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Effects of Prenatal and Early Life Malnutrition: Evidence from the Greek Famine [PDF]
This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy ...
Sven Neelsen, Thomas Stratmann
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Unfused transverse foramen of the atlas vertebra in the Neandertal lineage fossils
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract In anatomically modern humans, the atlas can display an unfused transverse foramen (UTF) but currently the presence of UTF in the Neandertal lineage is uncertain due to a scarcity of prevalence studies and no exhaustive record of its presence throughout the entire hominin fossil record.
Asier Gómez‐Olivencia +5 more
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Enamel Hypoplasia Related to Historical Famine Stress in the Contemporary Chinese Population
Dental Anthropology, 1997 Linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH), a defect in enamel formation, has been frequently attributed to malnutrition and other physiological stress during periods of enamel development (Sarnat and Schour, 1941; Kreshover, 1960).
Liming Zhou, Robert S. Corruccini
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FIFTY YEARS OF REGIONAL INEQUALITY IN CHINA: A JOURNEY THROUGH REVOLUTION, REFORM AND OPENNESS [PDF]
This paper constructs and analyses a long run time series for regional inequality in China from the Communist Revolution to the present. There have been three peaks of inequality in the last fifty years, coinciding with the Great Famine of the late 1950s,
Kanbur, Ravi, Zhang, Xiaobo
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China\u27s Population Policy In Historical Context [PDF]
, 2016 The year 2014 marked the de facto end to China’s “one-child policy,” the most extreme example of state intrusion into the realm of reproduction. Deng Xiaoping’s 1979 initiative built on earlier, short-lived “birth planning” campaigns. The 1979 policy set
White, Tyrene
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract The Late Triassic–Early Jurassic fissures of the Bristol Channel area (southwest England and south Wales) are renowned for their diverse vertebrate faunas. These assemblages have yielded an array of predominantly small‐bodied forms that are crucial to our understanding of the early evolution of several major tetrapod clades.
Ewan H. Bodenham +4 more
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From the Great Chinese Famine to the Communist Famines [PDF]
China Perspectives, 2013 openaire +3 more sources
Animal Research and One Health, EarlyView.This study was to evaluate the role of GH in lipolysis and insulin sensitivity in bovine adipocytes and clarify the underlying mechanism. Our findings demonstrate that GH activates ERK/HSL signaling pathway, promotes lipolysis, and impairs insulin sensitivity in bovine adipocytes.
Xinxing Gao +10 more
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A Humanitarian Success: Westerners' Protection of Chinese Refugees in the Rape of Nanking, 1937-38 [PDF]
, 2014 The thesis introduces the international efforts in saving Chinese refugees by twenty four Westerners who stayed in Nanjing during the Rape of Nanking, a Japanese atrocity between December 13, 1937 and early January 1938.
Zong, Yongzhe
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