Birthing hostages: Haitian women's stories of maternal medicine, debt, and hospital detention
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 208-223, June 2024.Abstract What does it mean that hospitals in Haiti have become widespread sites of “kidnapping” for mothers and babies? In at least 46 countries, including Haiti, indebted patients are extralegally held prisoner in hospitals until family members, kin, outside groups, or charities pay their outstanding bills.
Alissa Jordan
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Djibouti: changing influence in the Horn's strategic hub [PDF]
, 2013 Change in Djibouti’s economic and strategic options has been driven by four factors: the Ethiopian–Eritrean war of 1998–2000, the impact of Ethiopia's economic transformation and growth upon trade; shifts in US strategy since 9/11, and the upsurge in ...
Styan, David
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Crosscurrents of Contagion: Snakes, Rumours, Rivers, and Ebola in Sierra Leone's Borderlands
Antipode, Volume 56, Issue 3, Page 847-871, May 2024.Abstract When the Ebola virus crossed undetected into Sierra Leone and exacerbated the 2014–15 crisis, the World Health Organization blamed the breach on a traditional healer treating patients from Guinea. Meanwhile, local residents initially maintained that her death was not Ebola‐related but a serpent's curse, an assumption grounded in lived ...
Samuel Mark Anderson
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The Yugoslav War that was not theirs: The case of national minority millennials
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 306-323, April 2024.Abstract This paper delves into the experiences of ethnic Hungarian millennials in Vojvodina, Serbia, who came of age during the tumultuous Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s. Despite their non‐involvement in the conflict, they grappled with substantial challenges arising from surging nationalism that impacted both society and their personal lives.
Karolina Lendák‐Kabók
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Optimal population‐specific HLA imputation with dimension reduction
HLA, Volume 103, Issue 1, January 2024.Human genomics has quickly evolved, powering genome‐wide association studies (GWASs). SNP‐based GWASs cannot capture the intense polymorphism of HLA genes, highly associated with disease susceptibility. There are methods to statistically impute HLA genotypes from SNP‐genotypes data, but lack of diversity in reference panels hinders their performance ...
Venceslas Douillard +13 more
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Stunning the Nation: Representation of Zimbabwean Urban Youth Identity in some Songs by Stunner [PDF]
, 2014 In this article, presented at the Hiphop Conference in Harare on February 27th, 2013, the author examines the impact local rap music has on identity construction of urban youth in Zimbabwe by analyzing songs of Stunner, a famous rap and Urban Grooves ...
Mateveke, Pauline
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New radiocarbon dates from the Bapot-1 site in Saipan and Neolithic dispersal by stratified diffusion [PDF]
, 2010 The colonisation of the Mariana Islands in Western Micronesia is likely to represent an early ocean dispersal of more than 2000 km. Establishing the date of human arrival in the archipelago is important for modelling Neolithic expansion in Island ...
Carson, Mike +4 more
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When the diaspora returns. Language choices in post-independence Timor Lorosa’e. [PDF]
, 2004 After four centuries of Portuguese rule, twenty four years of Indonesian occupation, and two years of United Nations' administration, East Timor gained independence on 20 May, 2002. The new constitution of East Timor designates Portuguese as the official
Golden, Jill
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Multidrug-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains Thrive in Dairy and Beef Production, Processing, and Supply Lines in Five Geographical Areas in Ethiopia. [PDF]
Vet Sci, 2023 Gizaw F +12 more
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