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Group walking as a “lifeline”: Understanding the place of outdoor walking groups in women's lives (2019)
Journal Article

Organised walking groups are increasingly widespread in the UK and elsewhere and have been shown to have many benefits for participants. They tend to attract more women than men, but little is known about how and why walking groups ‘recruit’ women. T... Read More about Group walking as a “lifeline”: Understanding the place of outdoor walking groups in women's lives.

The European Epidemic: pain prevalence and socioeconomic inequalities in pain across 19 European countries (2019)
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Background: Using data from the European Social Survey (ESS) 2014, this study presents an update of pain prevalence amongst men and women across Europe and undertakes the first analysis of socioeconomic inequalities in pain. Methods: Data from the ES... Read More about The European Epidemic: pain prevalence and socioeconomic inequalities in pain across 19 European countries.

‘Other-unproven’: US research and its implications for complementary therapies in the UK (2019)
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An American study has concluded that people with cancer who receive complementary medicine (CM) have a twofold greater risk of death compared with patients who had no CM. The Yale University study is presented as an assessment of ‘complementary’ rath... Read More about ‘Other-unproven’: US research and its implications for complementary therapies in the UK.

The Northumberland Exercise Referral Scheme as a universal community weight management programme: a mixed methods exploration of outcomes, expectations and experiences across a social gradient (2020)
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Exercise referral schemes (ERS) are internationally recognised, yet little attention has been paid to discrete referral groups or the influence of wider social determinants of health. The primary quantitative element of this mixed methods study used... Read More about The Northumberland Exercise Referral Scheme as a universal community weight management programme: a mixed methods exploration of outcomes, expectations and experiences across a social gradient.

The meaning of the name of ‘pulmonary rehabilitation’ and its influence on engagement with individuals with chronic lung disease (2019)
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Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is recommended for all individuals living with a lung condition and chronic breathlessness. This article considers how adopting an interdisciplinary, medical humanities approach to the term ‘pulmonary rehabilitation’ mig... Read More about The meaning of the name of ‘pulmonary rehabilitation’ and its influence on engagement with individuals with chronic lung disease.

'De spiser pengene'-Udveksling og tiggeri blandt skolebørn i Uganda (2013)
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Spotlight commentary: REBUS and the anarchic brain (2020)
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In ‘REBUS and the Anarchic Brain: Towards a Unified Model of the Brain Action of Psychedelics’, Carhart-Harris and Friston offer an important analysis of what the predictive processing framework has to offer our understanding of psychedelic experienc... Read More about Spotlight commentary: REBUS and the anarchic brain.

Skolegang en gave for hvem? (2012)
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Learning about dentistry: enacting problems at the Wellcome Collection exhibition ‘Teeth’ (2018)
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Don’t Blame the BAME: Ethnic and Structural Inequalities in Susceptibilities to COVID-19 (2020)
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This article has been written from the UK, using British terminology to refer to ethnic minorities where BAME (Black, Asian, minority ethnic groups) is a commonly used and recognized acronym. In the United Kingdom, Asian also generally refers to mino... Read More about Don’t Blame the BAME: Ethnic and Structural Inequalities in Susceptibilities to COVID-19.

About Research: Conducting Online Surveys (2019)
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There is an established methodology for conducting survey research that aims to ensure rigorous research and robust outputs. With the advent of easy-to-use online survey platforms, however, the quality of survey studies has declined. This article sum... Read More about About Research: Conducting Online Surveys.

Water insecurity compounds the global coronavirus crisis (2020)
Journal Article

In recent weeks, people all over the world have been settling into a ‘new normal’ of restricted mobility, online working, social distancing and enhanced hand hygiene. As part of the global fight against the spread of COVID-19 (the illness caused by S... Read More about Water insecurity compounds the global coronavirus crisis.

Managing uncertainty in medicine quality in Ghana: The cognitive and affective basis of trust in a high-risk, low-regulation context (2019)
Journal Article

Where regulation is weak, medicine transactions can be characterised by uncertainty over the drug quality and efficacy, with buyers shouldering the greater burden of risk in exchanges that are typically asymmetric. Drawing on in-depth interviews (N =... Read More about Managing uncertainty in medicine quality in Ghana: The cognitive and affective basis of trust in a high-risk, low-regulation context.

Do wildlife corridors link or extend habitat? Insights from elephant use of a Kenyan wildlife corridor (2018)
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1971: Pakistan's Past and Knowing What Not to Narrate (2019)
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The formation of Bangladesh in 1971 coincided with the death of three million people and rape of two hundred thousand women (according to official and contested figures) by the West Pakistani army and local East Pakistani collaborators. Yet 1971 rare... Read More about 1971: Pakistan's Past and Knowing What Not to Narrate.

Oral bait preferences and feasibility of oral rabies vaccination in Bangladeshi dogs (2020)
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Oral rabies vaccination (ORV) can increase rabies vaccination coverage among dogs that are inaccessible to parenteral vaccination (i.e., inaccessible dogs). Because bait uptake can differ according to the bait attractant used and dog characteristics,... Read More about Oral bait preferences and feasibility of oral rabies vaccination in Bangladeshi dogs.

There Is More than One Way to Crack an Oyster: Identifying Variation in Burmese Long-Tailed Macaque (Macaca fascicularis aurea) Stone-Tool Use (2015)
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Young macaques (Macaca fascicularis) preferentially bias attention towards closer, older, and better tool users (2018)
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Examining how animals direct social learning during skill acquisition under natural conditions, generates data for examining hypotheses regarding how transmission biases influence cultural change in animal populations. We studied a population of maca... Read More about Young macaques (Macaca fascicularis) preferentially bias attention towards closer, older, and better tool users.

Photoactivated cell-killing involving a low molecular weight, donor-acceptor diphenylacetylene (2019)
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Photoactivation of photosensitisers can be utilised to elicit the production of ROS, for potential therapeutic applications, including the destruction of diseased tissues and tumours. A novel class of photosensitiser, exemplified by DC324, has been d... Read More about Photoactivated cell-killing involving a low molecular weight, donor-acceptor diphenylacetylene.

Odontochronologies in male and female mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) and the development of dental sexual dimorphism (2020)
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Objectives: We examine how dental sexual dimorphism develops in mandrills, an extremely sexually dimorphic primate. We aimed to (a) establish the chronology of dental development (odontochronology) in male and female mandrills, (b) understand interin... Read More about Odontochronologies in male and female mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) and the development of dental sexual dimorphism.