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Participatory Communication and Mass Dog Vaccination for Effective Rabies Management in Mitooma District, Western Uganda: An Exploratory Study

Public Health Challenges, Volume 5, Issue 4, December 2026.
This study evaluates participatory communication strategies in mass dog vaccination campaigns within Mitooma District. By actively engaging local communities, the initiative significantly enhanced vaccination coverage, improved public awareness of rabies prevention, and established a scalable, community‐driven framework for effective zoonotic disease ...
Augustino Ngabirano, Matthew Chibunna Igwe, Charles Idehen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Soft-sediment deformation structures in Holocene coastal gravel deposits reveal two 1.8-2.0 ka old M_w > 7.0 earthquakes in southern-central Hispaniola. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Fernández FJ, Pérez Valera F, Escuder-Viruete J.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Managing Legitimacy Crises in Humanitarian Organisations: Strategic Silence, Selective Transparency, and the Refinement of Crisis Communication Theory

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Volume 34, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines how humanitarian and development organisations communicate during reputational and legitimacy crises within politically sensitive, donor‐dependent environments. It draws on two anonymised cases: an international non‐governmental organisation (INGO) and an intergovernmental organisation (IGO), specifically a United Nations ...
Rilian Agunos
wiley   +1 more source

Short report: surveillance of hrp2/hrp3 deletions in Plasmodium falciparum within Haiti, 2021-2023, using RDTs. [PDF]

Malar J
Matulis GA, Smith HP, Katich RS, Kour N, Delp KL, Douglas CE, Pshea-Smith I, Lilak AA, Okech B, Existe A, Sutherland I, Stefan CP, Ricks K, Dunford JC, Jiang L, Boncy J, Koehler JW, von Fricken ME.   +17 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Hispaniola - Hell or Home?: Decolonizing Grand Narratives about Intercultural Interactions at Concepción de la Vega (1494-1564)

, 2020
Grand Narratives of colonization, especially ones related to the Spanish and Portuguese Americas, began circulating soon after 1492. The danger of these Grand Narratives is that they are often mistaken as reality and eclipse all other possible narrations pertaining to a particular place and/or time. As more Caribbean territories become independent, the
openaire   +2 more sources

Herder in the lab: Maximizing “cultural density” in multilingual training data for an open‐science AI project

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.
Abstract This paper provides ethnographic analysis of interactions between volunteers in an open‐science AI project entrusted with preparing multilingual text for use in fine‐tuning a pretrained LLM. Volunteers were encouraged to entextualize translated text into structured corpora and to write and edit prompt‐completion pairings in over 100 languages.
Joseph Wilson
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable and Seismically Resilient Confined Masonry: Global Progress in Research and Design Practice

Earthquake Spectra, Volume 42, Issue 4, November 2026.
Modern confined masonry (CM) construction consists of masonry walls confined by reinforced concrete (RC) tie‐columns and tie‐beams. When built correctly, CM buildings have shown good performance in earthquake's shaking. Even though CM construction has been practised for almost a century in some Latin American countries, its use and standardisation are ...
Ahsana Parammal Vatteri, Svetlana Brzev, Dina D’Ayala, Sergio M. Alcocer, Sebastian Kaminski, Vaibhav Singhal, Aidarbek Stamov, Anna Pavan, Daniel Quiun, Dexter Lo, Erwin Lim, Hemant B. Kaushik, Juan José Pérez‐Gavilán, Julian Thamboo, Mahdi Eghbali, Marcos M. Chávez, Qaisar Ali, Ramesh Guragain, Sofia Andrade, Tim Hart, Ulugbek Begaliev, Yunita Idris, Radu Vacareanu, Daniar Abdykalykov   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

African swine fever knowledge, attitudes and practices of pig farmers of Saint Kitts, Nevis, Saint Eustatius, Saint Lucia and Saba; West Indies. [PDF]

Front Vet Sci
Hervé-Claude LP, Gallagher C, Navarrete-Talloni MJ, Boden L, Villanueva-Cabezas JP.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Accounting for Biases in the Analysis of Building Damage Data for the 2023 M7.8 Türkiye/Syria Earthquake Sequence

Earthquake Spectra, Volume 42, Issue 4, November 2026.
In the aftermath of a large earthquake, several practical constraints affect the systematic collection of data for assessing building damage. The available data are therefore typically incomplete, frequently missing key information such as the type of construction, age and geographic location.
Max Anderson Loake, Kishor S. Jaiswal
wiley   +1 more source

Interactions between intrinsic and extrinsic factors shape island bat survival and extirpation in a global extinction hotspot. [PDF]

Evol J Linn Soc
Rayfield KM, Cooke SB, Mychajliw AM, Turvey ST, Upham N, Vaccaro S, Dávalos LM.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source