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La Semana Medica Jun 1962
Topics: Anthropology; Anthropology, Medical; Humans
PubMed: 14010833
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PeerJ 2022Finite element analysis (FEA) is no longer a new technique in the fields of palaeontology, anthropology, and evolutionary biology. It is nowadays a well-established... (Review)
Review
Finite element analysis (FEA) is no longer a new technique in the fields of palaeontology, anthropology, and evolutionary biology. It is nowadays a well-established technique within the virtual functional-morphology toolkit. However, almost all the works published in these fields have only applied the most basic FEA tools ., linear materials in static structural problems. Linear and static approximations are commonly used because they are computationally less expensive, and the error associated with these assumptions can be accepted. Nonetheless, nonlinearities are natural to be used in biomechanical models especially when modelling soft tissues, establish contacts between separated bones or the inclusion of buckling results. The aim of this review is to, firstly, highlight the usefulness of non-linearities and secondly, showcase these FEA tool to researchers that work in functional morphology and biomechanics, as non-linearities can improve their FEA models by widening the possible applications and topics that currently are not used in palaeontology and anthropology.
Topics: Paleontology; Finite Element Analysis; Biological Evolution; Anthropology; Bone and Bones
PubMed: 35966920
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.13890 -
Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry Jun 2011
Topics: Anthropology, Cultural; Attitude of Health Personnel; Cultural Diversity; Curriculum; Education, Medical; Education, Nursing; Ethnopsychology; Humans
PubMed: 21553152
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-011-9207-1 -
Journal of Physiological Anthropology... Jul 2005From an international viewpoint, the physiological anthropology had always developed in a mosaic-like structure until the end of the nineteen-sixties. Some of the pieces...
From an international viewpoint, the physiological anthropology had always developed in a mosaic-like structure until the end of the nineteen-sixties. Some of the pieces of the mosaic then started to create significant elements of the theoretical concepts of this science. Generally speaking, research in physiological anthropology consists of the process of individual biology and the process of population biology. Through using these processes, physiological anthropologists have come to realize the importance of individual thinking and the inadequacy of essentialistic concept such as the ideal man, and now infer that all populations are polytypic. Physiological anthropologists have refined the conceptual framework of their science and composed a set of keywords characterizing it. These are technological adaptability, environmental adaptability, functional potentiality, whole body coordination, and physiological polytypism. These keywords are mutually interdependent and do not form any orthogonal relations.
Topics: Adaptation, Physiological; Anthropology, Physical; Environment; History, 20th Century; History, 21st Century; Physiology
PubMed: 16079569
DOI: 10.2114/jpa.24.289 -
Topics in Cognitive Science Jan 2014
Topics: Anthropology; Anthropology, Cultural; Cognitive Science; Culture; Humans
PubMed: 24482333
DOI: 10.1111/tops.12052 -
Medical Anthropology 2012Although the production of national spaces, citizens, and populations through enumerative practices has been well explored in a variety of disciplines, anthropological...
Although the production of national spaces, citizens, and populations through enumerative practices has been well explored in a variety of disciplines, anthropological methods and analysis can help to illuminate the everyday practices of enumeration, their unexpected consequences, and the co-construction of identities through these processes by both the "counted" and the "counters." The authors in this special issue illustrate how enumeration inflects lived experiences, produces subjectivities, and reconfigures governance. Focusing on the spatial, temporal, ideological, and affective dimensions of the techniques of enumeration, the authors also provide insights into the multiple forms of biopolitical expertise and knowledge that accumulate legitimacy through numerical discourse. They also highlight the ways in which governing structures, institutional and cultural norms, market logics, and rational-technical interventions influence the relationship among numerical categories, subjectivity, and everyday experience.
Topics: Anthropology, Cultural; Anthropology, Medical; Culture; Epidemiologic Methods; Government; Humans; Politics
PubMed: 22746679
DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2011.638684 -
Anthropologischer Anzeiger; Bericht... Dec 1986The author describes the history of biological anthropology with special reference to the period from 17th to 19th century. The most important anthropological theories...
The author describes the history of biological anthropology with special reference to the period from 17th to 19th century. The most important anthropological theories and methodological developments of that time as well as their representatives are discussed in detail.
Topics: Anthropology; Anthropology, Cultural; Anthropology, Physical; France; Germany; History, 16th Century; History, 17th Century; History, 18th Century; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; Switzerland; United Kingdom
PubMed: 3548582
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Schwestern Revue Aug 1974
Topics: Anthropology, Cultural; Anthropology, Physical; Germany; History, 19th Century; Paleontology
PubMed: 4610741
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Forensic Science International Aug 2020
A response to H.F.V. Cardoso's 2019 "A critical response to "A critical review of sub-adult age estimation in biological anthropology" by Corron, Marchal, Condemi and Adalian (2018)".
Topics: Age Determination by Skeleton; Anthropology; Forensic Anthropology
PubMed: 32593108
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2020.110368 -
Medical Anthropology Mar 1992Medical anthropology has developed distinct and separate biological and cultural approaches to the study of health and disease in human populations. Within cultural...
Medical anthropology has developed distinct and separate biological and cultural approaches to the study of health and disease in human populations. Within cultural anthropology a major focus has been the ethnomedical perspective that analyzes the process of defining disease and describing the social response to disease. In biological anthropology, an ecological perspective considers the interaction of the population, the insult and the environment at the core of the disease process. There has been limited success in integrating the cultural and biological perspective. Some cultural anthropologists claim that the ecological perspective relies on a biomedical model and therefore is not useful in studying non-Western societies. Others are critical of the adaptivist perspective that they believe fails to consider political economic factors that affect the disease process. The lack of a biocultural integration has hindered the systematic analysis of health and disease in contemporary traditional and non-Western groups. An ecological model that addresses these problems will provide a biocultural integration of the disease process.
Topics: Adaptation, Psychological; Anthropology, Cultural; Ecology; Economics; Environment; Epidemiology; Ethnology; Humans; Models, Theoretical; Paleopathology; Social Environment
PubMed: 1294864
DOI: 10.1080/01459740.1992.9966065