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Activities Towards Primate Conservation in Panama (2013)
Journal Article
Méndez-Carvajal, P., Ruiz-Bernard, I., De León, G., González, Y., Miranda, E., Loría, L., …Soto, E. (2013). Activities Towards Primate Conservation in Panama. Wildlife biology in practice, 9(2), 91-97. https://doi.org/10.2461/wbp.2013.9.10

Neotropical Primates are commonly threatened mostly caused by deforestation and hunt pressure. It is a reality that nowadays there are many subspecies of primates living in reduced areas and poorly studied due to their remote locations, political sit... Read More about Activities Towards Primate Conservation in Panama.

Somatic, mood, and vasomotor symptoms at midlife in relation to family structure and household workloads in Sylhet, Bangladesh (2013)
Journal Article
Sharmeen, T., Sievert, L., Begum, K., Chowdhury, O., Muttukrishna, S., & Bentley, G. (2013). Somatic, mood, and vasomotor symptoms at midlife in relation to family structure and household workloads in Sylhet, Bangladesh. Anthropological Review, 76(2), 199-216. https://doi.org/10.2478/anre-2013-0019

The purpose of this study was to test whether the frequencies of vasomotor, somatic, and emotional symptoms at midlife were associated with household composition or workloads. Patrilocal family arrangements are common in Bangladesh and, since mothers... Read More about Somatic, mood, and vasomotor symptoms at midlife in relation to family structure and household workloads in Sylhet, Bangladesh.

The Place of Theory: Rights, Networks, and Ethnographic Comparison (2013)
Journal Article
Englund, H., & Yarrow, T. (2013). The Place of Theory: Rights, Networks, and Ethnographic Comparison. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology, 57(3), 132-149. https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2013.570308

The relationship between theory and place has remained a central problem for the discipline of anthropology. Focusing on debates around the concepts of Human Rights and Networks, specifically as these traverse African and Melanesian contexts, this pa... Read More about The Place of Theory: Rights, Networks, and Ethnographic Comparison.

Attitudes and beliefs of non-participants in a population-based screening programme for colorectal cancer (2013)
Journal Article
Hall, N., Rubin, G., Dobson, C., Weller, D., Wardle, J., Ritchie, M., & Rees, C. (2015). Attitudes and beliefs of non-participants in a population-based screening programme for colorectal cancer. Health Expectations, 18(5), 1645-1657. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.12157

Background Uptake of colorectal cancer screening programmes needs to be improved or at least maintained in order to achieve projected reductions in mortality and morbidity. Understanding the origins of non-participation in screening is therefore impo... Read More about Attitudes and beliefs of non-participants in a population-based screening programme for colorectal cancer.

The Phylogeny of Little Red Riding Hood (2013)
Journal Article
Tehrani, J. (2013). The Phylogeny of Little Red Riding Hood. PLoS ONE, 8(11), Article e78871. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0078871

Researchers have long been fascinated by the strong continuities evident in the oral traditions associated with different cultures. According to the ‘historic-geographic’ school, it is possible to classify similar tales into “international types” and... Read More about The Phylogeny of Little Red Riding Hood.

Energetic consequences of human sociality: walking speed choices among friendly dyads (2013)
Journal Article
Wagnild, J., & Wall-Scheffler, C. (2013). Energetic consequences of human sociality: walking speed choices among friendly dyads. PLoS ONE, 8(10), Article e76576. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0076576

Research has shown that individuals have an optimal walking speed–a speed which minimizes energy expenditure for a given distance. Because the optimal walking speed varies with mass and lower limb length, it also varies with sex, with males in any gi... Read More about Energetic consequences of human sociality: walking speed choices among friendly dyads.

Equity across borders: a whole-system approach to micro-generation (2013)
Book Chapter
Adams, C., Bell, S., Taylor, P., Alimisi, V., Hutchinson, G., Kumar, A., & Turner, B. R. (2013). Equity across borders: a whole-system approach to micro-generation. In K. Bickerstaff, G. Walker, & H. Bulkeley (Eds.), Energy justice in a changing climate : social equity and low carbon energy (91-115). Zed Books Ltd