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Dental age estimation on Bosnian–Herzegovinian children aged 6–14 years: Evaluation of Chaillet's international maturity standards

submitted by 23456 1 day ago

Dental age estimation in children plays an important role in forensic dentistry. The most commonly used method for age estimation was developed by Demirjian in 1973 on a French–Canadian sample. I...

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Assessment of mock cases involving complex low template DNA mixtures: A descriptive study

submitted by GaugeRhy 1 day ago

Complex DNA mixtures with low template (LT) components provide the most challenging cases to interpret and report. In this study, we designed such mixtures and we describe how reporting officers (R...

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‘On Diego Garcia no one never got ill’ (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)

submitted by hothoga 1 day ago

The history of the Chagos Islanders was recently highlighted in a semi-fictionalised production A few man Fridays performed by the Cardboard Citizens Theatre company at the Riverside Studios in Lon...

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Indochine chic: Why is Vietnamese food so classy in Singapore? (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)

submitted by jillibox 1 day ago

To someone from Sydney, Los Angeles, Paris or Vancouver there is something quite peculiar about the experience of eating Indochinese food in Singapore. In these former locations, it is largely pres...

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The crucifix as a symbol of secular Europe: The surprising semiotics of the European Court of Human Rights (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)

submitted by horryg91 1 day ago

In March of 2011, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled counter to current trends found in many European courts and legislatures as the ECHR affirmed the right of the Italian state to dis...

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Are legendary hominoids worth looking for? Views from ethnobiology and palaeoanthropology (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)

submitted by girordamx 1 day ago

It has been suggested that the newly discovered hominin species Homo floresiensis may have survived on the Indonesian island of Flores so recently as to inform local images of small-bodied hominoid...

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The roots of the global economic crisis (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)

submitted by shruti6 1 day ago

The world economic crisis should be seen as an episode in the history of money. “National capitalism” was the main way of organizing money in the twentieth century and its symbol was national m...

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Pastoral intensification in West Africa: implications for sustainability

submitted by omanca 1 day ago

African pastoral systems have been under pressure from steady population growth and an expansion of agriculture into grazing lands. This neo-Malthusian predicament has been considered the beginning...

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Cultural anthropology and the question of knowledge

submitted by denwizards 1 day ago

Although it helps to be aware of what philosophers think about knowledge, anthropologists can neither simply relegate their epistemological problems to, nor find solutions in, philosophy. In anthro...

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‘Dancing the image’: materiality and spirituality in Andean religious ‘images’

submitted by edihioran 1 day ago

In the Christian tradition, representing the divine has often been considered both an impossible and yet necessary endeavour rooted in the human need in certain moments of weakness to visualize God...

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Negotiating impartial indicators: putting transparency into practice in the EU

submitted by rochde0 1 day ago

Over the last twenty years, statistics and indicators have come to be closely associated with the notion of transparency. The argument is based on a view that indicators make policy outcomes transp...

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Dreams from Elsewhere: Muslim subjectivities beyond the trope of self-cultivation

submitted by JordyJoh 1 day ago

Drawing on dream stories from a Sufi community in Egypt, this article probes the limits of the paradigm of self-cultivation which has come to be widely employed in the anthropology of Islam. While ...

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Horse versus machine: battles in the betting shop

submitted by sajotho 1 day ago

Changes in regulation and taxation during the past decade have had a profound effect on the experience of betting in dedicated shops in the United Kingdom. This article explores how betting shop cu...

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Risk Aversion and Anxiety in Scottish Criminal Justice Social Work: Can Desistance and Human Rights Agendas Have an Impact?

submitted by IceclibreMede 4 days ago

This article explores the difficulty that criminal justice social work (CJSW) might have in implementing a desistance approach to work with offenders. Supporting desistance requires responsive, aut...

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Elves, environmentalism, and "eco-terror": Leaderless resistance and media coverage of the Earth Liberation Front

submitted by brucedurham 5 days ago

Over the past decade and a half, North America has seen a rash of environmentally motivated arsons. One group in particular, the clandestine Earth Liberation Front (ELF), has targeted ski resorts, ...

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