Ethnobotanical survey of plants locally used in the control of termite pests among rural communities in northern Uganda by Betty C. Okori, Christine Oryema, Robert Opiro, Acur Amos, Gilbert I. Obici, Karlmax Rutaro, Geoffrey M. Malinga, Eric Sande

“…This study aimed at assessing the communities’ knowledge about plants traditionally used in controlling termites among selected communities in Apac District, northern Uganda. …”
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Effects of Illegal Solid Waste Dumping on the Structure of Soil Bacterial Communities: A Case Study in China by Jialiang Chen, Lulu Zhang, Lang Song, Mai Ye, Lin Wang, Bin Fan, Bin Li, Zetao Yang, Rongzhou Jin, Pu Jia

Subjects: “…soil bacterial community…”
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Systematic review of interventions for improving the performance of community health workers in low-income and middle-income countries by Paul Montgomery, Madeleine Ballard

“…Objective To systematically review and critically appraise the evidence for the effects of interventions to improve the performance of community health workers (CHWs) for community-based primary healthcare in low- and middle-income countries.Design Systematic review following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines.Methods 19 electronic databases were searched with a highly sensitive prespecified strategy and the grey literature examined, completed July 2016. …”
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Using photovoice to define “community” in substance use disorder research engaging service users, providers, and policymakers by McGladrey Margaret L, Marisa Booty, Ramona Olvera, Peter Balvanz, Hilary L. Surratt, Shannon Matthews, Susannah Stitzer, Owusua Yamoah, Sylvia Ellison, Kevin Campbell, Amy Farmer, Bethany Gealy, Mike Greenwell, Felicia Harris, Amy Kuntz, Sara Szelagowski, Alexandrea Shouse, Carrie B. Oser

“…(197 words)The ideals of community-engaged health research are challenging to realize ethically and methodologically, particularly when focused on substance use disorder (SUD), in which the power differentials inherent to stigma marginalize people with lived experience (LE) as full community participants. …”
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Yoruba-Chinese Ethical Intersectionality: Towards a Community of Shared Future in Afro-Asian Diasporic Spaces by Philip Ademola Olayoku

“… Diasporic communities, as geographies of national cultures abroad, are central to cultural hybridity as new cultures emerge when migrants intersect with their host communities. …”
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Community-based tourism in the context of the neoliberal paradigm: counter-hegemonic initiatives and land disputes in northeastern Brazil by Ilana Barreto Kiyotani, Wagner Fernandes Costa, Maria Aparecida Pontes da Fonseca

Subjects: “…community-based tourism…”
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Community surveillance and response to maternal and child deaths in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review. by Tariro J Basera, Kathrin Schmitz, Jessica Price, Merlin Willcox, Edna N Bosire, Ademola Ajuwon, Marjorie Mbule, Agnes Ronan, Fiona Burtt, Esca Scheepers, Jude Igumbor

“…A variety of approaches were used to report and investigate deaths in the community, including identification of deaths by community health workers (CHWs) and other community informants, reproductive age mortality surveys, verbal autopsy, and social autopsy. …”
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The Community and its Values. Contemporary Slovak Drama and Theatre in a Post-Traumatic Perspective (Preliminary Study) by Rafał Majerek

“…The results of these activities – reinterpretations of the past, development of new ways of understanding community and identity, greater sensitivity – can be associated with the process of post-traumatic growth, co-created and reflected by the texts of culture, among others – dramatic and theatrical works. …”
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Ensuring safe and effective pharmacotherapy: The role of “community pharmacology” in attaining “health for all” from the Indian perspective by Tirthankar Deb, Alapan Das, Bisweswar Ojha, Prasanjit Das

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The Sustainability of Knowledge-Sharing Behavior Based on the Theory of Planned Behavior in Q&A Social Network Community by Xin Feng, Lijie Wang, Yue Yan, Qi Zhang, Liming Sun, Jiangfei Chen, Ye Wu

“…Zhihu, as a knowledge-sharing platform that relies on the user-generated content model to maintain operation and the strong willingness of users to share knowledge, plays a key role in the development of the community. Currently, social Q&A platforms are facing problems such as low user participation rate and gradual decrease in the number of active users. …”
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Unravelling the multi-scale structure of vertebrate scavenger communities: The role of beta-diversity in livestock carcass consumption by María Eugenia Cabrera-García, Patricia Mateo-Tomás, José Hernán Sarasola, Juan I. Zanón Martínez, Beatriz Martínez-Miranzo, Pedro P. Olea

Subjects: “…Scavenger community…”
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Correlation of sarcopenia and depressive mood in older community dwellers: a cross-sectional observational study in China by Lei Chen, Yunlu Sheng, Hanmei Qi, Tingting Tang, Jing Yu, Shan Lv

“…Our objective was to define the correlation between depression and sarcopenia in older Chinese community dwellers.Design The study has a cross-sectional design.Setting The study was conducted in Jiangsu, China.Participants A total of 101 men and 149 women aged 60 years or older were recruited.Outcome measures Lean tissue mass was measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. …”
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Effects of soil management strategies based on different principles on soil microbial communities and the outcomes for plant health by Xing Zhou, Qian Zhang, Yuanyuan Yan, Jisong Qu, Jun Zhou, Jun Zhao, Jinbo Zhang, Zucong Cai, Chuanchao Dai, Xinqi Huang

“…Various soil management strategies based on chemical, physical, and biological principles are used to manipulate soil microbial communities to improve plant health. However, how the microbial communities that are altered by these strategies respond to pathogen invasion and contribute to plant health remains poorly understood. …”
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Role of community health workers in type 2 diabetes mellitus self-management: A scoping review. by Bonaventure Amandi Egbujie, Peter Arthur Delobelle, Naomi Levitt, Thandi Puoane, David Sanders, Brian van Wyk

“…Aligned to this is a growing use of community health workers (CHWs) to deliver T2DM self-management support with good clinical outcomes especially in High Income Countries (HIC). …”
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Role of Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine in Community Based Palliative Care - A Position Statement by Srikanth Srinivasan, Vinayagamoorthy Venugopal, Suguna Elayaperumal, Mahendra Singh, Priya Kataria, Rehana Vanaja Radhakrishnan

“…Indian Journal of Community Medicine…”
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Challenges of community participation in health emergency and disaster risk management in an Iranian context: a qualitative study by Mohammad Azim Mahmodi, Mehrdad Farrokhi, Seyyed Mohammad Reza Hosseini, Mehdi Najafi, Mohammad Esmaeel Motlagh, Hamid Reza Khankeh

Subjects: “…community participation…”
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Tradition-based Modern Creations of a Cultural Community – Some Thoughts on the Copyright Status of Internet Folklore by Anett Pogácsás

“…As UNESCO clearly points out, intangible cultural heritage is community-based, but raising awareness and emphasizing its importance is a universal task. …”
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Financial Assessment of Forest Management Systems in the Community Forests: A Case Study from the Midhills of Nepal by Bijendra Basnyat

“…Following a case study approach, this study compares financial efficiency of two forest management systems in the community forests, focusing on benefit-cost ratio. …”
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Heat Tolerance Differences Between Hu Sheep and Hu Crossbred Sheep in Microbial Community Structure and Metabolism by Jing-Da Yuan, Li-Wei Wang, Shao-Yin Fu, Ri-Ge-Li-Tu E, Xiao-Qi Ren, Hua Sun, Fang Liu, Biao Wang, Jiang-Hong An, Meng-Ran Zhao, Jiang-Feng He, Xiao-Long He

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Impacts of a multipronged initiative with community HIV clinics to support retention and re-engagement in HIV care by Ellen Eaton, Claudia T. Martorell, Jewel Sawyer, Tanya S. Schreibman, Gregory S. Felzien, Jenniffer Meza Jimenez, Chelsie Anderson Chadha, Jeffrey Carter, Chris Napolitan, Laura Simone, Leah Molloy, Bonnie Douglas

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