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Chunge Cao, Dajun Cai, Hao Liu, Xia Zhang et al. • Frontiers in Nutrition
(2024)
IntroductionThe relationship between serum uric acid (SUA) and cervical cancer is inconclusive. This study aims to investigate the causal relationship between SUA levels and cervical cancer incidence, and to evaluate the potential role of n...
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DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2024.1464046
Peizhen Huang, Bin Zheng, Shan Liu, Lin Xu et al. • Frontiers in Genetics
(2022)
As an important means of physical examination, palpation is usually limited to the physical examination before surgery and used as an auxiliary method for disease diagnosis in the field of surgery. In practice, palpation is also used in eve...
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DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.894716
Cong Shen, Meina Wu, Minxuan Su, Hao Wu et al. • BMC Genomics
(2025)
Abstract Background The emergence of plasmid-mediated colistin resistance, primarily driven by the mcr-1 gene, represents a major global health threat. IncI2 plasmids, one of the leading carriers of mcr-1, have been frequently recovered fro...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12864-025-12325-y
Eleni Z. Giannopoulou, Stefanie Zorn, Melanie Schirmer, Stephanie Brandt-Heunemann et al. • Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics
(2026)
Abstract Background Melanocortin 4 receptor (MC4R) deficiency is the most common monogenic cause of obesity, yet remains underdiagnosed. Patients with monogenic obesity often undergo a frustrating diagnostic and therapeutic odyssey of years...
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DOI: 10.1186/s40348-025-00214-z
Benjamin A. Pierce (2002)
Introduction to Genetics Genetics Is Important to Us Individually, to Society, and to the Study of Biology Humans Have Been Using Genetics for Thousands of Years A Few Fundamental Concepts Are Important for the Start of Our Journey into Gen...
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Matei Candea • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(2018)
Why and how do social and cultural anthropologists make comparisons? What problems do they encounter in doing so, and how might these be resolved? What, if anything, makes one comparison better than another? This book answers these question...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108667609
Sarah Pink • Routledge eBooks
(2006)
From an eminent author in the field, The Future of Visual Anthropology develops a new approach to visual anthropology and presents a groundbreaking examination of developments within the field and the way forward for the subdiscipline in th...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203003596
Sidney W. Mintz, Christine M. Du Bois • Annual Review of Anthropology
(2002)
▪ Abstract The study of food and eating has a long history in anthropology, beginning in the nineteenth century with Garrick Mallery and William Robertson Smith. This review notes landmark studies prior to the 1980s, sketching the history o...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.32.032702.131011
Jon Harald Sande Lie • Millennium Journal of International Studies
(2012)
Ethnography and anthropology are intrinsically linked, but recently other disciplines have started to draw inspiration from anthropological methods. The ongoing ethnographic turn in International Relations has spurred debate on what ethnogr...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829812463835
Molly H. Mullin • Society and Animals
(2002)
Anthropology encompasses four distinct subdisciplines: biological anthropology, social anthropology (known as “cultural anthropology” in North America), archaeology, and linguistics. Beyond these basic four elds, one could further divide a...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/156853002320936854
Pertti J. Pelto, Gretel H. Pelto • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(1978)
This text is a comprehensive introduction to research methods in social and cultural anthropology. The Peltos focus their discussion on the essential elements of preparing and analyzing the supporting evidence from which generalizations abo...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511607776
Catherine A. Lutz, Geoffrey M. White • Annual Review of Anthropology
(1986)
Interest in has burgeoned in the last decade, not only in anthropology, but in psychology (e.g. 5, 77,113, 141), sociology (e.g. 72, 81), philosophy (e.g. 153, 177), history (e.g. 180), and feminist studies (e.g. 176). A concern to understa...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.an.15.100186.002201
• Routledge eBooks
(2002)
Comparison has long been the backbone of the discipline of anthropology. But recent developments in anthropology, including critical self-reflection and new case studies sited in a globalized world, have pushed comparative work aside. For t...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203463901
Arthur Kleinman • The British Journal of Psychiatry
(1987)
To illustrate the contribution anthropology can make to cross-cultural and international research in psychiatry, four questions have been put to the cross-cultural research literature and discussed from an anthropological point of view: 'To...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.151.4.447
Simon W Hillson • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(1996)
Teeth are one of the best sources of evidence for both identification and studies of demography, biological relationships and health in ancient human communities. This text introduces the complex biology of teeth and provides a practical gu...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139170697
Alessandro Duranti • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(1997)
In this textbook, first published in 1997, Alessandro Duranti introduces linguistic anthropology as an interdisciplinary field which studies language as a cultural resource and speaking as a cultural practice. The theories and methods of li...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511810190
Kimberly G. Wagoner, Olivia E. Horton, Cynthia K. Suerken, E. Alfonso Romero-Sandoval et al. • Preventive Medicine Reports
(2026)
Objectives: We assessed point-of-sale advertising for CBD in three states with different cannabis laws (i.e., medical/recreational use; medical only; CBD/low THC) to determine if CBD is marketed in ways that are prohibited by the U.S. Food ...
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DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2026.103472
R. Brian Lowry, Tanya Bedard, Xin Grevers, Susan Crawford et al. • Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada
(2023)
IntroductionCurrent published long-term provincial or territorial congenital anomaly data are lacking for Canada. We report on prevalence (per 1000 total births) and trends in 1997–2019, in Alberta, Canada, for selected congenital anomalies...
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DOI: 10.24095/hpcdp.43.1.04
Padma Shrestha, Bijay Bajracharya, Deena Shrestha, Ajit Kumar Karna et al. • BMC Microbiology
(2026)
Abstract Background Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has emerged as a critical global health challenge and is currently addressed through a “One Health” approach that investigates its occurrence in humans, animals, and the environment, as wel...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12866-026-04713-5
Rose M. Pignataro, Charles Daramola • Tobacco Prevention and Cessation
(2020)
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The effectiveness of tobacco-free campus policies in preventing and mitigating tobacco use relies on students’ perceptions, opinions, and adherence
to clean-air restrictions. The purpose of this study was to gather data regardi...
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DOI: 10.18332/tpc/125915