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Telomerase Activation to Reverse Immunosenescence in Elderly Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome: Protocol for a Randomized Pilot Trial (2020)
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Background: Inflammation plays a key role in the pathophysiology of coronary heart disease (CHD) and its acute manifestation, acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Aging is associated with a decline of the immune system, a process known as immunosenescence.... Read More about Telomerase Activation to Reverse Immunosenescence in Elderly Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome: Protocol for a Randomized Pilot Trial.

Nicotine addiction as a moral problem: Barriers to e-cigarette use for smoking cessation in two working-class areas in Northern England (2019)
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Tobacco use in high-income countries correlates with socio-economic disadvantage, but although switching to electronic cigarettes could be a safer alternative, little is known about barriers to use. Drawing on eighteen months of data collection in tw... Read More about Nicotine addiction as a moral problem: Barriers to e-cigarette use for smoking cessation in two working-class areas in Northern England.

How Will the Emerging Plurality of Lives Change How We Conceive of and Relate to Life? (2019)
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The project “A Plurality of Lives” was funded and hosted by the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies at Lund University, Sweden. The aim of the project was to better understand how a second origin of life, either in the form of a discovery of ext... Read More about How Will the Emerging Plurality of Lives Change How We Conceive of and Relate to Life?.

Maternal investment, life histories, and the evolution of brain structure in primates (2019)
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Life history is a robust correlate of relative brain size: larger-brained mammals and birds have slower life histories and longer lifespans than smaller-brained species. The cognitive buffer hypothesis (CBH) proposes an adaptive explanation for this... Read More about Maternal investment, life histories, and the evolution of brain structure in primates.

The two burials of Aldo Moro: sovereignty and governmentality in the anni di piombo (2009)
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Freedom in the code: The anthropology of (double) morality (2015)
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The Ontological Turn (2017)
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Reflections on American Anthropology: A Conference at UC Irvine (2012)
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Systems Underlying Human and Old World Monkey Communication: One, Two, or Infinite (2019)
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Using artificially synthesized stimuli, previous research has shown that cotton-top tamarin monkeys easily learn simple AB grammar sequences, but not the more complex An Bn sequences that require hierarchical structure. Humans have no trouble learnin... Read More about Systems Underlying Human and Old World Monkey Communication: One, Two, or Infinite.

The surprising case of police bribery reduction in South Africa (2019)
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The paper examines why there was a reduction of almost 15% in police bribery in Limpopo province, South Africa between 2011 and 2015, compared to only a 4% reduction the country overall. Drawing on statistical analysis and in-depth qualitative fieldw... Read More about The surprising case of police bribery reduction in South Africa.

Model-based prediction of CD4 cells counts in HIV-infected adults on antiretroviral therapy in Northwest Ethiopia: A flexible mixed effects approach (2019)
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Background CD4 cell counts is widely used as a biomarker for treatment progression when studying the efficacy of drugs to treat HIV-infected patients. In the past, it had been also used in determining eligibility to initiate antiretroviral therapy. T... Read More about Model-based prediction of CD4 cells counts in HIV-infected adults on antiretroviral therapy in Northwest Ethiopia: A flexible mixed effects approach.

Biochemical and biological validations of a faecal glucocorticoid metabolite assay in mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) (2019)
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Stress is a major factor in determining success when releasing endangered species into the wild but is often overlooked. Mandrills (Mandrills sphinx) are vulnerable to extinction due to habitat loss and demand for bush meat and the pet trade. To help... Read More about Biochemical and biological validations of a faecal glucocorticoid metabolite assay in mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx).

Aegean monkeys and the importance of cross-disciplinary collaboration in archaeoprimatology: a reply to Urbani and Youlatos (2020)
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In their reply to our article “A new identification of the monkeys depicted in a Bronze Age wall painting from Akrotiri, Thera” [Primates 61(3), 2019], Urbani and Youlatos (Primates https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-020-00825-2, 2020) argue for the trad... Read More about Aegean monkeys and the importance of cross-disciplinary collaboration in archaeoprimatology: a reply to Urbani and Youlatos.

An assemblage of framings and tamings: multi-sited analysis of infrastructures as a methodology (2019)
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The social life of methods – the idea that research methods are an important topic of inquiry in and of themselves – has been receiving increasing interest in scholarship on the organisation of the economy and social life, including Science and Techn... Read More about An assemblage of framings and tamings: multi-sited analysis of infrastructures as a methodology.

Sex differences in longitudinal personality stability in chimpanzees (2020)
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Personality factors analogous to the Big Five observed in humans are present in the great apes. However, few studies have examined the long-term stability of great ape personality, particularly using factor-based personality instruments. Here, we ass... Read More about Sex differences in longitudinal personality stability in chimpanzees.

Style of pictorial representation is shaped by intergroup contact (2019)
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Pictorial representation is a key human behaviour. Cultures around the world have made images to convey information about living kinds, objects and ideas for at least 75,000 years, in forms as diverse as cave paintings, religious icons and emojis. Ho... Read More about Style of pictorial representation is shaped by intergroup contact.

Forudsigelser (2016)
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Mobile phones, gender, and female empowerment in sub-Saharan Africa: studies with African youth (2019)
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Data from qualitative and survey research with young people in 24 locations (urban and rural) across Ghana, Malawi, and South Africa expose the complex interplay between phone ownership and usage, female empowerment, and chronic poverty in Africa. We... Read More about Mobile phones, gender, and female empowerment in sub-Saharan Africa: studies with African youth.

Orangutans show active voicing through a membranophone (2019)
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Active voicing – voluntary control over vocal fold oscillation – is essential for speech. Nonhuman great apes can learn new consonant- and vowel-like calls, but active voicing by our closest relatives has historically been the hardest evidence to con... Read More about Orangutans show active voicing through a membranophone.

What were the impacts of the Committee on Safety of Medicines warning and publication of the NICE guidelines on trends in child and adolescent antidepressant prescribing in primary care? A population based study (2019)
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Objectives To assess the impact of both the Committee on Safety of Medicines (CSM) warning (December 2003) and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance (September 2005) on antidepressant prescription rates in children and... Read More about What were the impacts of the Committee on Safety of Medicines warning and publication of the NICE guidelines on trends in child and adolescent antidepressant prescribing in primary care? A population based study.