Outputs (544)

Dominance style is a key predictor of vocal use and evolution across nonhuman primates (2021)
Journal Article

Animal communication has long been thought to be subject to pressures and constraints associated with social relationships. However, our understanding of how the nature and quality of social relationships relates to the use and evolution of communica... Read More about Dominance style is a key predictor of vocal use and evolution across nonhuman primates.

Which public health interventions are effective in reducing morbidity, mortality and health inequalities from infectious diseases amongst children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs): An umbrella review (2021)
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Despite significant progress in the last few decades, infectious diseases remain a major threat to child health in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)—particularly amongst more disadvantaged groups. It is imperative to understand the best availa... Read More about Which public health interventions are effective in reducing morbidity, mortality and health inequalities from infectious diseases amongst children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs): An umbrella review.

Food Narrations and Teaching Migration: An Autobiographical Approach to “Knowing the Other” (2021)
Journal Article

Is the clash of civilizations, or that of racism, the paradigm that best describes the intercultural dynamics that characterize the cultural horizon of young people today? This article addresses this question based on research conducted between 2012... Read More about Food Narrations and Teaching Migration: An Autobiographical Approach to “Knowing the Other”.

Interrogating ‘urban social innovation’: relationality and urban change in Berlin (2021)
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The relationship between the city and ‘innovation’ is long and varied, but in recent years there has been a new focus on the potential of innovation to catalyse economic, social, and environmental change. This has led to a debate around whether and h... Read More about Interrogating ‘urban social innovation’: relationality and urban change in Berlin.

The role of population size in folk tune complexity (preprint) (2021)
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A positive correlation between population size and cultural complexity is perhaps one of the most consistent findings in the field of cultural evolution. However, previous findings are largely based on studies of technology and are not necessarily ge... Read More about The role of population size in folk tune complexity (preprint).

The Simple Bare Necessities: Scales and Paradoxes of Thrift on a London Public Housing Estate (2022)
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This article tracks how a trope of middle-class household thrift, grounded on the autarchic Aristotelian oikos, has long fuelled derogatory discourses in Britain aimed at low-income urban residents who practise quite different forms of thrift. Since... Read More about The Simple Bare Necessities: Scales and Paradoxes of Thrift on a London Public Housing Estate.

The impact of breastfeeding on mother-baby sleep -- addressing popular myths (2021)
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Does breastfeeding affect sleep, and does sleep affect breastfeeding? The answers to both these questions are largely ‘Yes’, however much of the relevant research is recent, and evidence-based information on the relationship between breastfeeding and... Read More about The impact of breastfeeding on mother-baby sleep -- addressing popular myths.

Impact of prehabilitation on objectively measured physical activity levels in elective surgery patients: a systematic review (2021)
Journal Article

Objective: To systematically review the impact of prehabilitation on objectively measured physical activity (PA) levels in elective surgery patients. Data sources: Articles published in Web of Science Core Collections, PubMed, Embase (Ovid), CINAHL (... Read More about Impact of prehabilitation on objectively measured physical activity levels in elective surgery patients: a systematic review.

Factors influencing the implementation of mental health recovery into services: a systematic mixed studies review (2021)
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Background Countries around the world have committed in policy to transforming their mental health services towards a recovery orientation. How has mental health recovery been implemented into services for adults, and what factors influence the imple... Read More about Factors influencing the implementation of mental health recovery into services: a systematic mixed studies review.

Public & private accounts of help-seeking: The implications of research methods on the presentation of narratives (2021)
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For people with symptoms that could indicate cancer, prompt presentation to a health care practitioner facilitates early diagnosis, improves survival, and is encouraged by public health agencies and cancer charities. Nevertheless, time to presentatio... Read More about Public & private accounts of help-seeking: The implications of research methods on the presentation of narratives.

Increasing uptake of NHS Health Checks: a randomised controlled trial using GP computer prompts (2021)
Journal Article

Background Public Health England wants to increase the uptake of the NHS Health Check (NHSHC), a cardiovascular disease prevention programme. Most invitations are sent by letter, but opportunistic invitations may be issued and verbal invitations have... Read More about Increasing uptake of NHS Health Checks: a randomised controlled trial using GP computer prompts.

Conformity to Bergmann's rule in birds depends on nest design and migration (2021)
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Ecogeographical rules attempt to explain large-scale spatial patterns in biological traits. One of the most enduring examples is Bergmann's rule, which states that species should be larger in colder climates due to the thermoregulatory advantages of... Read More about Conformity to Bergmann's rule in birds depends on nest design and migration.

A box to put the baby in: UK parent perceptions of two box programmes promoted for infant sleep (2021)
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Between 2016 and 2019 two different infant sleeping-box interventions were implemented in England: 1) shallow polypropylene baby boxes were distributed via a feasibility study to families with Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) risk-factors; and 2)... Read More about A box to put the baby in: UK parent perceptions of two box programmes promoted for infant sleep.

Mini-sternotomy versus conventional sternotomy for aortic valve replacement: a randomised controlled trial (2021)
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Objective: To compare clinical and health economic outcomes after manubrium-limited mini-sternotomy (intervention) and conventional median sternotomy (usual care). Design: A single-blind, randomised controlled trial. Setting: Single centre UK Nationa... Read More about Mini-sternotomy versus conventional sternotomy for aortic valve replacement: a randomised controlled trial.

Dental microstructure records life history events: A histological study of mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) from Gabon (2021)
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Accentuated lines in dental microstructure are hypothesized to correlate with potentially stressful life history events, but our understanding of when, how and why such accentuated lines form in relation to stressful events is limited. We examined ac... Read More about Dental microstructure records life history events: A histological study of mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) from Gabon.

Jogging during the Lockdown: Changes in the Regimes of Kinesthetic Morality and Urban Emotional Geography in NW Italy (2021)
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Jogging is the most practiced physical activity in the west. This form of light running appears a solution to the health problems caused by the sedentary of contemporary dwelling and affirmed the role of the extensive use of urban space as a key to i... Read More about Jogging during the Lockdown: Changes in the Regimes of Kinesthetic Morality and Urban Emotional Geography in NW Italy.

Local inequalities in health behaviours: longitudinal findings from the Stockton-on-Tees cohort study (2021)
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This paper provides a longitudinal examination of local inequalities in health behaviours during a period of austerity, exploring the role of ‘place’ in explaining these inequalities. Data from the Stockton-on-Tees prospective cohort study of 836 ind... Read More about Local inequalities in health behaviours: longitudinal findings from the Stockton-on-Tees cohort study.

Genetic drift from the out-of-Africa bottleneck leads to biased estimation of genetic architecture and selection (2021)
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Most complex traits evolved in the ancestors of all modern humans and have been under negative or balancing selection to maintain the distribution of phenotypes observed today. Yet all large studies mapping genomes to complex traits occur in populati... Read More about Genetic drift from the out-of-Africa bottleneck leads to biased estimation of genetic architecture and selection.

Socioeconomic correlates of sedentary time during pregnancy among women at risk of gestational diabetes in the UK (2021)
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Little is known about the relationship between socioeconomic position (SEP) and duration and patterning of objectively measured sedentary time (ST) among adults, especially adults at high risk of diabetes. The aim of this study was to examine cross-s... Read More about Socioeconomic correlates of sedentary time during pregnancy among women at risk of gestational diabetes in the UK.

Identifying and understanding the contextual factors that shaped mid-implementation outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic in organizations implementing mental health recovery innovations into services (2021)
Journal Article

Background Seven housing and health services organizations were guided through a process of translating Chapter Six of the Canadian Guidelines for Recovery-Oriented Practice into a recovery-oriented innovation and plan for its implementation. At the... Read More about Identifying and understanding the contextual factors that shaped mid-implementation outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic in organizations implementing mental health recovery innovations into services.