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Valuing Community Workers in Global Mental Health: Critical Ethnography of a Psychosocial Intervention in Post-Earthquake Nepal (2022)
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Chase, L., Shrestha, S., Sidgel, K., Rumba, S., Shrestha, P., & Gurung, D. (2022). Valuing Community Workers in Global Mental Health: Critical Ethnography of a Psychosocial Intervention in Post-Earthquake Nepal. Studies in Nepali history and society, 27(2), 317-352

There is growing consensus that aspects of mental healthcare can be effectively delivered by lay community members with as little as a few days to a few months of training. In the field of Global Mental Health, the deployment of such “community worke... Read More about Valuing Community Workers in Global Mental Health: Critical Ethnography of a Psychosocial Intervention in Post-Earthquake Nepal.

'Too many meanings': Reading Piro Designs (2022)
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Fortis, P., & Margiotti, M. (2022). 'Too many meanings': Reading Piro Designs. Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America, 19(1), 31-38

Loloum, Tristan, Simone Abram, and Nathalie Ortar (eds.): Ethnographies of Power. A Political Anthropology of Energy. New York: Berghahn Books, 2021. 202 pp. ISBN 978-1-78920-979-2. (EASA, 42) Price: $ 120.00 (2022)
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Destrée, P. (2022). Loloum, Tristan, Simone Abram, and Nathalie Ortar (eds.): Ethnographies of Power. A Political Anthropology of Energy. New York: Berghahn Books, 2021. 202 pp. ISBN 978-1-78920-979-2. (EASA, 42) Price: $ 120.00. Anthropos, 117(2), 563-565. https://doi.org/10.5771/0257-9774-2022-2-563

Preventing cardiotoxicity in patients with breast cancer and lymphoma: protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial (PROACT) (2022)
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Maier, R. H., Plummer, C., Kasim, A. S., Akhter, N., Ogundimu, E., Maddox, J., …Austin, D. (2022). Preventing cardiotoxicity in patients with breast cancer and lymphoma: protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial (PROACT). BMJ Open, 12(12), Article e066252. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-066252

Introduction: Anthracyclines are included in chemotherapy regimens to treat several different types of cancer and are extremely effective. However, it is recognised that a significant side effect is cardiotoxicity; anthracyclines can cause irreversib... Read More about Preventing cardiotoxicity in patients with breast cancer and lymphoma: protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial (PROACT).

Convergent evolution of elaborate nests as structural defences in birds (2022)
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Street, S. E., Jaques, R., & De Silva, T. N. (2022). Convergent evolution of elaborate nests as structural defences in birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289(1989), Article 20221734. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.1734

The pendent nests of some weaverbird and icterid species are among the most complex structures built by any animal, but why they have evolved remains to be explained. The precarious attachments and extended entrance tunnels characteristic of these ne... Read More about Convergent evolution of elaborate nests as structural defences in birds.

Digital health tools to support parents with parent-infant sleep and mental well-being (2022)
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Ball, H. L., & Keegan, A. (2022). Digital health tools to support parents with parent-infant sleep and mental well-being. npj Digital Medicine, 5(1), Article 185. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-022-00732-4

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.

Displacing displacement: narratives for a haunting history (2022)
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Miltiadis, E. (2023). Displacing displacement: narratives for a haunting history. Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 28(4), 451–465. https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571x.2022.2143635

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.

Habits Over Routines: Remarks on Control Room Practices and Control Room Studies (2022)
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Silvast, A., Virtanen, M., & Abram, S. (2022). Habits Over Routines: Remarks on Control Room Practices and Control Room Studies. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-022-09460-5

The evolution of computer tools has had profound impacts on many aspects of control rooms and control room studies. In this paper, we discuss some key assumptions underpinning these studies based on a new case of the electricity distribution control... Read More about Habits Over Routines: Remarks on Control Room Practices and Control Room Studies.

Childhood environment influences epigenetic age and methylation concordance of a CpG clock locus in British-Bangladeshi migrants (2022)
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Stöger, R., Choi, M., Begum, K., Leeman, G., Emes, R. D., Melamed, P., & Bentley, G. R. (2023). Childhood environment influences epigenetic age and methylation concordance of a CpG clock locus in British-Bangladeshi migrants. Epigenetics, 18(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/15592294.2022.2153511

Migration from one location to another often comes with a change in environmental conditions. Here, we analysed features of DNA methylation in young, adult British-Bangladeshi women who experienced different environments during their childhoods: a) m... Read More about Childhood environment influences epigenetic age and methylation concordance of a CpG clock locus in British-Bangladeshi migrants.

Introduction: What Competition Does (2022)
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Hopkinson, L., & Zidaru, T. (2022). Introduction: What Competition Does. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice, 66(4), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2022.660401

Anthropologists, like neoliberal economists, have often assumed that competition (re)orders society in broadly predictable ways. By contrast, we contend that competition always facilitates changes beyond its anticipated outcomes and disciplinary effe... Read More about Introduction: What Competition Does.

The effect of swaddling on infant sleep and arousal: A systematic review and narrative synthesis (2022)
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Dixley, A., & Ball, H. L. (2022). The effect of swaddling on infant sleep and arousal: A systematic review and narrative synthesis. Frontiers in Pediatrics, 10, Article 1000180. https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2022.1000180

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.

A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals (2022)
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Marley, C. L., Pollard, T. M., Barton, R. A., & Street, S. E. (2022). A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 76(12), Article 158. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-022-03260-z

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.

Ecomorphology of the cervid intermediate phalanx and its implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction (2022)
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Gruwier, B. J., & Kovarovic, K. (2023). Ecomorphology of the cervid intermediate phalanx and its implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Journal of Morphology, 284(1), Article e21528. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.21528

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.

Kin, friends, philanthronationalists: “Relations” as a modality of colonial and post-colonial charity in Sri Lanka (2022)
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Widger, T. (online). Kin, friends, philanthronationalists: “Relations” as a modality of colonial and post-colonial charity in Sri Lanka. Ethnography, https://doi.org/10.1177/14661381221134402

Through an historical ethnographic analysis of Sri Lanka’s oldest charity, the Colombo Friend-in-Need Society, this article explores changing modalities of humanitarian “relations” in colonial and post-colonial contexts. For two hundred years, “the S... Read More about Kin, friends, philanthronationalists: “Relations” as a modality of colonial and post-colonial charity in Sri Lanka.

Constituting link working through choice and care: an ethnographic account of front-line social prescribing (2022)
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Griffith, B., Pollard, T., Gibson, K., Jeffries, J., & Moffatt, S. (2023). Constituting link working through choice and care: an ethnographic account of front-line social prescribing. Sociology of Health & Illness, 45(2), 279-297. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13569

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.

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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Elton, S., Adams, J. W., Arenson, J. L., Beaudet, A., Belmaker, M., Harrison, T., …Hlusko, L. (2022). 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]). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 79(1), 58-60. https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v79.a012

Large-scale mammal monitoring: the potential of a citizen science camera-trapping project in the United Kingdom (2022)
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Hsing, P., Hill, R., Smith, G., Bradley, S., Green, S., Kent, V., …Stephens, P. (2022). Large-scale mammal monitoring: the potential of a citizen science camera-trapping project in the United Kingdom. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 3(4), Article e12180. https://doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.12180

1. In light of global biodiversity loss, there is an increasing need for large-scale wildlife monitoring. This is difficult for mammals, since they can be elusive and nocturnal. In the United Kingdom (UK), there is a lack of systematic, widespread ma... Read More about Large-scale mammal monitoring: the potential of a citizen science camera-trapping project in the United Kingdom.