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Burying Futures: Artisanal Mining Deaths and the Politics of Negligence in Zimbabwe

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the gold‐mining town of Kwekwe, central Zimbabwe, injury and death are a constant presence. Collapsing shafts, sudden explosions, gang fights, and neglected health infrastructure characterize the everyday lives of the town's impoverished residents.
Melusi Nkomo
wiley   +1 more source

Breathing in Plants and Chaos—Cosmic Tree Events in Cameroon and Beyond

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contemporary practices of tapping into the wisdom of ancestral trees are described through three entangled recent events lived within the context of Bantu practices in Cameroon. In the three instances, the steered or chance encounters with high potency trees were serendipitous telling moments which brought something new to the horizon.
Julie Laplante   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Objects of Affection: Deathly Encounters With Taxidermy, Stuffed Toys and Atmospheres

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores how children and young people relate to death through affective atmospheres and embodied, imaginative encounters with taxidermy and stuffed toy animals. Using arts‐based research (ABR), we explore how death, affective atmospheres, empathy and materiality entangle during multispecies relations.
Rachel Sinquefield‐Kangas   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

NSC95397 Is a Novel HIV-1 Latency-Reversing Agent

open access: yesViruses
The latent viral reservoir represents one of the major barriers to curing HIV-1. Focus on the “kick and kill” (also called “shock and kill”) approach, in which virus expression is reactivated, and then cells producing virus are selectively depleted, has ...
Randilea Nichols Doyle   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

We Don't Settle: Decolonizing the Heritage Sector by Empowering Young People of Color

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Decolonizing the heritage sector has taken center stage since the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests. There have been efforts for decades to make the sector address institutional racism and be more inclusive to racialized minorities.
Kehinde Andrews   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of HIV kick-and-kill therapy on host epigenetic and transcriptional programs in PBMC, and viral rebound after cART interruption

open access: yes, 2021
Background: BCN02 was a pilot kick-and-kill clinical trial that combined therapeutic vaccination (MVA.HIVconsv) with the latency reversing agent romidepsin (RMD) followed by a monitored antiretroviral pause (MAP) in 15 early-treated HIV+ individuals (NCT02616874).
Oriol-Tordera, Bruna   +13 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Early kick detection using data-driven Bayesian network: model development and experimental testing

open access: yes, 2020
Safety is one of the keys to success for offshore oil and gas development projects. Drilling operation becomes more and more complicated when moving to deeper water and harsher conditions, which requires a higher level of safety.
Dinh, Nhat Minh
core   +1 more source

Workplace Health and Safety in Teal‐Collar Jobs: How Blue‐Collar Men Working With Green Technology Embrace a Shifting Culture of Masculinity

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Masculinity is often portrayed as a barrier to shifting away from fossil fuels because jobs in extractive industries represent a nostalgic masculine breadwinner identity. Accordingly, proposals for a just energy transition have provoked backlash aimed at protecting against perceived threats to manhood.
Jen Kostuchuk, Anelyse M. Weiler
wiley   +1 more source

Multidimensional Militarisation, Evidence From Mexico's War on Drugs

open access: yesInternational Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article documents different dimensions of militarisation observed in Mexico since the start of the war on drugs. It argues that militarisation is a multidirectional phenomenon that is characterised by rationales that justify the use of illegal means to address complex issues, promising expediency and efficiency but rarely delivering on it.
Agustin Hernandez Berea
wiley   +1 more source

The Association of Post‐Separation Abuse and Coercion With Children's Health and Flourishing

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim The purpose of this study is to compare health outcomes and flourishing between children (age 6–17) whose mothers experience high versus low exposure to post‐separation abuse and coercive control (PSA). Design Exploratory sequential mixed‐methods study. Methods Cross‐sectional survey with community‐based, convenience sample of family court‐
Kathryn J. Spearman   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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