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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Mummies"”.
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Yummy Mummies, baby bumps and body image : shaping 'Postmodern' pregnancy in Melbourne, Australia
This thesis is based on a longitudinal study exploring feelings about body image and `fatness' in a sample of 38 pregnant women living in Melbourne. Framed within discourses of social surveillance, biomedicine, and celebrity, the thesis argues that the most important articulations of body image …
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Unangax̂ Mummies as Whalers: A Multidisciplinary Contextualization of Human Mummification in the Aleutian Islands
This thesis provides an analysis of Unangax̂ (Aleut) mummification in the context of their other methods of body deposition. It explores the hypothesis that whalers and their families belonged to an ancient shamanistic whaling complex that existed throughout coastal regions that practiced whaling. …
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Radiometric evaluation of the prehistoric mortuary practices of the Chinchorro culture in northern Chile
… these hypotheses 16 samples from 15 Chinchorro mummies of the Arica, Chile area were 14C dated. These figures were then compared to 23 previously published dates. Results demonstrated that the classification scheme proposed by Arriaza (1995a, 1995b) is supported with one exception. The …
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Investigating the use of coca and other psychoactive plants in Pre-Columbian mummies from Chile and Peru. An analytical investigation into the feasibility of testing ancient hair for drug compounds.
Psychoactive plants have played a significant role in Andean cultures for millennia. Whilst there is evidence of the importance of psychoactive plants in the Andean archaeological record, none of these are direct proof that these culturally significant plants were used by ancient Andean …
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An evolution of creativity and ritual: The immortalizing craftmenship of the Chinchorro morticians
… The style, technique, and complexity of the mummies indicate Chinchorro morticians played a central social and political role in shaping their society. It is speculated that the morticians were females during the black period based on correlations drawn from the mortuary remains reflecting …
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Computer graphics simulation of organic and inorganic optical and morphological appearance changes.
… and skin darkening that are comparable to real mummies.
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Discrete model for cancer tumor growth and effect of chemotherapy
… found in fossilized bone tumors and in human mummies and from ancient Egypt times. Cancer is largely a manifestation of abnormal cell growth with the potential of spreading to different parts of the body. They can form a new tumor, which is a group of the cells that undergoes unregulated …
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Use of Triptorelin Acetate for Inducing Ovulation and Facilitating Fixed Time Artificial Insemination of Sows Weaned on Small-Scale and Niche Market Pig Farms
… size (11.3), number born dead (1.0) or number of mummies (0.2). There was an effect (P < 0.05) of P.G. 600 x OvuGel on total born live (10.2). Sows treated with OvuGel had a greater number of live piglets born per semen dose (5.4) compared to sows that did not receive OvuGel (3.2) (P < 0.05). …
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An Egyptian mummy and coffin at University College Cork
This thesis is an attempt to establish the relationship between an Egyptian mummy, cartonnage and coffin. To this end, the mummy was x-rayed by conventional means and C.T scanning to discover possible a date and to discover whether there was anything unusual about it from the point of view of …
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Ecological and logistical considerations toward introducing Heringia calcarata to New Zealand
… aphids (13.4 ± 0.42 SE) and very few mummies (0.4 ± 0.14 SE) compared with non-parasitized aphids (14.2 ± 0.4 SE). In no-choice feeding trials, larvae consumed significantly more non-parasitized aphids (25.3 ± 1.93 SE) than aphids in an early stage of parasitization (19.7 ± 1.85 SE) or …