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Acta Oncologica, 1996
Using the framework of the Native Cancer Registry, cancer morbidity among Russian Inuit can be obtained from 1960 onwards. Earlier data are available, but have not been verified. Unfortunately, the absence of accurate demographic data for the Native population of about 16 000 people, including the increase from 1 149 to 1 452 Inuit between 1970 and ...
Yu. P. Nikitin +4 more
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Using the framework of the Native Cancer Registry, cancer morbidity among Russian Inuit can be obtained from 1960 onwards. Earlier data are available, but have not been verified. Unfortunately, the absence of accurate demographic data for the Native population of about 16 000 people, including the increase from 1 149 to 1 452 Inuit between 1970 and ...
Yu. P. Nikitin +4 more
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Inuit Diasporas: Frankenstein and the Inuit in England
Romanticism, 2007first edition of Frankenstein, the Isabella and Alexander set forth from England on a journey of exploration to the North Pole, carrying a Greenlandic Inuit from Disko Island by the name of John Sackhouse. Sackhouse, who had previously stowed away on a whaler from Greenland to Scotland, would serve as the translator on this voyage, enabling ...
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HOMOCYSTEINE IN GREENLAND INUITS
Thrombosis Research, 1997Patients with homozygous homocystinuria are at greatly increased risk for development of atherosclerosis and thrombosis (1). Elevated plasma levels of homocysteine (HCY) are caused by reduced enzymatic catabolism or reduced enzymatic remethylation of HCY, due to either hereditary enzyme defects or to nutritional deficiencies of vitamins functioning as ...
Erik Berg Schmidt +4 more
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Anthropometry in the Circumpolar Inuit
2012The Inuit are an indigenous population whose homeland today comprises Chukotka in Russia, Alaska, northern Canada and Greenland, with an estimated global population of 165,000. The rapid social and economic changes especially over the past half century have been accompanied by a health transition, for which anthropometry is well suited to provide ...
Galloway, T +2 more
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Educational Media International, 1992
Abstract This article, which is the text of a speech delivered at the ICEM Reykjavik Conference, looks at how one aboriginal group in northern Canada has turned the ‘invasion’ of television to its own advantage, and how other groups are bonding together under the new Television Northern Canada Network.
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Abstract This article, which is the text of a speech delivered at the ICEM Reykjavik Conference, looks at how one aboriginal group in northern Canada has turned the ‘invasion’ of television to its own advantage, and how other groups are bonding together under the new Television Northern Canada Network.
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Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2019
Background Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant health burden among Inuit in Canada. Social determinants of health (SDH) play a key role in TB infection, disease and ongoing transmission in this population.
Elaine Kilabuk +7 more
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Background Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant health burden among Inuit in Canada. Social determinants of health (SDH) play a key role in TB infection, disease and ongoing transmission in this population.
Elaine Kilabuk +7 more
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Cancer patterns in Inuit populations [PDF]
The Lancet Oncology, 2008 Inuit people inhabit the circumpolar region, with most living in Alaska, northwest Canada, and Greenland. Although malignant diseases were believed to be almost non-existent in Inuit populations during the beginning of the 20th century, the increasing life expectancy within these populations showed a distinct pattern, characterised by a high risk of ...
Melbye, M., Friborg, Jeppe Tang
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Selenium status in Greenland Inuit
Science of The Total Environment, 2004In Greenland, the human intake of selenium has always been relatively high and is closely connected to intake of the traditional food of marine origin. Analyses of historic and present day human and animal hair samples have indicated that the selenium level in the marine environment has been constant over time, while the levels in humans have declined ...
Hansen, J.C., Deutch, B., Pedersen, H.S.
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Diagnosing Object Agreement vs. Clitic Doubling: An Inuit Case Study
Linguistic Inquiry, 2019Much recent literature has focused on whether the verbal agreement morphology cross-referencing objects is true φ-agreement or clitic doubling. I address this question on the basis of comparative data from related Inuit languages, Inuktitut and ...
Michelle Yuan
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Museum Anthropology, 1994
The Inuit Imagination: Arctic Myth and Sculpture. Harold Seidelman and James Turner. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1994. 224 pp. 173 color illustrations, bibliography, index. $45.00 (cloth).
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The Inuit Imagination: Arctic Myth and Sculpture. Harold Seidelman and James Turner. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1994. 224 pp. 173 color illustrations, bibliography, index. $45.00 (cloth).
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