Outputs (995)

On the rocks: using discourse analysis to examine relationships between Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) and people on Gibraltar (2018)
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Primates are difficult to categorise due to some of the human-like characteristics they possess. Here, we examine the complexities that exist in a commensal relationship between an introduced population of Barbary macaques and local human populations... Read More about On the rocks: using discourse analysis to examine relationships between Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) and people on Gibraltar.

Domestic Geographies of Parental and Infant (Co-) becomings: home-space, night-time breastfeeding, and parent-infant sleep (2019)
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This article explores how understandings of parental and infant personhood are negotiated in and through the space of the home. We argue that through spatial practices of creating and using (and not using) nurseries, understandings of parental and in... Read More about Domestic Geographies of Parental and Infant (Co-) becomings: home-space, night-time breastfeeding, and parent-infant sleep.

“In their perception we are addicts”: Social vulnerabilities and sources of support for men released from drug treatment centers in Vietnam (2014)
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Background Amid the global transition to treat opioid addiction as an illness, many people who inject drugs (PWID) face heterogeneous legal environments that include both punitive and harm reduction measures. In Vietnam, many PWID, who have a high bu... Read More about “In their perception we are addicts”: Social vulnerabilities and sources of support for men released from drug treatment centers in Vietnam.

The prevalence and impact of childhood sexual abuse on HIV-risk behaviors among men who have sex with men (MSM) in India (2016)
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Background Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is a significant global public health problem, which is associated with negative psychosocial outcomes and high-risk sexual behaviors in adults. Men who have sex with men (MSM) often report higher prevalence of... Read More about The prevalence and impact of childhood sexual abuse on HIV-risk behaviors among men who have sex with men (MSM) in India.

Dietary traits of the late Early Pleistocene Bison menneri (Bovidae, Mammalia) from its type site Untermassfeld (Central Germany) and the problem of Pleistocene ‘wood bison’ (2017)
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Over the course of the Early and early Middle Pleistocene, a climatic cooling trend led to the partial opening up of landscapes in the western Palaearctic. This led to a gradual replacement of browsers by grazers, whilst some herbivore species shifte... Read More about Dietary traits of the late Early Pleistocene Bison menneri (Bovidae, Mammalia) from its type site Untermassfeld (Central Germany) and the problem of Pleistocene ‘wood bison’.

Afterword: New immortalities? (2017)
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Suicides, poisons and the materially possible: The positive ambivalence of means restriction and critical–critical global health (2018)
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Developing an object-oriented perspective on suicide, in this article the author challenges critical global health scholarship and sociological theories of ambivalence by showing how a focus on ‘materially possible’ suicide prevention can offer cultu... Read More about Suicides, poisons and the materially possible: The positive ambivalence of means restriction and critical–critical global health.

New immortalities: Death, donation, and dedication in the twenty-first century (2017)
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Can the plant speak? Giving tobacco the voice it deserves (2018)
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The idea of non-human objects speaking has an illustrious pedigree. Using Holbraad’s (2011) question ‘can the thing speak?’ as a springboard, the author asks what it means to say that tobacco might speak. Accepting a degree of ventriloquism in giving... Read More about Can the plant speak? Giving tobacco the voice it deserves.

What have we been looking at? A call for consistency in studies of primate vigilance (2018)
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Vigilance functions to detect threats. In primates, these threats emerge from both predators and conspecifics, but a host of other social, demographic, and ecological factors have been shown to influence primate vigilance patterns. The primate vigila... Read More about What have we been looking at? A call for consistency in studies of primate vigilance.

Solar energy for all? Understanding the successes and shortfalls through a critical comparative assessment of Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Mozambique, Sri Lanka and South Africa (2018)
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Lanterns, homes systems, hot water systems and micro-grids based on small-scale solar have become prominent ways to address the energy access challenge. As momentum grows for this form of energy transition this paper draws together research on small-... Read More about Solar energy for all? Understanding the successes and shortfalls through a critical comparative assessment of Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Mozambique, Sri Lanka and South Africa.

General intelligence does not help us understand cognitive evolution (2017)
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Burkart et al. conflate the domain-specificity of cognitive processes with the statistical pattern of variance in behavioural measures that partly reflect those processes. General intelligence is a statistical abstraction, not a cognitive trait, and... Read More about General intelligence does not help us understand cognitive evolution.

Testing differential use of payoff-biased social learning strategies in children and chimpanzees (2017)
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Various non-human animal species have been shown to exhibit behavioural traditions. Importantly, this research has been guided by what we know of human culture, and the question of whether animal cultures may be homologous or analogous to our own cul... Read More about Testing differential use of payoff-biased social learning strategies in children and chimpanzees.

Geographical inequalities in health in a time of austerity: Baseline findings from the Stockton-on-Tees cohort study (2017)
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Stockton-on-Tees has the highest geographical inequalities in health in England with the life expectancy at birth gap between the most and deprived neighbourhoods standing at over 17 years for men and 11 years for women. In this study, we provide the... Read More about Geographical inequalities in health in a time of austerity: Baseline findings from the Stockton-on-Tees cohort study.

Re-evaluating the link between brain size and behavioural ecology in primates (2017)
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Comparative studies have identified a wide range of behavioural and ecological correlates of relative brain size, with results differing between taxonomic groups, and even within them. In primates for example, recent studies contradict one another ov... Read More about Re-evaluating the link between brain size and behavioural ecology in primates.

Regional inequalities in self-reported conditions and non-communicable diseases in European countries: Findings from the European Social Survey (2014) special module on the social determinants of health (2017)
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Background: Within the European Union (EU), substantial efforts are being made to achieve economic and social cohesion, and the reduction of health inequalities between EU regions is integral to this process. This paper is the first to examine how se... Read More about Regional inequalities in self-reported conditions and non-communicable diseases in European countries: Findings from the European Social Survey (2014) special module on the social determinants of health.

Beyond the Sex Doll: Post-Human Companionship and the Rise of the ‘Allodoll’ (2018)
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The increasing market for realistic sex dolls has led to heated debate about future relationships with these entities and whether they could lead to an increasing objectification of women or possibly encourage abuse. However, limited academic researc... Read More about Beyond the Sex Doll: Post-Human Companionship and the Rise of the ‘Allodoll’.

Critical orientations for humanising health sciences education in South Africa (2018)
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In this article, the authors make a case for the ’humanisation' and ’decolonisation' of health sciences curricula in South Africa, using integration as a guiding framework. Integration refers to an education that is built on a consolidated conceptual... Read More about Critical orientations for humanising health sciences education in South Africa.

Cutting care clusters: the creation of an inverse pharmacy care law? An area-level analysis exploring the clustering of community pharmacies in England (2018)
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Objectives To (1) explore the clustering of community pharmacies in England and (2) determine the relationship between community pharmacy clustering, urbanity and deprivation. Design An area-level analysis spatial study. Setting England. Primary and... Read More about Cutting care clusters: the creation of an inverse pharmacy care law? An area-level analysis exploring the clustering of community pharmacies in England.

Narratives as a mode of research evaluation in citizen science: understanding broader science communication impacts (2017)
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Science communicators develop qualitative and quantitative tools to evaluate the ‘impact’ of their work however narrative is rarely adopted as a form of evaluation. We posit narrative as an evaluative approach for research projects with a core scienc... Read More about Narratives as a mode of research evaluation in citizen science: understanding broader science communication impacts.