ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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Rethinking pre-training: cognitive load implications for learners with varying prior knowledge. [PDF]
Gorbunova A +3 more
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Politics and Poetics of Water and Hydrosocial Crisis in Punjab
Abstract This essay explores the interconnections between eco‐aesthetics, narratives of development, and hydropolitics to better understand the twin material and narrative crises of water in Pakistan. Challenging the dominant narratives of water as external, passive, objective, and ahistorical, this essay provides a situated analysis of the co ...
Abdul Aijaz
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The Dialogic Health Systems Research Framework (DHSRF): A tool for facilitating self-criticality, researcher interactions and knowledge management in Health Systems Research & Policy Studies. [PDF]
Priya R +8 more
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Abstract Decolonial theory (DT) has been advanced as a strategy for decolonisation alternative to 20th‐century anticolonialism, positioning decolonisation as an epistemic project rather than a historical‐material one. Here, I examine DT's arguments about anticolonialism: that it had a dogmatic bias towards nationalism and postcolonial state formation ...
Lavanya Nott
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Ngā Māuiui Kai: creating Indigenous Māori terms for eating disorders in Aotearoa New Zealand. [PDF]
Fraser G +7 more
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ABSTRACT This research note advances the idea of a talanoa epistemology. Many readers will be familiar with talanoa as an Indigenous mode of communication practiced in the Pacific. Variations of talanoa have been applied in COP constellations, inter‐faith meetings, Pacific diplomacy, conflict resolution, and as a research method.
Simon Hollis
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Experiences, impact, and enablers of involving young people and family caregivers in developing reporting guidelines for paediatric randomised trials: a case study. [PDF]
Baba A +12 more
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Abstract This study examines the continuity and change in harvesting practices between the Late Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B (LPPNB) and the Early Pottery Neolithic at Qminas, north‐western Levant, through a traceological analysis of flint sickles. By combining qualitative traceological analysis with quantitative functional approaches, we demonstrate that ...
Fiona Pichon +3 more
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Embedding equity and diversity principles in a complex multinational setting: methods, tools, capacity development and experiences from the first year of the Joint Action on Cardiovascular Diseases and Diabetes (JACARDI). [PDF]
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