(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.
Thule
Definition:
(n.) The name given by ancient geographers to the northernmost part of the habitable world. According to some, this land was Norway, according to others, Iceland, or more probably Mainland, the largest of the Shetland islands; hence, the Latin phrase ultima Thule, farthest Thule.
Example Sentences:
(1) Everest during the Ultima Thule Everest Expedition, and a third subject with TIAs during three separate high-altitude climbs.
(2) Twenty-one climbers who were members of the American Ultima Thule Everest Expedition participated in a double-blind, randomized clinical trial of phenytoin prophylaxis for acute mountain sickness during the approach to the northeast ridge of Mount Everest.
(3) The authors report a case of acute mountain sickness (AMS) experienced by a support member of the Ultima Thule Everest Expedition.
(4) Serum (S-) ferritin was analyzed in 67 Greenlandic Inuit hunters from Thule (Qaanaaq), 35 males and 32 females with a median age of 39 years (range 17-77).
(5) Between January 1983 and December 1986, a total of 376 mothers living in Godthaab and Thule, Greenland, were asked about their average weekly intake of marine food.
(6) The structure of the genealogy of the Polar Eskimos from the Thule District of North Greenland is studied by a variety of computational and graphical means, some of them novel.
(7) The study involved workers employed at Thule US air base in Greenland.
(8) Cerebral visual evoked potentials (VEPs) were collected over a 1-year period from the summer of 1983 through the summer of 1984 from 16 members of the American Ultima Thule Everest Expedition at sea level and at altitudes of 7,100 ft, 16,800 ft, and 21,300 ft. VEPs in response to 100 unilateral LED flashes were processed by a modified Nicolet CA-1000 computer of average transients with an analysis time of 250 ms and were recorded by an X-Y plotter.