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Essays on discourse of female body and its representations in film. Is based particularly on analysis of late 20th-century films starring actress and politician Maria Rojo. Analyzes ways in which her characters subvert s...

Materias / palabras clave: Body image; Social aspects.; Rol sexual.; Imagen corporal; Aspectos sociales.; Imagen corporal en la mujer.; Imagen corporal en hombres.; Identidad (Psicología); Autopercepción.; Body image in women.; Body image in men...

Materias / palabras clave: Noir fiction, Argentine; History and criticism; Noir fiction, Chilean; Human body in literature; Spanish American fiction; Themes, motives; 21st century; 20th century; Human body in motion pictures; Film noir; Latin Amer...

Materias / palabras clave: Body image in adolescence.; Teenagers; Sexual behavior.; Costume; History.; Psicología del adolescente.; Sexo.

Materias / palabras clave: Anormalidades humanas; Historia; Siglo XIX.; México; Cuerpo humano; Aspectos sociales; Monstruos; Filosofía.; Abnormalities, Human; History; 19th century.; Mexico; Human body; Social aspects; Monsters; Philosophy.

Materias / palabras clave: Latin American literature; History and criticism.; 20th century; Human body in literature.; Art, Latin American; Human figure in art.; El cuerpo humano en la literatura.; Arte latinoamericano; Historia y crítica.; Siglo...

This text discusses artistic practices, changes in perspective and their implications on the representation and presentation of human body, in order to expand the comprehension of the history of art in Colombia. Likewise...

The body against the wall is a reading of the representations of the human body in the graffiti image with the lenses of the history of art, aesthetics, sociology and literature; Explored with the purpose of trying to un...

Materias / palabras clave: Overweight; Body mass index; Obesity; Medicine; Population; Demography; Classification of obesity; Public health; Gerontology; Cut-point; Environmental health; Statistics

BACKGROUND: End-stage renal disease substantially increases the risks of death, cardiovascular disease, and use of specialized health care, but the effects of less severe kidney dysfunction on these outcomes are less wel...

OBJECTIVE: To develop an internationally acceptable definition of child overweight and obesity, specifying the measurement, the reference population, and the age and sex specific cut off points. DESIGN: International sur...

A formula has been developed to predict creatinine clearance (C<sub>cr</sub>) from serum creatinine (S<sub>cr</sub>) in adult males: Ccr = (140 – age) (wt kg)/72 × S<sub>cr</sub>(mg...

BACKGROUND: Type 2 diabetes mellitus is increasingly common, primarily because of increases in the prevalence of a sedentary lifestyle and obesity. Whether type 2 diabetes can be prevented by interventions that affect th...

BACKGROUND: Type 2 diabetes affects approximately 8 percent of adults in the United States. Some risk factors--elevated plasma glucose concentrations in the fasting state and after an oral glucose load, overweight, and a...

The method of dispersion correction as an add-on to standard Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT-D) has been refined regarding higher accuracy, broader range of applicability, and less empiricism. The main new ingre...

Studies of the human microbiome have revealed that even healthy individuals differ remarkably in the microbes that occupy habitats such as the gut, skin and vagina. Much of this diversity remains unexplained, although di...

Resolving the molecular details of proteome variation in the different tissues and organs of the human body will greatly increase our knowledge of human biology and disease. Here, we present a map of the human tissue pro...

BACKGROUND: Traditional approaches to mechanical ventilation use tidal volumes of 10 to 15 ml per kilogram of body weight and may cause stretch-induced lung injury in patients with acute lung injury and the acute respira...