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Impact of a social prescribing intervention in North East England on adults with type 2 diabetes: the SPRING_NE multimethod study (2023)
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Moffatt, S., Wildman, J., Pollard, T. M., Gibson, K., Wildman, J. M., O’Brien, N., …Mohammed, W. (2023). Impact of a social prescribing intervention in North East England on adults with type 2 diabetes: the SPRING_NE multimethod study. Public Health Research, 11(2), https://doi.org/10.3310/aqxc8219

Background: Link worker social prescribing enables health-care professionals to address patients’ nonmedical needs by linking patients into various services. Evidence for its effectiveness and how it is experienced by link workers and clients is lack... Read More about Impact of a social prescribing intervention in North East England on adults with type 2 diabetes: the SPRING_NE multimethod study.

Adapted suicide safety plans to address self-harm, suicidal ideation, and suicide behaviours in autistic adults: protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial (2023)
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Rodgers, J., Goodwin, J., Nielsen, E., Bhattarai, N., Heslop, P., Kharatikoopaei, E., …Cassidy, S. (2023). Adapted suicide safety plans to address self-harm, suicidal ideation, and suicide behaviours in autistic adults: protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 9(1), Article 31. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-023-01264-8

Background: Suicide prevention is a national priority for the UK government. Autistic people are at greater risk of experiencing self-harm and suicidal thoughts and behaviours than the general population. Safety plans are widely used in suicide preve... Read More about Adapted suicide safety plans to address self-harm, suicidal ideation, and suicide behaviours in autistic adults: protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial.

Climbing the Trail to Heaven: traditional funerals and burial practices in Dane-zaa territory - an ethnographic account from North-eastern British Columbia (2023)
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Amatulli, G. (2023). Climbing the Trail to Heaven: traditional funerals and burial practices in Dane-zaa territory - an ethnographic account from North-eastern British Columbia. Mortality, https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2023.2179392

While performing fieldwork in Fort St. John (July 2019-August 2020), I attended two traditional funerals organised by Doig River First Nation, a Dane-zaa First Nation of North-eastern British Columbia. As per the Dane-zaa tradition, drumming, singing... Read More about Climbing the Trail to Heaven: traditional funerals and burial practices in Dane-zaa territory - an ethnographic account from North-eastern British Columbia.

Introduction: Writing failure: knowledge production, temporalities, ethics and traces (2023)
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Alexander, C. (2023). Introduction: Writing failure: knowledge production, temporalities, ethics and traces. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 29, 8-30. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13899

This volume follows failures out into the world exploring how they unfold ethnographically. Taking a longer view shows how objects, narratives and diagnoses of failures may be crafted, acted on, suffered, resisted—unmade or recomposed. Thus while tro... Read More about Introduction: Writing failure: knowledge production, temporalities, ethics and traces.

‘We work for the Devil’: oil extraction, kinship and the fantasy of time on the offshore frontier (2023)
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Destrée, P. (2023). ‘We work for the Devil’: oil extraction, kinship and the fantasy of time on the offshore frontier. Critique of Anthropology, 43(1), 24-43. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275x231156713

In the offshore oil industry of Takoradi, Ghana, white expatriate workers describe oil extraction as both ‘the work of the Devil’ and a ‘labour of love’. While companies strive to produce the offshore as a timeless and spaceless fantasy of ‘frictionl... Read More about ‘We work for the Devil’: oil extraction, kinship and the fantasy of time on the offshore frontier.

Modeling the positive testing rate of COVID-19 in South Africa using a semi-parametric smoother for binomial data (2023)
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Owokotomo, O. E., Manda, S., Cleasen, J., Kasim, A., Sengupta, R., Shome, R., …Shkedy, Z. (2023). Modeling the positive testing rate of COVID-19 in South Africa using a semi-parametric smoother for binomial data. Frontiers in Public Health, 11(2023), https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.979230

Identification and isolation of COVID-19 infected persons plays a significant role in the control of COVID-19 pandemic. A country's COVID-19 positive testing rate is useful in understanding and monitoring the disease transmission and spread for the p... Read More about Modeling the positive testing rate of COVID-19 in South Africa using a semi-parametric smoother for binomial data.

Informal sector employment and the health outcomes of older workers in India (2023)
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Chowdhury, P., Mohanty, I., Singh, A., & Niyonsenga, T. (2023). Informal sector employment and the health outcomes of older workers in India. PLoS ONE, 18(2), Article e0266576. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266576

A large proportion of the older population in India constitutes an undeniable share of workforce after the retirement age. This stresses the need to understand the implications of working at older ages on health outcomes. The main objective of this s... Read More about Informal sector employment and the health outcomes of older workers in India.

The impact of swaddling upon breastfeeding: A critical review (2023)
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Dixley, A., & Ball, H. L. (2023). The impact of swaddling upon breastfeeding: A critical review. American Journal of Human Biology, 35(6), Article e23878. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23878

Introduction Many parents swaddle their infants to promote sleep and reduce night-waking, however lack of definitive evidence about the pros and cons of swaddling when breastfeeding hinders postnatal recommendations regarding this infant care practic... Read More about The impact of swaddling upon breastfeeding: A critical review.

Identification of potentially zoonotic parasites in captive orangutans and semi-captive mandrills: phylogeny and morphological comparison (2023)
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Nosková, E., Modrý, D., Baláž, V., Červená, B., Jirků-Pomajbíková, K., Zechmeisterová, K., …Pafčo, B. (2023). Identification of potentially zoonotic parasites in captive orangutans and semi-captive mandrills: phylogeny and morphological comparison. American Journal of Primatology, 85(4), Article e23475. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23475

Cysts and trophozoites of vestibuliferid ciliates and larvae of Strongyloides were found in fecal samples from captive orangutans Pongo pygmaeus and P. abelii from Czech and Slovak zoological gardens. As comparative material, ciliates from semi-capti... Read More about Identification of potentially zoonotic parasites in captive orangutans and semi-captive mandrills: phylogeny and morphological comparison.

Suspending failure: temporalities, ontologies and gigantism in fusion energy development (2023)
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Alexander, C. (2023). Suspending failure: temporalities, ontologies and gigantism in fusion energy development. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 29(S1), 114-132. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13905

Tracing the history of terrestrial fusion energy to a giant multinational experimental fusion facility under construction reveals a series of consequential failures, re-evaluations of once defunct designs, but also persistence. To account for how thi... Read More about Suspending failure: temporalities, ontologies and gigantism in fusion energy development.

Fractals for an ethnography of time and addiction: Recursive and self-similar temporalities in heroin and poly-substance use (2023)
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Roe, L., Dobroski, S., Manley, G., Warner, H., Dritschel, H., & Baldacchino, A. M. (2023). Fractals for an ethnography of time and addiction: Recursive and self-similar temporalities in heroin and poly-substance use. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, Article 1116142. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1116142

Drawing on both mathematical and anthropological understandings of fractality, this paper explores alternative perspectives of time as it relates to heroin addiction and poly-substance use in Scotland. The paper ethnographically illustrates temporali... Read More about Fractals for an ethnography of time and addiction: Recursive and self-similar temporalities in heroin and poly-substance use.

The double-edged sword of ‘community’ in community-based psychosocial care: Reflections on task-shifting in rural Nepal (2023)
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Chase, L. (2023). The double-edged sword of ‘community’ in community-based psychosocial care: Reflections on task-shifting in rural Nepal. Anthropology and Medicine, 30(3), 294-309. https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2022.2161765

Research in the field of Global Mental Health has stoked hopes that ‘task-shifting’ to community workers can help fill treatment gaps in low-resource settings. The fact that community workers inhabit the same local moral worlds as their clients is wi... Read More about The double-edged sword of ‘community’ in community-based psychosocial care: Reflections on task-shifting in rural Nepal.

Can uptake of childhood influenza immunisation through schools and GP practices be increased through behaviourally-informed invitation letters and reminders: two pragmatic randomized controlled trials (2023)
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Howell-Jones, R., Gold, N., Bowen, S., Bunten, A., Tan, K., Saei, A., …Chadborn, T. (2023). Can uptake of childhood influenza immunisation through schools and GP practices be increased through behaviourally-informed invitation letters and reminders: two pragmatic randomized controlled trials. BMC Public Health, 23(1), Article 143. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-14439-4

The UK is rolling out a national childhood influenza immunisation programme for children, delivered through primary care and schools. Behaviourally-informed letters and reminders have been successful at increasing uptake of other public health interv... Read More about Can uptake of childhood influenza immunisation through schools and GP practices be increased through behaviourally-informed invitation letters and reminders: two pragmatic randomized controlled trials.

The influence of task difficulty, social tolerance and model success on social learning in Barbary macaques (2023)
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Garcia-Nisa, I., Evans, C., & Kendal, R. L. (2023). The influence of task difficulty, social tolerance and model success on social learning in Barbary macaques. Scientific Reports, 13, Article 1176. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-26699-6

Despite playing a pivotal role in the inception of animal culture studies, macaque social learning is surprisingly understudied. Social learning is important to survival and influenced by dominance and affiliation in social animals. Individuals gener... Read More about The influence of task difficulty, social tolerance and model success on social learning in Barbary macaques.

Sleep deprivation among adolescents in urban and indigenous-rural Mexican communities (2023)
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Silva-Caballero, A., Ball, H. L., Kramer, K. L., & Bentley, G. R. (2023). Sleep deprivation among adolescents in urban and indigenous-rural Mexican communities. Scientific Reports, 13(1), Article 1058. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-28330-8

Comparing the nature of adolescent sleep across urban and more isolated, rural settings through an ecological, cross-cultural perspective represents one way to inform sleep nuances and broaden our understanding of human development, wellbeing and evo... Read More about Sleep deprivation among adolescents in urban and indigenous-rural Mexican communities.

Advancing One Human-Environmental-Animal Health for Global Health Security: What does the evidence say? (2023)
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Zinsstag, J., Kaiser-Grolimund, A., Heitz-Tokpa, K., Sreedharan, R., Lubroth, J., Caya, F., …de la Rocque, S. (2023). Advancing One Human-Environmental-Animal Health for Global Health Security: What does the evidence say?. The Lancet, 401(10376), 591-604. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736%2822%2901595-1

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic vividly illustrates that the emergence of a new lethal pathogen of probable animal origin in one part of the world affects public health everywhere. In this article, we review the contributions of human-animal-environmen... Read More about Advancing One Human-Environmental-Animal Health for Global Health Security: What does the evidence say?.

Model Selection in Occupancy Models: Inference versus Prediction (2023)
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Stewart, P. S., Stephens, P. A., Hill, R. A., Whittingham, M. J., & Dawson, W. (2023). Model Selection in Occupancy Models: Inference versus Prediction. Ecology, 104(3), Article e3942. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3942

Occupancy models are a vital tool for ecologists studying the patterns and drivers of species occurrence, but their use often involves selecting among models with different sets of occupancy and detection covariates. The information-theoretic approac... Read More about Model Selection in Occupancy Models: Inference versus Prediction.