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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"old women"”.
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Peak Bone Mass, Lifestyle Factors and Birth Weight: A study of 25-year old women
… To evaluate how bone mass in Swedish young adult women compares with other similarly aged populations and the DXA manufacturer supplied reference values. Methods: 1061 women, aged 25 years at inclusion, were recruited to the PEAK-25 cohort. All participants were measured with DXA. In addition a …
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The role of old women in Zulu culture : with special reference to three tribes in the district of Nkandla
Old age is a neglected area of anthropological research despite the widespread interest in the human life cycle that has characterized much work within the discipline.- With the notable exception of the early pioneering work of Simmons, the anthropological literature on old age in preliterate …
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The effects of moderate exercise on dietary intake, iron status, and cardiovascular endurance of 56- to 67-year-old women
… and cardiovascular fitness in 56- to 67-year-old women. Women 56- to 67-years-old were randomly assigned to two groups: exercise (n=8) or non-exercise (n=9) groups. Women in the exercise group cycled on an ergometer three days/week, 30 minutes/session at 70-75% maximal heart rate for 10 …
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The tin church
… on the farm Hebron near Swaziland where two old women, Catherine and Maria, live. Their memories are stirred and disturbed by the discovery. Two young girls weave a close bond of friendship on the farm. Their childhood promises made in the tin church on the hill above Hebron are to have …
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Selected nutritional and biochemical characteristics of non-institutionalized rural elderly women living in Story City, Iowa
… height and weight history of 25 reference women (50-64 years), 28 "young-old" women (65-84 years) and 12 "old-old" women (85-92 years). Heights and weights were also measured. Fasting blood samples were obtained and analyzed for total serum cholesterol, high density lipoprotein cholesterol …
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Examining visual cognitive complexity in the context of online women's magazine home pages
An experiment (N=48) on 18 to 30 year-old women was run to see how the visual cognitive complexity of digital women's magazines' home pages affects the cognitive processing of individuals and their evaluations of the sites. A content analysis of 13 online magazines was conducted and six magazine …
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Making Community in the Wilderness: A Case Study of Women's Land's Throughout the United States
… 2018, I spent time at nine of the lands and two women's-only music festivals and interviewed 39 women. This dissertation is the result of those interviews and my copious field notes. Chapter one frames the question of community sociologically and examines why the lands often remained homogenous …
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“But who do you say I am?” Images of God, Pacific Young Women and Mental Wellbeing
… of young Christian, multi-ethnic Pacific women. It focuses on this cohort’s individual images of God, what influences these images of God and how these images can impact an individual’s mental wellbeing. The overarching research question – ‘How do young Pacific females’ images of God …
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The Nursing assessment of readiness for instruction of breast self-examination instrument (NARIB): Instrument development
… subscales of the NARIB between 20 to 35 year-old women who report compliance and who do not report compliance with the Breast Self-Examination (BSE). Also, the reliability of the subscales of the NARIB was determined. The conceptual framework for this study was based on the Self-Care Model by …
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Early parental loss, socioeconomic stressors, and health in later life: Evidence for gender disparity
… affected cognitive and subjective health in older adults. Using three main articles, this dissertation investigated (1) the effect of early parental loss on cognitive well-being in Chinese oldest old; (2) the effect of intergenerational socioeconomic mobility on cognitive and subjective …
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Gray Matters: Aging in the Age of #grannyhair
… grannyhair trend on instagram. Recently, younger women have been coloring their hair combinations of white, silver, and gray and posting images of their style on instagram with the #grannyhair designation. In this study we use an intersectional approach to age and gender relations to explore this …
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Impacts of Childbearing on College Success: A Study of Two Generations
… study compared U.S. Census data from 22–24-year-old women in 1980 and 2020 to determine the individual and contextual variables most predictive of bachelor’s degree attainment. The regressions were conducted for women overall, women who have ever enrolled in college, mothers, and mothers who have …
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Unclaimed flowers and blossoms protected by Thorns: never-married women in the United States, 1880-1930.
… and class. The number of never-married women in the United States grew between 1880 and 1920 as a result of the new employment opportunities that appeared in the decades following the Civil War. U.S. census data reveals that during these years the percent of forty-five to fifty-four year …
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Skirtingo amžiaus moterų žinių, apie osteoporozės rizikos veiksnius ir prevencijos priemones, vertinimas /
… percent of the Lithuanian‘s population, mostly women. Osteoporosis is a disease that can be avoided by controlling risk factors and by timely taking prevention measures. Therefore, it is significant that women have sufficient knowledge about osteoporosis risk factors and preventive measures. …
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Loss of muscle strength and power in older women and adaptation to resistance training
… the lower levels of muscle strength and power in older women, who are at higher risk than men for age-related disability, and some of the adaptations in response to resistance training. The initial study showed that it is not only a smaller contractile muscle volume, estimated separately from the …
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A Sociolinguistic study of the Dawāsir dialect in Dammam, Eastern Arabia: fortition of /j/ and unrounding of /a:/
… men across the different age-groups (old, middle-aged, young) and young females, are leading the change in using the common features in KSA. On the other hand, speakers with tight social networks, mainly old women, are more conservative in retaining the traditional local linguistic …
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The economic and clinical outcomes and policy implications of gene expression profiling in breast cancer care
… to NIH guidelines in a cohort of 44 year-old women with early stage breast cancer. We utilized a decision analytic model that was informed by empiric and literature-based estimates, and model parameters were varied in sensitivity analyses. As an input to the decision model, the costs of …
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Bone turnover markers and prediction of bone loss in elderly women
… in Sweden annually and approximately half of the women in western world will sustain a fragility fracture after the age of 50 years. Fracture preventive efforts require the identification of individuals who are at high risk. Biochemical markers of bone turnover (BTMs) have shown some degree of …
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