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Uncovering Biogas Outcomes: Tales of Hubris, Hope, and Failure From Southern Malawi

Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to speak directly to biogas failure. Over the past two decades, immense amounts of money have been spent by African governments, private individuals, and most conspicuously, international aid agencies and donors, on countless biogas projects in every country on the continent.
Marc Kalina, Jonathan Kwangulero, Jonathan Òlal Ogwang, Natalie Boyd Williams, Elizabeth Tilley   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bridging the Late Antique Gap in Northwest Arabia: New Archaeological Evidence on the Occupation of Wādī al‐Qurā (al‐ʿUlā [AlUla], Saudi Arabia) Between the Third and Seventh Centuries CE

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2019, the Dadan Archaeological Project (CNRS/RCU/AFALULA) identified a Late Antique village 1 km south of ancient Dadan in the al‐ʿUlā valley (northwest Saudi Arabia). Three excavation seasons at this site (2021–2023) have uncovered a massive building constructed in the late third or early fourth cent.
Jérôme Rohmer, Abdulrahman Alsuhaibani, Charlène Bouchaud, Elora Chambraud, Vladimir Dabrowski, Hatem Djerbi, Fabien Lesguer, Hervé Monchot, Paul Picavet, Louise Purdue, Bertrand Riba, Shadi Shabo   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Data Related to Meta-analysis of up to 622,409 individuals identifies 40 novel smoking behaviour associated genetic loci

, 2019
Here we have included four sets of meta-analysis results: Meta-analysis of discovery and replication cohorts, combining genotyped Exome-chip and Axiom array content for (i) Smoking Initiation, (ii) Cigarettes per day, and (iii) Smoking Cessation, and (iv)
CHD Exome+ consortium, GSCAN, Consortium for Genetics of Smoking Behaviour   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Changing public perceptions of alcohol, alcohol harms and alcohol policies: A multi‐methods study to develop novel framing approaches

Addiction, Volume 120, Issue 4, Page 655-668, April 2025.
Abstract Background and aims Public perceptions of alcohol and its related harms and policies are shaped by multiple discourses and can influence behaviour and policy support. As part of a FrameWorks‐informed project to test framing approaches to improve public understanding and support for evidence‐based alcohol policies in the UK, this research aimed
Niamh Fitzgerald, Kathryn Angus, Rebecca Howell, Heather Labhart, James Morris, Laura Fenton, Nicholas Woodrow, Maria Castellina, Melissa Oldham, Claire Garnett, John Holmes, Jamie Brown, Rachel O'Donnell   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparison of Nicotine and Carcinogen Exposure with Water Pipe and Cigarette Smoking [PDF]

Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 2013
Abstract Background: Smoking tobacco preparations in a water pipe (hookah) is widespread in many places of the world and is perceived by many as relatively safe. We investigated biomarkers of toxicant exposure with water pipe compared with cigarette smoking.
Jacob, Peyton, Abu Raddaha, Ahmad H, Dempsey, Delia, Havel, Christopher, Peng, Margaret, Yu, Lisa, Benowitz, Neal L   +6 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Towards the implementation of cannabis‐focused apps in early intervention services for psychosis: A qualitative investigation of patient and clinician perspectives

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims Cannabis use is highly prevalent among young adults with first‐episode psychosis (FEP) and is associated with poorer clinical and functional outcomes. Mobile health interventions may help address structural barriers to delivering cannabis‐focused psychosocial interventions within early intervention services (EIS), yet ...
Selim Abou‐Rahal, Alexis Doucet, Pamela Lachance‐Touchette, Amal Abdel‐Baki, Stephanie Coronado‐Montoya, José Côté, Ovidiu Tatar, Philip G. Tibbo, Didier Jutras‐Aswad   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Land, Gendered Labor, and Empire‐Making in Central Sudan

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers an ethnographic analysis of Gulf Arab empire‐making in central Sudan, focusing on an Emirati‐owned farm in the Gezira region as a key site of capitalist extraction and imperial ambition. Through three overlapping vantage points—farm, port, and body—it explores how Emirati investments in Sudanese land, infrastructure, and ...
Nisrin Elamin
wiley   +1 more source

Thermal stresses in pipes [PDF]

, 2002
This study presents results about thermal stresses in externally heated pipes that are subjected to different flow types: laminar flow, turbulent flow, and pulsating flow. The effect o f flow Reynolds number on thermal stresses in the pipe is studied. To
Al-Zaharnah, Iyad
core   +2 more sources

Lead Pipes and Child Mortality [PDF]

Beginning around 1880, public health issues and engineering advances spurred the installation of city water and sewer systems. As part of this growth, many cities chose to use lead service pipes to connect residences to city water systems.
Karen Clay, Werner Troesken, Michael Haines   +2 more
core  

Extracting vitalities: Cuts in Indigenous women's bodies‐territories (Brazil)

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I explore the connections between the medicalization of childbirth and environmental devastation through Guarani‐Mbyá understandings of life and the living. I argue that the cuts made to Guarani‐Mbyá women's vaginas (episiotomies) in Brazilian hospitals are experienced and situated on the same cosmopolitical level as the cuts ...
Maria Paula Prates
wiley   +1 more source