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Alinane Linda Nyondo-Mipando, Mai-Lei Woo Kinshella, Sangwani Salimu, Brandina Chiwaya et al. • International Breastfeeding Journal
(2021)
Abstract Background Exclusive breastfeeding is widely accepted as a key intervention with proven efficacy for improving newborn survival. Despite international commitments and targets to support and promote breastfeeding, there are still ga...
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DOI: 10.1186/s13006-021-00418-9
Laila Khawaja, Sarah Muir, Sarah Jenner, Sarah Shaw et al. • BMC Research Notes
(2026)
Abstract Objective Conducting health research with adolescents involves navigating complex challenges at both organisational and individual levels. As part of evaluating the EACH-B (Engaging Adolescents with Changing Behaviour) intervention...
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DOI: 10.1186/s13104-026-07642-8
Fiona Preston-Whyte, Toshka Barnardo, Danica Marlin, Tanna Hewett et al. • Southern African Journal of Environmental Education
(2025)
Data gaps limit solutions and policy development for environmental issues. Citizen science offers a possible solution to reduce data gaps at a limited cost while enhancing environmental education (EE). While highly effective in the latter, ...
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DOI: 10.4314/sajee.v41SI1.04
Darshen Naidoo, Nosiphiwo Nzimande, Susan Goldstein, Sameera Mahomedy • Globalization and Health
(2026)
Abstract Background Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are rising rapidly in South Africa, prompting the introduction of the Health Promotion Levy (HPL) in 2018 to reduce the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages. However, the levy remains...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12992-026-01234-8
Margaret McConnell, Alya Alsager, Plyce Fuchu, Shrivaths Sriprasad et al. • BMC Pediatrics
(2025)
Abstract Background Preterm birth is a leading cause of childhood mortality and developmental disabilities, with persistent socioeconomic disparities in incidence and outcomes. Maternal presence during prolonged neonatal intensive care unit...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12887-025-05621-9
Bulent Cavas • Science Education International
(2026)
Dear Readers, The September 2026 issue of Science Education International presents 11 original research articles authored by scholars from 11 countries, including Germany, Slovenia and Italy, Finland and South Africa, Brazil, Chile and Arge...
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DOI: 10.33828/sei.v37.i4.e
Heather O’Mahen, Louise Howard, Helen Sharp, Antoinette Davey et al. • Health and Social Care Delivery Research
(2025)
Background Perinatal mental health disorders affect one in five mothers during pregnancy or within 2 years post childbirth. These disorders can lead to poor pregnancy and childbirth outcomes and maternal deaths. Additionally, they negativel...
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DOI: 10.3310/RRAP0011
Fithriyyah Shalihati, Ujang Sumarwan, Hartoyo Hartoyo, Lilik Noor Yuliati • Administrative Sciences
(2025)
Customer relationship management (CRM) has become a critical strategy for higher education institutions (HEIs) to enhance student engagement, institutional efficiency, and digital transformation. Despite its growing adoption, the evolution ...
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DOI: 10.3390/admsci15020068
Chamberlain, Liam R, Hall, Charlotte L, Andrén, Per, Davies, E Bethan et al. • JMIR Mental Health
(2020)
In recent years, research into internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) has suggested that therapist-guided digital interventions have greater engagement, adherence, and effectiveness than self-directed digital therapies. While re...
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DOI: 10.2196/19600
Danilo Petrassi • Kaiak
(2025)
The rapid evolution of conversational artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked an ongoing debate regarding its ability to replicate, or even experience, human emotions. While early conversational chatbots such as Joseph Weizenbaum’s ELIZA (...
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Intan Putri Cahyani, Widianingsih Yuliani • Ekspresi dan Persepsi: Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi
(2026)
The rise of digital platforms has transformed altruistic action into measurable, scalable online participation, yet studies of how digital altruism is structurally formed within environmental sociopreneurship remain limited, particularly fr...
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DOI: 10.33822/jep.v9i2.13030
Roei Lev-Ari, Meir Lotan, Liat Korn • Children
(2025)
Background: Children with Autism often face motor, sensory and communicational challenges that can hinder their participation in meaningful physical and social activities. This study explores the potential of Capoeira to support their devel...
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DOI: 10.3390/children12101305
• University of Illinois Press eBooks
(2024)
Defined broadly as the engagement of scholars with nonacademic publics, public scholarship encompasses a variety of approaches to academic work. Each approach pushes academic work beyond the confines of the ivory tower and takes it into the...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252045691.001.0001
Paschal Preston • Javnost - The Public
(2005)
This article is orientated towards a contextual reading of the MacBride Report. This suggests that the Report can be fruitfully read as “socially situated” (shaped by its essentially political rather than scholarly role) and it also implies...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13183222.2005.11008893
Carsten Ochs, Petra Ilyes • Tecnoscienza
(2014)
While it is extraordinarily difficult to theoretically specify privacy, in the last 100 years or so (social) psychology, philosophy, communication studies, economics, and, to a lesser degree, also sociology and anthropology, provided attemp...
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DOI: 10.6092/issn.2038-3460/17150
Sinfree Bullock Makoni, Katherine A. Masters • Oxford University Press eBooks
(2021)
Abstract Decolonial scholars are guided by alternative ways of thinking about language and communication that have existed for millennia but have gone unnoticed in scholarship. An approach to communication underwritten by the decolonial app...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.1152
Enkelejda Velo, Fabrizio Balestrino, Fabrizio Balestrino, Përparim Kadriaj et al. • Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
(2022)
The pathogen transmitting Aedes albopictus mosquito is spreading rapidly in Europe, putting millions of humans and animals at risk. This species is well-established in Albania since its first detection in 1979. The sterile insect technique ...
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DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2022.833698
Rachel Woodward • Progress in Human Geography
(2005)
This paper reviews contemporary approaches in Anglophone human geography to the geographical constitution and expression of militarism and military activities. Three main approaches are identified, and the merits, limitations and insights o...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1191/0309132505ph579oa
Juanita Sundberg • Cultural Geographies
(2013)
This paper engages my struggles to craft geo-graphs or earth writings that also further broaden political goals of decolonizing the discipline of geography. To this end, I address a body of literature roughly termed ‘posthumanism’ because i...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474013486067
Dominique Moran • Routledge eBooks
(2016)
The ’punitive turn’ has brought about new ways of thinking about geography and the state, and has highlighted spaces of incarceration as a new terrain for exploration by geographers. Carceral geography offers a geographical perspective on i...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315570853