Body composition and bone mineral density in male adults with hyperthyroidism. Which association?

Trabalho Final do Curso de Mestrado Integrado em Medicina, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, 2014

Influence of body composition on gait Kknetics throughout pregnancy and postpartum period

Pregnancy leads to several changes in body composition and morphology of women. It is not clear whether the biomechanical changes occurring in this period are due exclusively to body composition and size or to other physiological factors. The purpose was to quantify the morphology and body composition of women throughout pregnancy and in the postpartum period and identify the contribution of these parameters on the lower limb joints kinetic during gait. Eleven women were assessed longitudinally, regarding anthropometric, body composition, and kinetic parameters of gait. Body composition and body dimensions showed a significant increase during pregnancy and a decrease in the postpartum period. In the postpartum period, body composition was similar to the 1st trimester, except for triceps skinfold, total calf area, and body mass index, with higher results than at the beginning of pregnancy. Regression models were developed to predict women’s internal loading through anthropometric variables. Four models include variables associated with the amount of fat; four models include variables related to overall body weight; three models include fat-free mass; one model includes the shape of the trunk as a predictor variable. Changes in maternal body composition and morphology largely determine kinetic dynamics of the joints in pregnant women.

De-authoring or Authoring?: A plunge into the question of authorship and language in J.M. Coetzee's Foe

J. M. Coetzee's Foe is not only a post-colonial novel, but it is also a re-writing of a classic, and its main themes are language, authorship, power and identity. Moreover, Foe is narrated by a woman, while written by a male, Nobel prize winning South African author. The aim of my tesina is to focus on the question of authorship and the role of language in Foe. Without any claim to be exhaustive, in the first section I will examine some selected extracts of Coetzee's book, in order to provide an analysis of the novel. These quotations will mainly be its metalinguistic parts and will be analysed in the “theory” sections of my work, relying on literary theory and on previous works on the novel. Among others, I will cover themes such as the relationship between speech and writing, the connection between writing, history, and memory, the role of silence and alternative ways of communicating and the relationship between literary authority and truth. These arguments will be the foundation for my second section, in which I will attempt to shed a light on the importance of the novel from a linguistic point of view, but always keeping an eye on the implication that this has on authorship. While it is true that it is less politically-permeated than Coetzee's previous works, Foe is above all a “journey of discovery” in the world of language and authorship. In fact, it becomes a warning for any person immersed in the ocean of language since, while everyone naturally tends to trust speech and writing as the only medium through which one can get closer to the truth, authority never is a synonym of reliability, and language is a system of communication behind which structures of power, misconceptions, lies, and treacherous tides easily hide.

Guide to spoken-word recordings : foreign-language instruction and literature.

Includes indexes.

Guide to spoken-word recordings : foreign language literature and instruction.

Mode of access: Internet.

Destiny and motivation in language;

Mode of access: Internet.

Duality of thought and language; an outline of original research,

Mode of access: Internet.

Man and his relations : illustrating the influence of the mind on the body : the relations of the faculties to the organs, and to the elements, objects and phenomena of the external world /

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Speech and language development program, Milwaukee.

"One of a series of successful compensatory education programs."

Lectures on the science of language : delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in April, May, and June, 1861 [and 1863] /

Mode of access: Internet.

Lectures on the science of language : delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in ... 1861 [and 1863] /

Vol. [1]: From the 2d London ed., rev.

Body and mind; an inquiry into their connection and mutual influence, specially in reference to mental disorders: an enlarged and revised edition. To which are added psychological essays.

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God in Christ : Three discourses, delivered at New Haven, Cambridge, and Andover, with a preliminary dissertation on language /

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Language, its nature, development, and origin :

Includes index.

Lectures on the science of language delivered at the Royal institution of Great Britain ... 1861 [and 1863].

Mode of access: Internet.