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Latent Class Evaluation in Educational Trials: What Percentage of Children Benefits from an Intervention? (2020)
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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?.
Trading Futures: Sadaqah, Social Enterprise, and the Polytemporalities of Development Gifts (2021)
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In this article, we explore what happens when idea(l)s of Islamic charity (sadaqah) and social enterprise converge within a low-cost public health clinic in Colombo, Sri Lanka. For both the clinic's wealthy sponsors and the urban poor who use it, int... Read More about Trading Futures: Sadaqah, Social Enterprise, and the Polytemporalities of Development Gifts.
Does the prenatal factor or the postnatal factor contribute more to changes in the child sex ratio in India? An investigation in the context of fertility and mortality transition (2021)
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There has been a drastic decline in the child sex ratio (number of females per 1000 males between ages 0 and 4) in India and many of its states. This study aimed to examine if prenatal factors, such as change in sex ratio at birth, or postnatal facto... Read More about Does the prenatal factor or the postnatal factor contribute more to changes in the child sex ratio in India? An investigation in the context of fertility and mortality transition.
The evaluation of Suchana, a large-scale development program to prevent chronic undernutrition in north-eastern Bangladesh (2020)
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Evidence of the impact of community-based nutrition programs is uncommon for two main reasons: the lack of untreated controls, and implementation does not account for the evaluation design. Suchana is a large-scale program to prevent malnutrition in... Read More about The evaluation of Suchana, a large-scale development program to prevent chronic undernutrition in north-eastern Bangladesh.
No Evidence that Omission and Confirmation Biases Affect the Perception and Recall of Vaccine-related Information (2020)
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Despite the spectacular success of vaccines in preventing infectious diseases, fears about their safety and other anti-vaccination claims are widespread. To better understand how such fears and claims persist and spread, we must understand how they a... Read More about No Evidence that Omission and Confirmation Biases Affect the Perception and Recall of Vaccine-related Information.
Knowledge, evidence, expertise? The epistemics of experience in contemporary healthcare (2020)
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This paper explores how personal experience acquires the status of knowledge and/or evidence in contemporary healthcare contexts that emphasise being both patient-centred and evidence-based. Drawing on a comparative analysis of three case studies ‐ s... Read More about Knowledge, evidence, expertise? The epistemics of experience in contemporary healthcare.
“I’m Not A Freshi”: Culture Shock, Puberty and Growing Up As British-Bangladeshi Girls (2020)
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Early puberty is a risk factor for adult diseases and biomedical and psychosocial research implicate growth (in height and weight) and stress as modifiable drivers of early puberty. Seldom have studies examined these drivers simultaneously or concurr... Read More about “I’m Not A Freshi”: Culture Shock, Puberty and Growing Up As British-Bangladeshi Girls.
‘Virtual choirs’ and the simulation of live performance under lockdown (2020)
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Unravelling the role of epigenetics in reproductive adaptations to early-life environment (2020)
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Reproductive function adjusts in response to environmental conditions in order to optimize success. In humans, this plasticity includes age of pubertal onset, hormone levels and age at menopause. These reproductive characteristics vary across populat... Read More about Unravelling the role of epigenetics in reproductive adaptations to early-life environment.
Upper Paleolithic animal exploitation in the Armenian Highlands: The zooarchaeology of Aghitu-3 cave (2020)
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Excavated from 2009 to 2019 by the Tübingen-Armenian Paleolithic Project, Aghitu-3 Cave is the only stratified Upper Paleolithic site in Armenia. Sedimentary deposits range from 39,000 to 24,000 calibrated years before present (ka cal BP). The main P... Read More about Upper Paleolithic animal exploitation in the Armenian Highlands: The zooarchaeology of Aghitu-3 cave.
Effectiveness of diet and physical activity interventions among Chinese-origin populations living in high income countries: a systematic review (2020)
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Background: This review examines the effectiveness of diet and physical activity interventions to reduce cardiometabolic risk among Chinese immigrants and their descendants living in high income countries. The objective of this review is to provide i... Read More about Effectiveness of diet and physical activity interventions among Chinese-origin populations living in high income countries: a systematic review.
Skills and motivations underlying children's cumulative cultural learning: case not closed (2020)
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The breakthrough study of Dean et al. (Science 335:1114–1118, 2012) claimed that imitation, teaching, and prosociality were crucial for cumulative cultural learning. None of their child participants solved the final stage of their puzzlebox without s... Read More about Skills and motivations underlying children's cumulative cultural learning: case not closed.
Waste and its Disguises: Technologies of (Un)knowing (2020)
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The introduction to this special issue starts with a brief thematisation of the key theoretical interventions in the anthropology of waste in order to situate our own contribution. We follow this by discussing, and adding to the recent anthropology a... Read More about Waste and its Disguises: Technologies of (Un)knowing.
Development and evaluation of 'Sleep, Baby & You' -- a discussion tool to support parental well-being and responsive care-giving (2020)
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Disrupted parental sleep, presenting as post-partum fatigue and perceived as problematic infant sleep, is related to increased symptoms of depression and anxiety among new mothers and fathers. Previous research indicates that UK parents would value a... Read More about Development and evaluation of 'Sleep, Baby & You' -- a discussion tool to support parental well-being and responsive care-giving.
‘Firing cannons to kill mosquitoes' : Controlling virtual ‘streets’ and the ‘image of the state’ in Bangladesh (2020)
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This article examines the historical, social and political legacies of the Information and Communication Technology Act (ICT Act) (2006–2018, amended in 2013) and the Digital Security Act (DSA) (2018–) in the Bangladeshi state’s attempt to control th... Read More about ‘Firing cannons to kill mosquitoes' : Controlling virtual ‘streets’ and the ‘image of the state’ in Bangladesh.
Personality predicts innovation and social learning in children: implications for cultural evolution (2021)
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Innovation and social learning are the pillars of cultural evolution, allowing cultural behaviours to cumulatively advance over generations. Yet, little is known about individual differences in the use of social and asocial information. We examined w... Read More about Personality predicts innovation and social learning in children: implications for cultural evolution.
Chytrid infection in Asia: How much do we know and what else do we need to know? (2020)
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We conducted a systematic review to evaluate the knowledge base for amphibian chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) infection in the continent of Asia. Despite an indication of geographic bias in terms of studying chytrid fungus distribution in... Read More about Chytrid infection in Asia: How much do we know and what else do we need to know?.
Baby-box schemes in England: parent and practitioner experiences, and recommendations (2020)
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Background: Programmes offering carboard baby boxes to parents in England began in some NHS Trusts in 2016. This study aimed to examine the strengths and weaknesses of English baby-box schemes as experienced by healthcare providers and parents. Metho... Read More about Baby-box schemes in England: parent and practitioner experiences, and recommendations.
Menopausal symptoms and work: A narrative review of women's experiences in casual, informal, or precarious jobs (2021)
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Governments, employers, and trade unions are increasingly developing “menopause at work” policies for female staff. Many of the world’s most marginalised women work, however, in more informal or insecure jobs, beyond the scope of such employment prot... Read More about Menopausal symptoms and work: A narrative review of women's experiences in casual, informal, or precarious jobs.