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Examining the Association Between Traditional and Mainstream Medicine and the Prevalence of Arthritis in the Urban Indigenous Population Living in Toronto [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Background: In the Indigenous community, the prevalence of arthritis is 1.3 to 1.6 times higher than their non-Indigenous counterparts. Moreover, minimal population health information on urban Indigenous peoples is available.
Chen, Julio Cristian
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Ontological polyglossia: the art of communicating in opacity* Polyglossie ontologique : l'art de communiquer dans l'opacité

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 293-312, March 2026.
What do communicating with a baby, with an animal, and with an ancestor have in common? In all three cases, people engage in opaque communication that is far from the standard psycholinguistic model of transparent interaction based on shared intentionality.
Charles Stépanoff
wiley   +1 more source

Mobilization of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit for polar bear co-management: qualitative analysis of a Nunavut Wildlife Management Board public hearing

open access: yesArctic Science
Inclusion of Indigenous knowledge in polar bear (nanuq [Inuktut]; Ursus maritimus) conservation and management decisions remains an enduring challenge. The Nunavut Wildlife Management Board (NWMB) held a series of public hearings on polar bear management
D. Reiter   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Radical moral encroachment: The moral stakes of racist beliefs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Historical patterns of discrimination seem to present us with conflicts between what morality requires and what we epistemically ought to believe. I will argue that these cases lend support to the following nagging suspicion: that the epistemic standards
Basu, Rima
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Inequities in Care During Pregnancy Loss: Empirical Insights From Experiences With Canadian Perinatal Care

open access: yesBirth, Volume 53, Issue 1, Page 215-223, March 2026.
Inequities in Canadian Care during Pregnancy Loss. ABSTRACT Background Individuals experiencing perinatal loss are entitled to respectful maternity care, but a paucity of research examines respectful care at the time of pregnancy loss. Method We used data from an online cross‐sectional survey (July 2020–February 2022), where 172 individuals reported on
Wendy A. Hall   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Top‐Down and Bottom‐Up Processes Jointly Explain Mesopredator Movement and Foraging Ecology

open access: yesEcology Letters, Volume 29, Issue 3, March 2026.
This study integrates top‐down (polar bear habitat selection) and bottom‐up (fish distribution) processes to test how mesopredators (ringed seals) balance risk–reward tradeoffs in habitat selection. Ringed seals reduced their space use and foraging time in response to predation risk, yet accepted higher risk when prey diversity was elevated ...
Katie R. N. Florko   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Appendix A – A Brief Introduction to the Religious Faiths and Spiritual Beliefs Included in the Primary Religious Education Program

open access: yes, 2016
Religions and spiritual beliefs answer the profound questions we ask ourselves: What is the meaning and purpose of my life? Who am I? What is right and wrong behaviour?
Antayá-Moore, Dana   +2 more
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Oil Spill Response Capacity in Nunavut and The Beaufort Sea [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
WWF-Canada commissioned a series of reports to identify barriers that will prevent northern communities from effectively responding to a shipbased oil spill. Parallel reports for the western Beaufort region and Nunavut outline these barriers.

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Child‐Directed Speech in Rural and Urban Households in a Low‐SES Afrikaans‐Speaking Community in South Africa

open access: yesInfancy, Volume 31, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT Most studies on child language acquisition occur in the minority world (countries which make up the minority of the world's population). Their findings are not generalizable to majority‐world contexts, where the majority of the world's population lives.
Carmen Defty, Frenette Southwood
wiley   +1 more source

2019 State-of-the-Science of Dispersants and Dispersed Oil (DDO) in U.S. Arctic Waters: Public Health and Food Safety [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Chemical dispersants were employed on an unprecedented scale during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and could be a response option should a large spill occur in Arctic waters. The use of dispersants in response to that spill raised
Coastal Response Research Center
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