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Use of different methods for testing morphological characteristics and evaluation of body tissue composition of swimmers

Central European Journal of Sport Sciences and Medicine, 2013
Specific characteristics of sport disciplines require their performers to meet certain demands, also those related to body build. A success is conditioned, among other things, by the morphological structure of competitors.
Waldemar Jakubowski, Jadwiga Pietraszewska   +1 more
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Age at pubarche and the risk of developing cardiometabolic complications among 50–52-year-old men from Krakow Longitudinal Study (Poland)

Anthropological Review
Despite contradictory observations, it has been postulated that early age of adrenarche predisposes to an increased risk of cardiometabolic complications in further ontogeny due to greater body fatness.
Barbara Anna Spring, Agnieszka Woronkowicz, Ryszard Żarów, Małgorzata Kowal   +3 more
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Level of physical activity of physical education students according to criteria of the IPAQ questionnaire and the recommendation of WHO experts

Biomedical Human Kinetics, 2014
Study aim: Systematic physical activity is an effective preventive measure that supports the preservation of physical health and psychological health. Three expressions employed that relate to the work carried out with MET-min/week as a measure of the ...
Pastuszak Anna, Lisowski Krzysztof, Lewandowska Joanna, Buśko Krzysztof   +3 more
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In‐vitro puncture experiment using alligator teeth tracks the formation of dental microwear and its association with hardness of the diet

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract With the development of dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA), there has been an increasing application of DMTA for dietary estimation in extant and fossil reptiles, including dinosaurs. While numerous feeding experiments exist for herbivorous mammals, knowledge remains limited for carnivorous reptiles. This study aimed to qualitatively and
K. Usami, M. O. Kubo
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The concept of culture in American anthropology [PDF]

, 1994
This dissertation is a collection of essays on the concept of culture in American cultural anthropology. Culture has been a key concept in American anthropology but anthropologists have recently been criticised for representing culture as too coherent ...
Arnason, Arnar
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Digital Anthropology

, 2018
This entry examines how the internet has shaped the development of an important subdiscipline occasionally termed “online anthropology,” “cyber-anthropology,” or “anthropology 2.0” and now broadly known as “digital anthropology.” This subdiscipline ...
Aouragh, M.
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Variation in parrot jaw musculature

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Interspecific morphological differences in some superficial jaw muscles of parrots. Abstract Psittaciformes, the order encompassing parrots and their relatives, are highly diverse and generally known for having a strong beaks used for multiple behaviors. The muscles related to the masticatory apparatus should reflect this functional complexity; however,
Ana Carolina L. Faillace, Arin Berger, Marcelo Ismar S. Santana, Adam Hartstone‐Rose   +3 more
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Neanderthal had a “crush” on fats. Macronutrient estimation in Middle Paleolithic (Late Mousterian) hunter-gatherers of southern Italy

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology
During the Late Mousterian period Apulia (southeastern Italy) was characterized by frequent and prolonged aridity that could have caused the scarcity of vegetable foods and, consequently, a lack of important nutritional compounds.
Jacopo Crezzini, Jacopo Crezzini, Jacopo Crezzini, Alessandra Modi, Costanza Cannariato, David Caramelli, Annamaria Ronchitelli, Paolo Boscato, Adriana Moroni, Adriana Moroni, Francesco Boschin   +10 more
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MORPHOLOGICAL DIFFERENTIATION AND SPORT RESULTS OF MALE AND FEMALE WEIGHTLIFTERS

Pedagogics, Psychology, Medical-Biological Problems of Physical Training and Sports, 2015
Purpose of this study was to analyze the types of body structure of elite Polish weightlifters of both genders, depending on their sports’ achievements.
Jerzy Saczuk, Agnieszka Wasiluk
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The birth of physical anthropology in late imperial Portugal

, 2012
In this article I analyze the emergence of the field of physical anthropology in the metropolitan academic sphere of the Portuguese Empire during the late nineteenth century.
Santos, G., Santos, GD
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