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Energy and effort / edited by G.A. Harrison.

Title
  1. Energy and effort / edited by G.A. Harrison.
Published by
  1. London : Taylor & Francis, 1982.

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Additional authors
  1. Harrison, G. A. (Geoffrey Ainsworth), 1927-2017
Description
  1. ix, 323 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Series statement
  1. Symposia of the Society for the Study of Human Biology ; v. 22
Uniform title
  1. Symposia of the Society for the Study of Human Biology v. 22.
Subject
  1. 1981-01-07 > 1981-01-08
  2. Work > Physiological aspects > Congresses
  3. Energy metabolism > Congresses
  4. Work measurement > Congresses
  5. Human biology > Congresses
  6. Exertion > congresses
  7. Energy Metabolism > congresses
Genre/Form
  1. Conference papers and proceedings
  2. Kongress
  3. Oxford <1981>
  4. Congress
  5. Conference papers and proceedings.
Contents
  1. Measurement of work and effort - physiological aspects / J.D. Nelms -- Measurement of mental effort : some theoretical and practical issues / I.D. Brown -- Determinants of working capacity / J.E. Cotes, J.W. Reed and I.L. Mortimore -- Energy expenditure, productivity and endemic disease / K.J. Collins -- The comparison of energy supply and energy need : a critique of energy requirements / J.P.W. Rivers and P.R. Payne -- Determinants of nutritional need / H. Weymes -- Meaning and constraints of energy intake studies in free-living populations / A. Ferro-Luzzi -- Human energy stores / N.G. Norgan -- Consumption-work decisions by producers and labourers / C. Bliss and N. Stern -- Time and affect : facets of the social anthropology of work / S. Wallman -- Resource distribution and foraging effort in hunter-gatherer subsistence / D.R. Harris -- Quality and quantity in agricultural work - Sierra Leone rice farming systems / P. Richards -- Energetics and ecological anthropology : some issues / P. Burnham -- The use of models in anticipating [e]ffects of change on human populations / R. Brookes Thomas et al. -- Energy use, food production and welfare : perspectives on the 'efficiency' of agricultural systems / T. Bayliss-Smith -- The comparative economics of agricultural systems / C.R.W. Spedding.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Note
  1. Papers presented at the 49th meeting of the Society for the Study of Human Biology held at St. John's College, Oxford, January 7th and 8th, 1981.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographies and index.
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