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Showing 1 to 20 of 582 for “"bones"”.
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Throwing The Bones
<p>This collection of nonfiction lyrical essays is concerned with embodied grief. Looking closely at my mother’s cancer through an interrogation of her medical records, her bodily scans, and my own memories of her final months, these essays explore the way cancer manifests in the body; the way it …
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From Bones to Bytes
… shape analysis. Using sheep and gazelle bones from modern and archaeological populations, it investigates sex-related variation, automated landmarking, and inter-species discrimination under conditions typical of archaeological material. The first part analyses osteometric measurements …
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Bones From the Mind Dog
Bones From the Mind Dog is a collection of six works of short fiction, with a critical introduction outlining the books and experiences that inspired them. "It Was Snowing" is about two brothers and a sister dealing with an alcoholic father; "In These Streets" explores one day in the lives of two …
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The Rhythms of Our Bones
Grief is universal. It permeates all things. This collection is organized into four sections, each concerned with such universality, such permeability, and how the “small,” personal griefs of human relationships echo and form dialogues with the larger, more global griefs of war and violence. …
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Bird Bones and a Hatched Egg
A fifty page manuscript of poetry and a critical introduction detailing the poet's aesthetics. Using the idea of the double-image and eroticism, the poet places her work in the category of the surreal. She describes the process of writing poetry born of fragmentary elements as a feminist emergence …
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Morphometric study of long bones histology
… are not only found within weight bearing bones, but are also demonstrated in non-weight bearing skeletal elements. Second, the existence of this variation is considerable and should be taken into account when utilising histological methods in a forensic context, especially when …
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Vanishing Act: Lymphatic Vessels and Disappearing Bones
Generalized lymphatic anomaly (GLA) and Gorham-Stout disease (GSD) are related diseases of the lymphatic system. Patients with GLA or GSD develop ectopic lymphatic vessels in bone and gradually lose bone. Despite growing interest in the development of tissue-specific lymphatics, the cellular origin …
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An automated tool for measuring human limb bones
… automatically takes multiple measurements on bones using 2D images. Results show that this method takes significantly less time and performs as accurately as standard measurement methods in the field of anthropology. This technology has implications for streamlining data collection practices …
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A study of the comparative methods for the rare earth determination in bones and the rare earth content in human bones
A review of the rare earth elements and their content in various plant sources has been given. The biological and bacteriological aspects of the rare earth elements have been considered. The author has dealt briefly with the chemistry of the animal bone. The solubility of the cerium rich oxalates …
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Functional Information in Individual Anterior Tarsal Bones of Anthropoids
… the external architecture of the five bones, especially the proportions of the articular surfaces, correlates with weight support, mobility, stability, and direction of stress which in turn relate to habitat and locomotion.
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Unbreakable bones: Christian mission and the resilience of Temi culture
This thesis is concerned with the Batemi of northern Tanzania and the symbols through which they assign meaning in their world. At the centre of the research lies the inquiry of how the Batemi reproduce their individual and communal identity through practices and beliefs in the context of a …
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A statistical shape analysis of the neurocranium and long bones
… Procrustes Analyses applied to the individual bones of the neurocranium and the long bones of the limbs. The ability to distinguish groups based on the detected variation was assessed using Discriminant Function Analysis. The results show that, when size is isolated from the data, only a few …
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WITH SLABS, BONES, AND POLES: DE/CONSTRUCTING NARRATIVES OF HURRICANE KATRINA IN JESMYN WARD’S SALVAGE THE BONES, NATASHA TRETHEWEY’S BEYOND KATRINA, AND SELAH SATERSTROM’S SLAB
… Hurricane Katrina: Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones (2011), Natasha Trethewey’s Beyond Katrina (2010), and Selah Saterstrom’s Slab (2015). The texts are arranged by form, beginning with Ward’s novel, followed by Trethewey’s hybrid memoir, and finally, Saterstrom’s experimental novel. The …
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Automated human age at death estimation system from long bones histology
… parameters were analyzed in 44 samples of long bones (humerus, radius, ulna, tibia, fibula and femur). First, the measurements and analyses were carried out using manual methods and then an automated system was developed to eliminate the problems of the manual process. The system assists in …
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Non-invasive measurement of load capacity of trabecular bones with defects
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1997.
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