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Political Economy Comes Home: On the Moral Economies of Housing (2018)
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Struggles over housing are one of the most pressing social, economic and political issues of our time. Yet questions over access to, plus the redistribution and maintenance of secure housing have only recently begun to be considered anthropologically... Read More about Political Economy Comes Home: On the Moral Economies of Housing.

On expectations in the aftermath of the ‘refugee crisis’: Ethnographic prospects from a post-industrial German city (2018)
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At the height of the ‘refugee crisis’ in Europe, right‐wing critics challenged refugees’ rights to asylum. One of the ways they did this was by predicting chaotic, doom‐laden futures. In reality, nobody – neither the communities hosting the refugees,... Read More about On expectations in the aftermath of the ‘refugee crisis’: Ethnographic prospects from a post-industrial German city.

Predictive validity of the UKCAT for medical school undergraduate performance: a national prospective cohort study (2016)
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Background: The UK Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT) has been shown to have a modest but statistically significant ability to predict aspects of academic performance throughout medical school. Previously, this ability has been shown to be incremental to... Read More about Predictive validity of the UKCAT for medical school undergraduate performance: a national prospective cohort study.

Domesticating In Home Displays in Selected British and Norwegian Households (2018)
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The paper uses qualitative data from Norway and the United Kingdom to understand the new technology of In Home Display monitors as a material object loaded with meaning and norms that may affect social practices and relations. The displays are design... Read More about Domesticating In Home Displays in Selected British and Norwegian Households.

Engines of alternative objectivity: Re-articulating the nature and value of participatory mental health organisations with the Hearing Voices Movement and Stepping Out Theatre Company (2015)
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Through two case studies, the Hearing Voices Movement and Stepping Out Theatre Company, we demonstrate how successful participatory organisations can be seen as ‘engines of alternative objectivity’ rather than as the subjective other to objective, bi... Read More about Engines of alternative objectivity: Re-articulating the nature and value of participatory mental health organisations with the Hearing Voices Movement and Stepping Out Theatre Company.

A Sociological Comparison of Anti-Semitism and Anti-Muslim Sentiment in Britain (2008)
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Identification of in vitro and in vivo disconnects using transcriptomic data (2015)
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Background: Integrating transcriptomic experiments within drug development is increasingly advocated for the early detection of toxicity. This is partly to reduce costs related to drug failures in the late, and expensive phases of clinical trials. Su... Read More about Identification of in vitro and in vivo disconnects using transcriptomic data.

Cynicism as a strategic virtue (2017)
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Doctors are often forced to negotiate between imperatives of policy and the demands of good practice. Cynicism arises in the welter of difficult feelings elicited by such contexts, and is widely assumed to be bad for patients, national health systems... Read More about Cynicism as a strategic virtue.

Modeling outcomes of first-Line antiretroviral therapy and rate of CD4 counts change among a cohort of HIV/AIDS patients in Ethiopia: A retrospective cohort study (2016)
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Background: Antiretroviral therapy has shown to be effective in reducing morbidity and mortality in patients infected with HIV for the past couples of decades. However, there remains a need to better understand the characteristics of long-term treatm... Read More about Modeling outcomes of first-Line antiretroviral therapy and rate of CD4 counts change among a cohort of HIV/AIDS patients in Ethiopia: A retrospective cohort study.

Distribution and Numbers of Pygmies in Central African Forests (2016)
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Pygmy populations occupy a vast territory extending west-to-east along the central African belt from the Congo Basin to Lake Victoria. However, their numbers and actual distribution is not known precisely. Here, we undertake this task by using locati... Read More about Distribution and Numbers of Pygmies in Central African Forests.

Humans and Great Apes Cohabiting the Forest Ecosystem in Central African Republic Harbour the Same Hookworms (2014)
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Background Hookworms are important pathogens of humans. To date, Necator americanus is the sole, known species of the genus Necator infecting humans. In contrast, several Necator species have been described in African great apes and other primates. I... Read More about Humans and Great Apes Cohabiting the Forest Ecosystem in Central African Republic Harbour the Same Hookworms.

Gender differences in walking (for leisure, transport and in total) across adult life: a systematic review (2017)
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Background: The aim of this systematic review was to examine gender differences in walking for leisure, transport and in total in adults living in high-income countries, and to assess whether gender differences in walking practices change across the... Read More about Gender differences in walking (for leisure, transport and in total) across adult life: a systematic review.

Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings—paper 4: how to assess coherence (2018)
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Background: The GRADE-CERQual (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation-Confidence in Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative research) approach has been developed by the GRADE working group. The approach has been developed to s... Read More about Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings—paper 4: how to assess coherence.

Aesthetics, Politics and Conflict (2015)
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Cultural complexity and demography: The case of folktales (2017)
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We investigate the relationship between cultural complexity and population size in a non-technological cultural domain for which we have suitable quantitative records: folktales. We define three levels of complexity for folk narratives: the number of... Read More about Cultural complexity and demography: The case of folktales.

Sex differences in scent-marking in captive red-ruffed lemurs (2019)
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Primate chemical communication remains underappreciated, as primates are considered to rely on other sensory modalities. However, various lines of evidence suggest that olfaction plays an important role in primate societies, including the conspicuous... Read More about Sex differences in scent-marking in captive red-ruffed lemurs.

The ‘War Heroines’ of Bangladesh: Lessons for fighting sexual violence in conflict in Nabanita Deb Sen (2015)
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Urgent action required to conserve the Critically Endangered Asiatic cheetah Acinonyx jubatus venaticus (2018)
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Selection to outsmart the germs: The evolution of disease recognition and social cognition (2017)
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The emergence of providing care to diseased conspecifics must have been a turning point during the evolution of hominin sociality. On a population level, care may have minimized the costs of socially transmitted diseases at a time of increasing socia... Read More about Selection to outsmart the germs: The evolution of disease recognition and social cognition.

Introduction: towards an ethnography of meeting (2017)
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This introductory essay describes a novel approach to meetings in relation to broader literatures within and beyond anthropology. We suggest that notwithstanding many accounts in which meetings figure, little attention has been given to the mundane f... Read More about Introduction: towards an ethnography of meeting.