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How practice in plant collection influences interactions with illustrations and written texts on local plants? A case study from Daghestan, North Caucasus

open access: yesJournal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2020
Background It is only recently that written sources of local knowledge on plants are not being ignored by scholars as not belonging to “traditional” knowledge.
Iwona Kaliszewska, Iwa Kołodziejska
doaj   +1 more source

Identification of histological threshold concepts in health sciences curricula: Students' perception

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, Volume 16, Issue 1, Page 171-182, January/February 2023., 2023
Abstract Students' metacognitive skills and perceptions are considered important variables for high‐quality learning. In this study, students' perceptions were used to identify histological threshold concepts (integrative, irreversible, transformative, and troublesome) in three health sciences curricula.
Miguel A. Martin‐Piedra   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Tomaraho Conception of the Sky [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 7 / Issue S278 / January 2011, 2011
The small community of the Tomaraho, an ethnic group culturally derived from the Zamucos, became known in the South American and world anthropological scenario in recent times. This group, far from the banks of the Paraguay river, remained concealed from organized modern societies for many years.
arxiv   +1 more source

Fostering uncertainty tolerance in anatomy education: Lessons learned from how humanities, arts and social science (HASS) educators develop learners' uncertainty tolerance

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, Volume 16, Issue 1, Page 128-147, January/February 2023., 2023
Abstract Uncertainty tolerance, individuals' perceptions/responses to uncertain stimuli, is increasingly recognized as critical to effective healthcare practice. While the Covid‐19 pandemic generated collective uncertainty, healthcare‐related uncertainty is omnipresent.
Michelle D. Lazarus   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tamil Artefacts in Cultural Anthropology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Material culture and other sources, which are the basic source of anthropology, contribute greatly to the evaluation of the course of ancient civilization.
A.P, Ramalakshmi
core   +2 more sources

Altruism in death: Attitudes to body and organ donation in Australian students

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, Volume 16, Issue 1, Page 27-46, January/February 2023., 2023
Abstract Health education, research, and training rely on the altruistic act of body donation for the supply of cadavers. Organ transplantation and research rely on donated organs. Supply of both is limited, with further restrictions in Australia due to requirements for a next‐of‐kin agreement to donation, irrespective of the deceased's pre‐death ...
Rebekah A. Jenkin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

“She’s Surrounded by Loved Ones, but Feeling Alone”: A Relational Approach to Loneliness

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2021
Loneliness poses one of the significant problems of our modern post‐industrial societies. Current research on loneliness has been developed primarily by psychology, biomedicine, nursing, and other health‐related disciplines, showing a surprising number ...
Hugo Valenzuela-Garcia   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cultural Anthropology and the Infrastructure of Publishing

open access: yes, 2014
The transition of Cultural Anthropology to an open-access publication required that the Society for Cultural Anthropology take on the publishing responsibilities formerly fulfilled by Wiley-Blackwell. This entailed the expanded use of already established
Timothy W. Elfenbein
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Travelling models of participation: Global ideas and local translations of water management in Namibia

open access: yesInternational Journal of the Commons, 2016
In recent decades, water management in Namibia has profoundly changed. Beginning in the 1990s the Namibian state has incrementally turned ownership of and the responsibility for its rural water supply to local user groups.
Michael Schnegg, Theresa Linke
doaj   +1 more source

Who creates the Time: Nature or Human? [PDF]

open access: yesInterdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems 13(1), 167-172, 2015, 2014
The paper defends the thesis that analysis of time meaning in a context of philosophy of physical and mathematical natural sciences and philosophical anthropology allows to clear basis of human being and to construct special model of general understanding of time as a creation of nature or creation of human.
arxiv   +1 more source

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