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Ivory anatomical manikins.
REPRESENTATIONS OF the human body have been sculptured since prehistoric times, for then our forebears fashioned small female figures with exaggerated breasts and hips. The sculptors of Greece and Rome made commonplace the form of gods, heroes and prominent citizens which were used to decorate public places and buildings. Wealthy patrons of the arts collected statues and statuettes of bronze or...
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In medical education, human patient simulators, or manikins, are a well established method of teaching medical skills. The current state of the art manikins are limited in their functions by a fixed number of in-built hardware devices, such as pressure sensors and motor actuators that control the manikin behaviors and responses. In this work, we review several research projects, where applied t...
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Two African states, Tanzania and Zambia, are seeking to change the ban on trade in ivory at the meeting next month of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) in Qatar. But the countries face a battle, because other states, such as Kenya and Mali, are strongly opposed to any change and have been lobbying the EU in Brussels this month to support a block to any chan...
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Species (Cites) in 1989, to halt the steep decline in elephant numbers. “Wild elephant populations were decimated by the ivory trade. By the time the 1989 Cites ban came into force, Africa’s elephants had been reduced by more than 50 per cent,” says Mark Jones, programmes director at Care for the Wild, an international wildlife charity which commissioned the mammoth ivory report. “Poaching cont...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Medical History
سال: 1972
ISSN: 0025-7273,2048-8343
DOI: 10.1017/s0025727300017518