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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"heredity"”.
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Beliefs on Heredity in Welkom, Free State
… language, culture, and beliefs. The beliefs on heredity vary widely and may in part relate to an incomplete understanding of the concept of heredity. Congenital disorders, many of which are genetic in origin, are one of the major contributors to neonatal deaths in South Africa. Which is one of …
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"Like Produces Like": Popular Conceptions of Heredity in Canada, 1860-1900
This dissertation examines popular conceptions of heredity in Canada between 1860-1900. I focus on three bodies of literature in which ideas about heredity were explored, discussed, and negotiated: farmersâ and breedersâ periodicals, written by and for farmers and animal breeders; medical advice …
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Heredity in Parkinson's disease. From rare mutations to common genetic risk factors.
… and cognitive decline. The clinical phenotype, heredity and genetic background of 132 probands from Southern Sweden with PD or parkinsonism was examined. The SNCA, LRRK2, EIF4G1, VPS35, PINK1, ATXN2 and ATXN3 genes were analyzed in all probands; the PARKIN, PINK1 and DJ1 genes were tested in a …
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Genius, heredity, and family dynamics. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his children : a literary biography.
The children of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Hartley, Derwent, and Sara, have received limited scholarly attention, though all were important nineteenth century figures. Lack of scholarly attention on them can be blamed on their father, who has so overshadowed his children that their value has been …
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Heredity and the Human Condition: A Study of 20th Century Genetic Accounts of Alcoholism
This dissertation takes as its starting point some curious historical parallels in research on the heritability of alcoholism from opposite ends of the 20th century, and the underlying continuity in assumptions implicated by these parallels. Rather than review mainstream historical narratives on …
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National Fitness or Failure? Heredity, Vice and Racial Decline in New Zealand Psychiatry: A Case Study of the Auckland Mental Hospital, 1868-99
… it foregrounds the perceived roles played by heredity and vice in medical diagnoses both inside institutions and in wider discussions about mental illness. The thesis draws upon medical journals, popular newspaper articles, government reports and debates, and patient case notes from the …
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Rehabilitation of obesity
… the life span that interact to cause obesity. Heredity factors, overfeeding in infancy and childhood, repeated dieting, inactivity, lifestyle and psychosocial conditions all contribute to the incidence of obesity.
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Contributions to Structured Variable Selection Towards Enhancing Model Interpretation and Computation Efficiency
… proposal consists of three parts: an additive heredity model with coefficients incorporating the multi-level data, a regularized dynamic generalized linear model with piecewise constant functional coefficients, and a structured variable selection method within the best subset selection …
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Prion biology in the context of bacteria
… where they function as protein-based units of heredity that confer unique phenotypic traits on those cells that harbor them. To date, the discovery of prions and prion-like phenomena has been confined to the Eukarya. The work presented in this thesis seeks to explore the possibility that …
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Genetic and social aspects of Huntington's chorea
… and provides a history of the study of heredity to facilitate an understanding of problems concerning the inheritance of the disease.
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Embryology and the evolutionary synthesis: Waddington, development and genetics
… evolution. The unification of neo-Mendelian heredity and neo-Darwinian selection theory, is descnbed as the core of modern synthetic neo-Darwinism as it emerged in 1930s mathematical population genetics. As selectionism strengthened within synthetic neo-Darwinism, embryological development …
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The herds shot round the world : native breeds and the British Empire, 1800-1900
… and location-of the dynamic interaction between heredity, human influence and environmental conditions, and their various fluid effects on ovine and bovine diversity. Drawing on extensive archival work in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia, I trace both the national origins and …
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Genes and environment in language acquisition : a study of early vocabulary and syntactic development in twins
… this thesis is to explore the contributions of heredity and environment to language development using the twin method. This method consists of comparing monozygotic (MZ) twins to dizygotic (DZ) twins to see if MZs have a more similar course of development. Two major aspects of language …
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On Morita Equivalences Between KLR Algebras and VV Algebras
… algebras such as a�ne cellularity and a�ne quasi-heredity. We also include a discussion about the problems encountered when trying to de�ne �nite-dimensional quotients of these algebras. Finally, in certain settings, we show how to de�ne these quotients and explain how they relate to cyclotomic …
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Inquiry-based science for high school students: a forensic unit
… structure and function of DNA and its role in heredity and protein synthesis. The standard time frame is 24 days with 70-minute periods, but can be easily adjusted to meet classroom needs. Several instructional strategies enhance student learning and make science fun. The unit is inquiry-driven …
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Representations De La Noblesse Dans Le Roman Francais (1789--1848)
… model is organized around the following aspects: heredity and the idea of biological superiority, family and matrimonial practices, individual vs. lineage, education and savoir-faire, forms of sociability, (non)conformity to the norms, interpretation of signs and appearances, political …
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Représentations de la noblesse dans le roman français (1789-1848)
… model is organized around the following aspects: heredity and the idea of biological superiority, family and matrimonial practices, individual vs. lineage, education and savoir-faire, forms of sociability, (non)conformity to the norms, interpretation of signs and appearances, political …
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Some anthropological and clinical aspects of nasal morphology
… in this variability of response includes race, heredity, nutritional state, climate, social environment, psychological outlook and bodily morphology. The gross anatomy of certain organs of the body such, for example, as the endocrine glands has a little or no relation to their fundamental …
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