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Expanding impact of mobile health programs: SAHELI for maternal and child care
AI Magazine, Volume 44, Issue 4, Page 363-376, Winter 2023., 2023 Abstract Underserved communities face critical health challenges due to lack of access to timely and reliable information. Nongovernmental organizations are leveraging the widespread use of cellphones to combat these healthcare challenges and spread preventative awareness.
Shresth Verma +10 more
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Ayahuasca: A review of historical, pharmacological, and therapeutic aspects
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences Reports, Volume 2, Issue 4, December 2023., 2023 Abstract Ayahuasca is a psychedelic plant brew originating from the Amazon rainforest. It is formed from two basic components, the Banisteriopsis caapi vine and a plant containing the potent psychedelic dimethyltryptamine (DMT), usually Psychotria viridis.
Simon G. D. Ruffell +15 more
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Atmospheric Buddhism: How Buddhism is Distributed, Felt, and Moralized in a Repressive Society
Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 51, Issue 4, Page 701-719, December 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT A growing number of lay Buddhist practitioners have sought out alternative ways to incorporate Buddhist teachings in their daily practices and make positive changes in society by “doing good” for others. Sometimes recognized as part of “humanistic Buddhism,” this approach emphasizes general morality and focuses on people who need help as a way
Yasmin Cho
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Applied linguistics and interpreting have much in common; however, the education of signed language interpreters in the States provides barely any applied linguistics training. Linguistic racism (linguicism) frames the education and evaluation of sign language interpreters.
Sharon Grigsby Hill
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 390-411, June 2026.This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract From the beginning of widespread public interactions with ChatGPT and other large language models, some users have seen the disfluencies of chatbots as opportunities for them to go on an archaeological search for an unfettered chatbot persona that they need to jailbreak. These are not claims of sentience, but rather of personhood.
Courtney Handman
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Buddhism in Australia: A Maturing, Multidisciplinary Field of Inquiry
Religion Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, May/June 2026.ABSTRACT In 2012, Anna Halafoff, Ruth Fitzpatrick and Kim Lam applied Paul Numrich's framework to the study of Buddhism in so‐called Australia, to determine if it constituted a distinct field of study. They concluded that it was an emerging field, according to Numrich's three categories of specialisation, organisation and publication.
Anna Halafoff +2 more
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The Deconversion of Harriet Martineau: An Emotional History of Unbelief
Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 455-476, December 2025.Conceptualising the ‘Victorian crisis of faith’ as a phenomenon fuelled by wider intellectual forces can only take us so far in our understanding of it. The loss of faith of many contemporaries did not merely entail an intellectual volte‐face, but also an affective impact. Scholarly accounts have been primarily written by privileging the role of ideas,
Petros Spanou
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Christian Bohr. Discoverer of Homotropic and Heterotopic Allostery
Acta Physiologica, Volume 241, Issue S734, July 2025.ABSTRACT This essay recounts and revisits the scientific contributions of Christian Bohr, highlighting his pivotal role in discovering allostery about 120 years ago. Bohr's meticulous experimentation led to identifying two distinct forms of allostery: homotropic (single‐ligand) and heterotropic (multi‐ligand), the latter widely recognized as the Bohr ...
Niels Bindslev
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