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Intergenerational effects of climate disasters: trimester of pregnancy when a hurricane hits predicts neonate body size
Abstract Context Climate disasters have been tied to prenatal stress and pregnancy outcomes. However, it is unclear if these outcomes are influenced by the stage of foetal development when the disaster hits. Objective To compare the birth outcomes by trimester for those pregnant during Hurricane Florence and those in the same community 1-2 years earlier. We further assessed the role of marital status and race.
Healing Hanuman’s Army: Veterinary Care as a Core Component of One Health Principles in a Southeast Asian Monkey Forest
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Variable digestibility of captive northern greater galagos (Otolemur garnettii) fed experimental “frugivorous” and “invertebrate” diets
Abstract Few studies have addressed the nutritional ecology of galagos. Observations of galagos in the wild reveal that they rely on fruits and invertebrates to varying degrees depending on their availability. We conducted a 6-week comparative dietary analysis of a colony of captive-housed northern greater galagos (Otolemur garnettii), which included five females and six males with known life histories. We compared two experimental diets.
The evolutionary adaptation of body art: Tattooing as costly honest signaling of enhanced immune response in American Samoa
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE Christopher D. Lynn Corresponding Author E-mail address: cdlynn@ua.edu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7031-5281 Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama Correspondence Christopher D. Lynn, Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama, Box 870210, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487.
Family and the field: Expectations of a field-based research career affect researcher family planning decisions
Field-based data collection provides an extraordinary opportunity for comparative research. However, the demands of pursuing research away from home creates an expectation of unburdened individuals who have the temporal, financial, and social resources to conduct this work. Here we examine whether this myth of the socially unencumbered scholar contributes to the loss of professionals and trainees.
Does tattooing benefit the immune system? The inking of immunity.
We previously found a positive association between tattoo experience and relatively elevated secretory immunoglobulin A (from pre-posttest) after receiving a tattoo (Lynn et al. 2016). Immunosuppression is often a result of acute stress, so we hypothesized the elevation was due to stressor habituation, as with exercise or an inoculation. We began retesting this among Polynesian tattooists, whose practices are among the most extensive and oldest in the world.
My 'split life' selling perfume and saving lives at sea
Eighteen-year-old Michaela Howells is one of the youngest fully-trained lifeboat crew in the UK. Her main job is at Boots in the harbour town of Padstow, Cornwall, but if the call comes she can be in rescue mode within 10 minutes. "I always have my buzzer on me," she explains, admitting that she lives a "split life". Michaela trains every Wednesday afternoon at sea and is the only female in her crew of 14. The alarm has been raised at some unfortunate times.
Zika’s Frightening Stranglehold
Access to family planning services is critical to avoiding pregnancies during this public health emergency. By Michelle Pieters and Michaela Howells 8 Apr 2016 ✽ Some of the earliest vampire stories were about demons or shape-shifters who spent their nights robbing pregnant women of their unborn fetuses, silently killing infants in their sleep, and sending children to an early grave.
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