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New transfer of care initiative of electronic referral from hospital to community pharmacy in England: a formative service evaluation (2016)
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Objectives To evaluate an electronic patient referral system from one UK hospital Trust to community pharmacies across the North East of England. Setting Two hospital sites in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and 207 community pharmacies. Participants Inpatients... Read More about New transfer of care initiative of electronic referral from hospital to community pharmacy in England: a formative service evaluation.

Hot flash report and measurement among Bangladeshi migrants, their London neighbors, and their community of origin (2016)
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1 Objectives To examine hot flashes in relation to climate and activity patterns, and to compare subjective and objective hot flashes among Bangladeshi immigrants to London, their white London neighbors, and women still living in their community of o... Read More about Hot flash report and measurement among Bangladeshi migrants, their London neighbors, and their community of origin.

Energetic consequences of human sociality: walking speed choices among friendly dyads (2013)
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Research has shown that individuals have an optimal walking speed–a speed which minimizes energy expenditure for a given distance. Because the optimal walking speed varies with mass and lower limb length, it also varies with sex, with males in any gi... Read More about Energetic consequences of human sociality: walking speed choices among friendly dyads.

Inferring patterns of folktale diffusion using genomic data (2017)
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Observable patterns of cultural variation are consistently intertwined with demic movements, cultural diffusion, and adaptation to different ecological contexts [Cavalli-Sforza and Feldman (1981) Cultural Transmission and Evolution: A Quantitative Ap... Read More about Inferring patterns of folktale diffusion using genomic data.

The evolution of cerebellum structure correlates with nest complexity (2013)
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Across the brains of different bird species, the cerebellum varies greatly in the amount of surface folding (foliation). The degree of cerebellar foliation is thought to correlate positively with the processing capacity of the cerebellum, supporting... Read More about The evolution of cerebellum structure correlates with nest complexity.

The role of life history traits in mammalian invasion success (2015)
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Why some organisms become invasive when introduced into novel regions while others fail to even establish is a fundamental question in ecology. Barriers to success are expected to filter species at each stage along the invasion pathway. No study to d... Read More about The role of life history traits in mammalian invasion success.

Coevolution of cultural intelligence, extended life history, sociality, and brain size in primates (2017)
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Explanations for primate brain expansion and the evolution of human cognition and culture remain contentious despite extensive research. While multiple comparative analyses have investigated variation in brain size across primate species, very few ha... Read More about Coevolution of cultural intelligence, extended life history, sociality, and brain size in primates.

Governance, participation and local perceptions of protected areas: Unwinding traumatic nature in the Blouberg Mountain Range (2016)
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Local perceptions of protected areas are important for conservation and the sustainability of protected areas. We undertook qualitative and ethnographic fieldwork to explore relationships between people and protected areas in the Blouberg Mountain Ra... Read More about Governance, participation and local perceptions of protected areas: Unwinding traumatic nature in the Blouberg Mountain Range.

Healthcare providers on the frontlines: A qualitative investigation of the social and emotional impact of delivering health services during Sierra Leone’s Ebola epidemic (2016)
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Although research on the epidemiology and ecology of Ebola has expanded since the 2014–15 outbreak in West Africa, less attention has been paid to the mental health implications and the psychosocial context of the disease for providers working in pri... Read More about Healthcare providers on the frontlines: A qualitative investigation of the social and emotional impact of delivering health services during Sierra Leone’s Ebola epidemic.

Temporal Relationships Between Individualism–Collectivism and the Economy in Soviet Russia: A Word Frequency Analysis Using the Google Ngram Corpus (2016)
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Collectivism and individualism are commonly used to delineate societies that differ in their cultural values and patterns of social behavior, prioritizing the relative importance of the group and the individual, respectively. Collectivist and individ... Read More about Temporal Relationships Between Individualism–Collectivism and the Economy in Soviet Russia: A Word Frequency Analysis Using the Google Ngram Corpus.

The raped woman as a horrific sublime and the Bangladesh war of 1971 (2015)
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This article examines the relationship between aesthetics and politics when invoking the imagery of war-time rape. It explores the prevalent way in which the raped woman of the Bangladesh war of 1971 is imagined in contemporary Bangladesh through the... Read More about The raped woman as a horrific sublime and the Bangladesh war of 1971.

Getting a foot on the sanitation ladder: user satisfaction and willingness to pay for improved public toilets in Accra, Ghana (2017)
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Rapid urban growth in developing countries has led to an increase in unplanned, high-density settlements dependent on public toilets for sanitation, yet we know relatively little about users' perceptions and concerns about such facilities. This paper... Read More about Getting a foot on the sanitation ladder: user satisfaction and willingness to pay for improved public toilets in Accra, Ghana.

The formalization of social-science research ethics: How did we get there? (2017)
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In the United States, the “common law,” that regulates ethics review is being overhauled. We ask how UK University Research Ethics Committees (U-RECs), following the American model, have been able to shape social-science research without much commoti... Read More about The formalization of social-science research ethics: How did we get there?.

The application of Signalling Theory to health-related trust problems: The example of herbal clinics in Ghana and Tanzania (2017)
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In contexts where healthcare regulation is weak and levels of uncertainty high, how do patients decide whom and what to trust? In this paper, we explore the potential for using Signalling Theory (ST, a form of Behavioural Game Theory) to investigate... Read More about The application of Signalling Theory to health-related trust problems: The example of herbal clinics in Ghana and Tanzania.

Intergenerational capital flows are central to fitness dynamics and adaptive evolution in humans (2017)
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Human fitness dynamics are uniquely and profoundly governed by the flow of capital to subsequent generations. Low socioeconomic status individuals may possess limited capacity to direct capital to descendants and may respond to such constraints adapt... Read More about Intergenerational capital flows are central to fitness dynamics and adaptive evolution in humans.

Multidisciplinary exhibit design in a Science Centre: a participatory action research approach (2017)
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In this paper we highlight the issues and opportunities of a participatory action research (PAR) and co-design project, currently being undertaken as engaged research between academics at Durham University and practitioners at the UK’s International... Read More about Multidisciplinary exhibit design in a Science Centre: a participatory action research approach.

Evolution-informed maternal-infant health (2017)
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Is there a "Wainer's rule"? Testing which sex varies most as an example analysis using GueSDat, the free Guenon Skull Database (2017)
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The distinguished statistician Howard Wainer claimed that larger phenotypic variance in males might be a general occurrence in mammals. We called this putative pattern 'Wainer's rule' and employed a dataset of more than 1300 specimens, each measured... Read More about Is there a "Wainer's rule"? Testing which sex varies most as an example analysis using GueSDat, the free Guenon Skull Database.

Experimental priming of independent and interdependent activity does not affect culturally variable psychological processes (2017)
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Cultural psychologists have shown that people from Western countries exhibit more independent self-construal and analytic (rule-based) cognition than people from East Asia, who exhibit more interdependent self-construal and holistic (relationship-bas... Read More about Experimental priming of independent and interdependent activity does not affect culturally variable psychological processes.

Conformity and its look-a-likes (2015)
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