Negotiating shared spaces in informal peri-urban settlements in India: the role of amenity buildings and the effect of the post-hoc introduction of infrastructure towards the creat... by Tang, Bo

“…This paper concludes with suggestions on how the notion of cooperative placemaking might be applied in other situations of rapid change and scarce resources where architect, NGO and local population might collaborate to provide shared infrastructure and community facilities, whilst creating opportunities for improving livelihoods and the quality of life within informal peri-urban settlements in India.…”
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Will we ever go back to normal? An international exploration of the impact of Covid-19 on tourism teaching in 5 countries by Bamford, Jan

“…Both had to navigate uncertain waters to deliver higher education which appeared to be a forgotten sector by governments, as well as dealing with life during the pandemic and changes to lifestyle not witnessed in this generation. …”
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Experiences of geophagy during pregnancy among African migrant women in London: implications for public health interventions by Madziva, Cathrine, Chinouya, Martha J., Njoroge, Kezia

“…This can be done as part of multilevel interventions informed by life course approaches, which also consider community health messages and an enabling regulatory policy framework focusing on clay sold for human ingestion.…”
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A graph-based method for identity resolution to assist police force investigative process by Amirhosseini, Mohammad Hossein, Kazemian, Hassan, Phillips, Michael

“…The ability to prove an individual identity has become crucial in social, economic, and legal aspects of life. Identity resolution is the process of semantic reconciliation that determines whether a single identity is the same when being described differently. …”
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Self-concordance theory and the goal-striving reasons framework and their distinct relationships with hedonic and eudaimonic well-being by Ehrlich, Christian, Cripps, Karen, Ehrlich, Susanne

“…The paper analyses the distinct relationships of the two models in relation to hedonic well-being (Subjective Well-Being, Life Satisfaction, Affect Balance) and indicators of eudaimonic well-being (Basic Need Satisfaction, Purpose and Self-Acceptance). …”
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The social construction of professional counselling practice in UK embedded higher education counselling services: a Foucauldian discourse analysis of practitioner perspectives by Oliver, James Robert

“…The study identified four dominant discourses: Academic achievement, Life-stage, Mental-health crisis and Professional counselling practice which were seen to influence the counsellor role as they manifested through a series of sub-discourses including, the Precedence of educational attainment sub-discourse, the Loco-parentis sub-discourse and the Risk-vulnerability sub-discourse. …”
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The space-times of post-capitalist transformation: More-than-human affects in French and Catalan eco-communities by Schramm, E

“…This thesis aims to understand how post-capitalist life is made possible in eco-communities and how it might travel beyond them. …”

Human nature, after all: affective realism in Russian foreign policy by Edinger, H

“…</p> <p><em>Affective realism</em> combines classical realist scholarship on human nature with research in the life sciences. The resulting analytical framework outlines a process of appraisal, which generates specific affective responses and action tendencies. …”

The big five personality traits and eating habits among female students at Zayed University by AlBlooshi, S, AlSabbah, K, Thani, S, Hijazi, R, Al Dhaheri, AS, Zeb, F, Cheikh Ismail, L

“…Background: Adhering to healthy dietary habits is crucial for disease prevention and improving overall quality of life. Understanding how personality traits influence eating behaviors is essential for developing effective interventions aimed at promoting healthier eating habits. …”

Do the ‘big four’ orders of insects comprise evolutionarily significant higher taxa with coherent patterns of selection on protein-coding genes? by Février, PJ, Barraclough, T

“…In contrast, higher taxa are mostly regarded as convenient labels for levels in the tree of life, which reflect evolutionary history if defined cladistically but are assumed to have no real significance for ongoing evolution. …”

Visitation returns and nineteenth-century Anglicanism in Oxford and its surrounding parishes by Lancaster, S

“…The overall conclusion is that by the end of the nineteenth century the Church remained a substantial influence on life in the parishes of this review, more so than in the first half of the century.…”

Prospective study of UV exposure and cancer incidence among Swedish women by Yang, L, Veierød, M, Löf, M, Sandin, S, Adami, H-O, Weiderpass, E

“…UV exposure earlier in life was related to reduced overall and breast cancer risk.…”

The amygdala and the pursuit of future rewards by Johnson, ST, Grabenhorst, F

“…Success and failure in these processes have been linked to differential life outcomes and psychiatric conditions. Here we review evidence from single-neuron recordings and neuroimaging studies that implicate the amygdala—a brain structure long associated with cue-reactivity and emotion—in decision-making and the planned pursuit of future rewards (Grabenhorst et al., 2012, 2016, 2019, 2023; Hernadi et al., 2015; Zangemeister et al., 2016). …”

Ethical issues surrounding access to care for BRCA mutations by Huang, C

“…</p> <p>In this thesis, I examine in which cases it is problematic that some British and American women do not access this potentially life-saving care. In recognition of the difficulty in measuring access, a view informed by preliminary interviews and a literature review, I use three complementary approaches to illustrate different aspects of access. …”

Modulation of visual-motor responses by the perception of object affordance, automatic imitation and action agency by Pereira Lima, R

“…<p>When we interact with the environment in our everyday life the relationship between what we see and what we do is under continuous coupling, i.e., our perceptions and actions are built through a continuous reciprocal flow of information between sensory and motor processes. …”

The intellectual scope of the 'mester de clerecía' by Curtis, F

“…The result is an expanded view of the <em>'mester de clerecía'</em> as theological and philosophical poems that offer ways of understanding and approaching the life of the mind as well as that of the body that are thought-provoking and informative to this day. …”

Re-presenting dislocation: the poetics of exile and diaspora in ancient Jewish texts by Van Sant, R

“…Moreover, the diaspora narratives of Esther and Joseph, and the interpretations of Esther in antiquity, are often regarded as apologising for aspects of diaspora life, or as viewing the state of exile and diaspora as a burden. …”

Unjust energy transition: vignettes from the COPs, climate finance and a coal hotspot by Sud, N

“…Typically led by communities dependent on land, water, and the environmental commons for livelihoods and life, place-based struggles pushed against dispossession by developmental, modernist states and business. …”

Identifying novel neuromodulator targets of human cognition by Colwell, MJ

“…Impaired cognition is often overlooked in the clinical management of depression, despite being a principal modulator of perceived disability and quality of life within depression (Knight, Air, &amp; Baune, 2018; Knight, Lyrtzis, &amp; Baune, 2020; Koenig, Bhalla, &amp; Butters, 2014; Naismith, Longley, Scott, &amp; Hickie, 2007). …”

Space use patterns and population dynamics in two common European rodents, Apodemus sylvaticus and Myodes glareolus by Dressen, S

“…In chapter 4, I analyse the density dependence of body weight and life history parameters in our wood mice population by constructing an integral projection model. …”