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This ranking evaluates the public commitments, formalised procedures and institutional arrangements of oil, gas and mining companies for handling indigenous rights in the Arctic. The purpose of the ranking is to support norm formation and... more
The purpose is to determine breast cancer risk factors and correlates of mammographic parenchymal patterns among Alaska Native women. A retrospective review was performed of mammograms and mammogram records among 528 sequential screening... more
Intestines of dead northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus) on St. Paul Island (SPI), Alaska were inspected for specific internal parasites (hookworms and acanthocephalans) in July and August, 2007. Pups (n = 64) were examined for adult... more
While I am not an advocate of geographic determinism, any discussion of American regional cultures must begin with the land. As I will explore in further chapters the landscape influenced difference between the Native-American culture... more
Имя Сидни Мортимера Лоуренса знакомо каждому уроженцу Аляска, однако за ее пределами об этом живописце мало кому известно. Увиденные и запечатленные мастером северные пейзажи в сознании местных жителей являются единственно верным... more
The purpose is to determine breast cancer risk factors and correlates of mammographic parenchymal patterns among Alaska Native women. A retrospective review was performed of mammograms and mammogram records among 528 sequential screening... more
The risk of infanticide may alter foraging decisions made by females, which otherwise would have been based on nutritional requirements and forage quality and availability. In systems where meat resources are spatially aggregated in late... more
Studies of blood pressure among various Inuit (Eskimo) populations in the Arctic have given inconsistent results. Most studies reported lower blood pressure among the Inuit as compared with the predominantly white national populations.... more
Despite its relatively recent introduction in the 1890s, reindeer herding has had a substantial impact on the Alaskan cultural landscape. Today, it represents not only an important part of the livelihood and subsistence lifestyle of many... more
Although microbes associated with shallow-water corals have been reported, deepwater coral microbes are poorly characterized. A cultivation-independent analysis of Alaskan seamount octocoral microflora showed that Proteobacteria (classes... more
Publication date: 2019 Document Version Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Citation for published version (APA): Gad, U. P., Jacobsen, M., & Strandsbjerg, J. (2019). Introduction: sustainability as a political concept in... more
Between 1945 and the early 1970s, both Indian Health Services in Canada (IHS), and the Alaska Native Health Service (ANS) initiated programs and activities aimed at recruiting and training nurses/nurses aides from Canadian and Alaskan... more
Despite broad agreement that the Americas were initially populated via Beringia, the land bridge that connected far northeast Asia with northwestern North America during the Pleistocene epoch, when and how the peopling of the Americas... more