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Surgery-for-life:Aging, sexual fitness and self-management in Brazil [PDF]
, 2014 This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork on plastic surgery to explore tensions in aging norms and ideals for women in Brazil. I situate my analysis in relation to debates about a “de-chronologized life course.” Some scholars argue that the life ...
Edmonds, Alexander
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Serum apelin levels and metabolic risk markers in obese women
Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, 2017 Background: Adipose tissue hormones, Adipokines, play an important role in obesity-associated complications. Apelin has recently been added to the family of adipokines.
Moushira Zaki +9 more
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A Theological Challenge: Coordinating Biological, Social, and Religious Visions of Humanity [PDF]
, 1998 This paper attempts two tasks. First, it sketches how the natural sciences (including especially the biological sciences), the social sciences, and the scientific study of religion can be understood to furnish complementary, consonant perspectives on ...
Wildman, Wesley J.
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Intragroup variation in the Pre-Columbian Cuba population: A perspective from cranial morphology
Anthropological Review, 2021 The paper aims to study intragroup variation inside the two pre-Columbian Cuban populations: the aceramic Archaic and the ceramic Taino groups, based on their cranial morphology.
Syutkina Taisiya +4 more
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Autism, the Integrations of 'Difference' and the Origins of Modern Human Behaviour [PDF]
, 2009 It is proposed here that the archaeological evidence for the emergence of 'modern behaviour' (160,000-40,000 bp) can best be explained as the rise of cognitive variation within populations through social mechanisms for integrating 'different minds ...
Spikins, Penny
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Professionnalisme et rugby de haut niveau : approche anthropobiologique
Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 2006 Until recently rugby has traditionally represented the regions and has been an outstanding example of amateur sport. Its recent change to professionalism, mainly imposed by the media and business lobbies, has resulted in profound changes in the ...
Frédéric Bauduer +2 more
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Open Archaeology, 2022 Human skeletal remains are routinely used to examine cultural and biological aspects of past populations. Yet, archaeological specimens are frequently fragmented/incomplete and so excluded from analyses.
Godinho Ricardo Miguel +2 more
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Relativism in the Context of National Socialism [PDF]
, 2019 The aim of this chapter is to clarify the use and meaning of the concept of relativism in the context of National Socialism (NS). Section 1 examines the critical reproach that NS is a form of relativism.
Steizinger, Johannes
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Assessment of nutritional status using anthropometric variables by multivariate analysis
BMC Public Health, 2019 Background Undernutrition is a serious health problem and highly prevalent in developing countries. There is no as such confirmatory test to measure undernutrition.
Ankita Bhattacharya +3 more
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Experimental GerontologyBackground: Research on the gut microbiota has emerged as a new direction for understanding pathophysiologic changes in diseases associated with aging, such as sarcopenia.
Qiuxi Zhang +7 more
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