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History, EarlyView.Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
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How accurate is Tanner’s formula in estimating target height?
BMC PediatricsBackground Growth evaluation is one of the most common reasons for referral to pediatric endocrinologists. While many factors, including nutritional status, comorbidities, and hormonal imbalances, can affect growth, a child’s adult height (AH) is ...
Silvia Ciancia +2 more
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Physical stature and its interpretation in nineteenth century New Zealand [PDF]
During the late nineteenth century the physical stature of New Zealandborn men stagnated, despite an apparently beneficial public health environment and growth in per-capita incomes.
Les Oxley, Evan Roberts, Kris Inwood
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Methodological Challenges in Studying Wealthy Families
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Studying the wealthy is not easy. This piece provides suggestions for recruitment, interview strategies, and design to gain high‐quality data on wealthy people. It is based on an interview study of 81 US racially‐diverse families with a median net worth of $25 million. First, to gain access to the wealthy, it is key for the researcher to use a
Annette Lareau
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Journal of Analytical Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Written as a letter to my 28‐year‐old self, this paper explores the development of my engagement with cultural complexes. On August 18, 2009, I finished a chapter applying cultural complexes to a history of China, complete with elaborate charts that seemed to confirm a process by which cultural complexes are formed, and how China’s then recent
Kevin Lu
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Interactional privilege of violence: Status and interaction in the street field
Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Criminologists have long described and theorized the relationship between status, respect, and violence within urban communities. Although this finding is generally accepted within criminology, ethnographic empirical illustrations of this phenomenon are sparse.
Hakan Kalkan, Heith Copes
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Nineteenth Century Stature and Family Size: Binding Constraint or Productive Labor Force? [PDF]
The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in economics. Nevertheless, a neglected area in historical stature studies is the relationship between stature and family size, and statures are documented here to be ...
Scott A. Carson
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International Journal of Nursing Knowledge, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose To clinically validate the nursing diagnosis “Inadequate Nutritional Intake” based on elements identified within a specific situation theory framework in the context of children with cancer. Methods This is a diagnostic accuracy study following the Standards for Reporting Diagnostic Accuracy Studies (STARD) protocol.
Iane Ximenes Teixeira +7 more
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Andrology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Direct experimental investigation of Klinefelter syndrome (KS) in patients is limited because the syndrome manifests heterogeneously and affects multiple organ systems. Studying KS therefore requires a model that captures this complexity as accurately as possible while still permitting controlled experimental manipulation ...
Fariba Saadati, Joachim Wistuba
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