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Reliability of retrospective assessment of the age of first menstruation

Anthropological Review, 2023
The age of the first menstruation is one of the indicators for assessing the course of puberty. It is also a sensitive indicator of the economic situation of individual professional groups or societies, and the low average age of menarche is widely ...
Ryszard Żarów, Agnieszka Woronkowicz, Barbara Spring, Małgorzata Kowal, Janusz Brudecki   +4 more
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Long-term Changes in Body Build of Male and Female Judo Competitors

Central European Journal of Sport Sciences and Medicine, 2018
The aim of the study was to determine if changes in the body build of judo athletes over a time span of 20 years are in line with trends described in the literature. Anthropometry of 60 male and 46 female judokas was performed.
Jadwiga Pietraszewska, Anna Burdukiewicz, Aleksandra Stachoń, Justyna Andrzejewska, Krystyna Chromik   +4 more
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The case of Heinrich Wilhelm Poll (1877-1939): A German-Jewish geneticist, eugenicist, twin researcher, and victim of the Nazis [PDF]

, 2006
This paper uses a reconstruction of the life and career of Heinrich Poll as a window into developments and professional relationships in the biological sciences in Germany in the period from the beginning of the twentieth century to the Nazi seizure of ...
Braund, James, Sutton, Douglas G.
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Making the Invisible Visible: Inviting Persons with Disabilities into the Life of the Church [PDF]

, 2018
Christianity espouses the dignity of all humanity and professes welcome for all to the communion of saints. Yet people with disabilities, especially those with more severe or profound physical or psychological disabilities, are largely invisible inside ...
Carlson, Mary E.
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Physical education as Olympic education [PDF]

, 1998
Introduction In a recent paper (Parry, 1998, p. 64), I argued that the justification of PE activities lies in their capacity to facilitate the development of certain human excellences of a valued kind.
Benn, P., Brundage, A., Carl-Diem-Inst, Eyler, M.H., Grupe, O., Hirst, P.H., Hoberman, J., Ioc, Jim Parry, Kitto, H.D.F., Laemmer, M., Lenk, H., Lenk, H., Lenk, H., MacIntyre, A., Nissiotis, N., Paleologos, K., Parry, J., Parry, J., Parry, J., Parry, J., Parry, J., Roesch, H-E., Samaranche, J-A., Segrave, J.O., Segrave, J.O., Young, D.C.   +26 more
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Long-term changes in fat distribution in children and adolescents aged 3-18 from Krakow (Poland), within the last 30 years (from 1983 to 2010)

Anthropological Review, 2018
In Poland, even in the late twentieth century, the problem of obesity was not significant. However, recent studies have shown an increase in the prevalence of overweight and obesity.
Kryst Łukasz, Woronkowicz Agnieszka, Kowal Małgorzata, Sobiecki Jan   +3 more
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A Generalised Neural Network Model to Estimate Sex from Cranial Metric Traits: A Robust Training and Testing Approach

Applied Sciences, 2022
The morphology of the human cranium allows for reconstructing important information about the identity of an individual, such as age, ancestry, sex, and health status.
Antonietta Del Bove, Alessio Veneziano
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Sex bias in celiac disease: XWAS and monocyte eQTLs in women identify TMEM187 as a functional candidate gene

Biology of Sex Differences, 2023
Background Celiac disease (CeD) is an immune-mediated disorder that develops in genetically predisposed individuals upon gluten consumption. HLA risk alleles explain 40% of the genetic component of CeD, so there have been continuing efforts to uncover ...
Alba Hernangomez-Laderas, Ariadna Cilleros-Portet, Silvia Martínez Velasco, Sergi Marí, María Legarda, Bárbara Paola González-García, Carlos Tutau, Iraia García-Santisteban, Iñaki Irastorza, Nora Fernandez-Jimenez, Jose Ramon Bilbao   +10 more
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Twenty years of the Centre for Physical Anthropology [PDF]

, 2013
The article provides an overview of the activities of the Centre for PhysicalAnthropology at the University of Tartu from its foundation in 1993 to ...
Kaarma, Helje
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A taste of the unfamiliar: understanding the meanings attached to food by international postgraduate students in England [PDF]

, 2010
Using findings from semi-structured interviews with international postgraduate students in England, this paper explores the meanings attached to the food they eat in a new culture.
Abraído-Lanza, Brown, Brown, Brown, Burns, Cushner, Cushner, Dovey, Edwards, Finkelstein, Furnham, Furukawa, Garza-Guerrero, Giddens, Gordon-Larsen, Gosden, Hall, Hall, Heather Hartwell, Henry, Himmelgreen, Hofstede, Ikeda, Jamal, John Edwards, Kedia, Kim, Lara, Leonard, Locher, Lorraine Brown, Louie, Mason, McDonald, McIntosh, Neuhouser, Okorocha, O’Reilly, Pan, Potter, Ryan, Saleh, Simmel, Simmons, Triandis, Wandel, Ward, Warde, Warren, Zwingmann   +49 more
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