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Embryonic cranial cartilage defects in the Fgfr3Y367C/+ mouse model of achondroplasia
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Achondroplasia, the most common chondrodysplasia in humans, is caused by one of two gain of function mutations localized in the transmembrane domain of fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 (FGFR3) leading to constitutive activation of FGFR3 and subsequent growth plate cartilage and bone defects.
Susan M. Motch Perrine +9 more
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Religions, 2022 Prenatal loss, such as miscarriage and stillbirth, may be understood as the confluence of birth and death. The most significant of life’s transitions, these events are rarely if ever expected to coincide.
Lynne McIntyre +2 more
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Applying a synthetic approach to the resilience of Finnish reindeer herding as a changing livelihood
Ecology and Society, 2016 Reindeer herding is an emblematic livelihood for Northern Finland, culturally important for local people and valuable in tourism marketing. We examine the livelihood resilience of Finnish reindeer herding by narrowing the focus of general resilience on ...
Simo Sarkki +5 more
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Culture, Nature, and the Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Northern Namibia
Ecology and Society, 2014 Defining culture as shared knowledge, values, and practices, we introduce an anthropological concept of culture to the ecosystem-service debate. In doing so, we shift the focus from an analysis of culture as a residual category including recreational and
Michael Schnegg +2 more
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Anthropology and cultural heritage [PDF]
Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology, 2013 The author argues that anthropology can help define a much broader, richer and culturally more diverse concept of heritage. He advocates for a more democratic and pluralist State policy that takes into account the diversity and complexity of Brazilian society, valuing traditions, symbolic systems and cultural manifestations from all sectors.
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Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2020 Background It is only recently that written sources of local knowledge on plants are not being ignored by scholars as not belonging to “traditional” knowledge.
Iwona Kaliszewska, Iwa Kołodziejska
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International Journal of the Commons, 2016 In recent decades, water management in Namibia has profoundly changed. Beginning in the 1990s the Namibian state has incrementally turned ownership of and the responsibility for its rural water supply to local user groups.
Michael Schnegg, Theresa Linke
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“She’s Surrounded by Loved Ones, but Feeling Alone”: A Relational Approach to Loneliness
Social Inclusion, 2021 Loneliness poses one of the significant problems of our modern post‐industrial societies. Current research on loneliness has been developed primarily by psychology, biomedicine, nursing, and other health‐related disciplines, showing a surprising number ...
Hugo Valenzuela-Garcia +2 more
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"Ontological Choreography" as an Ethnographic Tool
Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology, 2015 In this article the term "ontological choreography", coined by Charis Thompson, is used as a heuristic analytical device to grasp the different realities of reproductive technologies.
Willemijn de Jong +3 more
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Grammars Across Time Analyzed (GATA): a dataset of 52 languages
Scientific Data, 2023 Grammars Across Time Analyzed (GATA) is a resource capturing two snapshots of the grammatical structure of a diverse range of languages separated in time, aimed at furthering research on historical linguistics, language evolution, and cultural change ...
Frederic Blum +4 more
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