Academic Articles & Research Papers

Does Diabetes Influence the Microbiological Response to Non-Surgical Periodontal Therapy? A Systematic Review.

Does Wind Disrupt Overwintering Monarch Butterfly Clusters? An Observational Study of Western Monarchs.

How Does Selfing Affect the Pace and Process of Speciation?

How Does Place of Residence Influence the Experience and Management of Chronic Non-Malignant Pain? A Systematic Review.

epymorph turns spatial epidemic model comparisons into controlled forecasting experiments.

Associations between salivary HHV-6 and long COVID severity in a cross-sectional, case-control analysis.

Does integrated care reshape service utilization patterns? Evidence from China's compact county-level medical community on utilization, cost, and equity.

What Does ‘Gender’ Mean in Myanmar’s Rural Fishery Communities?

Vulnerabilidades socioespaciales de la población en ciudades amazónicas del norte de Mato Grosso

Esta pesquisa visou identificar os principais fatores condicionantes de vulnerabilidades diante dos possíveis impactos de eventos climáticos nas cidades mato-grossenses de Terra Nova do Norte, Guarantã do Norte, Peixoto de Azevedo e Matupá,...

Topical Text Network Construction Method Based on Gibbs Sampling Results

Mining the probability distribution of topic words in document collection can make a summary understanding of the document content.Further exploring the connection relationship between words in a given topic not only riches the meaning of t...

Assessment of Insert Sizes and Adapter Content in Fastq Data from NexteraXT Libraries

The Illumina NexteraXT transposon protocol is a cost effective way to generate paired end libraries. However the resulting insert size is highly sensitive to the concentration of DNA used, and the variation of insert sizes is often large. O...

Genetics and Reductionism

With the advent of the Human Genome Project there have been many claims for the genetic origins of complex human behavior including insanity, criminality, and intelligence. But what does it really mean to call something 'genetic'? This is t...

Anthropology and/as Education

There is more to education than teaching and learning, and more to anthropology than making studies of other people’s lives. Here Tim Ingold argues that both anthropology and education are ways of studying, and of leading life, with others....

Feminism and Anthropology.

Feminism and anthropology - the story of a relationship gender and status - explaining the position of women understanding women's work - kinship, labour and household I the changing nature of women's lives - kinship, labour and household I...

Anthropology and Psychiatry

To illustrate the contribution anthropology can make to cross-cultural and international research in psychiatry, four questions have been put to the cross-cultural research literature and discussed from an anthropological point of view: 'To...

Homosexuality: Research Implications for Public Policy

Introduction - John C Gonsiorek and James D Weinrich The Definition and Scope of Sexual Orientation - John C Gonsiorek and James D Weinrich Homosexuality, Nature, and Biology - John A W Kirsch and James D Weinrich Is Homosexuality Natural? ...

Behavioral Economics and Public Policy: A Pragmatic Perspective

The debate about behavioral economics–the incorporation of insights from psychology into economics–is often framed as a question about the foundational assumptions of economic models. This paper presents a more pragmatic perspective on beha...

Estimating Chinese bilateral aid for health: an analysis of AidData’s Global Chinese Official Finance Dataset Version 2.0

Background Although it is difficult to quantify, previous estimates suggested that China’s global health aid has increased sharply since the early 2000s. Unlike many donors, China has no official aid reporting obligations, nor does it volun...

Getting involved: Uganda cancer society´s efforts to build strategic partnerships for tobacco tax increments and strong tobacco industry monitoring

Background and challenges to implementation Uganda Cancer Society's (UCS) purpose is to coordinate civil society efforts for a systematic contribution towards effective cancer control in Uganda. UCS is moving towards fully integrating tobac...

Public Policy Analysis: An Introduction