Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak — Democratic Republic of the Congo, August 2018–November 2019
(2019)
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Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2019 (2021)
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‘He called me out of the blue’: An ethnographic exploration of contrasting temporalities in a social prescribing intervention (2022)
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Social prescribing, a way of connecting patients to local services, is central to the NHS Personalised Care agenda. This paper employs ethnographic data, generated with 19 participants between November 2018 and July 2020, to explore the socio-tempora... Read More about ‘He called me out of the blue’: An ethnographic exploration of contrasting temporalities in a social prescribing intervention.
Escaping to Facebook : Youth's Engagement with Web-Based Social Networks in Sri Lanka (2014)
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Zootherapy as a potential pathway for zoonotic spillover: a mixed-methods study of the use of animal products in medicinal and cultural practices in Nigeria (2022)
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Background Understanding how and why people interact with animals is important for the prevention and control of zoonoses. To date, studies have primarily focused on the most visible forms of human-animal contact (e.g., hunting and consumption), ther... Read More about Zootherapy as a potential pathway for zoonotic spillover: a mixed-methods study of the use of animal products in medicinal and cultural practices in Nigeria.
Why hunt? Why gather? Why share? Hadza assessments of foraging and food-sharing motive (2022)
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Over the last half century, anthropologists have vigorously debated the adaptive motivations underlying food acquisition choices and food-sharing among hunter-gatherer groups. Numerous explanations have been proposed to account for high-levels of gen... Read More about Why hunt? Why gather? Why share? Hadza assessments of foraging and food-sharing motive.
Behavioral responses to spatial variation in perceived predation risk and resource availability in an arboreal primate (2022)
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Prey species must often face a trade-off between acquiring resources and minimizing predation risk. The spatial variation in predation risk across a landscape, as perceived by prey across their foraging or home range, creates a “landscape of fear” by... Read More about Behavioral responses to spatial variation in perceived predation risk and resource availability in an arboreal primate.
The role of population size in folk tune complexity (2022)
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Demography, particularly population size, plays a key role in cultural complexity. However, the relationship between population size and complexity appears to vary across domains: while studies of technology typically find a positive correlation, the... Read More about The role of population size in folk tune complexity.
The Teaching and Learning Toolkit: Communicating research evidence to inform decision‐making for policy and practice in education (2022)
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This article compares and contrasts two versions of the Education Endowment Foundation's (EEF) Teaching and Learning Toolkit (‘Toolkit’), a web-based summary of international evidence on teaching 3–18 year-olds. The Toolkit has localised versions in... Read More about The Teaching and Learning Toolkit: Communicating research evidence to inform decision‐making for policy and practice in education.
Controversy Over Tongue-Tie: Divisions in the Community of Healthcare Professionals (2022)
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While recent decades have seen a rapid rise in cases of infant tongue-tie and in surgery to correct it, a controversy is now raging over the condition. Opinion is especially divided over so-called posterior tongue-tie, a variant which is detected bas... Read More about Controversy Over Tongue-Tie: Divisions in the Community of Healthcare Professionals.
Young children spontaneously invent three different types of associative tool use behaviour (2022)
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Associative Tool Use (ATU) describes the use of two or more tools in combination, with the literature further differentiating between Tool set use, Tool composite use, Sequential tool use and Secondary tool use. Research investigating the cognitive p... Read More about Young children spontaneously invent three different types of associative tool use behaviour.
Managing Unusual Sensory Experiences in People with First-Episode Psychosis (MUSE FEP): a study protocol for a single-blind parallel-group randomised controlled feasibility trial (2022)
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Introduction Hallucinations (hearing or seeing things that others do not) are a common feature of psychosis, causing significant distress and disability. Existing treatments such as cognitive–behavioural therapy for psychosis (CBTp) have modest benef... Read More about Managing Unusual Sensory Experiences in People with First-Episode Psychosis (MUSE FEP): a study protocol for a single-blind parallel-group randomised controlled feasibility trial.
The structure of executive functions in preschool children and chimpanzees (2022)
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Executive functions (EF) are a core aspect of cognition. Research with adult humans has produced evidence for unity and diversity in the structure of EF. Studies with preschoolers favour a 1-factor model, in which variation in EF tasks is best explai... Read More about The structure of executive functions in preschool children and chimpanzees.
Community gardening and wellbeing: The understandings of organisers and their implications for gardening for health (2022)
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Community gardening is increasingly framed and promoted as a way to foster healthful behaviours, as a wellbeing practice, and as a public health tool. This paper draws on semi-structured interviews with community gardening organisers (n = 9) in the N... Read More about Community gardening and wellbeing: The understandings of organisers and their implications for gardening for health.
The time of post-socialism: On the future of an anthropological concept (2022)
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When accounting for changes in the post-socialist era, anthropologists were forced to carefully distinguish between what had remained the same, what had actually changed and what was emerging anew and on its own terms. As a sub-discipline, the anthro... Read More about The time of post-socialism: On the future of an anthropological concept.