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An Evaluation of The Dove Project [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The Dove Project is a partnership project run by Africans Unite Against Child Abuse (AFRUCA), Newham Children and Young People's Services (CYPS) and Newham Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).

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Epigenotoxicity: Decoding the epigenetic imprints of genotoxic agents and their implications for regulatory genetic toxicology

open access: yesEnvironmental and Molecular Mutagenesis, EarlyView.
Abstract Regulatory genetic toxicology focuses on DNA damage and subsequent gene mutations. However, genotoxic agents can also affect epigenetic marks, and incorporation of epigenetic data into the regulatory framework may thus enhance the accuracy of risk assessment.
Roger Godschalk   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

'Rumours' and clinical trials: a retrospective examination of a paediatric malnutrition study in Zambia, southern Africa

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2010
Background Many public health researchers conducting studies in resource-constrained settings have experienced negative 'rumours' about their work; in some cases they have been reported to create serious challenges and derail studies.
Amadi Beatrice   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Beliefs, misconceptions, and practices related to epilepsy among adults in Sudan: A large‐scale cross‐sectional study

open access: yesEpilepsia Open, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective This study explored the most prevalent misconceptions about epilepsy among Sudanese individuals, focusing on knowledge, attitude, and practices in Sudan. Methods A community‐based, cross‐sectional study was conducted in the safe areas in Sudan due to the war from October 15 to November 30, 2024.
Muhannad Bushra Masaad Ahmed   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Changing Nigerian cultures: two films against witchcraft and an impossible dialogue [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The prominent place of witchcraft in Nollywood films produced in the 1990s is widely acknowledged, and has prompted a number of comments from critics.
Ugochukwu, Françoise
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‘Viral’ hunts? A cultural Darwinian analysis of witch persecutions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The theory of Darwinian cultural evolution is gaining currency in many parts of the socio-cultural sciences, but it remains contentious. Critics claim that the theory is either fundamentally mistaken or boils down to a fancy re-description of things we ...
Boudry, Maarten, Hofhuis, Steije
core   +1 more source

Urban wild meat and pangolin consumption across southern forested Cameroon: The limited influence of COVID‐19

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Overexploitation of wildlife is pervasive in many tropical regions, and in addition to being a significant conservation and sustainability concern, it has received global attention given discussions over the origins of zoonotic disease outbreaks.
Franklin T. Simo   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Additional file 3 of Child witchcraft confessions as an idiom of distress in Sierra Leone; results of a rapid qualitative inquiry and recommendations for mental health interventions

open access: yes, 2021
Additional file 3 ...
Yoder, Hélène N. C.   +5 more
openaire   +1 more source

What do other men think? Understanding (mis)perceptions of peer gender role ideology among young Tanzanian men

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Abstract Peer influence in adolescence and early adulthood is critical to the formation of beliefs about appropriate behaviour for each gender. Complicating matters, recent studies suggest that men overestimate peer support for inequitable gender norms. Combined with social conformity, this susceptibility to ‘norm misperception’ may represent a barrier
Alexander M. Ishungisa   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Faithful men and false women: Love‐suicide in early modern English popular print

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the representation of suicide committed for love in English popular print in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It shows how, within ballads and pamphlets, suicide resulting from failed courtship was often portrayed as romantic and an expression of devotion.
Imogen Knox
wiley   +1 more source

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