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Seeing like an Inuit family: The relationship between house form and culture in northern Canada [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Dans son classique Esssai sur les variations saisonnières des sociétés Eskimos, Marcel Mauss a demontré qu’un fort rapport existe entre l’organisation spatiale des formes traditionnelles des maisons des Inuit et la morphologie sociale des familles qu ...
Dawson, Peter C.
core   +1 more source

Managing Skin Diseases During Pregnancy: Treatment Discontinuation, Concerns and Physician Counselling

open access: yesJEADV Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Physiological changes during pregnancy can trigger or worsen dermatological conditions, yet evidence‐based guidance for safe management remains limited. In a cross‐sectional survey of 273 pregnant women, 33.7% reported having a skin disease, and 56% experienced worsening of symptoms.
Frederikke Seeberg   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hunger among Inuit children in Canada [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Background and objectives. Inuit populations may be at increased risk for experiencing poor nutrition or hunger due to limited access and availability to food.
Alaimo K   +21 more
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Shifting the paradigm: An Indigenous knowledge‐based stewardship plan to replenish boreal caribou in Athabasca Chipewyan and Mikisew Cree First Nations' homelands

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Indigenous Peoples in northern Alberta, including Dené and Cree of the Athabasca Chipewyan and Mikisew Cree First Nations (ACFN and MCFN), have been using Indigenous laws and stewardship principles to care for their homelands for thousands of years. Since ACFN and MCFN signed Treaty 8 with Canada in 1899, Alberta's land management policies and
Lori Cyprien   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Digitization connects scattered specimens and enables new historical research: Plants from the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881–1884)

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Widespread museum digitization initiatives have made the world's herbaria more accessible than ever, launching a renaissance of specimen use. We highlight the value of digitization to bolster both scientific and historical research using the specimens from the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881–1884) to the Canadian arctic, remembered for its tragedy ...
J. Mason Heberling, Jackson P. Wright
wiley   +1 more source

Circumpolar Inuit health systems [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2013
Background . The Inuit are an indigenous people totalling about 160,000 and living in 4 countries across the Arctic – Canada, Greenland, USA (Alaska) and Russia (Chukotka). In essence, they are one people living in 4 countries. Although there have
Leanna Ellsworth   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Review of Tanya Tagaq\u27s Split ...
Lebel, Brieanna
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Healthcare use for acute gastrointestinal illness in two Inuit communities: Rigolet and Iqaluit, Canada [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Background. The incidence of self-reported acute gastrointestinal illness (AGI) in Rigolet, Nunatsiavut, and Iqaluit, Nunavut, is higher than reported elsewhere in Canada; as such, understanding AGI-related healthcare use is important for healthcare ...
Baumann-Popczyk A   +33 more
core   +2 more sources

Lacking data? No worries! How synthetic images can alleviate image scarcity in wildlife surveys: A case study with muskox (Ovibos moschatus)

open access: yesRemote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
This study investigates the integration of synthetic imagery, created with diffusion‐based models, to supplement limited training data and improve muskox (Ovibos moschatus) detection in zero‐shot (ZS) and few‐shot (FS) settings. ZS models detected more than 80% of muskoxen in real images, confirming the potential of synthetic data as a substitute for ...
Simon Durand   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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