A protocol for a systematic literature review: comparing the impact of seasonal and meteorological parameters on acute respiratory infections in Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. [PDF]
Background: Acute respiratory infections (ARI) are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally, and are often linked to seasonal and/or meteorological conditions.
Bishop-Williams KE +5 more
europepmc +4 more sources
Understanding rivers and their social relations: A critical step to advance environmental water management. [PDF]
For many human populations around the world, river flows are linked to livelihood, identity, sense of place, religious beliefs and ceremonies, language systems, or educational practices. These embedded, reciprocal, and constitutive relationships between humans and rivers remain poorly understood, but can be critically important to assessment and ...
Anderson EP +21 more
europepmc +2 more sources
A Bibliographic Assessment Using the Degrees of Publication Method: Medicinal Plants from the Rural Greater Mpigi Region (Uganda). [PDF]
In ethnopharmacological research, many field assessment tools exist. Yet, these miss that critical point of how to really determine which species merit the costly lab studies, e.g., evaluation of traditional use via pharmacological assays and isolation of bioactive secondary metabolites.
Schultz F, Anywar G, Quave CL, Garbe LA.
europepmc +2 more sources
For more than four decades, the presence of the Miskito population in Costa Rica, the formation of their community in the capital city and the appropriation of this new territory have been made invisible by the hegemonic society and the Costa Rican State.
Ana Sofía Solano Acuña
semanticscholar +1 more source
Timing, Initiators, and Causes of Divorce in a Mayangna/Miskito Community in Nicaragua
There exists a paucity of evolution-oriented research focusing on why relationships end, particularly in comparison to the substantial literature centered around individual preferences that define the beginning of relationships.
Jeffrey Winking, Jeremy M. Koster
semanticscholar +1 more source
Navigating power in conservation
This paper offers an overview of core power theories that are relevant to conservation research and practice and provides examples of how power operates in conservation drawing on literature and three supporting case studies. Finally, the paper then provides six guiding principles for better power analysis and uptake in conservation research and ...
Ross T. Shackleton +10 more
wiley +1 more source
Posthumanism and the role of orality and literacy in language ideologies in Belize
Abstract This article discusses language ideological data from interviews and group discussions conducted in a village in Belize. Speakers here perceive English as a formal prestige language and link this to the fact that it appears in written form and tangible materiality – that is, in the form of visual symbols in text, and in objects like grammar ...
Britta Schneider
wiley +1 more source
Are fathers a good substitute for mothers? Paternal care and growth rates in Shodagor children
Abstract Biparental care is a hallmark of human social organization, though paternal investment varies between and within societies. The facultative nature of paternal care in humans suggests males should invest when their care improves child survival and/or quality, though testing this prediction can be challenging because of the difficulties of ...
K. E. Starkweather +5 more
wiley +1 more source
Displaced Minorities: The Wayuu and Miskito People
Christian Cwik
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