Tarsila do Amaral: Cannibalizing Modernism

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Address correspondence to: Marta I. Amaral-Figueroa, PhD, University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus, Department of Physical Education and Recreation, PO Box 23311, San Juan, PR 00931-3311. Email: [email protected] Objective: Physical activity has been found to have a positive effect on the clinical outcomes of patients with chronic diseases, including end-stage renal disease (ESRD). The ...

Women and Psychiatric Modernism

he therapies of Rivers and Yealland represented the two modes of English psychiatric modernism which would affect women both inside and outside the asylum from the 1920s to the 1960s: psychoanalysis, which offered the twentieth century's most influential theory of femininity and female sexuality; and traditional medical psychiatry, which made rapid advances in scientific knowledge and technolog...

AMARAL/c/PPPP:04 LORD_c

Objective: Some dynamometers previously tested in healthy adults showed variable degrees of practicality, weight and ergonomics. More practical models could also be used as a more suitable tool in gerontological field and clinical studies. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the reliability of the measurements and the performance of hand grip strength dynamometers in the elderly. S...

Modernism and Nation Building

Modernity, Modernisation, Modernism

3. Modernity, Modernisation, Modernism and the First World War 3.