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Change in cost and affordability of a typical and nutritionally adequate diet among socio-economic groups in rural Nepal after the 2008 food price crisis (2018)
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Diet quality is an important determinant of nutrition and food security and access can be constrained by changes in food prices and affordability. Poverty, malnutrition, and food insecurity are high in Nepal and may have been aggravated by the 2008 f... Read More about Change in cost and affordability of a typical and nutritionally adequate diet among socio-economic groups in rural Nepal after the 2008 food price crisis.

Global Bioethics: A Story of Dreams and Doubts from Bengal, India (2018)
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This article is concerned with the practice of bioethics outside of the Euro-American and Anglophone settings in which it was first formulated. In theoretical terms, the article considers the frictions that arise when global-scale projects such as bi... Read More about Global Bioethics: A Story of Dreams and Doubts from Bengal, India.

Associations of sedentary time and self-reported television time during pregnancy with incident gestational diabetes and plasma glucose levels in women at risk of gestational diabetes in the UK (2019)
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At 20 weeks’ gestation, pregnant women (n = 188) in the North East of England with a risk factor for GDM wore an activPAL accelerometer and reported their usual television time. Participants underwent a standard oral glucose tolerance test at 24–28 w... Read More about Associations of sedentary time and self-reported television time during pregnancy with incident gestational diabetes and plasma glucose levels in women at risk of gestational diabetes in the UK.

Do Online Voting Patterns Reflect Evolved Features of Human Cognition? An Exploratory Empirical Investigation (2015)
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Online votes or ratings can assist internet users in evaluating the credibility and appeal of the information which they encounter. For example, aggregator websites such as Reddit allow users to up-vote submitted content to make it more prominent, an... Read More about Do Online Voting Patterns Reflect Evolved Features of Human Cognition? An Exploratory Empirical Investigation.

What is the effect of secondary (high) schooling on subsequent medical school performance? A national, UK-based, cohort study (2018)
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Objectives University academic achievement may be inversely related to the performance of the secondary (high) school an entrant attended. Indeed, some medical schools already offer ‘grade discounts’ to applicants from less well-performing schools. H... Read More about What is the effect of secondary (high) schooling on subsequent medical school performance? A national, UK-based, cohort study.

Retaining character: heritage conservation and the logic of continuity (2018)
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In anthropology and beyond, discussions of character have more often focused on this as a quality of human subjects rather than of the material world. How is character figured as a quality of historic buildings, monuments and places? I situate this q... Read More about Retaining character: heritage conservation and the logic of continuity.

Long-Term Monitoring of Microsporidia, Cryptosporidium and Giardia Infections in Western Lowland Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) at Different Stages of Habituation in Dzanga Sangha Protected Areas, Central African Republic (2013)
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Background Infectious diseases pose one of the greatest threats to endangered species, and a risk of gastrointestinal parasite transmission from humans to wildlife has always been considered as a major concern of tourism. Increased anthropogenic impa... Read More about Long-Term Monitoring of Microsporidia, Cryptosporidium and Giardia Infections in Western Lowland Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) at Different Stages of Habituation in Dzanga Sangha Protected Areas, Central African Republic.

Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings–paper 6: how to assess relevance of the data (2018)
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Background: The GRADE-CERQual (Confidence in Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative research) approach has been developed by the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) Working Group. The approach has been developed to... Read More about Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings–paper 6: how to assess relevance of the data.

Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings—paper 2: how to make an overall CERQual assessment of confidence and create a Summary of Qualitative Findings table (2018)
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Background: The GRADE-CERQual (Confidence in Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative research) approach has been developed by the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) Working Group. The approach has been developed to... Read More about Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings—paper 2: how to make an overall CERQual assessment of confidence and create a Summary of Qualitative Findings table.

Food play: A novel research methodology for visceral geographers and health researchers (2019)
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This paper reinforces the value of visceral geographic approaches to health research as a method ‘beyond talking’. The paper establishes and sets out an integrative embodied multi-sensory research methodology - food play. Researchers across the socia... Read More about Food play: A novel research methodology for visceral geographers and health researchers.

Antígona y su biobanco de ADN: Desaparecidos, búsqueda y tecnologías forenses en México. = Antigone's forensic DNA database: Forensic technologies and the search for the disappeared in Mexico (2018)
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La tragedia de Antígona ha sido apropiada estética y políticamente por artistas y activistas en México para discutir la búsqueda de personas desaparecidas. Reflexionando sobre las relaciones entre la futilidad, las tecnologías forenses y la noción de... Read More about Antígona y su biobanco de ADN: Desaparecidos, búsqueda y tecnologías forenses en México. = Antigone's forensic DNA database: Forensic technologies and the search for the disappeared in Mexico.

Is there synergy in syndemics? Psychosocial conditions and sexual risk among men who have sex with men in India (2018)
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Syndemic theory describes the clustering and synergistic interaction of disease driven by contextual and social factors, which worsen health outcomes for a population, and has been applied to men who have sex with men (MSM) and their risk for HIV and... Read More about Is there synergy in syndemics? Psychosocial conditions and sexual risk among men who have sex with men in India.

A New Species of Sucking Louse (Phthiraptera: Anoplura: Polyplacidae) From the Gray Mouse Lemur, Microcebus murinus (Primates: Cheirogaleidae), in Madagascar (2018)
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Lemurpediculus madagascariensis sp. nov. (Phthiraptera: Anoplura: Polyplacidae) is described from the Gray Mouse lemur, Microcebus murinus (J. F. Miller) (Primates: Cheirogaleidae), from Ankarafantsika National Park, Madagascar. Lemurs were trapped u... Read More about A New Species of Sucking Louse (Phthiraptera: Anoplura: Polyplacidae) From the Gray Mouse Lemur, Microcebus murinus (Primates: Cheirogaleidae), in Madagascar.

Breastfeeding, Antidepressants and Depression in the Mercy Pregnancy and Emotional Well-being Study (2018)
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Background: Depression is consistently shown to predict lower rates of breastfeeding. In a handful of studies, breastfeeding has predicted lower depression symptoms. However, studies demonstrating the latter are limited in their measurement of both d... Read More about Breastfeeding, Antidepressants and Depression in the Mercy Pregnancy and Emotional Well-being Study.

Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings—paper 3: how to assess methodological limitations (2018)
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Background: The GRADE-CERQual (Confidence in Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative research) approach has been developed by the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) Working Group. The approach has been developed to... Read More about Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings—paper 3: how to assess methodological limitations.

How Conservation Matters: ethnographic explorations of historic building renovation (2018)
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This article focuses on ideas of historic conservation, examining the multiple ways in which these are made to matter through practices of renovation. Bypassing normatively inflected literatures on heritage, the author adopts a more ‘agnostic’ ethnog... Read More about How Conservation Matters: ethnographic explorations of historic building renovation.

Portraying fathers: Reproductive journeys in Malawi (2015)
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She knows that she will not come back: tracing patients and new thresholds of collective surveillance in PMTCT Option B+ (2018)
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Background: Malawi, Uganda, and Zimbabwe have recently adopted a universal ‘test-and-treat’ approach to the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (Option B+). Amongst a largely asymptomatic population of women tested for HIV and immediate... Read More about She knows that she will not come back: tracing patients and new thresholds of collective surveillance in PMTCT Option B+.

Biodiversity, Livelihoods and Struggles over Sustainability in Nepal (2018)
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Nepal’s impoverished mountain communities benefited after the 1950s through Swiss-style cheese-making from yak-cow hybrids. This relieved the drop in economic opportunities after Chinese occupation of Tibet. Income-generating transhumant dairy pastor... Read More about Biodiversity, Livelihoods and Struggles over Sustainability in Nepal.

Low carbon energy and international development: from research impact to policymaking (2017)
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Few areas of international development research have seen as much transformation over recent years as those relating to energy access and low carbon transitions. New policy initiatives, technological innovations and business models have radically tra... Read More about Low carbon energy and international development: from research impact to policymaking.