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Government by WhatsApp? Transparency, Secrecy and Avoidance during Covid in the UK

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract It has been claimed repeatedly that transparency undermines decision‐making. The fear of disclosure means officials and politicians may not discuss policy fully, are inhibited from giving frank advice, and could avoid proper record keeping. The use of informal communications—particularly the use of WhatsApp—makes all these tensions more likely,
Ben Worthy, Martin Rosenbaum
wiley   +1 more source

Estimating Causal Effects of Malaria Infection on Anaemia Among Children Under Five Years in Uganda: Evidence From a Cross-Sectional Malaria Indicator Survey. [PDF]

Health Sci Rep
Mwebesa E, Agbi DM, Agasa LO, Awor S, Kazonda HT, Jimmy AI, Merveille Essetcheou SM, Tum IK, Kerich GK, Mwangi A.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Torture and scepticism in Papua New Guinea witch hunts Torture et scepticisme dans les chasses aux sorcières en Papouasie‐Nouvelle‐Guinée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
wiley   +1 more source

Categorization of household drinking water and sanitation service levels and associated determinants in Uganda. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Nakibuule B, Semakula HM, Nseka D, Wasswa H, Aboda C, Nampereza P, Namakula LN, Ndejjo R.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Vital events, vital relations: the structure of relations in an identity database Événements vitaux, liens vitaux : la structure des liens dans une base de données d'identité civile

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) manages Pakistan's biometric‐based national identity database, one of the largest identification systems of its kind in the world. This article examines bureaucratic practices used during identity registration to record ‘vital events’ in the lives of citizens: birth, marriage, divorce, and death.
Zehra Hashmi
wiley   +1 more source

Pangolin Distribution and Predicted Habitat Loss From the Nagmati Dam in Shivapuri Nagarjun National Park, Nepal. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Lama P, Subba A, Paudel K, Khanal L.
europepmc   +1 more source

From Nouns and Adjectives to Verbs: Base Effects on the Grammatical Behaviour of Denominal Verbs in Ancient Greek1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates the role of semantic features of noun and adjective bases in determining the grammatical behaviour of Ancient Greek denominal and deadjectival verbs in *‐ye/o‐. The paper adopts a lexicalist framework (Rappaport Hovav & Levin 1998) and examines how the event schema, actionality, telicity and voice of derived verbs are ...
Carolina Marescotti
wiley   +1 more source

An expanding human footprint drives escalating human-elephant conflict across a transboundary African landscape through 2085. [PDF]

PNAS Nexus
Patrick E, Pepperdine M, Yu C, Pesek S, Somhegyi O, Krieger JM, McManus N, Fabiano E, Sikopo C, Roehrdanz PR, Larsen A.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental drivers of rabies in the Volga region of Russia: application of the maxent model. [PDF]

Front Vet Sci
Zakharova OI, Korennoy FI, Liskova EA, Demidova TN, Iashin IV, Blokhin AA.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source