Exploring Repro‐Timing Harm and Benefit
ABSTRACT It is plausible that time of birth affects one's prospects for wellbeing. Being born during a war or recession might have a negative impact on early life and lifetime wellbeing. In natural reproduction, delaying conception does not result in the same child being born later, but rather a different child altogether; therefore, prospective ...
Davide Battisti, Gary David O'Brien
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Physical Performance and Sports Genetics: A Systematic Review of Candidate Gene Polymorphisms Involved in Team Sports. [PDF]
Mijaica R +3 more
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Laypeople's Views on the Narrative Identity and Societal Treatment of Genetically Modified People
ABSTRACT Genome editing in human embryos could raise new ethical issues by changing future people's narrative and numerical identity. Most philosophers agree that some genetic modifications would have larger effects on identity than others, but they disagree on what criteria might explain these differences and have not supported their claims ...
Derek So, Yann Joly, Robert Sladek
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Influence of Training Load on the Risk of Injuries in Preprofessional Contemporary Dancers: A Scoping Review. [PDF]
Armando C +3 more
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A basic overview of medical grifting for haematologists with practical guidance in identification and tips for management. Summary Medical scams or grifting has long been a societal issue, though in recent years, the problem has become increasingly mainstream, especially as it relates to transfusion medicine, apheresis and biotherapies.
Brian D. Adkins +7 more
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The preparticipation evaluation of the young athlete-an update to what the orthopedic surgeon needs to know. [PDF]
Plassche GC +7 more
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A 50‐year perspective on the use and potential of artiodactyl calcanei in bone adaptation studies
ABSTRACT Sheep and deer calcanei are important models for studying cortical (compact) and trabecular (cancellous) bone adaptation because they are amenable to direct strain measurement (due to lack of surrounding muscles), experience relatively simple/unidirectional bending, exhibit osteon remodelling, and have the most pronounced regional variations ...
John G. Skedros
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Homo sapiens, industrialisation and the environmental mismatch hypothesis
ABSTRACT For the vast majority of the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens, a range of natural environments defined the parameters within which selection shaped human biology. Although human‐induced alterations to the terrestrial biosphere have been evident for over 10,000 years, the pace and scale of change has accelerated dramatically since the onset
Daniel P. Longman, Colin N. Shaw
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Conversational Democracy: Facilitating Children's ‘Unprompted Talk’ in Social Work Dialogues
ABSTRACT In child and family social work dialogues, social workers address topics that are relevant to children's well‐being and safety. In doing so, they inevitably prioritize one conversational direction over another. This means that while one topic is being addressed, other possible topics are put on hold or are simply never developed.
Kristina Edman
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