: American Indian Ceremonial Dances: Navajo-Pueblo-Apache-Zuni . Ira Moskowitz.

Navajo Ceremonial System

An Analysis of the Timed Z - channel Ira S . Moskowitz

Our timed Z-channel (a general case of the Zchannel) appears as the basis for a large class of covert channels. Golomb analyzed the Z-channel, a memoryless channel with two input symbols and two output symbols, where one of the input symbols is transmitted with noise while the other is transmitted without noise, and the output symbol transmission times are equal. We introduce the timed Z-channe...

Electrocardiographic axis deviation in Navajo and Apache indians.

It has been our clinical impression that the range of the mean frontal-plane electrocardiographic QRS axis was greater than might have been anticipated in healthy Navajo and Apache Indians. To determine whether this clinical impression was correct, electrocardiograms were obtained from 146 Navajo, 144 Apache, and 159 non-Navajo non-Apache schoolchildren with normal findings on cardiovascular ex...

Non-ceremonial tobacco use among southwestern rural American Indians: the New Mexico American Indian Behavioural Risk Factor Survey.

OBJECTIVES To ascertain non-ceremonial tobacco use among rural American Indians in New Mexico (United States). DESIGN A geographically targeted telephone survey. SETTING Rural New Mexico. PARTICIPANTS American Indian residents aged 18 years and older. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Prevalence of ever-smokers and current smokers of cigarettes and ever-users and current users of smokeless tobacco,...

Cancer incidence in the Zuni Indians of New Mexico.

The total age-adjusted incidence of cancer in the Zuni Indians of New Mexico was significantly lower than that of the New Mexico Anglo population during the period 1969-1982. Specific sites at which the Zunis had a significantly lower number of cases than expected, based on the rates for Anglos, are: colon, rectum and anus, lung, breast, endometrium, melanoma of the skin, pancreas, and the leuk...