Vaccine strategy when the smallpox model fails: 1. immune cognition, Malaria and the Fulani [PDF]
We begin to examine the implications of IR Cohen's work on immune cognition [1-3] for vaccine strategies when simple elicitation of sterilizing immunity fails, as is the case for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria.
Wallace, Robert G, Wallace, Rodrick
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Our diversity and the Italian Constitution. Do we really need human races? [PDF]
This paper describes a proposal regarding the presence of the word "race" in the Italian Constitution. Three points are worth of note. Firstly, simply removing the word race from the Constitution is of no real help, since we could miss an indispensable ...
Danubio, Maria Enrica +1 more
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Statistical shape modeling of the human inner ear through micro‐computed tomography imaging
In this study, 54 cadaveric temporal bone specimens underwent high‐resolution micro‐CT imaging. Images were semi‐automatically segmented and converted to 3D surface mesh models for morphological measurement and analysis. Statistical shape models were created for the inner ear, cochlea, and vestibular system, as well as for sex‐ and side‐based subgroups.
Carmine Spedaliere +8 more
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Cultivating cultural awareness among medical educators by integrating cultural anthropology in faculty development: an action research study. [PDF]
Oikawa S, Iida J, Ito Y, Nishigori H.
europepmc +1 more source
Abstract The Pleistocene is a key period for understanding the evolutionary history and palaeobiogeography of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). The species was first documented in southeastern Iberia at the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene and appears to have rapidly spread throughout Southwestern Europe, where it was found in numerous ...
Maxime Pelletier
wiley +1 more source
Lexibank 2: pre-computed features for large-scale lexical data [version 2; peer review: 3 approved]
Large-scale lexical and grammatical datasets nowadays play an important role in comparative linguistics. However, the lack of standardization remains a challenge exacerbating extension and reuse of published data.
Robert Forkel +6 more
doaj +1 more source
[Review of] James W. Green. Cultural Awareness in the Human Services [PDF]
James W. Green has produced a sensitive, thought-provoking book which is based on a multi-ethnic approach in the delivery of human services by social workers. Green is a cultural anthropologist who earned a Ph.D.
Dawkins, Cecilia E.
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Abstract Neandertals are known to possess very distinctive traits in their bony labyrinth morphology, such as an inferiorly positioned posterior canal and a very low number of turns in the cochlea. Hence, the inner ear has been often used to assess the Neandertal status of fragmentary fossils.
Alessandro Urciuoli +6 more
wiley +1 more source
A comparative wordlist for investigating distant relations among languages in Lowland South America
The history of the language families in Lowland South America remains an understudied area of historical linguistics. Panoan and Tacanan, two language families from this area, have frequently been proposed to descend from the same ancestor. Despite ample
Frederic Blum +3 more
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Lexibank 2: pre-computed features for large-scale lexical data [version 1; peer review: 3 approved]
Large-scale lexical and grammatical datasets nowadays play an important role in comparative linguistics. However, the lack of standardization remains a challenge exacerbating extension and reuse of published data.
Robert Forkel +6 more
doaj +1 more source

