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Becoming Part of an Eco-Community: Social and Environmental Activism or Livelihood Strategy?
Social Sciences, 2017 Studying grassroots initiatives which aim to respond to environmental and social crisis is of renewed importance nowadays, in the aftermath of the 2008-9 financial crisis in southern Europe. This paper studies people’s motivations for becoming part of an
Paula Escribano +2 more
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Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in South Asians: An Epidemiological and Anthropological Study in an Urban Populace of Eastern India [PDF]
arXivBackground: This study examines cardiometabolic (CM) risk factors in an urban South Asian population, integrating medical and Anthropological perspectives to explore the effects of socio-economic, lifestyle, gender-specific factors, and cultural norms on health outcomes.
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Unbiased Cultural Transmission in Time-Averaged Archaeological Assemblages [PDF]
arXiv, 2012 Unbiased models are foundational in the archaeological study of cultural transmission. Applications have as- sumed that archaeological data represent synchronic samples, despite the accretional nature of the archaeological record. I document the circumstances under which time-averaging alters the distribution of model predictions.
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Isidore Lobnibe Interview 2016 [PDF]
, 2016 Cultural Anthropology professor Isidore Lobnibe discusses his work as an anthropology professor at Western Oregon University and his hopes for the ...
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Regulating Reprogenetics: Strategic Sacralisation and Semantic Message [PDF]
, 2007 This paper forms part of the feminist critique of the regulatory consequences of biomedicine's systematic exclusion of the role of women's bodies in the development ofreprogenetic technologies.
Mackenzie, Robin
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Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.Abstract Educational and psychological research often involves comparing motivation across groups. It is critical to ensure that observed differences in motivation are true variations by group, not due to measurement biases. With a diverse sample of undergraduate students (N = 2200), this study measured internal consistency and gathered validity ...
Ting Dai +5 more
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Toward Cultural Interpretability: A Linguistic Anthropological Framework for Describing and Evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) [PDF]
arXivThis article proposes a new integration of linguistic anthropology and machine learning (ML) around convergent interests in both the underpinnings of language and making language technologies more socially responsible. While linguistic anthropology focuses on interpreting the cultural basis for human language use, the ML field of interpretability is ...
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Contemporary Cultural Anthropology in Poland [PDF]
, 1970 Contemporary cultural anthropology in Poland is characterized by two types of change within the discipline . One is the change in emphasis from founding or renewing old institutions, such as departments in universities, museums, and research institutes ...
Skreija, Andris
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The history of anatomical engagement
Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.Abstract The public's fascination with anatomy has evolved over time and progressed from avoidance of the tainted yet saintly corpse, to their fascination with cabinets of curiosities. The current narrative review explores public engagement (PE), from its potential origins as cave paintings, to the rise of the disciplinarity of anatomy.
Quenton Wessels, Adam M. Taylor
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