Academic Articles & Research Papers

Population-level measles RT-PCR cycle threshold values and their relationships with disease severity, transmission, and incidence metrics: a time series analysis of the 2025-2026 outbreak in Mexico.

The Longitudinal Relationships Between Sense of Place and Pro-Environmental Behavioral Tendencies of Adolescents: Evidence from Chinese Secondary School Students.

Socially engaged art practice and working equine welfare: creative methodologies for evolving how we see and attend to human-equine relationships.

Interdependent urban economies: a network analysis of socio-economic relationships between street vendors and formal businesses in Ratnapura, Sri Lanka.

Genetic diversity, relationships, and positive selection genes of four Wujin pig populations: unraveled through whole-genome resequencing.

Characterising people-species-place relationships.

Fine-scale human-flood relationships in the Congo Basin: ethnographic perspectives from the Lac Télé Community Reserve.

Combined storytelling and mapping approaches for increasing community engagement with woodland creation and expansion projects

Abstract Forests and woodlands are important for biodiversity, climate change mitigation and the provision of services including recreation, timber and non‐timber forest products. Land use policies currently aim to increase forest cover whi...

LncRNA-Top: Controlled deep learning approaches for lncRNA gene regulatory relationship annotations across different platforms

Summary: By soaking microRNAs (miRNAs), long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have the potential to regulate gene expression. Few methods have been created based on this mechanism to anticipate the lncRNA-gene relationship prediction. Hence, we pr...

A Fuzzy DEMATEL Application for Criteria Affecting Database Management System Selection in a Specific Problem Context

Database management systems (DBMS) are one of the basic building blocks of many software projects developed in technology companies. However, each DBMS supports different features. It is practically impossible and costly to try out all DBMS...

A survey of controlled experiments in software engineering

The classical method for identifying cause-effect relationships is to conduct controlled experiments. This paper reports upon the present state of how controlled experiments in software engineering are conducted and the extent to which rele...

A Comparative Analysis of the Chloroplast Genomes of Four Polygonum Medicinal Plants

Polygonum is a generalized genus of the Polygonaceae family that includes various herbaceous plants. In order to provide aid in understanding the evolutionary and phylogenetic relationship in Polygonum at the chloroplast (cp) genome-scale l...

Families, kinship and genetics

I am the family face; Flesh perishes, I live on, Projecting trait and trace Through time to times anon, And leaping from place to place Over oblivion. Thomas Hardy , 1840–1928: Heredity. Introduction Genetics concerns families and kinship. ...

Urban Aboriginal Creation Stories and History: contesting the past and the present. The Eleventh Doireann MacDermott Lecture

This paper is based on the 11th annual Doireann MacDermott public lecture presented at the Universitat de Barcelona in November, 2010. It is a critique of discourses and representations in Australian society, and indeed, embedded in all w...

THE CHRISTIANITY OF ANTHROPOLOGY*

This article critiques the way in which the discipline of anthropology has construed Christianity, arguing that too narrow and ascetic a model of Christianity has become standard and questioning the claims of the ‘secular’ social sciences t...

The Development of Cognitive Anthropology

In an historical account of the growth and development of the field of cognitive anthropology, Roy D'Andrade examines how cultural knowledge is organised within and between human minds. He begins by examining the research carried out during...

Dental Anthropology

Teeth are one of the best sources of evidence for both identification and studies of demography, biological relationships and health in ancient human communities. This text introduces the complex biology of teeth and provides a practical gu...

Homosexuality: Research Implications for Public Policy

Introduction - John C Gonsiorek and James D Weinrich The Definition and Scope of Sexual Orientation - John C Gonsiorek and James D Weinrich Homosexuality, Nature, and Biology - John A W Kirsch and James D Weinrich Is Homosexuality Natural? ...

Governance Networks in Public Administration and Public Policy

What do public administrators and policy analysts have in common? Their work is undertaken within networks formed when different organizations align to accomplish some kind of policy function. To be effective, they must find ways to navigat...

Governance Networks in Public Administration and Public Policy

What do public administrators and policy analysts have in common? Their work is undertaken within networks formed when different organizations align to accomplish a policy function. This second edition of Governance Networks in Public Admin...