This collection of essays from leading academics examines the connection between the World Trade Organization (WTO) and human rights issues, a topic which has provoked significant debate, particularly in the decade since the collapsed WTO talks in Seattle in 1999.

Bans on retail tobacco displays, of the type proposed by New York's Mayor Bloomberg in March 2013, have been operative in several economies since 2001. Despite an enormous number of studies in public health journals using attitudinal data, we can find no population-based econometric studies of...

Aerosols are tiny solid or liquid particles suspended in the atmosphere; examples of aerosols include windblown dust, sea salts, volcanic ash, smoke from wildfires, and pollution from factories. The global distribution of aerosols is a topic of great interest in climate studies since aerosols can...

Purpose This viewpoint note aims to discuss the challenges and the suggestions of using assistive technologies to improve the accessibility for travellers with disabilities and their companions at heritage cities. Design/methodology/approach The viewpoint note used the narrative approach which...

The occurrence of sludge bulking is a common problem in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) that adversely affects effluent quality by disrupting the normal functioning of the treatment processes. To address this issue, we propose a novel graph-based monitoring framework that utilizes advanced...

This study uses a quantile-on-quantile regression framework to establish a link between investor sentiment proxied by market turnover and stock returns in G7 countries. The QQ analysis results reveal that the impact of investor sentiment on future stock returns is asymmetric and varies across...