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Environmental Influences on Children's Physical Activity: Quantitative Estimates Using a Twin Design

, 2010
Background: Twin studies offer a 'natural experiment' that can estimate the magnitude of environmental and genetic effects on a target phenotype. We hypothesised that fidgetiness and enjoyment of activity would be heritable but that objectively-measured ...
van Jaarsveld, CHM, Jane Wardle, Fisher, A, Llewellyn, CH, Abigail Fisher, Cornelia H M van Jaarsveld, Wardle, J, Clare H Llewellyn   +7 more
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Liberalism, Pluralism and Education [PDF]

, 2010
The thesis is an investigation into the proper way a liberal education system should respond to the diversity of opinions that are held in modern societies.
Fowler, Timothy M., Fowler, Timothy M
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Retention and loss of Bernese Alemannic traits in an Indiana Amish dialect: A comparative-historical study

, 1996
This study examines the degree to which Bernese Alemannic traits have been retained or lost in the basic phonology and lexicon of the Swiss-German dialect spoken in the Adams County, Indiana Old Order Amish community.
Humpa, Gregory Joseph
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Liberalism & internally illiberal minority cultures : a plea for a substantive exit rights strategy

, 2015
This dissertation seeks to answer the following question: does a commitment to liberalism require state remediation of illiberal practices of illiberal minority cultures that only affect their own members?
De Vries, Bouke
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North America's Amish-Mennonites Adopt Abroad: The Ideologies and Institutional Conditions that Cracked the Homogeneity of an Ethnic Religion. [PDF]

Soc Compass, 2023
Anderson C, Anderson J.
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Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 33, No. 2

, 1984
• Children of the Spirit, Not of the Law: Themes in Anabaptist Theology • Religious Symbols in a Symbol-less Society • Games and Activities of the New Wilmington Amish School Children • The Amish Quilts of Lancaster County 1860 to 1930 • Francis ...
Martin, Susan P., Miller, Harold C., Parsons, William T., Miller, Joseph S., Hoover, Amos B., Kring, Hilda Adam, Safanda, Elizabeth M.   +6 more
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The productivity tool.

, 2004
Three major methods that the production engineer uses to quantify formation damage in terms of well performance based on the total skin factor after drilling operations are: production logging, flow measurement and well test data.

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The population structure of the Amish, a rapidly growing ethnic religion in North America. [PDF]

Popul Stud (Camb)
Anderson C, Thiehoff S.
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Complement factor I deficiency-associated neuroinflammatory disease among Old Order Amish. [PDF]

J Allergy Clin Immunol
Reid W, Baas L, Stiegler AL, Boggon TJ, Kreiger PA, Sullivan KE, Behrens EM, Kandula VVR, van den Heuvel LP, Brigatti KW, Carson VJ, Romberg N.   +11 more
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Milk and biopolitics : the emergence and re-conceptualization of food sovereignty in the raw milk movement as a means of resisting biopower

, 2014
This investigation questions the validity of current academic discourses which seek to conceptualize food sovereignty, as it is currently defined, as a means of resisting neoliberalism.
Taylor, Astrid Emily
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