A Guide to Tracking Physical Activity by Madison K. Keesling, Anne E. Mathews

“…The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans recommend that adults be purposefully active for at least 150 minutes per week for overall health and wellness. …”
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The sequoia files : L’arbre merveilleux by François Brunet

“…The Sequoia Files: the tree of wonder: The cult of the Sierra Nevada giant sequoia, which lasted through the second half of the 19th century, reflected not only its significance as an emblem for American primitivist and nationalist discourse, but also the more popular taste for the marvelous in nature, widely associated with California after 1850. …”
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Tetrio Sphinx, Giant Gray Sphinx, Frangipani Hornworm, Pseudosphinx tetrio (Linnaeus) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) by James C. Dunford, Kathryn A. Barbara

“… The tetrio sphinx, Pseudosphinx tetrio (Linnaeus), is a common moth in the American tropics and subtropics that less frequently occurs in southern parts of Florida. …”
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Re-viewing Foucault: The Disciplinary Gaze in Harun Farocki’s I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts, Lockup 360 and Fiona Tan’s Correction by Martine Beugnet

“…This article proposes to take a fresh look at the legacy of Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, focusing on documentary works that take the American prison system as their topic. In the video installations and televisual production concerned, the acknowledgement of the failure of the “ideal” model evoked by Foucault with reference to the Panopticon and the establishment of a perverted system of pure control lead to an interrogation of contemporary forms of spectatorial engagement.…”
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Stratégies d’accommodation en anglais américain : le cas de l’interro-négative by Pauline Levillain

“…This study attempts to observe and analyse the accommodation strategies developed by speakers of American English in interaction. It aims at accounting for the use of this complex structure syntactically-speaking, combining both interrogation with negation, and analysing its semantic/pragmatic contribution to the strategies pursued by speakers, especially their accommodation strategies. …”
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Berta Gleizer Ribeiro e as artes das vidas amazônicas by Lúcia Hussak van Velthem, Bianca Luiza Freire de Castro França, José Ribamar Bessa Freire

“…Rather, it constitutes a celebration of Berta Ribeiro and her work, which contributed to the consolidation of Brazilian and Latin American anthropology. The reflections that follow focus on the approaches to which the anthropologist paid special attention, such as those connected to the study of everyday objects, to Amazonian aesthetics, to the mythology of the indigenous peoples of the upper Rio Negro, and also to ecological issues. …”
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Environmental art. The poetics of ample spaces by Antonella Chiazza

“…The purpose of this article is to examine the environmental issue which plays a key role in the art world since 1967, especially through the American Land Art and the European Environmental Art. …”
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Croisements paysage/danse/musique : écritures entre composition et improvisation by Mathilde Christmann

“…These researches will influence the American landscaper Lawrence Halprin who will work on scores for the landscape and urban conception. …”
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Facts About Magnesium by Linda B. Bobroff, Jennifer Hillan

“…Many Americans don’t get enough magnesium in their diets. …”
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L’enseignement des langues étrangères en Grèce : hégémonie ou pluralité linguistique ? by Varvara Pyromali

“…However, in the mid-twentieth century, Anglo-American influence propelled English to the forefront of communication, education and business. …”
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Le renouveau de l’approche documentaire, exemple d’une archive collaborative : Susan Meiselas, Kurdistan (1991-2009) by Clara Bouveresse

“…Between 1991 and 2009, American photographer Susan Meiselas (born 1948), a member of Magnum Photos, collected a photographic archive of the Kurdish people, presenting images, evidence and stories in a book, a travelling exhibition and a participatory website. …”
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Las cadenas globales de producción en el marco de la disputa hegemónica mundial. Consideraciones para el desarrollo de América Latina by Carolina Teresita Lauxmann, Víctor Ramiro Fernández

“…Specifically, it is studied these processes in the phase of the decline of the North American systemic cycle of accumulation and the emergence of a new dynamic centre of accumulation and potential hegemonic replacement: East Asia, led by China. …”
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The Florida Panther: Past, Present, and Future by Madelon van de Kerk, Madan K. Oli, David P. Onorato

“…They were one of the first species to be added to the US endangered species list and are now the only population of North American puma that occurs east of Mississippi River. …”
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Letter to the editors by Jian Zu, Wendi Wang, Bo Zu

“…Evolutionary branching andsympatric speciation caused by different types of ecologicalinteractions. American Naturalist 156: S77-S101, cited as reference[11] in our paper.…”
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Gouverner, soigner, éduquer (à) la sexualité : enjeux subjectifs de la « maternité adolescente » en Colombie by Gabriela Patino-Lakatos, María Cristina Tenorio

“…Adolescent motherhood raises questions that are always current and transversal in socio-cultural contexts as South American countries facing birth policies. It expresses a fundamental dimension of sexuality that needs to be analyzed from a clinical and cultural point of view in the educational field. …”
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From Vietnam, VA, to Iraq, CA: The Spectrality of Violence in An-My Lê’s Small Wars and 29 Palms by Barbara Kowalczuk

“…We will examine how Lê uses the American landscape and creates images haunted by the invisible visibility of violence.…”
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CALCULATED RISKS: EXPLORING PLAGUE ETHICS WITH LUTHER AND BARTH by A. Hancock

“…The article argues that the ongoing conversation about health and risk in the American church would benefit from additional theological perspectives. …”
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Soap opera viewing in a communal context by Michele Tager

“… This paper presents some of the findings of an ethnographic audience study of the soap opera viewing patterns and interpretations of Zulu-speaking students living in residences at a South African university (Natal University’s Durban campus) who watch The Bold and the Beautiful (an American soap opera) and Generations (a South African soap opera). …”
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A Spontaneous Isolated Superior Mesenteric Artery Dissection Associated with Cocaine Abuse: A Pathomechanistic Association by Rayan S. El-Zein, Jeffrey Sobecki, Roy Greenberg, Michael Keleher, Robert A. Palma

“…A 38-year-old African American male with hypertension and alcohol, cocaine, and tobacco abuse presented with abdominal pain and recent cocaine use. …”
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Computational Study of Cold-Formed-Steel X-Braced Shear Walls by Metwally Abu-Hamd, Maheeb Abdel-Ghaffar, Basel El-Samman

“…The parametric study showed that the North American Specification is about 20% conservative in estimating the (R) factor.…”
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