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Digital health tools to support parents with parent-infant sleep and mental well-being (2022)
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Digital technology is increasingly important in people’s lives, particularly for new parents as it allows them to access information, stay connected to peers and offers them seductive solutions for improving infant sleep and parental well-being. Digi... Read More about Digital health tools to support parents with parent-infant sleep and mental well-being.

Ecomorphology of the cervid intermediate phalanx and its implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction (2022)
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This paper reports on newly developed ecomorphological models for the cervid intermediate phalanx. Using a geometric morphometric approach, we quantitatively assess the overall gracility of the bone, the depth and concavity of the proximal articulati... Read More about Ecomorphology of the cervid intermediate phalanx and its implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction.

Introduction: Writing failure: knowledge production, temporalities, ethics and traces (2023)
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This volume follows failures out into the world exploring how they unfold ethnographically. Taking a longer view shows how objects, narratives and diagnoses of failures may be crafted, acted on, suffered, resisted—unmade or recomposed. Thus while tro... Read More about Introduction: Writing failure: knowledge production, temporalities, ethics and traces.

Displacing displacement: narratives for a haunting history (2022)
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In this article, building on recent theories of displacement, I propose a definition of post-displacement as a ‘displacement of displacement’, or the displacement of already displaced histories. The analysis focuses on the ethnographic case of Latina... Read More about Displacing displacement: narratives for a haunting history.

Model Selection in Occupancy Models: Inference versus Prediction (2023)
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Occupancy models are a vital tool for ecologists studying the patterns and drivers of species occurrence, but their use often involves selecting among models with different sets of occupancy and detection covariates. The information-theoretic approac... Read More about Model Selection in Occupancy Models: Inference versus Prediction.

Relationship of Estradiol and Progesterone with Partnership and Parity Among Bangladeshi and British Women of European Origin (2023)
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Recent studies in social endocrinology have explored the effects of social relationships on female reproductive steroid hormones—estradiol and progesterone—investigating whether they are suppressed in partnered and parous women. Results have been mix... Read More about Relationship of Estradiol and Progesterone with Partnership and Parity Among Bangladeshi and British Women of European Origin.

A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals (2022)
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It is widely believed that juvenile male mammals typically engage in higher rates of rough and tumble play (RTP) than do females, in preparation for adult roles involving intense physical competition between males. The consistency of this sex differe... Read More about A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals.

Bed-sharing and SIDS: an evidence-based approach (2022)
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We read with interest the viewpoint article ‘Bed-sharing is a risk for sudden unexpected death in infancy’ written by David Tappin and his colleagues1 and feel the issues raised and some of the claims made need contextualising. Essentially this is a... Read More about Bed-sharing and SIDS: an evidence-based approach.

The effect of swaddling on infant sleep and arousal: A systematic review and narrative synthesis (2022)
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To explore the effect of swaddling on infant sleep and arousal in infants under 12 months of age we conducted a systematic review of the evidence published over the past 15 years since the review of van Sleuwen et al. (1). This previous review conclu... Read More about The effect of swaddling on infant sleep and arousal: A systematic review and narrative synthesis.

Challenging perceptions of socio-cultural rejection of a taboo technology: Narratives of imagined transitions to domestic toilet-linked biogas in India (2022)
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Domestic toilet-linked anaerobic digesters (TLADs) recycle organic waste materials, including human excreta (HE), into a clean gaseous fuel and fertiliser product. Socio-cultural resistance is often used to explain local resistance towards TLADs due... Read More about Challenging perceptions of socio-cultural rejection of a taboo technology: Narratives of imagined transitions to domestic toilet-linked biogas in India.

Molecular Identification of Trypanosome Diversity in Domestic Animals Reveals the Presence of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense in Historical Foci of Human African Trypanosomiasis in Gabon (2022)
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Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) is an infectious disease caused by protozoan parasites belonging to the Trypanosoma genus. In sub-Saharan Africa, there is a significant threat as many people are at risk of infection. Despite this, HAT is classifi... Read More about Molecular Identification of Trypanosome Diversity in Domestic Animals Reveals the Presence of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense in Historical Foci of Human African Trypanosomiasis in Gabon.

Suspending failure: temporalities, ontologies and gigantism in fusion energy development (2023)
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Tracing the history of terrestrial fusion energy to a giant multinational experimental fusion facility under construction reveals a series of consequential failures, re-evaluations of once defunct designs, but also persistence. To account for how thi... Read More about Suspending failure: temporalities, ontologies and gigantism in fusion energy development.

Myopia rates among Hadza hunter‐gatherers are low but not exceptional (2022)
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Myopia rates are increasing globally. This epidemic is linked to increased school participation, decreased outdoor activity and the proliferation of near-work occupations. The Tanzanian Hadza have traditionally subsisted as hunter-gatherers. School p... Read More about Myopia rates among Hadza hunter‐gatherers are low but not exceptional.

'Too many meanings': Reading Piro Designs (2022)
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‘Ebola is a business’: an analysis of the atmosphere of mistrust in the tenth Ebola epidemic in the DRC (2022)
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This paper examines the atmosphere of mistrust that permeated the response to the tenth Ebola epidemic in Eastern DRC (2018–2020). The concept of an ‘atmosphere of mistrust’ that we develop in this article directs attention to the elusive-yet-pervasi... Read More about ‘Ebola is a business’: an analysis of the atmosphere of mistrust in the tenth Ebola epidemic in the DRC.

Constituting link working through choice and care: an ethnographic account of front-line social prescribing (2022)
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Link worker social prescribing has become a prominent part of NHS England’s personalisation agenda. However, approaches to social prescribing vary, with multiple discourses emerging about the potential of social prescribing and different interpretati... Read More about Constituting link working through choice and care: an ethnographic account of front-line social prescribing.

The Evolutionary History and Palaeo-Ecology of Primate Predation: Macaca sylvanus from Plio-Pleistocene Europe as a Case Study (2013)
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In this article we briefly review primate interactions with predators throughout their evolutionary history. Like today, predators of past primates were taxonomically diverse, including crocodilians, aquatic mammals, hyaenids, raptors and other prima... Read More about The Evolutionary History and Palaeo-Ecology of Primate Predation: Macaca sylvanus from Plio-Pleistocene Europe as a Case Study.

StW 573 Australopithecus prometheus: Its Significance for an Australopith Bauplan (2021)
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The StW 573 skeleton of Australopithecus prometheus from Sterkfontein Member 2 is some 93% complete and thus by far the most complete member of that genus yet found. Firmly dated at 3.67 Ma, it is one of the earliest specimens of its genus. A crucial... Read More about StW 573 Australopithecus prometheus: Its Significance for an Australopith Bauplan.

My New Year's resolution for 2020 is to try harder at sharing data (2020)
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Comment (Case 3847) – Support for proposed conservation of Simopithecus oswaldi Andrews, 1916 (currently Theropithecus oswaldi; Mammalia, Primates, Cercopithecidae) by reversal of precedence with Cynocephalus atlanticus Thomas, 1884 (see BZN 78: 99–106 [Case]; BZN 79: 53–54 [Comment]; BZN 79: 55–57 [authors' response to Comment]) (2022)
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