A5059319197- African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Human Rights and Development
- Legal Issues in South Africa
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Sex work and related issues
- Land Rights and Reforms
- African history and culture studies
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Rhetoric and Communication Studies
- HIV-related health complications and treatments
- Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Media Studies and Communication
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Social Work Education and Practice
- South African History and Culture
- Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
Columbia University
2022
Neurocrine Biosciences (United States)
2021
Dalhousie University
2020
Metropolitan State University of Denver
2019
University of Birmingham
2016-2018
University of Washington
2018
African Studies Centre
2018
University of Denver
2018
University of North Texas
2018
University of North Texas Health Science Center
2018
Laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) is a minimally invasive surgical technique for focal epilepsy. A major appeal of LITT that it may result in fewer cognitive deficits, especially when targeting dominant hemisphere mesial temporal lobe (MTL) To evaluate this, as well to determine seizure outcomes following LITT, we evaluated the relationships between ablation volumes and or 43 consecutive patients undergoing MTL epilepsy.All underwent unilateral structures. FreeSurfer software was...
Abstract A vibrant recent literature documents the challenges of achieving social adulthood in context economic decline and high youth unemployment Africa beyond. Those who have already made this transition, however, tend to reside margins these texts, casting disapproving shadows. This article seeks redress balance by focusing on significant efforts adults shape young girls’ transitions adult womanhood. In rural Malawi, takes form female initiation rites, which been adapted include messages...
This article reports on an empirical study of the expertise that different professionals develop in working together to safeguard children. The research involved three key professional groups who work with children: nursing, teaching, and social work. methodology used a clinical scenario critical incident explore perspectives experiences collaboration. Data collection was via semi-structured interviews sample 18 practitioners, composed pre- post-qualifying practitioners from each group....
ABSTRACT Anti-retroviral therapies have radically transformed the HIV epidemic in rural southern Malawi and this article explores ways which women are learning to live with virus a matrilineal setting. Through discussion of experiences HIV-positive women, I argue that stigma can only be understood through an appreciation pre-existing, often complicated, social relations into new information about person is folded. The women's narratives reveal tentative hope for future, replicated my own...
ABSTRACT By the early 1970s, Malawi was most significant supplier of mine labour to South Africa. Since then, for a variety reasons, migrancy has dwindled. Nevertheless, migration Africa today looms large in popular imagination, and is pursued by substantial numbers Malawians, particularly men. comparison with earlier migrants, however, their trajectories are less certain, strategies more piecemeal. This paper will focus on contemporary young men from particular village Chiradzulu District,...
Children experiencing the death of baby brother or sister have reported individual, familial, and communicative challenges. Siblings also indicated that loss a in their family enriched lives despite pain. The present study extends this work by focusing not only on siblings but other children enmeshed system. Additionally, we heed call for use arts-based methods communication performing visual narrative analysis children's remembrance drawings. This 131 drawings completed ages zero to 18...
Abstract The functional organization of the human brain consists a high degree connectivity between interhemispheric homologous regions. homotopic is known to vary across cortex and in regions that share cross‐hemisphere structural connections or are activated by common input streams (e.g., visual system). Damage one both regions, as well damage could disrupt this organization. Here were introduce test computationally efficient technique, surface‐based interhermispheric (sHIC), leverages...
The non-profit organization Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep (NILMDTS) hosts annual remembrance walks that gather bereaved families honor babies who have died. Grounded in narrative theory and research on family communication rituals, the present study focused understanding how NILMDTS Remembrance Walk counternarrates experience of baby loss vis-à-vis master silences it. Our ethnography included participating alongside approximately 1375–1600 members, respectively, 2014 2015 Walks taking place...
Matriliny is a way of reckoning kinship descent and belonging through the female line. This entry discusses some forms matrilineal may take in practice before considering how anthropologists have understood matriliny since mid-twentieth century. It looks turn at three dominant (mis)understandings matriliny, namely: (1) that simply another structuring male authority thus no meaningful consequence for women; (2) inherently ‘puzzling’; (3) doomed by its inevitable fragility face economic...
Psychiatric nurses are at the forefront of optimizing psychiatric care, including educating patients and caregivers on risks antipsychotic-induced movement disorders such as tardive dyskinesia (TD). Nurses should be aware that all taking antipsychotics regularly monitored for development TD. Given current pandemic increase in telehealth, assessing TD is challenging; however, evaluation can successfully completed by implementing best practices described this paper. Once diagnosed, reassure...
Marie-Helene Mottin-Sylla and Joelle Palmieri, translated by Mamsait Jagne, Ottawa, Pambazuka Press (IDRC), 2011, xiii +121 pp. Palmieri's thesis is that “putting youth gender ...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version available from Taylor & Franics via https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2016.1273826
Abstract Using an original representative national survey, data were gathered on the ways colleges have responded to student hunger through provision of campus‐based food banks.