scholarly journals Stunting is the natural condition of human height

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christiane Scheffler ◽  
Michael Hermanussen
Keyword(s):  
Natural Condition ◽  
Human Height

Making the Différance: Between Derrida and Stiegler

Derrida Today ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Francesco Vitale
Keyword(s):  
Natural Condition ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Effective Response ◽  
Life On Earth

This paper intends to verify the extent and effectiveness of the transforming appropriation of the Derridean concept of ‘differance’ by Stiegler with respect to the problems that, according to Stiegler, make this creative critical operation necessary; in particular with respect to the most recent question concerning the possibility of thinking about and putting into practice a ‘neganthropological différance’ capable of facing the ecological crisis that today seems to threaten the very existence of life on earth. The paper goes back to Technics and Time 1. to analyze the distinction between ‘vital difference’ and ‘noetic difference’ that constitutes the condition of possibility of the ‘neganthropological différance.’ In this perspective, the distinction proposed by Stiegler seems to re-propose the hierarchically oriented oppositional structure that characterizes metaphysical thought and in particular the opposition between man and animal, attributing to the human being the ability to free himself from the constraints of his biological-natural condition. Finally, the paper attempts to account for the repercussions of this approach on the very possibility of an effective response to the ecological crisis, concluding with a provocation regarding the role that theory can and must play with regard to such an urgent and far-reaching problem.

The applicability of the Carrea’s method for human height estimation through lower and upper teeth in dental models

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-22
Author(s):  
Julius Cézar Alves de LIMA ◽  
Yane Laiza da Silva OLIVEIRA ◽  
Patricia Moreira RABELLO ◽  
Yuri Wanderley CAVALCANTI ◽  
Bianca Marques SANTIAGO
Keyword(s):  
Height Estimation ◽  
Human Height ◽  
Dental Models

scholarly journals A SERVICEABLE INSECTARY

1899 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 73-76
Author(s):  
F. M. Webster
Keyword(s):  
Natural Condition ◽  
Inactive State ◽  
Late Autumn ◽  
Amount Of Information ◽  
Vast Amount ◽  
Close Range ◽  
Eggs And Larvae

With the constantly increasing activity in applied entomology in America, the necessity for rooms or apartments especially adapted for the study of the development of insects is becoming each year more imperative. The insectary has, in fact, become almost as necessary to the working entomologist as has the laboratory to the chemist. While it is especially true in entomological investigations that one must “study nature where nature is,” it is equally true that on cannot, in all cases, watch with the necessary care and constant application in the fields that he will be able to do in a faily well equipped insectary. Not only can forms be transported thousands of miles while in an inactive state and their development watched at close range, as it were, but eggs and larvae may be brought in during late autumn or winter and studied through their various stages, frequently long before they have appeared outside; and in cases of uncommon or unfamiliar forms this will give the investigator a vast amount of information that he can use to great advantage when the species appears in the fields under a natural condition, perhaps months later.

scholarly journals Environmental effects on photosynthetic capacity of bean genotypes

2004 ◽  
Vol 39 (7) ◽  
pp. 615-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Vasconcelos Ribeiro ◽  
Mauro Guida dos Santos ◽  
Gustavo Maia Souza ◽  
Eduardo Caruso Machado ◽  
Ricardo Ferraz de Oliveira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Natural Condition ◽  
Temperature Effects ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Photosynthetic Capacity ◽  
Photosynthetic Apparatus ◽  
Co2 Assimilation ◽  
Fluorescence Yield ◽  
Environmental Condition ◽  
Response Curves

Photosynthetic responses to daily environmental changes were studied in bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) genotypes 'Carioca', 'Ouro Negro', and Guarumbé. Light response curves of CO2 assimilation and stomatal conductance (g s) were also evaluated under controlled (optimum) environmental condition. Under this condition, CO2 assimilation of 'Carioca' was not saturated at 2,000 µmol m-2 s-1, whereas Guarumbé and 'Ouro Negro' exhibited different levels of light saturation. All genotypes showed dynamic photoinhibition and reversible increase in the minimum chlorophyll fluorescence yield under natural condition, as well as lower photosynthetic capacity when compared with optimum environmental condition. Since differences in g s were not observed between natural and controlled conditions for Guarumbé and 'Ouro Negro', the lower photosynthetic capacity of these genotypes under natural condition seems to be caused by high temperature effects on biochemical reactions, as suggested by increased alternative electron sinks. The highest g s values of 'Carioca' were observed at controlled condition, providing evidences that reduction of photosynthetic capacity at natural condition was due to low g s in addition to the high temperature effects on the photosynthetic apparatus. 'Carioca' exhibited the highest photosynthetic rates under optimum environmental condition, and was more affected by daily changes of air temperature and leaf-to-air vapor pressure difference.

Tall Requirements and “Small” Reality

Slavic Review ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boris N. Mironov
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Basic Data ◽  
Physiological Status ◽  
Rigorous Analysis ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Human Height ◽  
Height Data

In my view, the skeptical comments of Steven L. Hoch, whether intentionally or not, undeservedly discredit human height data as an indicator of the physiological status and well-being of populations, and possibly represent the historiographical appearance of a postmodern intellectual ideology, whose representatives look with distrust on historical sources. Hoch repeats some traditional objections connected with data on height: 1) terminal height—that is, the height a person attains by the age of 20 to 25–is not a true indicator of the physiological status and well-being of a population; 2) the precision of height data falls below the standard scientific requirements for reliable indicators; 3) periodization of the dynamics of physiological status of the population and of basic data on height is impossible in principle; 4) the reasons for changes in physiological status cannot be subjected to rigorous analysis.

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