Sedentarization and Child Health: A Case Study of the Nutritional Status of Children Under 5 Years Old in the Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Objectives This study evaluates differences in the nutritional status of children under 5 years old among the Bodi (Mela) of southwest Ethiopia, in the context of a sedentarization program which involved resettlement of pastoralist families in government‐designed villages (villagization sites).
Keestra SM +6 more
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Arthropod ectoparasites of synanthropic rodents in northern-central Italy. [PDF]
The presence of ectoparasites in synanthropic rodents in various Italian provinces was investigated. Eighty‐one Rattus norvegicus, 49 Rattus rattus and 10 Mus musculus were examined Polyplax spinulosa lice, Myobiidae mites, Laelaps echidninus and Notoedres muris were mainly recovered.
Dini FM +3 more
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Sedentarism in Recreational Marathon Runners
Although it has been previously observed that sedentary behavior (SB) was not related to training duration in marathon runners, little information existed about the relationship of SB with training, anthropometric and physiological characteristics in this population.
Nikolaidis, Pantelis T, Knechtle, Beat
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Sedentarism and Metabolic Syndrome: Broadening the measurement of sedentarism [PDF]
The metabolic syndrome (MS) is a combination of cardiovascular risk factors, including visceral obesity, low HDL cholesterol level, increased triglycerides, hyperglycemia and high blood pressure. This sequence of risk factors contributes towards the development of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ACVD) and diabetes mellitus.
LC Magalhães +4 more
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Based on the available archaeological material, the article covers a number of issues related to the kurgans of nomads from the middle of the 1st millennium BC within the sub-mountain zone of the Bashkir Trans-Urals, embankments of which were built using
Vitaliy N. Vasilev
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Sedentarization of the Medieval Nomads of Eastern Europe: Understandings and Manifestations
Research objectives: To demonstrate that, contrary to the opinion of many researchers of the history and culture of nomads during the Middle Ages, sedentarization (the transition from a nomadic to settled lifestyle) was neither an end in itself nor the ...
Ivanov V.A.
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Gatherings of mobility and immobility: itinerant “criminal tribes” and their containment by the Salvation Army in colonial South India [PDF]
In retelling the history of “criminal tribe” settlements managed by the Salvation Army in Madras Presidency (colonial India) from 1911, I argue that neither the mobility–immobility relationship nor the compositional heterogeneity of (im)mobility ...
Arora, Saurabh
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Quarenta anos de imigração africana: um balanço
After the characterization of African immigration in terms of volume, evolution and phases, we analyze the socio-demographic, socio-professional, socio-cultural and identity dynamics associated to the process of sedentarization of the African immigrants.
Fernando Luís Machado
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Dormancy and Revitalization: The fate of ethnobotanical knowledge of camel forage among Sahrawi nomads and refugees of Western Sahara [PDF]
Knowledge about forage is fundamental to the survival of pastoral populations around the world. In this paper, we address the knowledge of camel forage of Sahrawi nomads and refugees of Western Sahara.
Puri, Rajindra K., Volpato, Gabriele
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The continental generalization, since the beginning of the new millennium, of a mandatory “integration courses” scheme addressing all third country national adults who are candidate to sedentarization, seems to renew the work of legal immigration ...
Emma Barrett Fiedler
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