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A Review Of The Mandible, Emily Hill
A Review Of The Mandible, Emily Hill
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A Review of The Mandible by Emily Hill
The mandible is one of the 22 bones in the human skull. This paper aims to encapsulate the basic features of the human mandible while also addressing the evolution and morphological mandibular variation between mammals. It also aims to address the role that anthropology and all its sub-disciplines has played in the exploitation and erasure of Indigenous peoples. There must be a significant push to decolonize the field of osteology. The mandible is useful for forensic applications such as post-mortem identification. In a rapidly expanding technological world, new ways of studying the …
Barriers And Facilitators To Adaptive Sports On College Campuses, Lisa Osadchuk, Sean Bruna
Barriers And Facilitators To Adaptive Sports On College Campuses, Lisa Osadchuk, Sean Bruna
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Barriers and Facilitators to Adaptive Sports on College Campuses by Lisa Osadchuk and Sean Bruna
This research examines scholarly literature regarding attitudes and behaviors related to adaptive sporting events. A literature review was conducted in anthropology, disability studies, and other databases using key terms such as disability, higher education, and adaptive sports. Articles were reviewed and categorized into three areas: anthropological perspectives, institutional challenges, and participant experiences. This review sheds new light into how adaptive sports can create inclusion and integration in the postsecondary environment for students with disabilities, while also highlighting changing attitudes of those students from their peers, …