recent series of financial crises. The last decade saw a long list of hubris, misconduct and criminal activities by human beings on a single or even...
How can undergraduate students be prepared for global citizenship? This question was investigated in a mixed-methods case study of an international, blended one-semester course. Undergraduate honors students (N = 22) from the USA and the Netherlands...
At present, U.S. postsecondary sorting is best evidenced by an increasingly stratified system of higher education. However, very little attention is paid to even deeper levels of stratification within colleges and universities where academic tracking...
The Chinese Time-honored Catering Brands (CTCBs) in the five northwestern provinces are the accumulation of culture in the northwest of China and have precious value. Their formation and development process have their own characteristics and rules. I...
20 September 2022
Objective: To describe the injury rate, severity, cause, anatomical location (tissue damaged), recurrence, place and time during matches throughout a season in the Spanish Rugby Union Division de Honor. Methods: Observational, prospective and descrip...
It is with great pleasure that we introduce this Special Issue dedicated to Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors (PPARs), honoring the pioneering contributions of Professor Walter Wahli [...]
This editorial is written to recognize Professor Emeritus Calvin H. Bartholomew, who celebrated his 75th birthday in 2018, and to introduce the commemorative issue of Catalysts compiled in his honor. Following a brief biography that celebrates the ca...
It is our pleasure and privilege to serve as Guest Editors for this Special Issue of the Journal of Fungi in honor of Professor Ji-Kai Liu’s 60th birthday [...]
This paper focuses on whether city honor competition has led to a sectoral shift. The research argues that cities’ actions in pursuing honor have led to their changing from the manufacturing sector to the service sector. This paper attempts to...
I am deeply moved and honored by this Special Issue of the journal Physics celebrating my seventieth birthday and forty years of sociophysics [...]
Urban sustainability depends on rural hinterlands, yet national-scale evaluation and AI screening often rely on urban-centric proxies, which can under-recognize remote villages where the evidence base is sparse. Using China’s national honored-v...
24 March 2022
Background: We describe and analyze injury incidence, severity, cause of injury, anatomical location, damaged tissue, injury recurrence, and the time and place at which injuries occur over the course of a season. Methods: An observational, descriptiv...
It is our great pleasure to introduce the Festschrift of Chemistry to honor Professor Riccardo Zanasi (Figure 1) on the occasion of his 70th birthday and to recognize his important contributions to quantum chemistry, particularly in the field of magn...
Since the 1980s, biblical scholars have started to employ the framework of “honor and shame” to study the culture of the ancient Mediterranean region. However, this application of the social–scientific honor–shame model has le...
The aim of this Special Issue, entitled “Advanced Botanical Research in the Mediterranean Area: Studies in Honor of Prof [...]
To explore the memory advantage and the underlying mechanisms of bridge experts, this study conducted two experiments. Experiment 1 investigated the effects of the suit categorization rule and the rank ordering rule on the memory performance of bridg...
This Special Issue entitled “Commemorative Issue in Honor of Professor María Vallet-Regí: 20 Years of Silica-Based Mesoporous Materials” arises from the initiative of the editorial team of Pharmaceutics to pay homage to Prof...
It has been proven that rapid bioinformatics analysis according to patient health profiles, in addition to biomarker detection at a low level, is emerging as essential to design an analytical diagnostics system to manage health intelligently in a per...
The Epistle to the Hebrews contains several so-called “warning passages”. In these texts, the author of Hebrews warns the addressees that they may not tarnish their Christ-given identity through apostasy and leaving the Christ-believing c...
31 January 2025
Despite the growing importance of firm-generated content (FGC) on social platforms, the effect of its relevance to products on consumer brand attitudes remains underexplored. As digital platforms increasingly influence consumer decision-making, this...
It has been more than 10 years since we published the Special Issue “Artemisinin (Qinghaosu): commemorative issue in honor of Professor Youyou Tu on the occasion of her 80th anniversary” (Abbreviated as “the Artemisinins Special Issue”) [...]
This Special Issue of Chemistry is a themed issue of “Functional Biomolecule-Based Composites and Nanostructures: Current Developments and Applications” in honor of Itamar Willner to celebrate his innovative research career [...]
This themed issue of Chemistry is in honor of Professor Christoph Janiak on the occasion of his 60th birthday, and celebrates his innovative contributions to the fields of supramolecular chemistry, coordination polymers, networks and metal-organic fr...
1 November 2020
The purpose of this article is to explain the importance of evaluating and documenting the freeway space (interdental rest position), in initial examinations and at the completion of therapy in patients exhibiting an open mandibular resting position....
The status change riot model opens up a new avenue of riot explanation. One that takes into consideration ethnic group relations and factors of group status and honor—i.e., dignity. The riot model asserts that the potential for a riot arises wh...
Fortinbras’ words at the curtain suggest that if the time had been less out of joint and the state less rotten, Hamlet might have grown into commanding authority. Defining what is potentially regal about Hamlet helps characterize Shakespeare&rs...
If we say that a writer is the soul of a novel and a director is the soul of a movie, then the soul of a journal should be its Editor-in-Chief (EiC) [...]
We are delighted to dedicate this Special Issue to a leading figure in actinoid chemistry, Prof [...]
Despite twenty-first century research advances regarding the role of Islam in Shakespeare’s plays, questions remain concerning the extent of William Shakespeare’s knowledge of Muslim culture and his use of that knowledge in writing Othell...
For decades, Scandinavian culture effectively prohibited the development of special provisions for talented students in higher education. However, in recent years, a cultural shift has gradually made more room for excellence and talent development in...
Taking the threatening anthropogenic global environmental destruction—the anthropocene—as a starting point, this paper examines the Catholic tradition, which has remained relatively indifferent to this looming crisis, asking what might help it to cha...
This Special Issue of Chemistry is dedicated to Professor Josef Michl [...]
John B [...]
1 July 1979
I detest award presentations where the speaker rambles on for 30 min, reciting all of the sterling deeds of the incipient recipient, but deviously contorting his words to avoid giving any clue as to the identity of the person being honored [...]
As a new model of urban governance with Chinese characteristics, the national honored cities from city evaluation competitions, represented by the “National Civilized City” campaign, has always been popular among Chinese cities. Can the h...
Professor Vicente Rives developed a very long and fruitful career as a teacher of Inorganic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry and has been a dedicated researcher in these and related fields [...]
This Special Issue is dedicated to the memory of Professor Paul J [...]
Victor Nikonenko is celebrating his 70th birthday this year [...]
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