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Affordable house designs to improve health in rural Africa: a field study from northeastern Tanzania (2017)
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Background The population of sub-Saharan Africa is currently estimated to be 1245 million and is expected to quadruple by the end of the century, necessitating the building of millions of homes. Malaria remains a substantial problem in this region an... Read More about Affordable house designs to improve health in rural Africa: a field study from northeastern Tanzania.

Intergenerational capital flows are central to fitness dynamics and adaptive evolution in humans (2017)
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Human fitness dynamics are uniquely and profoundly governed by the flow of capital to subsequent generations. Low socioeconomic status individuals may possess limited capacity to direct capital to descendants and may respond to such constraints adapt... Read More about Intergenerational capital flows are central to fitness dynamics and adaptive evolution in humans.

Multidisciplinary exhibit design in a Science Centre: a participatory action research approach (2017)
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In this paper we highlight the issues and opportunities of a participatory action research (PAR) and co-design project, currently being undertaken as engaged research between academics at Durham University and practitioners at the UK’s International... Read More about Multidisciplinary exhibit design in a Science Centre: a participatory action research approach.

Father absence and gendered traits in sons and daughters (2017)
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Research has previously found a number of apparently contradictory patterns in the relationship between ‘father absence’ (having a non-resident father during childhood) and the expression of gender roles, as well as other sexually dimorphic traits su... Read More about Father absence and gendered traits in sons and daughters.

Facilitating Collaborative Learning Between Two Primary Schools Using Large Multi-Touch Devices (2017)
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This paper presents a technical case study and the associated research software/hardware underpinning an educational research trial in which large touchscreen interfaces were used to facilitate collaborative interactions between primary school studen... Read More about Facilitating Collaborative Learning Between Two Primary Schools Using Large Multi-Touch Devices.

Ancient female philopatry, asymmetric male gene flow, and synchronous population expansion support the influence of climatic oscillations on the evolution of South American sea lion (Otaria flavescens) (2017)
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The South American sea lion (Otaria flavescens) is widely distributed along the southern Atlantic and Pacific coasts of South America with a history of significant commercial exploitation. We aimed to evaluate the population genetic structure and the... Read More about Ancient female philopatry, asymmetric male gene flow, and synchronous population expansion support the influence of climatic oscillations on the evolution of South American sea lion (Otaria flavescens).

Is there a "Wainer's rule"? Testing which sex varies most as an example analysis using GueSDat, the free Guenon Skull Database (2017)
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The distinguished statistician Howard Wainer claimed that larger phenotypic variance in males might be a general occurrence in mammals. We called this putative pattern 'Wainer's rule' and employed a dataset of more than 1300 specimens, each measured... Read More about Is there a "Wainer's rule"? Testing which sex varies most as an example analysis using GueSDat, the free Guenon Skull Database.

Activation of histamine H3 receptor decreased cytoplasmic Ca(2+) imaging during electrical stimulation in the skeletal myotubes. (2015)
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Histamine is a neurotransmitter and chemical mediator in multiple physiological processes. Histamine H3 receptor is expressed in the nervous system, heart, and gastrointestinal tract; however, little is known about H3 receptor in skeletal muscle. The... Read More about Activation of histamine H3 receptor decreased cytoplasmic Ca(2+) imaging during electrical stimulation in the skeletal myotubes..

Observe, interact and act: teachers’ initiation of mini-plenaries to scaffold small-group collaboration (2016)
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Mini-plenaries, the shift in discussion from group to class and then back to group during the course of a small-group collaborative activity, have long been part of the repertoire of teachers. Despite this, they are not considered in detail in the re... Read More about Observe, interact and act: teachers’ initiation of mini-plenaries to scaffold small-group collaboration.

Experimental priming of independent and interdependent activity does not affect culturally variable psychological processes (2017)
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Cultural psychologists have shown that people from Western countries exhibit more independent self-construal and analytic (rule-based) cognition than people from East Asia, who exhibit more interdependent self-construal and holistic (relationship-bas... Read More about Experimental priming of independent and interdependent activity does not affect culturally variable psychological processes.

Resurgence of malaria after discontinuation of indoor residual spraying of insecticide in a previously high transmission intensity area of Uganda (2017)
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Background: In 2009, Uganda implemented a programme of indoor residual spraying of insecticide (IRS) in ten districts in the Northern Region with historically high malaria transmission intensity. This programme was successful in reducing the burden o... Read More about Resurgence of malaria after discontinuation of indoor residual spraying of insecticide in a previously high transmission intensity area of Uganda.

Nitrogen isotope evidence for manuring of Early Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture cereals from Stensborg, Sweden (2017)
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Little is known about arable agriculture in the Early Neolithic (4000–3300 cal BC, Funnel Beaker Culture) of Southern Scandinavia. Archaeobotanical material is rare and few archaeological sites have yielded more than a small number of charred cereal... Read More about Nitrogen isotope evidence for manuring of Early Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture cereals from Stensborg, Sweden.

Conformity and its look-a-likes (2015)
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Editorial. Special Issue: Pleistocene Hunter-Gatherers of Central and Eastern Europe. Papers in Memory of Karel Valoch. (2015)
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Positive social behaviours are induced and retained after oxytocin manipulations mimicking endogenous concentrations in a wild mammal (2017)
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The neuropeptide hormone oxytocin modulates numerous social and parental behaviours across a wide range of species, including humans. We conducted manipulation experiments on wild grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) to determine whether oxytocin increase... Read More about Positive social behaviours are induced and retained after oxytocin manipulations mimicking endogenous concentrations in a wild mammal.

Salmon and sea trout spawning migration in the River Tweed: telemetry-derived insights for management (2015)
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Management of multiple exploited stocks of anadromous salmonids in large catchments requires understanding of movement and catchment use by the migrating fish and of their harvesting. The spawning migration of sea trout (Salmo trutta) and Atlantic sa... Read More about Salmon and sea trout spawning migration in the River Tweed: telemetry-derived insights for management.

The use of external electronic tags on fish: an evaluation of tag retention and tagging effects (2015)
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External tagging of fish with electronic tags has been used for decades for a wide range of marine and freshwater species. In the early years of fish telemetry research, it was the most commonly used attachment method, but later internal implants bec... Read More about The use of external electronic tags on fish: an evaluation of tag retention and tagging effects.

Histamine receptor expression in human renal tubules: a comparative pharmacological evaluation. (2015)
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Objective and design The aim of this study is to evaluate the expression of the histamine receptors, particularly focusing on the H4R in human renal tubules. Material The ex vivo evaluation was carried on specimens from human renal cortex. Primary an... Read More about Histamine receptor expression in human renal tubules: a comparative pharmacological evaluation..

Effects of chronic fluoxetine treatment on anxious behaviour of BALB/c mice in a 3-dimensional maze. (2015)
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Here we used a 3-dimensional (3D) maze, a modification of the radial maze, to assess the effects of treatment for two weeks with a single daily dose of fluoxetine (20 mg/kg, i.p.) on anxiety in male BALB/c mice. We examined whether anxiolytic effects... Read More about Effects of chronic fluoxetine treatment on anxious behaviour of BALB/c mice in a 3-dimensional maze..

Altered GABAA α5 subunit expression in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus of hypertensive and pregnant rats (2016)
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A characteristic of both hypertension and pregnancy is increased sympathetic nerve activity. The level of sympathetic activation is determined, in part, by a tonic GABAergic inhibition arising from the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN). In h... Read More about Altered GABAA α5 subunit expression in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus of hypertensive and pregnant rats.