منابع مشابه
Dental caries prevalence in the Baffin Island Eskimo.
A survey of 766 Eskimo children in Baffin Zone of the Northwest Territories showed high levels of dental caries comparable to those found elsewhere in the Arctic. Lowest caries rates were in Pond Inlet, one of the most isolated settlements. The fluoridation of water supplies in Frobisher Bay appeared to be effecting a reduction in dental caries in the permanent teeth but not in the deciduous te...
متن کاملContributions to the Ethnobotany of the Cup'it Eskimo, Nunivak Island, Alaska
-Ethnobotanical information on the Native use of 47 spedes of indigenous plants on Nunivak Island, Alaska is presented. Changes in subsistence use among the Cup'it Eskimo of Nunivak, throughout the twentieth centuey, have resulted in the loss of traditional ethnobotanical knowledge. While previous studies have presented limited information on the importance of particular plant species to the lo...
متن کاملCold Acclimatization in Eskimo
0 N EXPOSURE to cold the body has a complicated physiological problem to solve. There is a limit to the heat it can produce to provide for an increased heat loss and during exposure of much severity a heat deficit is incurred. While peripheral tissues are cooling, the central body temperature must be kept within a very narrow range if the function of vital organs is to be maintained. If the acc...
متن کاملeskimo: EXPERIMENTING WITH SKELETONS
We discuss the lack of expressivity in some skeleton-based parallel programming frameworks. The problem is further exacerbated when approaching irregular problems and dealing with dynamic data structures. Shared memory programming has been argued to have substantial ease of programming advantages for this class of problems. We present the eskimo library which represents an attempt to merge the ...
متن کاملScientific jargon and the flow of ideas
The study of scientific communication typically focuses on citations. Yet scientific language has a substantial impact on how information flows through citation networks. For example, specialist language or “jargon" allows experts to communicate efficiently. Using jargon with outsiders, however, makes communication highly inefficient. To explore this duality, we developed a simple information-t...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Anthropologist
سال: 1909
ISSN: 0002-7294
DOI: 10.1525/aa.1909.11.2.02a00050