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BL
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1014526
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b768896
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Capacity for work in the tropics /\ edited by K.J. Collins, D.F. Roberts.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge [England] ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 1988.
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| Series Statement
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Society for the Study of Human Biology symposium series ;; 26
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1 online resource (viii, 297 pages) :: illustrations
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0511666098
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: 0521118638
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: 9780511666094
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: 9780521118637
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0521309352
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9780521118637
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9780521309356
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Abstract
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Working capacity is the physiological key to understanding man's ability, in technically less advanced communities, to exploit his environment, and hence to understanding his role in the ecological balance. In this volume the knowledge of working capacity in tropical populations is reviewed in a series of illustrative papers. Topics cover the measurement of working capacity in populations: the functional consequences of malnutrition; growth, size and muscular efficiency; ethnic differences in working capacity; energy; expenditure and endemic disease; and energy flow in tropical ecosystems. These papers and their ensuing discussions lead to a series of recommendations on studies to be incorporated in the Decade of the Tropics research programme of the International Union of Biological Sciences.
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Human beings-- Effect of environment on-- Tropics, Congresses.
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Malnutrition-- Complications, Congresses.
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Tropical medicine, Congresses.
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Work-- Physiological aspects, Congresses.
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Human beings-- Effect of environment on.
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Malnutrition-- Complications.
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Tropical medicine.
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Work-- Physiological aspects.
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Tropics.
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| Dewey Classification
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612/.042/0913
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QP309.C36 1988eb
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| Added Entry
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Collins, K. J., (Kenneth John),1929-
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Roberts, D. F., (Derek Frank)
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