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Assessing adaptability and reactive scope: Introducing a new measure and illustrating its use through a case study of environmental stress in forest-living baboons (2014)
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MacLarnon, A., Sommer, V., Goffe, A., Higham, J., Lodge, E., Tkaczynski, P., & Ross, C. (2015). Assessing adaptability and reactive scope: Introducing a new measure and illustrating its use through a case study of environmental stress in forest-living baboons. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 215, 10-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2014.09.022

In order to maintain regulatory processes, animals are expected to be adapted to the range of environmental stressors usually encountered in their environmental niche. The available capacity of their stress responses is termed their reactive scope, w... Read More about Assessing adaptability and reactive scope: Introducing a new measure and illustrating its use through a case study of environmental stress in forest-living baboons.

Foraging with finesse: A hard-fruit-eating primate selects the weakest areas as bite sites (2016)
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Barnett, A. A., Bezerra, B. M., Santos, P. J., Spironello, W. R., Shaw, P. J., MacLarnon, A., & Ross, C. (2016). Foraging with finesse: A hard-fruit-eating primate selects the weakest areas as bite sites. American journal of physical anthropology, 160(1), 113-125. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22935

Objectives: Fruit husks are rarely uniformly hard, varying in penetrability via sulci and changes in thickness. We tested whether a hard‐food specialist primate i) bites randomly on food fruit husk surfaces to access seeds, or ii) selects areas most... Read More about Foraging with finesse: A hard-fruit-eating primate selects the weakest areas as bite sites.

A protocol for training group-housed rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) to cooperate with husbandry and research procedures using positive reinforcement (2017)
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Kemp, C., Thatcher, H., Farningham, D., Witham, C., MacLarnon, A., Holmes, A., …Bethell, E. J. (2017). A protocol for training group-housed rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) to cooperate with husbandry and research procedures using positive reinforcement. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 197, 90-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2017.08.006

There has been increased recognition of the 3Rs in laboratory animal management over the last decade, including improvements in animal handling and housing. For example, positive reinforcement is now more widely used to encourage primates to cooperat... Read More about A protocol for training group-housed rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) to cooperate with husbandry and research procedures using positive reinforcement.

Influence of the WHO framework convention on tobacco control on tobacco legislation and policies in sub-Saharan Africa (2018)
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Wisdom, J. P., Juma, P., Mwagomba, B., Ndinda, C., Mapa-Tassou, C., Assah, F., …Kyobutungi, C. (2018). Influence of the WHO framework convention on tobacco control on tobacco legislation and policies in sub-Saharan Africa. BMC Public Health, 18(S1), Article 954. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5827-5

Background The World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, enforced in 2005, was a watershed international treaty that stipulated requirements for signatories to govern the production, sale, distribution, advertisement, and t... Read More about Influence of the WHO framework convention on tobacco control on tobacco legislation and policies in sub-Saharan Africa.

Subjectivity and the Obliteration of Meaning: Contemporary Art, Activism, Social Movement Politics (2016)
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Flynn, A. (2016). Subjectivity and the Obliteration of Meaning: Contemporary Art, Activism, Social Movement Politics. Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia, 5(1), 59-77. https://doi.org/10.4000/cadernosaa.1035

In this article I analyse the notion that social movement politics and contemporary art interventions increasingly traverse a porous boundary, be it in terms of practices, relations, or institutions. Premised on Nicolas Bourriaud’s seminal reading of... Read More about Subjectivity and the Obliteration of Meaning: Contemporary Art, Activism, Social Movement Politics.

“We and the nurses are now working with one voice”: How community leaders and health committee members describe their role in Sierra Leone’s Ebola response (2017)
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McMahon, S. A., Ho, L. S., Scott, K., Brown, H., Miller, L., Ratnayake, R., & Ansumana, R. (2017). “We and the nurses are now working with one voice”: How community leaders and health committee members describe their role in Sierra Leone’s Ebola response. BMC Health Services Research, 17(1), Article 495. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-017-2414-x

Background Across low-income settings, community volunteers and health committee members support the formal health system - both routinely and amid emergencies - by engaging in health services such as referrals and health education. During the 2014–2... Read More about “We and the nurses are now working with one voice”: How community leaders and health committee members describe their role in Sierra Leone’s Ebola response.

Comment: Beyond “Evolutionary versus Social”: Moving the Cycle Shift Debate Forward (2014)
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Brown, G., Cross, C., Street, S., & Brand, C. (2014). Comment: Beyond “Evolutionary versus Social”: Moving the Cycle Shift Debate Forward. Emotion Review, 6(3), 250-251. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073914523050

Wood, Kressel, Joshi, and Louie (2014) thoroughly evaluate the evidence for menstrual cycle shifts in ratings of several male characteristics and conclude that their analyses fail to provide supportive evidence for consistent cycle effects. The topic... Read More about Comment: Beyond “Evolutionary versus Social”: Moving the Cycle Shift Debate Forward.

Exaggerated sexual swellings in female nonhuman primates are reliable signals of female fertility and body condition (2016)
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Street, S., Cross, C., & Brown, G. (2016). Exaggerated sexual swellings in female nonhuman primates are reliable signals of female fertility and body condition. Animal Behaviour, 112, 203-212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.11.023

In some species of Old World monkeys and apes, females exhibit exaggerated swellings of the anogenital region that vary in size across the ovarian cycle. Exaggerated swellings are typically largest around the time of ovulation, and swelling size has... Read More about Exaggerated sexual swellings in female nonhuman primates are reliable signals of female fertility and body condition.

Nutritional status and the influence of TV consumption on female body size ideals in populations recently exposed to the media (2017)
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Jucker, J., Thornborrow, T., Beierholm, U., Burt, D., Barton, R., Evans, E., …Boothroyd, L. (2017). Nutritional status and the influence of TV consumption on female body size ideals in populations recently exposed to the media. Scientific Reports, 7(1), Article 8438. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08653-z

Television consumption influences perceptions of attractive female body size. However, cross-cultural research examining media influence on body ideals is typically confounded by differences in the availability of reliable and diverse foodstuffs. 112... Read More about Nutritional status and the influence of TV consumption on female body size ideals in populations recently exposed to the media.

Understanding Human-Animal Relations in the Context of Primate Conservation: A Multispecies Ethnographic Approach in North Morocco (2018)
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Waters, S., Bell, S., & Setchell, J. M. (2018). Understanding Human-Animal Relations in the Context of Primate Conservation: A Multispecies Ethnographic Approach in North Morocco. Folia Primatologica, 89(1), 13-29. https://doi.org/10.1159/000480079

Strategies for conserving species threatened with extinction are often driven by ecological data. However, in anthropogenic landscapes, understanding and incorporating local people's perceptions may enhance species conservation. We examine the relati... Read More about Understanding Human-Animal Relations in the Context of Primate Conservation: A Multispecies Ethnographic Approach in North Morocco.

Modeling the origins of mammalian sociality: moderate evidence for matrilineal signatures in mouse lemur vocalizations (2014)
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Kessler, S. E., Radespiel, U., Hasiniaina, A. I., Leliveld, L. M., Nash, L. T., & Zimmermann, E. (2014). Modeling the origins of mammalian sociality: moderate evidence for matrilineal signatures in mouse lemur vocalizations. Frontiers in Zoology, 11(1), Article 14. https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-11-14

Introduction Maternal kin selection is a driving force in the evolution of mammalian social complexity and it requires that kin are distinctive from nonkin. The transition from the ancestral state of asociality to the derived state of complex social... Read More about Modeling the origins of mammalian sociality: moderate evidence for matrilineal signatures in mouse lemur vocalizations.

An Empirical Unravelling of Lord’s Paradox (2017)
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Xiao, Z., Higgins, S., & Kasim, A. (2019). An Empirical Unravelling of Lord’s Paradox. The Journal of Experimental Education, 87(1), 17-32. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220973.2017.1380591

Lord's Paradox occurs when a continuous covariate is statistically controlled for and the relationship between a continuous outcome and group status indicator changes in both magnitude and direction. This phenomenon poses a challenge to the notion of... Read More about An Empirical Unravelling of Lord’s Paradox.