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Government by WhatsApp? Transparency, Secrecy and Avoidance during Covid in the UK

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract It has been claimed repeatedly that transparency undermines decision‐making. The fear of disclosure means officials and politicians may not discuss policy fully, are inhibited from giving frank advice, and could avoid proper record keeping. The use of informal communications—particularly the use of WhatsApp—makes all these tensions more likely,
Ben Worthy, Martin Rosenbaum
wiley   +1 more source

The <i>ACTN3</i> R577X Nonsense Allele Is Underrepresented in Professional Volleyball Players and Associated with an Increased Risk of Muscle Injury in Female Players. [PDF]

Genes (Basel)
Cerit M, Tuncer SY, Piri MM, Anılır M, John G, Semenova EA, Larin AK, Generozov EV, Ahmetov II, Ulucan K, Szabo A.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The emergence and complexification of symbolic practices in the Homo lineage: an archaeological and cognitive perspective Émergence et complexification des pratiques symboliques dans la lignée Homo : une approche archéologique et cognitive

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Recent archaeological discoveries, reviewed in this essay, challenge traditional views on the emergence of human symbolic cognition. Once believed to have originated in Europe around 40,000 years ago, new evidence shows it emerged much earlier across diverse regions.
Francesco d'Errico, Ivan Colagè, Larissa M. Straffon, Andrea Bender   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diversity- and culturally sensitive approaches in nutrition and fluid management in long-term nursing. A scoping review. [PDF]

J Health Popul Nutr
Heitmann-Möller A, Hasseler M, Feldhaus M, Schlegel M, Hellmers S, Hein A, Busse S, Berndt J, Förster M, Diekmann R, Krahn T.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Torture and scepticism in Papua New Guinea witch hunts Torture et scepticisme dans les chasses aux sorcières en Papouasie‐Nouvelle‐Guinée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
wiley   +1 more source

From barriers to solutions: a qualitative study of access to HIV and TB care for forced migrants from Ukraine. [PDF]

BMC Health Serv Res
Kashnitsky D, Vyatchina M, Ariabinska A, Basquin P, Kasianczuk M, Kvinikadze G, Landeau E, Rabinciuc V, Rivera K, Shishniashvili I, Smirnova J, Tiuniahina N, Simmat-Durand L.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Of Numbers and Frogs: Wending One's Way through the Mind Fields of Symbolic Interaction Identity

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Gary T. Marx
wiley   +1 more source

Sri Lankan chronicles, Chinese pilgrims and the nineteenth‐century hierarchy of texts in the construction of early Buddhist geography

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
wiley   +1 more source

Digital linguistic sovereignty and Kazakh language policy in the digital environment. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Zharkynbekova S, Ayupova G, Galiyeva B, Shakhputova Z, Zabrodskaja A.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

US Life Expectancy and Increasing Mortality Rates: An Analysis of the Crisis

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points US life expectancy is shorter than in other high‐income countries and the gap has widened dramatically over time, driven in particular by rising mortality rates that threaten the probability that youth can survive to middle age, or even adulthood.
STEVEN H. WOOLF
wiley   +1 more source