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Predation by small mammalian carnivores in rural agro-ecosystems: An undervalued ecosystem service? (2017)
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Africa is endowed with a diverse guild of small carnivores, which could benefit stakeholders by providing ecosystem services while fostering conservation tolerance for carnivores. To investigate the potential of small carnivores for the biological co... Read More about Predation by small mammalian carnivores in rural agro-ecosystems: An undervalued ecosystem service?.

Youth livelihoods in the cellphone era: perspectives from urban Africa (2018)
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Issues surrounding youth employment and unemployment are central to the next development decade. Understanding how youth use mobile phones as a means of communicating and exchanging information about employment and livelihoods is particularly importa... Read More about Youth livelihoods in the cellphone era: perspectives from urban Africa.

Can Time Be Tricked? - A Theoretical Introduction (2016)
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This theoretical introduction develops a conceptual argument stemming from the concept of ‘time-tricking’. Whilst most theories of time in anthropology develop a coherent definition of the nature of time – for instance, as ‘cyclical’ or ‘linear’ – I... Read More about Can Time Be Tricked? - A Theoretical Introduction.

Post-Industrial Times and the Unexpected: Endurance and sustainability in Germany's fastest shrinking city (2014)
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This paper investigates the impact of recent politico-economic changes on contemporary experiences of time from the perspective of the future. By discussing endurance, permanence, and sustainability in Germany's fastest-shrinking city, I present a se... Read More about Post-Industrial Times and the Unexpected: Endurance and sustainability in Germany's fastest shrinking city.

Samango monkeys (Cercopithecus albogularis labiatus) manage risk in a highly seasonal, human-modified landscape in Amathole Mountains, South Africa (2016)
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Wild species use habitats that vary in risk across space and time. This risk can derive from natural predators and also from direct and indirect human pressures. A starving forager will often take risks that a less hungry forager would not. At a high... Read More about Samango monkeys (Cercopithecus albogularis labiatus) manage risk in a highly seasonal, human-modified landscape in Amathole Mountains, South Africa.

Artefacts and personal effects from mass graves in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Symbols of persons, forensic evidence or public relics? (2016)
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Online trade of Barbary macaques Macaca sylvanus in Algeria and Morocco (2017)
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Experimental evidence for the co-evolution of hominin tool-making teaching and language (2015)
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Hominin reliance on Oldowan stone tools—which appear from 2.5 mya and are believed to have been socially transmitted—has been hypothesized to have led to the evolution of teaching and language. Here we present an experiment investigating the efficacy... Read More about Experimental evidence for the co-evolution of hominin tool-making teaching and language.

Epistemic Collaborations in Contexts of Change: On conceptual fieldwork and the timing of anthropological knowledge (2013)
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The coevolution of innovation and technical intelligence in primates (2016)
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In birds and primates, the frequency of behavioural innovation has been shown to covary with absolute and relative brain size, leading to the suggestion that large brains allow animals to innovate, and/or that selection for innovativeness, together w... Read More about The coevolution of innovation and technical intelligence in primates.

Pure Corpses, Dangerous Citizens: transgressing the boundaries between mourners and experts in the search for the disappeared in Mexico (2016)
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The Quality and Outcomes Framework: Body commodification in UK General Practice (2016)
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The UK's Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) is the largest pay-for-performance scheme in the world. This ethnographic study explored how QOF's monetary logic influences the approach to healthcare in UK general practice. From August 2013 to April 20... Read More about The Quality and Outcomes Framework: Body commodification in UK General Practice.

Babies in boxes and the missing links on safe sleep: Human evolution and cultural revolution (2017)
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Concerns about bedsharing as a risk for sudden infant death syndrome and other forms of sleep-associated infant death have gained prominence as a public health issue. Cardboard “baby boxes” are increasingly promoted to prevent infant death through se... Read More about Babies in boxes and the missing links on safe sleep: Human evolution and cultural revolution.

Negotiating Heritage and Energy Conservation: an ethnography of domestic renovation (2016)
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What is the relationship between energy efficiency and old buildings? While a large body of research exists on the buildings science and technology of retro-fit, relatively little attention has focused on the social practices and assumptions that sha... Read More about Negotiating Heritage and Energy Conservation: an ethnography of domestic renovation.

To copy or to innovate? The role of personality and social networks on children's learning strategies (2016)
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In our technologically complex world, children frequently have problems to solve and skills to learn. They can develop solutions through learning strategies involving social learning or asocial endeavors. While evidence is emerging that children may... Read More about To copy or to innovate? The role of personality and social networks on children's learning strategies.

Improving Ebola infection prevention and control in primary healthcare facilities in Sierra Leone: a single-group pretest post-test, mixed-methods study (2016)
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Background Accomplishing infection prevention and control (IPC) in health facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa is challenging. Owing to poor IPC, healthcare workers (HCWs) were frequently infected during Sierra Leone's Ebola epidemic. In late 2014, IPC w... Read More about Improving Ebola infection prevention and control in primary healthcare facilities in Sierra Leone: a single-group pretest post-test, mixed-methods study.

Looking forward through the past: identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology (2013)
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1. Priority question exercises are becoming an increasingly common tool to frame future agendas in conservation and ecological science. They are an effective way to identify research foci that advance the field and that also have high policy and cons... Read More about Looking forward through the past: identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology.

IsoGeneGUI: Multiple Approaches for Dose-Response Analysis of Microarray Data Using R (2017)
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The analysis of transcriptomic experiments with ordered covariates, such as dose-response data, has become a central topic in bioinformatics, in particular in omics studies. Consequently, multiple R packages on CRAN and Bioconductor are designed to a... Read More about IsoGeneGUI: Multiple Approaches for Dose-Response Analysis of Microarray Data Using R.

Exploring the acceptability of a ‘limited patient consent procedure’ for a proposed blood-borne virus screening programme: a Delphi consensus building technique (2017)
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Objective To identify components of a proposed blood-borne virus (BBV) population screening programme and its associated consent procedure that both the public and health practitioners (HPs) would find acceptable. The proposed BBV screening system wo... Read More about Exploring the acceptability of a ‘limited patient consent procedure’ for a proposed blood-borne virus screening programme: a Delphi consensus building technique.

Selective copying of the majority suggests children are broadly “optimal-” rather than “over-” imitators (2017)
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Human children, in contrast to other species, are frequently cast as prolific “over-imitators”. However, previous studies of “over-imitation” have overlooked many important real-world social dynamics, and may thus provide an inaccurate account of thi... Read More about Selective copying of the majority suggests children are broadly “optimal-” rather than “over-” imitators.