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Beyond outmigration: Im/mobilities and futures in peripheral postindustrial cities (2023)
Journal Article
Ringel, F. (2023). Beyond outmigration: Im/mobilities and futures in peripheral postindustrial cities. Mobilities, https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2023.2209829

This paper explores negotiations of futures within and beyond Germany’s formerly fastest shrinking city, the East German city of Hoyerswerda. Originally built for the German Democratic Republic’s miners and energy workers, its model socialist New Cit... Read More about Beyond outmigration: Im/mobilities and futures in peripheral postindustrial cities.

Climate, not Quaternary biogeography, explains skull morphology of the long-tailed macaque on the Sunda Shelf (2023)
Journal Article
Grunstra, N. D., Louys, J., & Elton, S. (2023). Climate, not Quaternary biogeography, explains skull morphology of the long-tailed macaque on the Sunda Shelf. Quaternary Science Reviews, 310, Article 108121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108121

Sundaland, comprising the low-lying Sunda Shelf, the major islands of Borneo, Sumatra, and Java, as well as many smaller surrounding islands, formed a contiguous landmass through much of the Pliocene and Pleistocene. Subsequent late-Pleistocene risin... Read More about Climate, not Quaternary biogeography, explains skull morphology of the long-tailed macaque on the Sunda Shelf.

Cultural niche construction with application to fertility control: a model of education and social transmission of contraceptive use (2005)
Preprint / Working Paper
Kendal, J., Ihara, Y., & Feldman, M. (2005). Cultural niche construction with application to fertility control: a model of education and social transmission of contraceptive use

The evolution of a cultural trait may be affected by niche construction, or changes in the selective environment of that trait due to the inheritance of other cultural traits that make up a cultural background. This study investigates the evolution o... Read More about Cultural niche construction with application to fertility control: a model of education and social transmission of contraceptive use.

Human activities favour prolific life histories in both traded and introduced vertebrates (2023)
Journal Article
Street, S. E., Gutiérrez, J. S., Allen, W. L., & Capellini, I. (2023). Human activities favour prolific life histories in both traded and introduced vertebrates. Nature Communications, 14(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35765-6

Species’ life histories determine population demographics and thus the probability that introduced populations establish and spread. Life histories also influence which species are most likely to be introduced, but how such ‘introduction biases’ aris... Read More about Human activities favour prolific life histories in both traded and introduced vertebrates.

Introduction: What Competition Does (2022)
Journal Article
Hopkinson, L., & Zidaru, T. (2022). Introduction: What Competition Does. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice, 66(4), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2022.660401

Anthropologists, like neoliberal economists, have often assumed that competition (re)orders society in broadly predictable ways. By contrast, we contend that competition always facilitates changes beyond its anticipated outcomes and disciplinary effe... Read More about Introduction: What Competition Does.

‘No place for a woman’: Access, exclusion, insecurity and the mobility regime in grand tunis (2023)
Journal Article
Murphy, E. C., Porter, G., Aouidet, H., Dungey, C., Han, S., Houiji, R., …Zaghoud, H. (2023). ‘No place for a woman’: Access, exclusion, insecurity and the mobility regime in grand tunis. Geoforum, 142, Article 103753. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103753

Drawing on an innovative peer researcher method, this paper uses mobility diaries and in-transit interviews to examine the everyday travel experiences of women from socio-economically marginalised neighbourhoods in metropolitan Grand Tunis. It situat... Read More about ‘No place for a woman’: Access, exclusion, insecurity and the mobility regime in grand tunis.

The Intersections between Food and Cultural Landscape: Insights from Three Mountain Case Studies (2023)
Journal Article
Fontefrancesco, M. F., Zocchi, D. M., & Pieroni, A. (2023). The Intersections between Food and Cultural Landscape: Insights from Three Mountain Case Studies. Land, 12(3), Article 676. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12030676

In the last decades, scholars from different disciplines have used the foodscape as a concept and an analytical framework to explore the intersection between landscape, people and food culture. Adopting a comparative case-study analysis, this article... Read More about The Intersections between Food and Cultural Landscape: Insights from Three Mountain Case Studies.

Major Emerging Fungal Diseases of Reptiles and Amphibians (2023)
Journal Article
Schilliger, L., Paillusseau, C., François, C., & Bonwitt, J. (2023). Major Emerging Fungal Diseases of Reptiles and Amphibians. Pathogens, 12(3), Article 429. https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens12030429

Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) are caused by pathogens that have undergone recent changes in terms of geographic spread, increasing incidence, or expanding host range. In this narrative review, we describe three important fungal EIDs with kerati... Read More about Major Emerging Fungal Diseases of Reptiles and Amphibians.

Modeling the positive testing rate of COVID-19 in South Africa using a semi-parametric smoother for binomial data (2023)
Journal Article
Owokotomo, O. E., Manda, S., Cleasen, J., Kasim, A., Sengupta, R., Shome, R., …Shkedy, Z. (2023). Modeling the positive testing rate of COVID-19 in South Africa using a semi-parametric smoother for binomial data. Frontiers in Public Health, 11(2023), https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.979230

Identification and isolation of COVID-19 infected persons plays a significant role in the control of COVID-19 pandemic. A country's COVID-19 positive testing rate is useful in understanding and monitoring the disease transmission and spread for the p... Read More about Modeling the positive testing rate of COVID-19 in South Africa using a semi-parametric smoother for binomial data.

The shifting shelf task: a new, non-verbal measure for attentional set shifting (2023)
Journal Article
Reindl, E., Völter, C., Civelek, Z., Duncan, L., Lugosi, Z., Felsche, E., …Seed, A. (2023). The shifting shelf task: a new, non-verbal measure for attentional set shifting. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290(1991), Article 0221496. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.1496

Attentional set shifting is a core ingredient of cognition, allowing for fast adaptation to changes in the environment. How this skill compares between humans and other primates is not well known. We examined performance of 3- to 5-year-old children... Read More about The shifting shelf task: a new, non-verbal measure for attentional set shifting.

Does medical humanities matter? The challenge of COVID-19 (2023)
Journal Article
Macnaughton, J. (2023). Does medical humanities matter? The challenge of COVID-19. Medical Humanities, https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2022-012602

Medical humanities has tended first and foremost to be associated with the ways in which the arts and humanities help us to understand health. However, this is not the only or necessarily the primary aim of our field. What the COVID-19 pandemic has r... Read More about Does medical humanities matter? The challenge of COVID-19.

Fractals for an ethnography of time and addiction: Recursive and self-similar temporalities in heroin and poly-substance use (2023)
Journal Article
Roe, L., Dobroski, S., Manley, G., Warner, H., Dritschel, H., & Baldacchino, A. M. (2023). Fractals for an ethnography of time and addiction: Recursive and self-similar temporalities in heroin and poly-substance use. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, Article 1116142. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1116142

Drawing on both mathematical and anthropological understandings of fractality, this paper explores alternative perspectives of time as it relates to heroin addiction and poly-substance use in Scotland. The paper ethnographically illustrates temporali... Read More about Fractals for an ethnography of time and addiction: Recursive and self-similar temporalities in heroin and poly-substance use.

Can uptake of childhood influenza immunisation through schools and GP practices be increased through behaviourally-informed invitation letters and reminders: two pragmatic randomized controlled trials (2023)
Journal Article
Howell-Jones, R., Gold, N., Bowen, S., Bunten, A., Tan, K., Saei, A., …Chadborn, T. (2023). Can uptake of childhood influenza immunisation through schools and GP practices be increased through behaviourally-informed invitation letters and reminders: two pragmatic randomized controlled trials. BMC Public Health, 23(1), Article 143. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-14439-4

The UK is rolling out a national childhood influenza immunisation programme for children, delivered through primary care and schools. Behaviourally-informed letters and reminders have been successful at increasing uptake of other public health interv... Read More about Can uptake of childhood influenza immunisation through schools and GP practices be increased through behaviourally-informed invitation letters and reminders: two pragmatic randomized controlled trials.

The rise of the reflexive expert? Epistemic, care-ful and instrumental reflexivity in global public policy (2023)
Journal Article
Bandola-Gill, J., Grek, S., & Tichenor, M. (2023). The rise of the reflexive expert? Epistemic, care-ful and instrumental reflexivity in global public policy. Global Social Policy, 23(3), 481-498. https://doi.org/10.1177/14680181221145382

The production of data and numbers has become the key mechanism of both knowing and governing global public policy. And yet, processes of quantification are inherently paradoxical: from expectations of technocratic rationality and political usability... Read More about The rise of the reflexive expert? Epistemic, care-ful and instrumental reflexivity in global public policy.

Cultural niche construction with application to fertility control: A model for education and social transmission of contraceptive use (2023)
Journal Article
Denton, K. K., Kendal, J. R., Ihara, Y., & Feldman, M. W. (2023). Cultural niche construction with application to fertility control: A model for education and social transmission of contraceptive use. Theoretical Population Biology, 153, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2023.06.001

The evolution of a cultural trait may be affected by niche construction, or changes in the selective environment of that trait due to the inheritance of other cultural traits that make up a cultural background. This study investigates the evolution o... Read More about Cultural niche construction with application to fertility control: A model for education and social transmission of contraceptive use.

A cost for signaling: do Hadza hunter-gatherers forgo calories to show-off in an experimental context? (2023)
Journal Article
Stibbard-Hawkes, D. N., Amir, D., & Apicella, C. L. (2023). A cost for signaling: do Hadza hunter-gatherers forgo calories to show-off in an experimental context?. Evolution and Human Behavior, 44(5), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2022.10.004

Hadza food-sharing is extremely generous and often extends to individuals outside the household. Some anthropologists have proposed that individuals, especially men, share food beyond the household in order to signal foraging skill. While correlation... Read More about A cost for signaling: do Hadza hunter-gatherers forgo calories to show-off in an experimental context?.

Gastrointestinal Polyparasitism in Bushmeat in Zadie Department in Northeast Gabon (2023)
Journal Article
Maganga, G. D., Makouloutou-Nzassi, P., Boundenga, L., Maganga Landjekpo, H. N., Bangueboussa, F., Ndong Mebaley, T., …Gbati, O. B. (2023). Gastrointestinal Polyparasitism in Bushmeat in Zadie Department in Northeast Gabon. Veterinary Sciences, 10(3), Article 229. https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci10030229

Wildlife is an important source of infectious pathogens, including parasites. Intestinal parasites are among the parasites associated with outbreaks of foodborne disease. This article analyses gastrointestinal parasites in fecal and intestine samples... Read More about Gastrointestinal Polyparasitism in Bushmeat in Zadie Department in Northeast Gabon.