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Bedsharing Promotes Breastfeeding by McKenna, James J, Mosko, Sarah S, Richard, Christopher A

“…Because breastfeeding is thought to be protective against sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), environmental or child care factors that promote breastfeeding…”
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Mother-infant bedsharing is associated with an increase in Infant Heart rate by RICHARD, Christopher A, MOSKO, Sarah S

“…We hypothesized that mother-infant bed sharing, compared to solitary sleeping, would be associated with higher infant heart rates. The objective was to compare…”
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Maternal sleep and arousals during bedsharing with infants by MOSKO, S, RICHARD, C, MCKENNA, J

“…Contrary to popular perception, studies show that parent-infant bedsharing is not uncommon in American society. A belief that bedsharing with infants…”
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Omarakana revisited, or 'do dual organizations exist?' in the Trobriands by Mosko, Mark S.

“…Omarakana is arguably the most renowned village in the Trobriand and anthropological worlds. It is the very centre and wellspring of the North Kiriwinan…”
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The fractal yam: botanical imagery and human agency in the Trobriands by Mosko, Mark S.

“…Anthropologists have long appreciated that animals are 'good to think'. In this essay I ponder whether plants might be good to think too, and particularly…”
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Cards on Kiriwina: Magic, Cosmology, and the 'Divine Dividual' in Trobriand Gambling by Mosko, Mark S.

“…Trobriand Islanders adopted card gambling from Europeans in colonial times alongside a growing familiarity with introduced money and commodities. Most…”
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Laki Charms: 'Luck' and Personal Agency in North Mekeo Social Change by Mosko, Mark S.

“…Notions and practices known by the Tok Pisin term laki ('lucky' or 'luck') have for long been widespread across Melanesia. Previous studies have tended to…”
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Night-to-night variability in sleep apnea and sleep-related periodic leg movements in the elderly by MOSKO, S. S, DICKEL, M. J, ASHURST, J

“…The amount of night-to-night variability in sleep apnea (SA) and sleep-related periodic leg movements (PLMs) is largely unknown but, despite this, clinical…”
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Apnea and periodic breathing in bed-sharing and solitary sleeping infants by Richard, Christopher A, Mosko, Sarah S, McKenna, James J

“…1  Sleep Disorders Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, Irvine, Medical Center, Orange 92868; and 2  Department of Anthropology, Pomona…”
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Sleep and arousal, synchrony and independence, among mothers and infants sleeping apart and together (same bed): an experiment in evolutionary medicine by McKenna, J J, Mosko, S S

“…Although solitary sleeping in infancy is a very recent custom, limited to Western industrialized societies, and most contemporary people practice parent-infant…”
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Morbidity cut-offs for sleep apnea and periodic leg movements in predicting subjective complaints in seniors by DICKEL, M. J, MOSKO, S. S

“…Despite its widespread use, the validity of the 5/h morbidity cut-off for the Respiratory Disturbance Index (RDI) or the Movement Index (MI) in determining…”
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Totem and Transaction: The Objectification of 'Tradition' among North Mekeo by Mosko, Mark S.

“…Most recent treatments of Melanesian post-contact change have presumed that objectifications of ' culture' and ' tradition' have intensified and proliferated…”
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Inalienable ethnography: keeping-while-giving and the Trobriand case by Mosko, Mark S.

“…In Inalienable possessions, Annette Weiner (1992) focuses on the paradox of `keeping-while-giving' rather than the `norm of reciprocity' as the central issue…”
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A retrospective case series of adaptive servoventilation for complex sleep apnea by Brown, Stephen E, Mosko, Sarah S, Davis, James A, Pierce, R Ander, Godfrey-Pixton, Tamera V

“…Central sleep apnea can be refractory to traditional positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy (CPAP or bilevel PAP), whether appearing first as a feature of…”
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On “Virgin Birth,” Comparability, and Anthropological Method by Mosko, Mark S.

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Fashion as Fetish: The Agency of Modern Clothing and Traditional Body Decoration among North Mekeo of Papua New Guinea by Mosko, Mark S

“…Anthropologists and others have recently argued that Papua New Guineans' contemporary patterns of consumption including Western clothing fashions have become…”
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Rethinking Trobriand Chieftainship by Mosko, Mark S.

“…This article develops a new perspective on Trobriand chieftainship and local leadership in light of recently developed theories of personhood, sociality and…”
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Motherless Sons: 'Divine Kings' and 'Partible Persons' in Melanesia and Polynesia by Mosko, Mark S.

“…Two disparate formulations of personal agency have recently been proposed in Pacific Islands ethnology. From Melanesia, on the one hand, Strathern has…”
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Preliminary longitudinal assessment of sleep in the elderly by PHOHA, R. L, DICKEL, M. J, MOSKO, S. S

“…This is a preliminary report of a longitudinal assessment of sleep architectural changes over time and rate of progression of sleep apnea (SA) and…”
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the canonic formula of myth and nonmyth by MOSKO, MARK S.

“…Lévi-Strauss's canonic formula for the structure of myth, fx(a): fy(b)≅ fx(b): fa-1(y), was boldly intended to bring a "kind of order to what was previously…”
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