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The Pain Divide: a cross-sectional analysis of chronic pain prevalence, pain intensity and opioid utilisation in England (2018)
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Objectives: Our central research question was, in England, are geographical inequalities in opioid use driven by health need (pain)? To answer this question, our study examined: (1) if there are regional inequalities in rates of chronic pain prevalen... Read More about The Pain Divide: a cross-sectional analysis of chronic pain prevalence, pain intensity and opioid utilisation in England.

Completing the hybridization triangle: the inheritance of genetic incompatibilities during homoploid hybrid speciation in ragworts (Senecio) (2019)
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A new homoploid hybrid lineage needs to establish a degree of reproductive isolation from its parent species if it is to persist as an independent entity, but the role hybridization plays in this process is known in only a handful of cases. The homop... Read More about Completing the hybridization triangle: the inheritance of genetic incompatibilities during homoploid hybrid speciation in ragworts (Senecio).

Gum-feeder as environmental enrichment for marmosets and tamarins (2020)
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Tamarins and marmosets are small‐bodied social callitrichines. Wild callitrichines feed on exudates, such as sap and gum; particularly, marmosets are mainly gummivores, while tamarins consume gums only occasionally and opportunistically. Zoo marmoset... Read More about Gum-feeder as environmental enrichment for marmosets and tamarins.

Bird-biting mosquitoes on farms in southern England (2018)
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Mosquitoes that blood-feed on avian hosts are important vectors of many arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses). In Europe, these include West Nile virus (WNV), Usutu virus (USUTV) and Sindbis virus. These are all maintained in enzootic bird-mosquito-b... Read More about Bird-biting mosquitoes on farms in southern England.

A Meeting In The Forest: Hunters And Farmers At The Coneybury ‘Anomaly’, Wiltshire (2018)
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The Coneybury ‘Anomaly’ is an Early Neolithic pit located just south-east of Stonehenge, Wiltshire. Excavations recovered a faunal assemblage unique in its composition, consisting of both wild and domestic species, as well as large quantities of cera... Read More about A Meeting In The Forest: Hunters And Farmers At The Coneybury ‘Anomaly’, Wiltshire.

Municipal wastewater can result in a dramatic decline in freshwater fishes: a lesson from a developing country (2018)
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Impacts of ineffective wastewater management on the biodiversity of receiving waters in developing countries are poorly documented. Using a before-after-control-impact methodology, we measured the effects of untreated wastewater release on the fish c... Read More about Municipal wastewater can result in a dramatic decline in freshwater fishes: a lesson from a developing country.

Pareto rules for malaria super-spreaders and super-spreading (2019)
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Heterogeneity in transmission is a challenge for infectious disease dynamics and control. An 80-20 “Pareto” rule has been proposed to describe this heterogeneity whereby 80% of transmission is accounted for by 20% of individuals, herein called super-... Read More about Pareto rules for malaria super-spreaders and super-spreading.

First records of Hyalomma rufipes and Ixodes neitzi (Acari: Ixodidae) found on large carnivores in South Africa (2018)
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Ixodid ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) are important disease vectors for large carnivores, but the composition of the tick communities that parasitize carnivores is poorly understood. We collected ticks from leopards (Panthera pardus) and brown hyenas (Hyaen... Read More about First records of Hyalomma rufipes and Ixodes neitzi (Acari: Ixodidae) found on large carnivores in South Africa.

Brown hyaena and leopard diets on private land in the Soutpansberg Mountains, South Africa (2018)
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Efficacy of Olyset Duo, a bednet containing pyriproxyfen and permethrin, versus a permethrin-only net against clinical malaria in an area with highly pyrethroid-resistant vectors in rural Burkina Faso: a cluster-randomised controlled trial (2018)
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Background Substantial reductions in malaria incidence in sub-Saharan Africa have been achieved with massive deployment of long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs), but pyrethroid resistance threatens control. Burkina Faso is an area with intense malar... Read More about Efficacy of Olyset Duo, a bednet containing pyriproxyfen and permethrin, versus a permethrin-only net against clinical malaria in an area with highly pyrethroid-resistant vectors in rural Burkina Faso: a cluster-randomised controlled trial.

Personality Dynamics: A new frontier in personality psychology, Editorial (2018)
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Chimpanzees demonstrate individual differences in social information use (2018)
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Studies of transmission biases in social learning have greatly informed our understanding of how behaviour patterns may diffuse through animal populations, yet within-species inter-individual variation in social information use has received little at... Read More about Chimpanzees demonstrate individual differences in social information use.

Closing the attainment gap: Collaboration between schools in Sierra Leone (2018)
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Background: UK government policy views collaboration with outstanding schools as a way of helping apparently less successful schools to close the attainment gap. However, there has been little debate about criteria for defning a school's success or f... Read More about Closing the attainment gap: Collaboration between schools in Sierra Leone.

One hundred pressing questions on the future of global fish migration science, conservation, and policy (2019)
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Migration is a widespread but highly diverse component of many animal life histories. Fish migrate throughout the world's oceans, within lakes and rivers, and between the two realms, transporting matter, energy, and other species (e.g., microbes) acr... Read More about One hundred pressing questions on the future of global fish migration science, conservation, and policy.

Walking through doorways differentially affects recall and familiarity (2018)
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Previous research has reported that walking through a doorway to a new location makes memory for objects and events experienced in the previous location less accurate. This effect, termed the location updating effect, has been used to suggest that lo... Read More about Walking through doorways differentially affects recall and familiarity.

Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe (2019)
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Archaeological evidence indicates that pig domestication had begun by ∼10,500 y before the present (BP) in the Near East, and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) suggests that pigs arrived in Europe alongside farmers ∼8,500 y BP. A few thousand years after the... Read More about Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe.

Investigating the link between television viewing and men’s preferences for female body size and shape in rural Nicaragua (2018)
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The different levels of media access in otherwise very similar villages in rural Nicaragua provided a natural laboratory to explore the effect of television (TV) access on men's preferences for female body size and shape. In study 1 we compared the f... Read More about Investigating the link between television viewing and men’s preferences for female body size and shape in rural Nicaragua.

Does Presence of a Mid-Ocean Ridge Enhance Biomass and Biodiversity? (2013)
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In contrast to generally sparse biological communities in open-ocean settings, seamounts and ridges are perceived as areas of elevated productivity and biodiversity capable of supporting commercial fisheries. We investigated the origin of this appare... Read More about Does Presence of a Mid-Ocean Ridge Enhance Biomass and Biodiversity?.

Quantifying the Epidemiological Impact of Vector Control on Dengue (2016)
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Spatio-temporal variation in fitness responses to contrasting environments in Arabidopsis thaliana (2018)
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The evolutionary response of organisms to global climate change is expected to be strongly conditioned by preexisting standing genetic variation. In addition, natural selection imposed by global climate change on fitness‐related traits can be heterog... Read More about Spatio-temporal variation in fitness responses to contrasting environments in Arabidopsis thaliana.