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Ribcage Morphology in Native South American Populations From Different Altitudes: Insights From a Global Comparative Framework. [PDF]

open access: yesAm J Hum Biol
ABSTRACT Objectives Altitude shapes human morphology as highland populations must cope with cold and hypoxic environments. Although Andean highlanders have been proposed to exhibit larger and deeper ribcages, this idea is mainly based on research using disarticulated skeletal elements or non‐South American controls. The objective of this research is to
López-Rey JM   +9 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Data practices in quality evaluation and assessment: Two universities at a glance

open access: yesHigher Education Quarterly, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 7-26, January 2023., 2023
Abstract As the debate on data in the society and in education grows the attention on data‐trace as ‘primary material’ for governance, educational quality and innovation falls under the spotlights. In this context, HEIs have been put under pressure to adopt quantitative metrics and evaluation approaches enhancing the massive collection of trace data ...
Juliana E. Raffaghelli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Defensa comunitaria y culturas del terror: Crimen organizado y violencia de Estado en comunidades originarias de Guerrero, México

open access: yesThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 564-574, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Rich in raw materials, the state of Guerrero, Mexico, is one of the main enclaves of opium production, mineral extraction, and a focus for the multiplication of armed actors in Latin America, which, together with the overlapping of counterinsurgent violence in the past, post‐colonial violence and the militarization of the policies of the so ...
Inés Giménez Delgado
wiley   +1 more source

El entorno construido en los programas diseñados para promover la actividad física entre las niñas, niños y jóvenes latinos que viven en Estados Unidos y América Latina

open access: yesObesity Reviews, Volume 22, Issue S5, Octubre 2021., 2021
Resumen Prevenir la obesidad entre los jóvenes latinos que viven en Estados Unidos y en países latinoamericanos requiere reconocer la especificidad de los contextos y las interacciones entre actividad física (AF) y entorno construido (EC). El objetivo de este artículo es avanzar en la agenda de investigación sobre el EC y la AF con el fin de prevenir ...
Olga L. Sarmiento   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Entorno social y obesidad infantil: implicaciones para la investigación y la práctica en Estados Unidos y en los países latinoamericanos

open access: yesObesity Reviews, Volume 22, Issue S5, Octubre 2021., 2021
Resumen El entorno en el que viven los niños influye en su riesgo de sufrir obesidad debido, entre otros factores, a los comportamientos relacionados con el peso (es decir, a la dieta y la actividad física). En este artículo presentaremos evidencia sobre los factores socioambientales asociados a la dieta y la actividad física de los niños y, de forma ...
Guadalupe X. Ayala   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Desafíos de medición para la investigación de la obesidad infantil en y entre América Latina y Estados Unidos

open access: yesObesity Reviews, Volume 22, Issue S5, Octubre 2021., 2021
Resumen La obesidad infantil es un grave problema de salud pública en Latinoamérica y Estados Unidos y para luchar contra ella se precisan instrumentos de medición válidos y fiables y que tengan en cuenta los aspectos culturales. Para avanzar en este campo sería útil mejorar las mediciones en los distintos grupos de edades y países del continente ...
David Berrigan   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Between Virgins and Priests: The Feminisation of Catholicism and Priestly Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Spain

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 94-110, March 2021., 2021
ABSTRACT The feminisation of religion in the nineteenth‐century has been broadly discussed by historians and sociologists. Considering the main contributions of that debate from a critical perspective, this article defends the hypothesis that the Catholic Church identified itself with the same characteristics with which it defined femininity in the ...
Raúl Mínguez‐Blasco
wiley   +1 more source

De la "cultura integral" a la cultura como integración. Análisis de los Plates de Enseñanza Secundaria en Uruguay (1935-1963)

open access: yesCadernos de História da Educação, 2016
Este artículo tiene por objetivo el estudio de los documentos curriculares de Enseñanza Secundaria (ES3) en el Uruguay en el período 1935 - 1963. Dos acontecimientos jalonan el recorte temporal: la segregación de ES de la Universidad de la República y la implementación de un nuevo diseño curricular.
openaire   +2 more sources

Improving Accuracy and Simplifying Training in Fingerprinting‐Based Indoor Location Algorithms at Room Level

open access: yesMobile Information Systems, Volume 2016, Issue 1, 2016., 2016
Fingerprinting‐based algorithms are popular in indoor location systems based on mobile devices. Comparing the RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) from different radio wave transmitters, such as Wi‐Fi access points, with prerecorded fingerprints from located points (using different artificial intelligence algorithms), fingerprinting‐based systems ...
Mario Muñoz-Organero   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Virility, fascism and regeneration in post‐Civil War Spain: On interpretations of literary Romanticism under the Franco regime

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 259-272, March 2026.
Abstract In the years immediately following the Spanish Civil War, the political culture of Falangism developed a deeply gendered regenerationist discourse, which proposed that regeneration would only be possible if the nation recovered its virile attributes.
Zira Box
wiley   +1 more source

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