What's the difference between greenlander and inuit?
Greenlander
Definition:
(n.) A native of Greenland.
Example Sentences:
(1) About half of Greenland's surface ice sheet melts during a typical summer, but Zwally said he and other scientists had been recording an acceleration of that melting process over the last few decades.
(2) An estimator proposed by Greenland and Holland (1991, Biometrics 47, 319-322) for a standardized risk difference parameter is shown to be a maximum likelihood estimator if the consistent estimator of the common odds ratio is appropriately chosen.
(3) A British oil firm will tomorrow announce that it has struck oil off Greenland, a find that could trigger a rush to exploit oil reserves in the pristine waters of the Arctic.
(4) Raw power Standing before a glacier in Greenland as it calves icebergs into the dark waters of a cavernous fjord is to witness the raw power of a natural process we have accelerated but will now struggle to control.
(5) A series of 632 human mandibles was used to test temporal variations in two Aleut populations and spatial variations in four homogeneous Greenlandic Eskimo populations.
(6) The incidence of duodenal ulcer is found to be lower among Greenlanders than in the other two populations.
(7) In December the US Geological Survey also warned that sea-level rise could be even worse than feared, as much as 1.5 metres by the end of this century, partly due to increased melting of the volume of water stored in glaciers in Antarctica and Greenland.
(8) In Greenland, the average temperature has gone up by 1.5C.
(9) The arrests of Luke Jones, from Leeds, and Hannah McHardy, from the US, end a 10-day long action by Greenpeace and its protest ship Esperanza against Cairn's drilling operations off Greenland.
(10) For their characterization preserved food items, frequently consumed in NPC endemic areas in Tunisia, South China and Greenland, were sampled and screened for the presence of mutagens and volatile nitrosamines before and after nitrosation.
(11) He added that the government had a three-tier "oil spill response plan", which included emergency equipment on all drilling vessels, back-up vessels in Greenland's harbours and a "third tier" of support vessels and equipment provided by other countries.
(12) It is concluded that hepatitis B infection per se does not contribute significantly to the development of cirrhosis or to PLC, at least in the Eskimo population of Greenland.
(13) The head of Greenpeace International was being held by police in a Greenland cell on Friday after boarding a giant oil rig in defiance of a court injunction .
(14) Sera from 1,893 persons from the Sisimiut medical district in West Greenland were examined for Hepatitis B virus (HBV) markers and 11.5% were found to be HBsAg-positive.
(15) Kangerlussuaq, the "gateway to Greenland" in the southwest, reached 24.6C on 10 July, just as the record melt reported by Nasa was under way.
(16) The HLA-DPw gene frequencies in a population of 88 unrelated Danes and a population of 48 unrelated Greenland Eskimos were determined.
(17) Greenland is a considered high risk area for a self-sustained heterosexual HIV-epidemic due to rather relaxed sexual norms in larger segments of the population and a high incidence of sexual transmitted diseases.
(18) Mortality from ischemic heart disease and cerebrovascular disease among native Greenlanders is studied and compared with sex-specific rates in Denmark.
(19) "During this period when temperatures were 2-3C above pre-industrial levels, global sea level looks like it was very likely at least 6.6m higher than today, which implies significant melting of the Greenland and west Antarctic ice sheets."
(20) From Nuuk (Greenland) and Nykøbing Falster (Denmark), random samples of 800 women aged 20-39 years were drawn.
Inuit
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The diets of the Inuit, as of all Indigenous People, are not comprised solely of the historically traditional foods; however these foods are still vitally important as a source of nutrients and cultural definition.
(2) The tuberculosis experience is an important part of modern Inuit history and an understanding of how they viewed it goes some way towards explaining some of the attitudes Inuit have toward the health system in the North today.
(3) While the rates of tuberculosis were quite low in the last group, which constitutes about 82% of the population of Canada, they were 16 times higher among Indians and 24 times higher among Inuit.
(4) Longitudinal observations made during the past two decades on the prevalence of chronic ear disease in Inuit Elementary School Children in the Eastern Canadian Arctic reveal that as the current segment of this population enters into the 1990's a significant decrease in the prevalence is occurring.
(5) But the album for which she is being rightly acclaimed, 50 Words for Snow, as well as cleverly weaving together some hauntingly beautiful melodies with a characteristically surrealist narrative, also perpetuates a widely held myth about the semantic capaciousness of the Inuit language.
(6) Overall prevalence rates for HBsAg were marginally higher among Inuit than Dene (3.9% and 2.9%, respectively; P less than 0.05), as were rates for anti-HBs (24.5% and 21.5%, respectively; P less than 0.01).
(7) Tuberculosis provided Canadian Inuit with a harsh and bitter lesson in how to be sick in the twentieth century.
(8) Whatever evolves, Inuit co-operation and advice is essential; their cultural identity must be respected if any project is to be successful.
(9) Today, the Copper Inuit family has lost its focus as the primary agent of socialization and learning, and many young Inuit now spend most of their time within the context of a greatly expanded peer group which has gradually acquired the values and aspirations of the southern adolescent sub-culture.
(10) Thirty-four infants (25 Inuit and 9 Caucasians) with protein-energy malnutrition and intractable diarrhea were treated with total parenteral nutrition (TNP) consisting of a casein hydrolysate, a soybean emulsion and dextrose.
(11) The vast territory has a population of more than 33,300 people, of whom 84% are Inuit.
(12) At the same time, Inuit family relations have undergone drastic changes as a result of population increase, population concentration, access to government housing, introduction of formal schooling, and the availability of social subsides.
(13) Mads Christensen, executive director of Greenpeace Nordic, confirmed the group had reputational problems with many Inuit because of its campaigns against seal culling in the 1970s and 80s.
(14) The original said Aqqaluk Lynge is the former president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council.
(15) In contrast to Caucasian populations, in the Inuit population the apoE polymorphism showed only a minor influence on the plasma lipid and (apo)lipoprotein levels, as evaluated by multiple regression analysis, with the exception of apoE levels.
(16) said Terry Audla, president of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, which represents about 55,000 people.
(17) By the age of two years 69.2 percent of Dene, 63.5 percent of Inuit, 33.3 percent of non-native and 22.9 percent of Edmonton children had CMV antibody.
(18) It also heard David Cameron's environment adviser, millionaire environmentalist Zac Goldsmith, and an Inuit leader from Greenland both say climate change was already seriously affecting life around the world.
(19) Rates for colorectal cancer in Canadian Inuit are similar to those expected for the Canadian population as a whole and do not appear to be increasing.
(20) Prevalence and incidence rates for rheumatic diseases were found to be minimal among the Inuit people in the Keewatin District of the Northwest Territories, Canada.