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Connecting with home, keeping in touch: physical and virtual mobility across stretched families in sub-Saharan Africa (2017)
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Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., Tanle, A., …Bango, A. (2017). Connecting with home, keeping in touch: physical and virtual mobility across stretched families in sub-Saharan Africa. Africa, 88(2), 404-424. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0001972017000973

There is a long history of migration among low-income families in sub-Saharan Africa, in which (usually young, often male) members leave home to seek their fortune in what are perceived to be more favourable locations. While the physical and virtual... Read More about Connecting with home, keeping in touch: physical and virtual mobility across stretched families in sub-Saharan Africa.

Managerial relations in Kenyan health care: Empathy and the limits of governmentality (2016)
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Brown, H. (2016). Managerial relations in Kenyan health care: Empathy and the limits of governmentality. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 22(3), 591-609. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12448

This article describes relationships between a team of mid-level government health managers working in a rural Kenyan district and those whom they managed: health workers based at rural health facilities. In this context, managerial expertise was hea... Read More about Managerial relations in Kenyan health care: Empathy and the limits of governmentality.

Homeless in the Homeland: housing protests in Kazakhstan (2018)
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Alexander, C. (2018). Homeless in the Homeland: housing protests in Kazakhstan. Critique of Anthropology, 38(2), 204-220. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275x18758872

This article tracks housing protests in Kazakhstan’s former capital city, Almaty, from 1989 to 2016 for what they reveal about shifting ideas of rights and obligations between citizens and state. Three broad models of moral economies of housing emerg... Read More about Homeless in the Homeland: housing protests in Kazakhstan.

A longitudinal study of the association between inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity and children's academic attainment at age 11 (2016)
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Merrell, C., Sayal, K., Tymms, P., & Kasim, A. (2017). A longitudinal study of the association between inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity and children's academic attainment at age 11. Learning and Individual Differences, 53, 156-161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2016.04.003

Background The link between inattention and hyperactivity/impulsivity and poor academic outcomes is well established. Children with mild difficulties can go unnoticed yet may be at risk of poor academic outcomes. Aims To investigate the link between... Read More about A longitudinal study of the association between inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity and children's academic attainment at age 11.

Accumulation through nationalism: the politics of profit in “neoliberal” Sri Lanka (2017)
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Widger, T. (2017). Accumulation through nationalism: the politics of profit in “neoliberal” Sri Lanka. Polity, 7(2), 31-37

It is worth remembering that the introduction of open economic reforms in the country cannot be dichotomized from the tacit encouragement of nationalist forces that led to the outbreak of the civil war. In his analysis of the continued twinning of ca... Read More about Accumulation through nationalism: the politics of profit in “neoliberal” Sri Lanka.

The influence of live-capture on the risk perceptions of habituated samango monkeys (2016)
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Nowak, K., Richards, S., le Roux, A., & Hill, R. (2016). The influence of live-capture on the risk perceptions of habituated samango monkeys. Journal of Mammalogy, 97(5), 1461-1468. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyw083

Live-capture of animals is a widely used technique in ecological research, and previously trapped individuals often respond to traps with either attraction or avoidance. The effects of trapping on animals’ risk perception are not often studied, altho... Read More about The influence of live-capture on the risk perceptions of habituated samango monkeys.

“Il était un petit navire”: The refugee crisis, neo-orientalism, and the production of radical alterity (2016)
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Kirtsoglou, E., & Tsimouris, E. (2016). “Il était un petit navire”: The refugee crisis, neo-orientalism, and the production of radical alterity. Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Occasional Paper 9, 1-14

In September 2015 Elisabeth Kirtsoglou, Giorgos Tsimouris, Stavroula Pipyrou, and Daniel Knight were awarded funding by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to carry out a comparative study on what has come to be known as the refugee cr... Read More about “Il était un petit navire”: The refugee crisis, neo-orientalism, and the production of radical alterity.

Anti-Hesitation (2017)
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Widger, T. (2017). Anti-Hesitation. Anthropology of this century,

IVF in Sri Lanka: A concise history of regulatory impasse (2016)
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Simpson, R. (2016). IVF in Sri Lanka: A concise history of regulatory impasse. Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online, 2, 8-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rbms.2016.02.003

This article outlines the development of IVF in Sri Lanka from the first successful births in the late 1990s and over the subsequent 15 years. It is based on anthropological fieldwork carried out at various points during this period. The piece focuse... Read More about IVF in Sri Lanka: A concise history of regulatory impasse.

The SSTARS (STeroids and Stents Against Re-Stenosis) Trial: Different stent alloys and the use of peri-procedural oral corticosteroids to prevent in-segment restenosis after percutaneous coronary intervention (2016)
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Adam, Z., Turley, A., Mason, J., Kasim, A., Newby, D., Mills, N., …de Belder, M. (2016). The SSTARS (STeroids and Stents Against Re-Stenosis) Trial: Different stent alloys and the use of peri-procedural oral corticosteroids to prevent in-segment restenosis after percutaneous coronary intervention. International Journal of Cardiology, 216, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2016.04.105

Background Stent design and technological modifications to allow for anti-proliferative drug elution influence restenosis rates following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). We aimed to investigate whether peri-procedural administration of cort... Read More about The SSTARS (STeroids and Stents Against Re-Stenosis) Trial: Different stent alloys and the use of peri-procedural oral corticosteroids to prevent in-segment restenosis after percutaneous coronary intervention.

La comunidad en los tiempos de la Comunidad: bienestar en las Comunidades Nativas asháninkas (2016)
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Sarmiento Barletti, J. P. (2016). La comunidad en los tiempos de la Comunidad: bienestar en las Comunidades Nativas asháninkas. Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Etudes Andines, 45(1), 157-172. https://doi.org/10.4000/bifea.7904

El presente artículo estudia las diferencias críticas que los asháninkas, miembros de la sociedad indígena más grande de la Amazonía peruana, encuentran entre la Comunidad Nativa como una entidad política, y la comunidad compuesta de asháninka sanori... Read More about La comunidad en los tiempos de la Comunidad: bienestar en las Comunidades Nativas asháninkas.

Contradiction in contemporary political life: meeting bureaucracy in Norwegian municipal government (2017)
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Abram, S. (2017). Contradiction in contemporary political life: meeting bureaucracy in Norwegian municipal government. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 23(S1), 27-44. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12592

Meetings are the apotheosis of contemporary bureaucratic life, containing dilemmas and contradictions that are at the heart of modernity. In particular, political and bureaucratic meetings (both state and civic) are ritual performances in which rules... Read More about Contradiction in contemporary political life: meeting bureaucracy in Norwegian municipal government.

Science, value and material decay in the conservation of historic environments (2016)
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Douglas-Jones, R., Hughes, J., Jones, S., & Yarrow, T. (2016). Science, value and material decay in the conservation of historic environments. Journal of Cultural Heritage, 21, 823-833. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2016.03.007

The historic environment undergoes cycles of material deterioration, and these processes have a powerful impact on the meanings and values associated with it. In particular, decay informs the experience of authenticity, as a tangible mark of age and... Read More about Science, value and material decay in the conservation of historic environments.

Are we failing young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs)? A systematic review and meta-analysis of re-engagement interventions (2017)
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Mawn, L., Oliver, E., Akhtar, N., Bambra, C., Torgerson, C., Bridle, C., & Stain, H. (2017). Are we failing young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs)? A systematic review and meta-analysis of re-engagement interventions. Systematic Reviews, 6, Article 16. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-016-0394-2

Background: Youth comprise 40% of the world’s unemployed, a status associated with adverse wellbeing and social, health, and economic costs. This systematic review and meta-analysis review synthesises the literature on the effectiveness of interventi... Read More about Are we failing young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs)? A systematic review and meta-analysis of re-engagement interventions.

Hot flushes and reproductive hormone levels during the menopausal transition (2016)
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Dhanoya, T., Sievert, L., Muttukrishna, S., Begum, K., Sharmeen, T., Kasim, A., …Bentley, G. (2016). Hot flushes and reproductive hormone levels during the menopausal transition. Maturitas: An international journal of midlife health and beyond, 89, 43-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2016.03.017

Introduction Evidence suggests that hot flushes are associated with fluctuating levels of oestradiol (E2) during menop\\10.10.23.91\S5_WatchFolder\REJECTED\MNT_ELSEVIER_JOURNAL_MAT_6582_110ause, as well as changes in the levels of follicle-stimulatin... Read More about Hot flushes and reproductive hormone levels during the menopausal transition.

MHealth and the management of chronic conditions in rural areas: A note of caution from Southern India (2017)
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Nahar, P., Kishore Kannuri, N., Mikkilineni, S., Murthy, G., & Phillimore, P. (2017). MHealth and the management of chronic conditions in rural areas: A note of caution from Southern India. Anthropology and Medicine, 24(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2016.1263824

This article examines challenges facing implementation of likely mHealth programmes in rural India. Based on fieldwork in Andhra Pradesh in 2014, and taking as exemplars two chronic medical ‘conditions’ – type 2 diabetes and depression – we look at w... Read More about MHealth and the management of chronic conditions in rural areas: A note of caution from Southern India.

At home with Mastomys and Rattus: human-rodent interactions and potential for primary transmission of Lassa virus in domestic spaces (2017)
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Bonwitt, J., Sáez, A., Lamin, J., Ansumana, R., Dawson, M., Buanie, J., …Brown, H. (2017). At home with Mastomys and Rattus: human-rodent interactions and potential for primary transmission of Lassa virus in domestic spaces. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 96(4), 935-943. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.16-0675

The multimammate mouse (Mastomys natalensis) is the reservoir for Lassa virus (LASV). Zoonotic transmission occurs when humans are directly or indirectly exposed to fluids of the multimammate mouse, such as urine, saliva, and blood. Housing character... Read More about At home with Mastomys and Rattus: human-rodent interactions and potential for primary transmission of Lassa virus in domestic spaces.