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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Native American populations"”.
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Anthropometric Variation in California: A Study of Native American Populations
… cephalic and nasal index means from four Native American populations using modern statistical methods, including one-way ANOVA tests and Games-Howell comparison tests. The individuals used were of only Native American ancestry, over the age of seventeen when the data was collected, and …
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Anthropometric Variation in California: A Study of Native American Populations
… cephalic and nasal index means from four Native American populations using modern statistical methods, including one-way ANOVA tests and Games-Howell comparison tests. The individuals used were of only Native American ancestry, over the age of seventeen when the data was collected, and …
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Smallpox Diffusion Between Small and Dispersed Historic Native American Populations
… when and where epidemics affected specific populations by studying local types and frequencies of interaction.
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Health and Cultural Interaction in the Illinois Country: A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Three Historic Native American Populations
… similar, the lifestyle of women varied between populations in response to their changing roles in their individual communities. This study emphasizes the important contributions that bioarchaeological research provides to a more complete understanding of the historical consequences of cultural …
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Worlds Apart: Social Mechanisms of Contrasting Fertility in European American and Native American Populations on the Northern Plains
… Low fertility and outmigration in European American communities have led to dramatic depopulation of the region. At the same time, isolated Indian reservations in the area have grown in population due to high fertility and return migration.<p> A mixed methods research approach was used to …
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Worlds Apart: Social Mechanisms of Contrasting Fertility in European American and Native American Populations on the Northern Plains
… Low fertility and outmigration in European American communities have led to dramatic depopulation of the region. At the same time, isolated Indian reservations in the area have grown in population due to high fertility and return migration.<p> A mixed methods research approach was used to …
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Native American Children and Their Reports of Hope: A Factor Analytic Comparison
… of the Hope Theory (Snyder et al., 1991) among a Native American child population in the Midwest. Dependent variables included (a) the Hope Interview and (b) the Children's Hope Scale. By assessing these variables, this study addressed the following questions: (a) Is the conceptualization of hope …
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FOOD HANDLING PERCEPTIONS, PRACTICES, KNOWLEDGE AND BARRIERS IN NATIVE AMERICAN PRIMARY FOOD HANDLERS OF YOUNG CHILDREN IN NEW MEXICO
<p>Food borne illness among Native American populations exceeds that of majority populations. Due to the unique cultural diversity in New Mexico, these inequities are even greater. Attitudes and behaviors towards food are influenced by social and cultural contexts, yet, there has been limited …
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Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Three Crania Housed at the University of Montana Physical Anthropology Lab
… were used for comparative purposes. Multiple populations from both databases were chosen so as to be representative of various Asian, African, Indian, and Native American populations. Two variations of each of the databases were used in the following statistical analyses: principal components …
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Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Three Crania Housed at the University of Montana Physical Anthropology Lab
… were used for comparative purposes. Multiple populations from both databases were chosen so as to be representative of various Asian, African, Indian, and Native American populations. Two variations of each of the databases were used in the following statistical analyses: principal components …
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Preliminary Validation of a Native American Food Safety Knowledge Survey
… knowledge survey culturally appropriate for Native American Populations. A reiterative three-phased approach (survey generation and item construction, survey item review, and statistical item analysis) to survey validation was employed to collect both quantitative and qualitative data. …
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Evolutionary Genomics of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
… in the European colonies established in the American continent. The barbarous nature of the slavery left significant genetic modifications in the ancestry of modern-day descendants of former slaves (African Americans in United States and in Barbados). This research uses differently inherited …
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The Preservation of the Colonial Spanish Horse and Robert E. Brislawn, Sr.
… islands provided an important stimulus to American exploration as an agent of transportation. In the late nineteenth century, the necessity of horses declined with the advent of railroads and motorized vehicles. Reduction of Native American populations through wars, disease, and forfeiture …
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Ancient DNA from pre-Columbian South America
… investigate demographic and historical events of populations in the continent with the added bonus of having a direct and temporal perspective. This thesis aims to explore human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) diversity from a large number of pre-Columbian samples in a diachronic transect through time …
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The phenomenology of a modern architect and his sense of place: Henry Klumb's residential architecture in Puerto Rico, 1944-1975
… where he lived and worked, and for the local populations at those places. These places and peoples included Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin, the American desert Southwest and its Native American populations, Puerto Rico's mountainous countryside and its rural working poor populations, and parts …