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EXPRESSING BEAUTY: THE COMMUNICABILITY OF THE AMERINDIANS GRAPHICAL PATTERNS

open access: yesEspaço Ameríndio, 2007
In this paper I analyse some drawings and graphic practices realized by the South American Indians Wayãpi of French Guyana. The purpose here is to explore the communicative and metamorphic patterns that define this esthetical practice.
Silvia Lopes da Silva Macedo
doaj   +2 more sources

Clinician Practices in Determining Expected Body Weights Across Eating Disorders: A Mixed Methods Study

open access: yesEuropean Eating Disorders Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Eating disorder (ED) treatment often involves establishing expected body weights (EBWs). While individualised approaches are commonly used, whether and how EBWs are set across EDs, clinician perspectives on different approaches, and clinician training in this practice remain poorly understood.
Agatha A. Laboe   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Equine trypanosomiasis, a systematic review: Disease management

open access: yesEquine Veterinary Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Equine trypanosomiasis is a neglected protozoal disease. Objectives To answer the study question: In equines what are the effects of disease management of trypanosomiasis on disease severity (individual level) and disease prevalence (population level) compared to no intervention? Study Design Systematic review.
Alexandra G. Raftery   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

All the bedrooms a stage: Reconceptualizing sex as “performance” to sex as “rehearsal”

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In the United States, sex is often spoken about in terms of performance, and naturally invokes language of theatricality. Sexual performance has been used as an umbrella term to refer to sexual satisfaction, behavior, embodiment, and also pathology in terms of conditions such as erectile dysfunction.
Taylor Harmon
wiley   +1 more source

American Indian Leadership: Strengthening Native Communities and Organizations (Winter 2013) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Despite attempts to diminish, belittle and totally transform Native concepts, belief systems and values of leadership, strong leadership remains one of the most important assets in Native communities. American Indian leaders have held steadfast to tribal
Marian Quinlan   +3 more
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Do Fossil Fuel Subsidies Crowd Out Health Expenditure? A Country‐Level Longitudinal Analysis

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Annually, countries allocate hundreds of millions of dollars to subsidize fossil fuels, often at the expense of public health and environmental sustainability. This undermines progress toward Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 3 (Good Health and Well‐Being) and 13 (Climate Action).
Judite Gonçalves   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fatores de risco para câncer de mama em mulheres indígenas Teréna de área rural, Estado do Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil

open access: yesCadernos de Saúde Pública
Com o objetivo de se avaliar a distribuição de fatores de risco em mulheres indígenas Teréna no Estado do Mato Grosso do Sul, duas amostras destas foram entrevistadas, respectivamente em 1995 (330 mulheres voluntárias de dez aldeias teréna de área rural)
Marilana Geimba de Lima   +5 more
doaj  

The Second Generation in New York City: A Demographic Overview [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
The study analyzes the forces leading to or impeding the assimilation of a 18-32 year olds from immigrant backgrounds that vary in terms of race, language, and the mix of skills and liabilities their parents brought to the United States.
Jennifer Holdaway   +3 more
core  

Avaliação dos níveis de exposição ao mercúrio entre índios Pakaanóva, Amazônia, Brasil

open access: yesCadernos de Saúde Pública
Um estudo seccional foi realizado para avaliar os níveis de exposição ao mercúrio (Hg) entre 910 índios Pakaanóva, residentes nos municípios de Guajará Mirim e Nova Marmoré no Estado de Rondônia, Brasil.
Elisabeth C. Oliveira Santos   +6 more
doaj  

Epidemiology of viruses causing chronic hepatitis among populations from the Amazon Basin and related ecosystems

open access: yesCadernos de Saúde Pública, 2003
On the last twenty years, viral hepatitis has emerged as a serious problem in almost all the Amerindian communities studied in the Amazon Basin and in other Amazon-related ecological systems from the North and Center of South America.
Echevarría José M., León Pilar
doaj  

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