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Pathways to mental health improvement in a community-led area-based empowerment initiative: Evidence from the Big Local ‘Communities in Control’ study, England. (2019)
Journal Article

Background: Area-based initiatives that include a focus on community empowerment are increasingly being seen as potentially an important way of improving health and reducing inequalities. However, there is little empirical evidence on the pathways be... Read More about Pathways to mental health improvement in a community-led area-based empowerment initiative: Evidence from the Big Local ‘Communities in Control’ study, England..

Breastfeeding with HIV: An Evidence-based Case for New Policy (2019)
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To help eliminate perinatal HIV transmission, the US Department of Health and Human Services recommends against breastfeeding for women living with HIV, regardless of viral load or combined antiretroviral therapy (cART) status. However, cART radicall... Read More about Breastfeeding with HIV: An Evidence-based Case for New Policy.

Sniff and tell: the feasibility of using bio-detection dogs as a mobile diagnostic intervention for asymptomatic malaria in sub-Saharan Africa (2019)
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Bio-Detection Dogs (BDDs) are used in some high-income countries as a diagnostic intervention, yet little is known about their potential in low/middle-income countries with limited diagnostic resources. This exploratory study investigated the opportu... Read More about Sniff and tell: the feasibility of using bio-detection dogs as a mobile diagnostic intervention for asymptomatic malaria in sub-Saharan Africa.

Some Challenges of collaborative research with local knowledge (2018)
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Collaboration is an increasingly significant issue in anthropology. This paper outlines what it involves and the possible implications.

Communicative Orders in Collision and Collusion with Natural Resource Management Regimes in Nepal (2019)
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Successive policy agendas in Nepal have mobilised the notion of the natural environment through crisis scenarios of deforestation and soil erosion, biodiversity loss, and latterly climate change. This article discusses ethnographic work on struggles... Read More about Communicative Orders in Collision and Collusion with Natural Resource Management Regimes in Nepal.

Moral Ecologies of Subsistence and Labour in a Migration-affected Community of Nepal (2018)
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Labour migration from subsistence households in Tamang‐speaking communities of Northern Nepal heralds their transition from an agrarian to a remittance economy. This migration entails the abandonment of subsistence labour processes that once wove hou... Read More about Moral Ecologies of Subsistence and Labour in a Migration-affected Community of Nepal.

HIV risks among women who are married to men who have sex with men in India: a qualitative investigation (2017)
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In countries such as India, men who have same-sex partnerships may marry women due to cultural pressures regardless of their sexual desires and preferences. The wives of such men may be at risk for HIV but limited existing research addresses this iss... Read More about HIV risks among women who are married to men who have sex with men in India: a qualitative investigation.

How to get all your eggs in one basket? (2017)
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Categories and Cultural Models of Nature in Northern Punjab, Pakistan (2017)
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The most widespread model of the natural world by Northern Punjabi farmers appears to leverage a powerful supernatural domain, which includes Allah, as a sole God, plus, various non-human spirits or jinn, who can be both benign and malicious, and a b... Read More about Categories and Cultural Models of Nature in Northern Punjab, Pakistan.

Save Iran’s cheetah from extinction (2017)
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Diffusion on the ground: Rethinking the logic of scale and access in off-grid solar in Sri Lanka (2018)
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Off-grid solar photovoltaics have come to play a leading role in the current challenge of achieving the 7th Sustainable Development Goal of access to modern energy for all by 2030. In this context, the goal of achieving scale and accelerating growth... Read More about Diffusion on the ground: Rethinking the logic of scale and access in off-grid solar in Sri Lanka.

Actors, networks, and translation hubs: Gas central heating as a rapid socio-technical transition in the United Kingdom (2017)
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To achieve UK government targets to reduce carbon emissions by 80% on 1990 levels by 2050 will require a radical shift in domestic heating practices, which are currently dominated by gas central heating,1 installed in 82% of UK homes (Palmer and Coop... Read More about Actors, networks, and translation hubs: Gas central heating as a rapid socio-technical transition in the United Kingdom.

Exploring community residents’ motivations for interacting with American field school students in South Africa (2019)
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Background: Learning by experience in field schools (FSs) depends implicitly on the willingness of local residents to engage with students. Although critical perspectives have highlighted the potential harms of study abroad on local people, their vie... Read More about Exploring community residents’ motivations for interacting with American field school students in South Africa.

Can testing clinical significance reduce false positive rates in randomized controlled trials? A snap review (2017)
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Objective: The use of minimum clinically important difference in the hypothesis formulation for superiority trials is similar in principle to the concept of non-inferiority or equivalence trial. However, most clinical trials are analysed testing zero... Read More about Can testing clinical significance reduce false positive rates in randomized controlled trials? A snap review.

Sleep and cognitive function in young children (2017)
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The emerging picture from research studies that have attempted to define what ‘normal’ sleep duration might be for young children is that sleep duration is subject to great variability resulting from biological, environmental and social factors. Pare... Read More about Sleep and cognitive function in young children.

The Possums Infant Sleep Program: parents' perspectives on a novel parent-infant sleep intervention in Australia (2018)
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Aim: To evaluate parental perspectives on the acceptability and usefulness of a ‘cued-care’ approach to infant sleep implemented in an Australian primary care setting. The Possums Infant Sleep Program aims to empower parents to better understand thei... Read More about The Possums Infant Sleep Program: parents' perspectives on a novel parent-infant sleep intervention in Australia.

The past, present, and future of medical humanities (2017)
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“Do Our Bodies Know Their Ways?” Villagization, Food Insecurity, and Ill-Being in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley (2018)
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This article investigates food security and well-being in the context of “development-forced displacement” in Ethiopia. In the lower Omo, a large hydroelectric dam and plantation schemes have forced people to cede communal lands to the state and busi... Read More about “Do Our Bodies Know Their Ways?” Villagization, Food Insecurity, and Ill-Being in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley.

Why was Muammar Qadhafi really removed? (2017)
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After situating the post-2011 Libyan conflict in its proper historical context and identifying the patterns behind the numerous earlier attempts to remove Qadhafi from power, this article then draws heavily on extensive, accessible new evidence to de... Read More about Why was Muammar Qadhafi really removed?.

Faking the News: Intentional Guided Variation Reflects Cognitive Biases in Transmission Chains Without Recall (2018)
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Two potential forms of mutation in cultural evolution have been identified: ‘copying error’, where learners make random modifications to a behaviour and ‘guided variation’ where learners makes non-random modifications. While copying error is directly... Read More about Faking the News: Intentional Guided Variation Reflects Cognitive Biases in Transmission Chains Without Recall.