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Successful Aging Shows Linkage to Chromosomes 6, 7, and 14 in the Amish
, 2011 Successful aging (SA) is a multi-dimensional phenotype involving preservation of cognitive ability, physical function, and social engagement throughout life. Multiple components of SA are heritable, supporting a genetic component. The Old Order Amish are
Margaret A. Pericak-Vance +23 more
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Exploring the complexities of daily life and healthcare for the Old Order Amish of central Wisconsin
, 2015 My heritage includes a long line of farmers dating back to the 1800\u27s. This connection to farming, the land and my community in Clark County, Wisconsin was the impetus for me to create a cultural immersion experience for the students of Augsburg\u27s ...
Barten, Denise E
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, 2020 This is a German-to-English translation of a report describing several Amish schisms where the main dispute concerned the Bann (excommunication), Meidung (shunning), and the full council of the brotherhood prior to these actions.
Anderson, Cory +2 more
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Nemaline myopathy caused by TNNT1 mutations in a Dutch pedigree [PDF]
, 2014 Nemaline myopathy (NM) is genetically heterogeneous disorder characterized by early onset muscular weakness and sarcoplasmatic or intranuclear inclusions of rod-shaped Z-disk material in muscle fibers.
Jansen, N.J.G. +11 more
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New Historicist and Cultural Materialist Study of Witness, For Richer or Poorer, and Amish Grace
, 2014 112p.:ill;30cm.(+cd)+appendicesThis dissertation is concerned with the study of the Amish portrayal in three American films, namely Witness (1985), For Richer or Poorer (1997), and Amish Grace (2010).
TAFROUKHT, Zouhra
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From Lancaster County to Lowville
, 2018 This chapter traces the arrival of four Old Order Amish families from the Path Valley in Pennsylvania to Lowville in Lewis County. More progressive than Swartzentruber and less progressive than Clymer-area Amish, the Amish in Lowville brought to New York'
Karen Johnson-Weiner
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In Search of Consensus and Fellowship
, 2018 This chapter discusses how, despite their common origin in the Anabaptist movement and Jacob Ammann's break with the larger Mennonite movement, today's Amish are ethnically and religiously diverse.
Karen Johnson-Weiner
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, 1998 158 pagesThe impacts of religion on environmental sustainability are inadequately studied at present. This thesis is a case study of an Amish settlement in central Pennsylvania, examining the importance of religion in the development of environmental ...
Hockman-Wert, David Patrick
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Economies of Valuation and Desire: How New Deal Photography Made the Amish Modern [PDF]
, 2012 "Economies of Valuation and Desire: How New Deal Photography Made the Amish Modern" connects two substantial bodies of scholarship: the visual culture of the New Deal, and twentieth-century visual and literary representations of religious sub-cultures in
Bennett, Elizabeth Louise
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Awakening Experience: Amish Youth and the Search for a Modern Identity
, 2009 This Thesis investigates Amish Youth and the proposal of a center for modern identity development that facilitates the opportunities to to experience a new, worldly perspective during their only period of “choice”.
Secinaro, Nicole
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