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A comparative assessment on rodent impacts and cultural perceptions of ecologically based rodent management in three Afro‐Malagasy farming regions (2020)
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Constant, N. L., Swanepoel, L., Williams, S. T., Soarimalala, V., Goodman, S. M., Massawe, A. T., Mulungu, L. S., Makundi, R. H., Mdangi, M. E., Taylor, P. J., & Belmain, S. R. (2020). A comparative assessment on rodent impacts and cultural perceptions of ecologically based rodent management in three Afro‐Malagasy farming regions. Integrative Zoology, 15(6), 578-594. https://doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.12447

Rodents generate negative consequences for smallholder farmers in Africa that directly impact household and livestock damage, food security and public health. Ecologically Based Rodent Management (EBRM) seeks sustainable solutions for the mitigation... Read More about A comparative assessment on rodent impacts and cultural perceptions of ecologically based rodent management in three Afro‐Malagasy farming regions.

The life history of human foraging: Cross-cultural and individual variation (2020)
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Koster, J., McElreath, R., Hill, K., Yu, D., Shepard, G., van Vliet, N., Gurven, M., Trumble, B., Bird, R. B., Bird, D., Codding, B., Coad, L., Pacheco-Cobos, L., Winterhalder, B., Lupo, K., Schmitt, D., Sillitoe, P., Franzen, M., Alvard, M., Venkataraman, V., …Ross, C. (2020). The life history of human foraging: Cross-cultural and individual variation. Science Advances, 6(26), Article eaax9070. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax9070

Human adaptation depends on the integration of slow life history, complex production skills, and extensive sociality. Refining and testing models of the evolution of human life history and cultural learning benefit from increasingly accurate measurem... Read More about The life history of human foraging: Cross-cultural and individual variation.

A review of factors to consider when using camera traps to study animal behavior to inform wildlife ecology and conservation (2020)
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Caravaggi, A., Cole Burton, A., Clark, D. A., Fisher, J. T., Grass, A., Green, S., Hobaiter, C., Hofmeester, T. R., Kalan, A. K., Rabaiotti, D., & Rivet, D. (2020). A review of factors to consider when using camera traps to study animal behavior to inform wildlife ecology and conservation. Conservation Science and Practice, 2(8), Article e239. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.239

Camera traps (CTs) are an increasingly popular method of studying animal behavior. However, the impact of cameras on detected individuals—such as from mechanical noise, odor, and emitted light—has received relatively little attention. These impacts a... Read More about A review of factors to consider when using camera traps to study animal behavior to inform wildlife ecology and conservation.

What has contributed to the large sex differentials in lifespan variation and life expectancy in South Korea? (2020)
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Singh, A., & Kim, Y. (2021). What has contributed to the large sex differentials in lifespan variation and life expectancy in South Korea?. Journal of Biosocial Science, 53(3), 396-406. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021932020000267

To date, research on sex differentials in lifespan variation and life expectancy has mainly been conducted in Western countries and there is a dearth of data from South Korea. This study aimed to further the understanding of mortality transition and... Read More about What has contributed to the large sex differentials in lifespan variation and life expectancy in South Korea?.

Spotlight commentary: REBUS and the anarchic brain (2020)
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Noorani, T., & Alderson-Day, B. (2020). Spotlight commentary: REBUS and the anarchic brain. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2020(1), Article niaa007. https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niaa007

In ‘REBUS and the Anarchic Brain: Towards a Unified Model of the Brain Action of Psychedelics’, Carhart-Harris and Friston offer an important analysis of what the predictive processing framework has to offer our understanding of psychedelic experienc... Read More about Spotlight commentary: REBUS and the anarchic brain.

Image-Based Sexual Abuse: A Study on the Causes and Consequences of Non-Consensual Nude or Sexual Imagery (2020)
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Henry, N., McGlynn, C., Flynn, A., Johnson, K., Powell, A., & Scott, A. (2021). Image-Based Sexual Abuse: A Study on the Causes and Consequences of Non-Consensual Nude or Sexual Imagery. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351135153

Water insecurity compounds the global coronavirus crisis (2020)
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Staddon, C., Everard, M., Mytton, J., Octavianti, T., Powell, W., Quinn, N., Uddin, S., Young, S., Miller, J., Budds, J., Geere, J., Meehan, K., Charles, K., Stevenson, E., Vonk, J., & Mizniak, J. (2020). Water insecurity compounds the global coronavirus crisis. Water International, 45(5), 416 -422. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2020.1769345

In recent weeks, people all over the world have been settling into a ‘new normal’ of restricted mobility, online working, social distancing and enhanced hand hygiene. As part of the global fight against the spread of COVID-19 (the illness caused by S... Read More about Water insecurity compounds the global coronavirus crisis.

Latent Class Evaluation in Educational Trials: What Percentage of Children Benefits from an Intervention? (2020)
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Uwimpuhwe, G., Singh, A., Higgins, S., Coux, M., Xiao, Z., Shkedy, Z., & Kasim, A. (2022). Latent Class Evaluation in Educational Trials: What Percentage of Children Benefits from an Intervention?. The Journal of Experimental Education, 90(2), 404-418. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220973.2020.1767021

Educational stakeholders are keen to know the magnitude and importance of different interventions. However, the way evidence is communicated to support understanding of the effectiveness of an intervention is controversial. Typically studies in educa... Read More about Latent Class Evaluation in Educational Trials: What Percentage of Children Benefits from an Intervention?.

Odontochronologies in male and female mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) and the development of dental sexual dimorphism (2020)
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Dirks, W., Lemmers, S. A. M., Ngoubangoye, B., Herbert, A., & Setchell, J. M. (2020). Odontochronologies in male and female mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) and the development of dental sexual dimorphism. American journal of physical anthropology, 172(4), 528-544. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24094

Objectives: We examine how dental sexual dimorphism develops in mandrills, an extremely sexually dimorphic primate. We aimed to (a) establish the chronology of dental development (odontochronology) in male and female mandrills, (b) understand interin... Read More about Odontochronologies in male and female mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) and the development of dental sexual dimorphism.

Oral bait preferences and feasibility of oral rabies vaccination in Bangladeshi dogs (2020)
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Bonwitt, J., Bonaparte, S., Blanton, J., Gibson, A. D., Hoque, M., Kennedy, E., Islam, K., Siddiqi, U. R., Wallace, R. M., & Azam, S. (2020). Oral bait preferences and feasibility of oral rabies vaccination in Bangladeshi dogs. Vaccine, 38(32), 5021-5026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.05.047

Oral rabies vaccination (ORV) can increase rabies vaccination coverage among dogs that are inaccessible to parenteral vaccination (i.e., inaccessible dogs). Because bait uptake can differ according to the bait attractant used and dog characteristics,... Read More about Oral bait preferences and feasibility of oral rabies vaccination in Bangladeshi dogs.