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Showing 1 to 20 of 165 for “"scars"”.
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Ultrasound Studies of Caesarean Hysterotomy Scars
… to visualize and assess caesarean hysterotomy scars, and to evaluate the risk of uterine rupture in subsequent pregnancies. The diagnostic value of transvaginal ultrasound for correct evaluation of caesarean hysterotomy scars was determined, and the prevalence of defective scars was estimated. …
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The development of SCARS for identification of AM fungi
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A Clinical Review of Predisposing Factors in Keloids and Hypertrophic Scars
… to prevent the keloids or the hypertrophic scars. The authors evaluated 82 patients (55 female, 27 Male) from March 1998 to September 2006 visited the department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery of Ajou Medical Center. The patients' ages ranged from 5 to 54 years with a median of 20.9 …
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The Bony pelvis scars of parturition and factors Influencing their manifestation
The aim of this study was to measure and describe the range of variation of several sites on the pelvis reported to display parturition scarring in a skeletal sample of 391 individuals (230 males and 161 females). The scar features, body and pelvic dimensions were compared according to the sex, age …
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A Poetic Response to Cancer: Scars, Mortality, and the Doctor-Patient Relationship
… poetry conversation, specifically focusing on scars, mortality and the doctor-patient relationship. I argue that the body standards society sets for women complicate how women wear scars; people read scars as imperfections on the female form. Because scars are visible markers on the body, they …
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Splits and integrations: A phenomenological exploration of self-harm marks and scars
… explores the experience of having marks and scars on the body as a result of self-harm. It aims to investigate the meaning attributed to the marks and scars on the body and how they shape the experience of self-harm and identity of the person. Six female participants gave accounts of their …
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Building a Better Scar: Re-engineering Extracellular Matrix Structure in Dermal Scars
Introduction Cutaneous scars represent a common surgical complication, yet no effective drug therapy for scar treatment currently exists despite huge patient and physician demand. A connexin 43 (Cx43) carboxyl terminus (CT) mimetic peptide, alpha Connexin Carboxy-Terminus 1 (αCT1), has demonstrated …
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Tornado Scars: The Long-term Imprints of Disaster on the Texas Urban Landscape
… of tornadoes upon the built landscape. "Tornado scars" describes the long-term existence of the visual impacts and evidence of historic tornadoes upon the constructed landscape. This research on these scars presents a theoretical framework, details the threat from tornadoes, provides a history of …
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Scars of an Empire: A Juxtaposition of Duncan Campbell Scott and Jacques Soustelle
Scars of Empire juxtaposes the lives and careers of the Canadian poet and civil servant Duncan Campbell Scott (1862-1947) and the French ethnologist and politician Jacques Soustelle (1912-1990). The work adopts a transnational approach to intellectual history that involves Algeria, Canada, France …
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From Threats to Scars: Who does HR go to? Understanding Workplace Violence Towards HR Professionals
Purpose: This dissertation will focus on understanding and exploring workplace violence towards HR professionals and evaluate current safeguarding measures to identify its adequacy, following the rise of violence towards HR professionals. The research will also explore the implications experiencing …
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Schottisches and scars: Finding the unity in music during the division of the Civil War
In this paper, I explore the role of social dance music, particularly the schottische, during the Civil War to address the issue of musical unity during cultural division. My research focused on a set of sixteen schottisches from Duke University's Historical American Sheet Music Project. I analyzed …
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Invisible scars : how domestic violence victims have been left out of the discussion on traumatic brain injuries
… at least one TBI. These injuries leave invisible scars in the form of memory problems. But despite the large prevalence of TBIs in the population, there is a lack of research, stunted by both funding and a lack of subjects. The trouble with research extends to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a …
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Healing beyond the scars of female genital mutilation (FGM): the experiences of Somali women in England with therapeutic interventions
This thesis explores the therapeutic experiences of Somali women in the UK who have undergone Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) or FGM reversal. It focuses on participants' perceptions of psychological interventions and, from these experiences, assesses the cultural competence of therapeutic …
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Creating a Place for Monstrosity: The Forced Liminality and Limited Mobility of Codified Monstrosity in Leigh Bardugo's King of Scars
… and fictional worlds. Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars (2019) is one narrative where this underlying mental health narrative underpins the overarching plot of a character, Nikolai Lantsov, attempting to overcome his transformation into a monster. Applying a combination of psychoanalytic theory and …
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'These wounds and scars have not healed ': a critical gender analysis of the Kenyan Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission's recommendations for reparations
This dissertation provides a critical gender analysis of the Kenyan Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission's (TJRC) recommendations for reparations. While 'gender' describes the form of analysis undertaken, this dissertation is focused on how gender has interacted with other factors to …
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Late Holocene earthflows of the Willard Playa/dune complex, Estancia Valley, New Mexico; a geomorphic response to climatic change
… of this dune complex are numerous elongated scars. These relict scars document a geomorphically distinct earthflow event. Arroyos that cut into flow scars expose eolian earthflow sediment overlying lacustrine deposits. In the zone of depletion, erosional-flow evidence reveals flamed-load …
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Historical fire regimes in southeasern pine savannas
… I used dendrochronologically dated fire scars from stumps of old growth longleaf pines in a large coastal, mainland pine savanna and from dead slash pines on a small, coastal barrier island in north Florida to explore past fire regimes. In the mainland savanna, 71 different fires occurred …
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Skins, scars, blankets and blood : a pictorial response to the tensions and conflicts that arise from the representation and the practice of Ulwaluko in contemporary South Africa
Ulwaluko (the subject of this study) is a Xhosa male initiation or rite of passage normally marked by elaborate ritual ceremonies and authenticated by circumcision. Human longing for ritual is deep, and in our contemporary culture is often frustrated. As an artist working in such an environment, my …
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