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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"age studies"”.
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Renbaan cave : stone tools, settlement and subsistence
… site in the context of contemporary Later Stone Age studies in the southwestern Cape. It is designed to complement the research of professor John Parkington. It is argued that settlement and subsistance patterns at Renbaan Cave reflect similar patterns to those noted at other small cave/shelter …
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Synthesis, characterization, and evaluation of a heat stabilizing siloxane
… via NMR spectroscopy and evaluated via heat age studies. The material, confirmed via <sup>29</sup>Si NMR, was proven effective through heat age testing in both fluid and elastomer formulations.</p>
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Age, movements, and feeding ecology of northwest Atlantic white sharks estimated from ecogeochemical profiles in vertebrae
… predators. Ecogeochemistry, which takes advantage of natural variations in chemical signatures recorded in body tissues, can help determine lifetime movement, age, and ontogenetic diet history in difficult to study species. Shark vertebrae are constructed of distinct layers of tissue laid down …
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Age, movements, and feeding ecology of northwest Atlantic white sharks estimated from ecogeochemical profiles in vertebrae
… predators. Ecogeochemistry, which takes advantage of natural variations in chemical signatures recorded in body tissues, can help determine lifetime movement, age, and ontogenetic diet history in difficult to study species. Shark vertebrae are constructed of distinct layers of tissue laid down …
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Visualising Southern African late iron age settlements in the digital age
VISUALISING SOUTHERN AFRICAN LATE IRON AGE SETTLEMENTS IN THE DIGITAL AGE studies the visualisation of Southern African Late Iron Age Settlements (LIAS) (c. 900–1800) across the late nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first centuries (1871–2020), as found in a survey of the cultural …
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Obesity and Health Status among Urban vs. Suburban Elderly in Philadelphia and Surrounding Counties
… lower SES. Although obesity is a problem for all age groups, its prevalence is highest among those 60-74 years of age. Studies have shown that there is an association between obesity and chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease, arthritis, cancers, and type-2 diabetes. According to the …
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Innocence and Experience: Figuring the Child in the Fiction of A. L. Barker
… assumptions about what different identities of age entail, meaning that her oeuvre should be read as a ‘genealogy’ of age. I argue that the central question of Barker’s work is if, and how, the child can be written. She wrestles with this question for over thirty years, writing and rewriting the …
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Wetwang Slack : an Iron Age cemetery on the Yorkshire Wolds.
This work is an examination of a large Iron Age cemetery which was excavated by the writer at Wetwang Slack on the Yorkshire Wolds between 1975 and 1979. The chief features which make this site exceptional are the large number of inhumation burials involved (446), the unusually good stratigraphical …
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Quedas em idosos institucionalizados: identificando fatores de riscos
… increasing the risk of decline with advancing age. Studies show a higher incidence of falls among institutionalized elderly, greatly jeopardizing their health status and their living conditions. This study aims to identify the risk factors of falls for elderly residents of a long-stay …
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Rewriting the aging body: literacy, technology, and history
… favorite blogs, a visit to her son’s Twitter page, and a quick scan of reader comments on her own weekly blog posts. She looks forward to corresponding with a fellow blogger, who will help her get the most out of the e-reader she received as a gift for her birthday—her eighty-fifth. Accounts …
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Fetal origins of cardiovascular dysfunction in an ovine model of maternal obesity in pregnancy
… worldwide, including in women of reproductive age. Studies in humans and animal models have shown that exposure to obesity during pregnancy increases the cardiometabolic disease risk in the offspring, independent of genetic and postnatal environmental factors. However, whether cardiometabolic …
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Aging well: Shaping age identities in the literature of the British welfare state
… dissertation traces a literary genealogy of old age and argues that British literature offers both a systematic challenge to the regulatory models of the life course solidified during the twentieth century and emerging from the welfare state, as well as a necessary caveat concerning recent …
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Teachers' view on early childhood special education : A case of Livingstone
… in our education system from pre¬school age. Studies undertaken in other countries such as the United States of America, Canada, Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom and some parts of Europe and Africa have indicated that early childhood special education works well. This may be due to …
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World language acquisition in early childhood urban immersion programs
… country is lagging: early childhood world language acquisition In the 21st century, most countries around the world teach children a foreign language at an early age, whereas in the United States, it is English only.” Since most countries teach English as a Foreign Language as part of the core …
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Mock jurors' judgements of the victim, crime and defendant as a function of victim race and deliberation
… attractiveness, socio-economic status, and age. Studies conducted in North America indicate that the race of the victim and defendant inappropriately influences jurors' decision-making. However, to date, no such published research has been conducted in Australia. Due to Australia's diverse …
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Acción psicosocial a través del movimiento, juego y deporte en contextos de violencia y de conflicto : investigación sobre la adecuación sociocultural de la "terapia a través del deporte" y evaluación de un programa con mujeres de Guatemala
… In addition, the evidence is primarily based on studies from western countries that differ significantly from disadvantaged countries, both in opportunities and access to sports practice and also in regards to lifestyle, culture, state of health, resources, interests, etc. There is a strong need …