Changes in the Age Distribution of Mortality Over the 20th Century [PDF]
Mortality has declined continuously in the United States over the course of the 20th century, and at relatively constant rates. But the constancy of mortality reductions masks significant heterogeneity by age, cause, and source.
David Cutler, Ellen Meara
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Research progress on biomarkers of traumatic brain injury
Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.Traumatic brain injury: From primary insult to secondary neuroinflammation and degeneration. Abstract Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a common disorder of the nervous system and has become a leading cause of death and disability worldwide, imposing a substantial burden on patients and their social circles. Its main symptoms include dyskinesia, language
Xuting Shen +8 more
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Marxism\u27s ‘Communicative Crisis’? Mapping Debates over Leninist Print-Media Practices in the 20th Century [PDF]
, 2006 Despite the scholarly neglect of Marxism’s ‘communicative crisis’, it was a topic of concern that was addressed, debated and negotiated over by party leaders, intellectuals and activists on a continuous basis throughout the 20th century.
Pimlott, Herbert
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Hegel's Eurocentric Triads of Dialectics and its Transformation to Kelly's Planetary Paradigm [PDF]
, 2018 This article introduces Hegel's Eurocentric philosophy of dialectics in the 19th century and its transformation to Kelly’s planetary paradigm at the turn of the 20th-21st century.
ma, Z. G.
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Raman Spectroscopy of the Works of Szymon Czechowicz (1689-1775)
Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage, 2019 The paper presents the results from Raman spectroscopy (RS) analyses of the works of Szymon Czechowicz and his workshop ‒ the most important Polish baroque painter.
Mirosław Sawczak +1 more
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Reversal of fortune in a small, open economy: regional GDP in Belgium, 1896-2000. [PDF]
In this paper we present estimates of regional GDP per capita for certain benchmark years during the first half of the 20th century using the method proposed by Geary and Stark (2002).
Buyst, Erik
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The major changes in medical practice in the 20th century [PDF]
, 2000 One could truly say that there were more advances in medicine in the last 60 years than there had been in the previous 500 years. Indeed the medical breakthroughs of the last 50 years have probably saved more lives than those of any epoch since medicine ...
Fenech, Frederick F.
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The Syndrome of an Emigrant: Memory, Trauma, Longing, and Loss in the Art of Józef Czapski [PDF]
Athens Journal of Humanities & ArtsThis article addresses the multilayered thematic area focused on the impact of trauma, caused by war and political oppression, on the attitudes of artists who followed combat trails and migration routes to ultimately settle far from their homeland.
Irena Kossowska
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A Pragmatic Diachronic Analysis of English Language use throughout the 20th Century [PDF]
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social SciencesThis study conducted a pragmatic diachronic analysis of English language use throughout the 20th century, with the aim of examining how pragmatic features such as speech acts, politeness strategies, implicatures, and deixis evolved over time in response ...
Billy James Chavalala
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Barren Lands and Barren Bodies In Navajo Nation: Indian Women WARN about Uranium, Genetics, and Sterilization [PDF]
, 2019 Founded by Native American women in 1974, Women of All Red Nations (WARN) insisted that the ongoing Indian public health crisis could not be properly understood exclusively within the context of the exploitation and pollution of the physical environment.
Bolton, Marie, Unger, Nancy C.
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