Traditional Indigenous knowledge is increasingly recognised and incorporated both in and beyond the university. In Canada‘s Northwest Territories, this recognition has been manifest as policy mandating that scientists incorporate the knowledge of elders and hunters into their environmental and climate change research. However, the recognition of traditional knowledge has not always been met wit...

1 Cambridge Computational Biology Institute, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, U.K. 2 SynthSys, C.H. Waddington Building, University of Edinburgh, U.K. 3 Cambridge Systems Biology Centre, University of Cambridge, U.K. 4 Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, U.K. 5 MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Cambridge...

  Drawing on recent developments in linguistic description and applied linguistics, it can be concluded that learning a language necessitates getting to know something and being able to do something with that knowledge: competence, and performance. Structural approach to language description attaches importance to the former; communicative approach to the latter. Appropriate classroom discours...

Please cite this article as: Sun, Yadong, Lai, Xulong, Wignall, Paul B., Widdowson, Mike, Ali, Jason R., Jiang, Haishui, Wang, Wei, Yan, Chunbo, Bond, David P.G., Védrine, Stéphanie, Dating the onset and nature of the Middle Permian Emeishan large igneous province eruptions in SW China using conodont biostratigraphy and its bearing on mantle plume uplift models, LITHOS (2010), doi: 10.1016/j.li...

It was shown by McCance and Strangeways (1954) and McCance and Widdowson (1954a, b) that the protein breakdown of normal full-term infants amounted to about 79 mg. N/kg. body weight/24 hr. over the first two days of life if the infants were given during this time 50 ml. of water but no food. The comparable figure for healthy adults was 174 mg. N/kg. of body weight/24 hr. It has also been shown ...

It was pointed out by Trowell, Davis, and Dean (1954) that, 'Nothing is known about the completeness of recovery from severe kwashiorkor', and this is to a large extent still true. An increase in the body weight is admittedly a sign of recovery, and indeed a very important criterion of it, but unless the final weight and height attained are also known it is impossible to say whether it has been...

Most of the papers in this symposium are concerned with dynamic studies: isotopic tracers may provide information about the metabolism of labelled molecules within the living body which cannot be obtained by any other means. However, in the measurement of body composition, isotope techniques are in general less powerful. If you wish to know how much water, protein, fat or mineral a whole body o...

Institute for Health Research & Policy, London Metropolitan University, London, UK; Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, London, UK; Child Growth Foundation, 2 Mayfield Avenue, London, UK; MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Cambridge, UK and MRC International Nutrition Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Londo...

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