W Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 10156 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | W |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0057-6873 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1948 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Scab: Honoring the Memory of Mr. Fred Rouse
Characterization of the gut microbiota of Nicaraguan children in a water insecure context
OBJECTIVES: The gut microbiota varies across human populations. The first years of life are a critical period in its development. While delivery mode and diet contribute to observed variation, the additional contribution of specific environmental factors remains poorly understood. One factor is waterborne enteric pathogen exposure. In this pilot study, we explore the relationship between household water security and the gut microbiota of children…
Secular trends in adult stature among the Makushi of Guyana in the 20th Century
OBJECTIVE: This study describes secular trends in physical stature, Cormic Index (CI), and body mass index (BMI) of adult Makushi Amerindians born between 1910 and 1980, compares the stature of these Makushi adults to Makushi adults measured in 1921, and provides contextual data to inform the findings. METHODS: Pearson's correlation was used to assess the relationship between year of birth and physical stature, BMI, and CI for 231 females and 113…
Regional Connection under the Belt and Road Initiative: The Prospects for Economic and Financial Cooperation
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), aimed at connecting China, Europe and countries located along routes between China and Europe, was suggested by Xi Jinping in September 2013. This Chinese initiative envisages the completion of more than 100 small-and large-scale infrastructure projects that would improve China's connectivity with Western Europe via Central Asia and Russia, including roads, railroads, pipelines, industrial parks, and special ec…
Reliance Upon a Toxic Staple Crop: An Anthropological Consideration of the Tukanoan Amerindian Cultivation of Manioc (Manihot esculenta Crantz) in North-western Amazonia
In Amazonia most indigenous horticulturists prefer to cultivate the more toxic forms of manioc as a staple crop, despite the increased processing required to render them safe for consumption. This phenomenon has long intrigued anthropologists. In this chapter we describe the agricultural practices of the Tukanoan Indians in the North-west Amazon and explore their reliance on toxic varieties of manioc from agronomic, ecological, organoleptic, and …
Household‐level predictors of maternal mental health and systemic inflammation among infants in Mwanza, Tanzania
OBJECTIVES: Household conditions and culturally/socially variable childcare practices influence priming of the inflammatory response during infancy. Maternal mental health may partially mediate that effect. Among mother-infant dyads in Mwanza, Tanzania, we hypothesized that poorer maternal mental health would be associated with adverse household ecology, lower social capital, and greater inflammation among infants under the age of one; and that m…
Amazonian foods and implications for human biology
Diets of subsistence-based Amazonian populations have been linked to local resources, but are changing with market penetration.To review the available data on traditional Amazonian foods and diets and evaluate their implications for human biology as a step toward understanding nutrition transitions in the region.This study used the Human Relations Area Files for information on the diets of Amerindian groups in the Amazon Basin from 1950 to the pr…
Comparison of Infant Vitamin D Supplement Use Among Canadian-Born, Immigrant, and Refugee Mothers
Purpose:This study compares knowledge and practice of infant vitamin D supplementation among immigrant, refugee, and Canadian-born mothers. Method: Focus group discussions with 94 mothers of children aged 0 to 3 years recruited from early childhood centers and a refugee health clinic. Findings: Both immigrant and Canadian-born mothers indicated good knowledge and use of infant vitamin D supplementation. In contrast, Canadian government-assisted r…
Exploring the multidimensionality of stature variation in the past through comparisons of archaeological and living populations
Adult stature variation is commonly attributed to differential stress‐levels during development. However, due to selective mortality and heterogeneous frailty, a population's tall stature may be more indicative of high selective pressures than of positive life conditions. This article examines stature in a biocultural context and draws parallels between bioarchaeological and living populations to explore the multidimensionality of stature variati…
L'État-providence en Europe: Performance et dumping social
We report an exploratory study examining the interrelationships among common sense, insight into psychosis, and performance on a battery of neuropsychological tests in 32 patients with schizophrenia evaluated at the time of discharge from involuntary hospitalization at a State psychiatric hospital. Common sense, as measured by the Social Knowledge Questionnaire, was associated with better performance across tests measuring parietal lobe functioni…
Nutritional status of Makushi Amerindian children and adolescents of Guyana
Makushi nutritional status may be explained by sex, age, relative isolation, family size, season of birth, dietary intake and infectious disease
Weaning practices of the Makushi of Guyana and their relationship to infant and child mortality: A preliminary assessment of international recommendations
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for the first 6 months of life, primarily because of potential immunological benefits which are deemed to outweigh nutritive costs for infants. This recommendation is controversial, as studies of the relationship between the term of EBF and infant and child health have produced conflicting results. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the relationship between the ter…
Ethnobotanical Evidence for Cultivar Selection among the Tukanoans: Manioc (Manihot esculentaCrantz) in the Northwest Amazaon
Manioc (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is a cyanidecontaining root crop that is cultivated by many indigenous groups in Amazonia. Although the Tukanoans of the Northwest Amazon grow low cyanogenic-potential (CNP) manioc, high-CNP manioc, requiring detoxification prior to consumption, provides over 80 percent of the calories they consume. The purpose of this paper is to determine which characteristics of manioc are most important to the Tukanoans in th…
Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz), Cyanogenic Potential, and Predation in Northwestern Amazonia: The Tukanoan Perspective
Soils Utilized for Gardens by Tukanoans in Northwestern Amazonia and their Impact on Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) Cultivar Selection
Why “Bitter” Cassava? Productivity of “Bitter” and “Sweet” Cassava in a Tukanoan Indian Settlement in the Northwest Amazon1
The Use of Remotely Sensed Data in Rapid Rural Assessment
This article discusses how analysis of remotely sensed data can be applied in rapid rural assessment and how its application can expand the spatial analysis of land-use/land-cover (LULC) change. It describes the methodological steps to carry out an LULC analysis based on Landsat Thematic Mapper image analysis under time and budget constraints. The article presents intra-and intercommunity comparisons of different LULC patterns. The discussion foc…
Gastrointestinal parasitic infection, anthropometrics, nutritional status, and physical work capacity in Colombian boys
This article tests the hypothesis that the presence of gastrointestinal parasites in Colombian boys is negatively associated with anthropometric characteristics, physical work capacity, blood hemoglobin (Hb) levels, and nutritional status. Anthropometric, Hb, &Vdot;O(2) max, and parasite load data were collected on 1,016 boys in Cali, Colombia. The boys were classified as lower socioeconomic class (SEC) from either urban or rural environments, an…
Gastrointestinal parasitic infection, anthropometrics, nutritional status, and physical work capacity in Colombian boys
This article tests the hypothesis that the presence of gastrointestinal parasites in Colombian boys is negatively associated with anthropometric characteristics, physical work capacity, blood hemoglobin (Hb) levels, and nutritional status. Anthropometric, Hb, V̇O2 max, and parasite load data were collected on 1,016 boys in Cali, Colombia. The boys were classified as lower socioeconomic class (SEC) from either urban or rural environments, and uppe…
Les Journées Populaires et la Violence collective dans le Vaucluse Rural Après Thermidor
This article examines rural violence in one department of southern France, the Vaucluse, in the period after Thermidor. After a brief summary of the early years of the Revolution in the former papal enclave, two journées that occurred within a week of each other in the large village of Rochegude are discussed in some detail. One was characterized by the spontaneous actions of a large crowd while the other was the work of a small group of hard-cor…
The impact of diabetes education and peer support upon weight and glycemic control of elderly persons with noninsulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM)
We assessed diabetes education and peer support interventions as facilitators of weight loss and glycemic control in a community sample of 79 elderly persons with noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM). Different groups received: education only, education and peer support, and no treatment. Peer support was higher in groups where it was actively facilitated. Weight loss and reduction in level of glycemic control occurred within groups rec…
Urban Poverty
This chapter is a state of the art review of the research and theoretical writing on urban poverty. We reveal that there has been an ebb and flow in the study of urban poverty in America. The social reform movement of early twentieth century, responding to the dislocation that accompanied rapid industrialization, prompted a number of descriptive and muckraking studies of poverty in urban areas. At roughly the same time, sociologists at the Univer…
Shifts in evaluations of participants following intergroup competition
The Annotations to the Psalms: A New Theory
Exploring the multidimensionality of stature variation in the past through comparisons of archaeological and living populations
Adult stature variation is commonly attributed to differential stress‐levels during development. However, due to selective mortality and heterogeneous frailty, a population's tall stature may be more indicative of high selective pressures than of positive life conditions. This article examines stature in a biocultural context and draws parallels between bioarchaeological and living populations to explore the multidimensionality of stature variati…
Why “Bitter” Cassava? Productivity of “Bitter” and “Sweet” Cassava in a Tukanoan Indian Settlement in the Northwest Amazon1
Amazonian foods and implications for human biology
Diets of subsistence-based Amazonian populations have been linked to local resources, but are changing with market penetration.To review the available data on traditional Amazonian foods and diets and evaluate their implications for human biology as a step toward understanding nutrition transitions in the region.This study used the Human Relations Area Files for information on the diets of Amerindian groups in the Amazon Basin from 1950 to the pr…
Shifts in evaluations of participants following intergroup competition
Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz), Cyanogenic Potential, and Predation in Northwestern Amazonia: The Tukanoan Perspective
Ethnobotanical Evidence for Cultivar Selection among the Tukanoans: Manioc (Manihot esculentaCrantz) in the Northwest Amazaon
Manioc (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is a cyanidecontaining root crop that is cultivated by many indigenous groups in Amazonia. Although the Tukanoans of the Northwest Amazon grow low cyanogenic-potential (CNP) manioc, high-CNP manioc, requiring detoxification prior to consumption, provides over 80 percent of the calories they consume. The purpose of this paper is to determine which characteristics of manioc are most important to the Tukanoans in th…
The Use of Remotely Sensed Data in Rapid Rural Assessment
This article discusses how analysis of remotely sensed data can be applied in rapid rural assessment and how its application can expand the spatial analysis of land-use/land-cover (LULC) change. It describes the methodological steps to carry out an LULC analysis based on Landsat Thematic Mapper image analysis under time and budget constraints. The article presents intra-and intercommunity comparisons of different LULC patterns. The discussion foc…
The impact of diabetes education and peer support upon weight and glycemic control of elderly persons with noninsulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM)
We assessed diabetes education and peer support interventions as facilitators of weight loss and glycemic control in a community sample of 79 elderly persons with noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM). Different groups received: education only, education and peer support, and no treatment. Peer support was higher in groups where it was actively facilitated. Weight loss and reduction in level of glycemic control occurred within groups rec…
Regional Connection under the Belt and Road Initiative: The Prospects for Economic and Financial Cooperation
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), aimed at connecting China, Europe and countries located along routes between China and Europe, was suggested by Xi Jinping in September 2013. This Chinese initiative envisages the completion of more than 100 small-and large-scale infrastructure projects that would improve China's connectivity with Western Europe via Central Asia and Russia, including roads, railroads, pipelines, industrial parks, and special ec…
The Annotations to the Psalms: A New Theory
Shifts in evaluations of participants following intergroup competition
Urban Poverty
This chapter is a state of the art review of the research and theoretical writing on urban poverty. We reveal that there has been an ebb and flow in the study of urban poverty in America. The social reform movement of early twentieth century, responding to the dislocation that accompanied rapid industrialization, prompted a number of descriptive and muckraking studies of poverty in urban areas. At roughly the same time, sociologists at the Univer…
The impact of diabetes education and peer support upon weight and glycemic control of elderly persons with noninsulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM)
We assessed diabetes education and peer support interventions as facilitators of weight loss and glycemic control in a community sample of 79 elderly persons with noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM). Different groups received: education only, education and peer support, and no treatment. Peer support was higher in groups where it was actively facilitated. Weight loss and reduction in level of glycemic control occurred within groups rec…
Les Journées Populaires et la Violence collective dans le Vaucluse Rural Après Thermidor
This article examines rural violence in one department of southern France, the Vaucluse, in the period after Thermidor. After a brief summary of the early years of the Revolution in the former papal enclave, two journées that occurred within a week of each other in the large village of Rochegude are discussed in some detail. One was characterized by the spontaneous actions of a large crowd while the other was the work of a small group of hard-cor…
Gastrointestinal parasitic infection, anthropometrics, nutritional status, and physical work capacity in Colombian boys
This article tests the hypothesis that the presence of gastrointestinal parasites in Colombian boys is negatively associated with anthropometric characteristics, physical work capacity, blood hemoglobin (Hb) levels, and nutritional status. Anthropometric, Hb, &Vdot;O(2) max, and parasite load data were collected on 1,016 boys in Cali, Colombia. The boys were classified as lower socioeconomic class (SEC) from either urban or rural environments, an…
Gastrointestinal parasitic infection, anthropometrics, nutritional status, and physical work capacity in Colombian boys
This article tests the hypothesis that the presence of gastrointestinal parasites in Colombian boys is negatively associated with anthropometric characteristics, physical work capacity, blood hemoglobin (Hb) levels, and nutritional status. Anthropometric, Hb, V̇O2 max, and parasite load data were collected on 1,016 boys in Cali, Colombia. The boys were classified as lower socioeconomic class (SEC) from either urban or rural environments, and uppe…
Soils Utilized for Gardens by Tukanoans in Northwestern Amazonia and their Impact on Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) Cultivar Selection
Why “Bitter” Cassava? Productivity of “Bitter” and “Sweet” Cassava in a Tukanoan Indian Settlement in the Northwest Amazon1
The Use of Remotely Sensed Data in Rapid Rural Assessment
This article discusses how analysis of remotely sensed data can be applied in rapid rural assessment and how its application can expand the spatial analysis of land-use/land-cover (LULC) change. It describes the methodological steps to carry out an LULC analysis based on Landsat Thematic Mapper image analysis under time and budget constraints. The article presents intra-and intercommunity comparisons of different LULC patterns. The discussion foc…
Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz), Cyanogenic Potential, and Predation in Northwestern Amazonia: The Tukanoan Perspective
Weaning practices of the Makushi of Guyana and their relationship to infant and child mortality: A preliminary assessment of international recommendations
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for the first 6 months of life, primarily because of potential immunological benefits which are deemed to outweigh nutritive costs for infants. This recommendation is controversial, as studies of the relationship between the term of EBF and infant and child health have produced conflicting results. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the relationship between the ter…
Ethnobotanical Evidence for Cultivar Selection among the Tukanoans: Manioc (Manihot esculentaCrantz) in the Northwest Amazaon
Manioc (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is a cyanidecontaining root crop that is cultivated by many indigenous groups in Amazonia. Although the Tukanoans of the Northwest Amazon grow low cyanogenic-potential (CNP) manioc, high-CNP manioc, requiring detoxification prior to consumption, provides over 80 percent of the calories they consume. The purpose of this paper is to determine which characteristics of manioc are most important to the Tukanoans in th…
Nutritional status of Makushi Amerindian children and adolescents of Guyana
Makushi nutritional status may be explained by sex, age, relative isolation, family size, season of birth, dietary intake and infectious disease
L'État-providence en Europe: Performance et dumping social
We report an exploratory study examining the interrelationships among common sense, insight into psychosis, and performance on a battery of neuropsychological tests in 32 patients with schizophrenia evaluated at the time of discharge from involuntary hospitalization at a State psychiatric hospital. Common sense, as measured by the Social Knowledge Questionnaire, was associated with better performance across tests measuring parietal lobe functioni…
Exploring the multidimensionality of stature variation in the past through comparisons of archaeological and living populations
Adult stature variation is commonly attributed to differential stress‐levels during development. However, due to selective mortality and heterogeneous frailty, a population's tall stature may be more indicative of high selective pressures than of positive life conditions. This article examines stature in a biocultural context and draws parallels between bioarchaeological and living populations to explore the multidimensionality of stature variati…
Comparison of Infant Vitamin D Supplement Use Among Canadian-Born, Immigrant, and Refugee Mothers
Purpose:This study compares knowledge and practice of infant vitamin D supplementation among immigrant, refugee, and Canadian-born mothers. Method: Focus group discussions with 94 mothers of children aged 0 to 3 years recruited from early childhood centers and a refugee health clinic. Findings: Both immigrant and Canadian-born mothers indicated good knowledge and use of infant vitamin D supplementation. In contrast, Canadian government-assisted r…
Household‐level predictors of maternal mental health and systemic inflammation among infants in Mwanza, Tanzania
OBJECTIVES: Household conditions and culturally/socially variable childcare practices influence priming of the inflammatory response during infancy. Maternal mental health may partially mediate that effect. Among mother-infant dyads in Mwanza, Tanzania, we hypothesized that poorer maternal mental health would be associated with adverse household ecology, lower social capital, and greater inflammation among infants under the age of one; and that m…
Amazonian foods and implications for human biology
Diets of subsistence-based Amazonian populations have been linked to local resources, but are changing with market penetration.To review the available data on traditional Amazonian foods and diets and evaluate their implications for human biology as a step toward understanding nutrition transitions in the region.This study used the Human Relations Area Files for information on the diets of Amerindian groups in the Amazon Basin from 1950 to the pr…
Reliance Upon a Toxic Staple Crop: An Anthropological Consideration of the Tukanoan Amerindian Cultivation of Manioc (Manihot esculenta Crantz) in North-western Amazonia
In Amazonia most indigenous horticulturists prefer to cultivate the more toxic forms of manioc as a staple crop, despite the increased processing required to render them safe for consumption. This phenomenon has long intrigued anthropologists. In this chapter we describe the agricultural practices of the Tukanoan Indians in the North-west Amazon and explore their reliance on toxic varieties of manioc from agronomic, ecological, organoleptic, and …
Regional Connection under the Belt and Road Initiative: The Prospects for Economic and Financial Cooperation
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), aimed at connecting China, Europe and countries located along routes between China and Europe, was suggested by Xi Jinping in September 2013. This Chinese initiative envisages the completion of more than 100 small-and large-scale infrastructure projects that would improve China's connectivity with Western Europe via Central Asia and Russia, including roads, railroads, pipelines, industrial parks, and special ec…
Secular trends in adult stature among the Makushi of Guyana in the 20th Century
OBJECTIVE: This study describes secular trends in physical stature, Cormic Index (CI), and body mass index (BMI) of adult Makushi Amerindians born between 1910 and 1980, compares the stature of these Makushi adults to Makushi adults measured in 1921, and provides contextual data to inform the findings. METHODS: Pearson's correlation was used to assess the relationship between year of birth and physical stature, BMI, and CI for 231 females and 113…
Characterization of the gut microbiota of Nicaraguan children in a water insecure context
OBJECTIVES: The gut microbiota varies across human populations. The first years of life are a critical period in its development. While delivery mode and diet contribute to observed variation, the additional contribution of specific environmental factors remains poorly understood. One factor is waterborne enteric pathogen exposure. In this pilot study, we explore the relationship between household water security and the gut microbiota of children…
Scab: Honoring the Memory of Mr. Fred Rouse
Biology (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Demography (5 works) · Agroforestry (4 works) · Amazon rainforest (4 works) · Cassava research and cyanide (4 works) · Cultivar (4 works)