University of Kent

Quantifying temporal changes in the monetary value of forest cultural ecosystem services globally: a meta-analysis

Abstract The world’s forests, and the biodiversity they contain, provide multiple cultural ecosystem services that are essential to people’s well-being. However, interactions between people and forests evolve alongside broader societal and environmental change, raising questions...

Same Coeffect, Different Base: Connecting Two Dominant Approaches to Graded Types

Graded types provide a way to augment a type system with fine-grained information, e.g., to track side effects or context dependence and resource use (called coeffects ). Graded types for coeffects have found their way into languages such as Haskell, Idris, and Granule, enabling...

Human papillomavirus vaccine acceptability in Cameroon: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Abstract Background Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination is a key strategy for cervical cancer elimination. In Cameroon, HPV vaccine was introduced into the expanded program on immunization in 2020. However, synthesized evidence on vaccine acceptability is needed to guide polic...

Plasma p-tau217 as a two-cutoff approach to improve tau-PET screening and trial recruitment in Alzheimer’s disease

Abstract Blood-based biomarkers could broaden access to Alzheimer’s disease diagnostics, but their ability to approximate tau PET, and to address gray-zone results, remains uncertain. We evaluated plasma p-tau217 against tau PET using a harmonized ADNI baseline cohort and an inde...

Rethinking hair cropping in Ghanaian schools: coloniality, discipline, and the path to reform

Grooming rules for Black hair are contested as racialised discipline, yet their colonial afterlives in African schooling remain underexplored. This article examines Ghana’s compulsory hair-cropping mandate for girls in Senior High Schools as a socio-legal problem of embodied gove...

Uncovering the Societal Harm of Cross-Sector Partnerships: An Intervention Perspective

Cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) are widely recognized as vehicles for addressing societal challenges. Yet, their potential to generate harm to communities, the environment, and broader societal systems remains underexamined. Evidence is fragmented and context-dependent, obscurin...